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Michigan State University. Museum

 Organization

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph W. Stack papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.44
Scope and Contents The Joseph W. Stack papers relate to Stack's tenure as a professor in the Department of Zoology and as curator and director of the MSU Museum. His particular areas of interest were ornithology and bird banding. Other subjects covered in Stack's papers are the university curriculum, the Inland Bird Banding Association, and Stack's work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Materials found in the collection include maps, bird banding records, student reports and papers, manuscripts,...
Dates: 1916 - 1953

Kiwanis Club of East Lansing records

 Collection
Identifier: 00117
Scope and Content

The East Lansing Kiwanis Club records consist of general correspondence (1957-1971), weekly news bulletins (1955-1987), financial records (1956-1964; 1967-1970), and materials relating to the club's 20th Anniversary (1970) and to the projects listed above. Other materials include booklets and printed material on Kiwanis international, reports and convention programs of the Michigan district, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1915 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1987

Michigan State University Bicentennial Coordinating Committee records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-13.3.4
Scope and Contents Records of the Michigan State University Bicentennial Coordinating Committee include correspondence, grant proposals, lectures, news releases, and miscellaneous papers pertaining to University's involvement with celebrating the Bicentennial of the United States. There are also records detailing the activities of the State of Michigan Bicentennial Commission. Topics covered in depth include information on the "Perspectives on the Land" television series, the Michigan Folk Art Project, and...
Dates: 1973 - 1978

Michigan State University Museum records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.19
Scope and Contents The MSU Museum records consist primarily of materials from the director and of the curator of history and include correspondence, reports, publications, reprints, and scrapbook collections of publicity. There are also visitor registers from 1896 and 1898. The papers of the museum director include the administration of Rollin H. Baker. The files also include research proposals and reports submitted by museum staff and graduate students. Additional director’s files for Rollin Baker were...
Dates: 1896 - 2021

MSU in the News, circa 1967

 Item — Reel 1150
Scope and Contents A film highlighting developments in research and education at MSU.00:00 Intro 00:20 MSU Horticulture Gardens 01:22 Mating behavior and development of least weasels 02:25 New technologies at the MSU Library 03:28 First graders learning about science through an MSU-sponsored program 04:30 The Kellogg Biological Station 05:32 Arthur H. Steinhaus and his work on neuromuscular relaxation 06:34 The General Store at the MSU Museum 07:36 The Advanced Management program at the MSU...
Dates: circa 1967

Office of the Vice President for Governmental Affairs records

 Record Group — Object A.2015.0100-5b68
Identifier: UA-4
Scope and Contents

This accession contains the Annual Report for 1970. Serial #40 Faculty and Staff Directory is also associated with this record group.

The Electronic Resources include correspondence in the form of e-mail memos and attachments and issues of the Federal Weekly Report newsletter (DC Update) from 2011-2016.

Dates: 1968 - 2016

Public Relations records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1
Scope and Contents The Public Relations office records consist of subject files relating to campus, photographs, video recordings, annual reports, negatives and electronic resources. Topics of the subject files concern motion pictures, the MSU Centennial, magazine articles, conferences and workshops and many others. The photographs in the collection include images of conferences and workshops on campus, people, buildings, campus life, commencement, student activities and organizations, student awards,...
Dates: 1943 - 2004

Rollin Harold Baker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.111
Scope and Contents

The collection contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, course notes, photographs, autobiographical information, both personal and professional, of Rollin H. Baker, Museum Director and Professor in the Department of Zoology and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University.

Dates: 1936 - 1991

Terry Shaffer papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.260
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of the Michigan State University Corn Foundation meeting minutes and correspondence for 1950-1957, Michigan State University Non-Smoking Guidelines, and a Proposal for a Basic College of Education.

The Corn Foundation records include material relating to their desire to obtain library and museum housing of objects and information about corn from ancient to modern times.

Dates: 1950-1957, 1987, Undated

Thompson family genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: c-00519
Scope and Contents

The collection contains an unbound printing of "A genealogy of the descendants of John Thompson of Plymouth, Mass.: Also sketches of families of Allen, Cooke and Hutchinson" by Charles Hutchinson Thompson of Lansing, Michigan.

Dates: 1890

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 24
Digital Record 7
Archival Object 1
 
Subject
Letters (correspondence) 10
Photographs 10
Annual reports 7
Publications 6
Diaries 5
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Newsletters 5
Zoology 5
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 4
Reports 4
Brochures 3
Manuscripts 3
Memorandums 3
Aerial photographs 2
Anthropology 2
Birds -- Michigan 2
Correspondence 2
Manners and customs 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Museum exhibits 2
Ornithology 2
Press releases 2
Proceedings 2
Programs (Publications) 2
Religion 2
Scrapbooks 2
Sound recordings 2
Video recordings 2
Africa 1
Africa -- Study and teaching 1
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 -- Michigan 1
Animals 1
Archaeology 1
Asia 1
Asia -- Study and teaching 1
Associations, institutions, etc. 1
Autobiographies 1
Award presentations 1
Bird banding -- Michigan 1
Birds 1
Blind -- Services for 1
Botany 1
Brainwashing 1
Cancer -- Research 1
Carnivals 1
Carpentry -- Michigan 1
Christmas 1
College buildings 1
College buildings -- Design and construction 1
College buildings -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
College campuses 1
College campuses -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
College students 1
College students -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
College students -- Societies and clubs 1
Conference materials 1
Constitutions 1
Course materials 1
Directories 1
Early childhood education 1
East Lansing (Mich.) 1
East Lansing (Mich.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Education, Higher -- International cooperation 1
Education, Higher -- Pakistan 1
English language -- Dialects -- Africa, West 1
Ethnic groups -- United States 1
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Kenya 1
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Michigan 1
Exhibitions 1
Fieldnotes 1
Financial statements 1
Folk art -- Michigan 1
Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.) 1
Fur-bearing animals 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Handbooks 1
Higher education and state 1
Home economics -- Study and teaching 1
Horticulture -- Study and teaching 1
Indians of North America -- Michigan 1
Invitations 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Lansing (Mich.) 1
Lantern slides 1
Mackinac County (Mich.) -- History. 1
Mackinaw City (Mich.) -- History 1
Maps 1
Membership lists 1
Michigan 1
Michigan -- History 1
Michigan -- Social life and customs 1
Minutes (Records) 1
Museum directors 1
Museums 1
Museums -- Michigan 1
National parks and reserves -- United States 1
Negatives (Photographs) 1
Neurosciences 1
Nonfiction films 1
Nonsmoking areas -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
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