Michigan State University. Mary Mayo Hall
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
East Mayo Echo publication
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.7.35
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the first issue of the East Mayo Echo which includes general news from East Mayo Hall as well as gossip from each of the three floors.
Dates:
1953
Frances Potter collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.31
Scope and Contents
The Frances Potter collection contains postcards, a brochure, and a photograph. The postcards include an image of the sunken garden in the Beal Botanical Garden at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) with a note on the back about attending Farm Women's Week as a delegate from the Home Economics Club in July 1934. Other postcards show Beaumont Tower, the Home Economics Building, and Mary Mayo Hall. The brochure is for the new dormitory for women and includes a description...
Dates:
circa 1930-1934
Jim Segedy and Larry Phillips papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.397
Content Description
The collection consists of a script for a musical called "The Merry Lives of Mayo or the adventures of mary mayo at m.s.u.," a not too Original Surrealistic Musical in Several Acts, by Jim Segedy, Larry Phillips and assorted friends. It is a humorous take on a student named Mary Mayo arriving at Michigan State University to start college and her experiences with registration and college life. Some of the dialogue is set to the tune of popular songs.
Dates:
circa 1970
Mayo family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.1
Scope and Contents
Over fifty Civil War letters of Perry Mayo, written to his family in Calhoun County, Michigan, from June 1861 to May 1864, constitute the bulk of this collection. They include vivid descriptions of battles, marches, military personnel and camp life, together with observations on the conduct of the war. Also in this collection are numerous and fragmentary attempts at genealogy, with related correspondence which, in addition to Mayo, include such family names as Angell, Bryant,...
Dates:
1861 - 1966
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- Photographs 2
- Brochures 1
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
- College musicals 1
- College student newspapers and periodicals -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- College students -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- Dormitories -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- Family histories 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Musicals -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- Newsletters 1
- Populism -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century 1
- Postcards 1
- Publications 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women college students -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1 + ∧ less
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