Michigan State University. Horticulture Department
Organization
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Sigma Xi Society Records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.1
Scope and Content
The Sigma Xi Society records consist of materials relating to the Michigan State Sigma Xi Society Chapter and broader Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. The Michigan State Chapter portion of the collection includes information regarding the foundation and history of the Michigan State Chapter; by-laws and constitutions; membership policy, lists, and cards; initiation programs; meeting minutes and correspondence; officer records; supported research essays and awards; and engagement...
Dates:
1923 - 1991
Stanley Johnston papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.132
Scope and Content
The Johnston papers document the experiments, developments, and accomplishments of South Haven Experiment Station under the direction of Stanley Johnston. The collection includes correspondence, records of experiments, reports, photographs, slides, postcards, research papers (published and unpublished), and maps. These papers document the development of the Haven peach and the world-wide importance of that development; and the importance of his research with other fruits, especially...
Dates:
1921 - 1980
Sylvan H. Wittwer papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.154
Scope and Contents
The collection contains articles written by Sylvan Wittwer including "Effective Management of Human and Physical Resources for International Agricultural Research," "Improving Storage Qualities of Crops by Treatment with Maleic Hydrazide," "Plasticulture," "Protected Cultivation of Horticulture Crops Worldwide," and "The Greenhouse Effect." Also included is a letter from Hubert H. Humphrey thanking Wittwer for his service on the Office of Technology Assessment's advisory panel on basic...
Dates:
1976 - 1995
Victor R. Gardner papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.18
Scope and Contents
In 1972 and 1973, Professor Frank Dennis interviewed Victor Gardner as part of an oral history project. Gardner's papers include tape recordings and transcripts of these interviews as well as his own written reminiscences. In these Gardner discusses his experience while a student at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) (1901-1905), the development of the Horticultural Department and his colleagues in the department (1923-1945), and achievements throughout his...
Dates:
1972 - 1973
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- Collection 21
- Archival Object 2
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Horticulture -- Study and teaching 7
- Horticulture 5
- Letters (correspondence) 5
- Interviews 4
- Photographs 4
- Annual reports 3
- Publications 3
- Sound recordings 3
- Agricultural experiment stations 2
- Agriculture -- Michigan 2
- Agriculture -- Research 2
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
- Fruit-culture 2
- Handbooks 2
- Newsletters 2
- Periodicals 2
- Reports 2
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty 2
- Agricultural chemistry 1
- Agricultural extension work -- Research 1
- Agricultural laws and legislation -- Michigan 1
- Agriculture 1
- Agriculture -- Study and teaching 1
- Apples -- Michigan 1
- Biochemistry 1
- Blueberries 1
- Botany 1
- By-laws 1
- College campuses -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- College students -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- Contracts 1
- Correspondence 1
- Course materials 1
- Crop science 1
- Dwarf fruit trees 1
- Ecological economics 1
- Electronic mail messages 1
- Elementary schools -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- Environmental economics 1
- Family histories 1
- Field crops -- Storage 1
- Fieldnotes 1
- Flower gardening 1
- Fruit 1
- Fruit -- Michigan 1
- Fruit-culture -- Research 1
- Gardens 1
- Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric 1
- Handbooks and manuals 1
- Insect pests 1
- Journals (accounts) 1
- Lumbering -- Michigan 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Membership lists 1
- Memorandums 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Molecular biology 1
- Notebooks 1
- Peach 1
- Plastics in agriculture 1
- Poetry 1
- Proceedings 1
- Programs (Publications) 1
- Research notes 1
- Roscommon (Mich.) 1
- Science -- Societies, etc. 1
- South Haven (Mich.) 1
- Speeches 1
- Universities and colleges -- Fires and fire prevention 1
- Weeds 1 + ∧ less
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