Michigan State University. Buildings
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Chace Newman papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.37
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal papers of Chace Newman, including correspondence, newspaper articles, papers he authored, manuscripts, notes, drawings, collected research materials, a scrapbook of events and happenings at the college, and other materials he used to teach courses in mechanical drawing and design. There are also scripts for lectures he gave on WKAR Radio about the architecture of the home. Also include are Ruth Newman photographs which include images that are probably of...
Dates:
1894 - 1951
College of Engineering records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-15.2
Scope and Contents
The records of the Engineering College includes material relating to World War I training including the Student Army Training Corps, course information, Committee on Education and Special Training, information on armored vehicles, as well as correspondence.
Other records in the collection include surveys and studies of engineering students, alumni and professor information, minutes of faculty meetings for 1967 to 1975, brochures about the college, reports about the college, and a 1960...
Dates:
1913 - 2017
Edward H. Ryder papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.40
Scope and Contents
The Edward H. Ryder collection contains correspondence, travel information from his trip around the world in 1923 and personal remembrances, including memorials and programs. Also found in the collection are materials pertaining to his wife, Georgia Smyth Ryder. The collection also contains correspondence to and from both Edward and Georgia Ryder. It includes copies of their original birth certificates as well as their obituaries. The bulk of the material relates to Edward Ryder and his...
Dates:
1854 - 1955
Herbert A. Berg papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.93
Scope and Content
This collections contains publications about the history of Michigan Agricultural College, the impact the U.S. Civil War had on agricultural extension in Michigan, the Morrill Land Grant College Act and life of Bela Hubbard, an Michigan pioneer. Also included in the Berg collection are the articles of incorporation and by-laws and some correspondence of the Michigan State University chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national honorary extension fraternity. There is a newspaper plate from the...
Dates:
1930 - 1969
Infrastructure Planning and Facilities records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-5.13
Scope and Contents
The Physical Plant records include reports, summaries, evaluations, and facility surveys for the Michigan State University campus. Information is primarily of a technical nature.
Also included are 13 aerial photographs of campus which show the entire campus as of April, 1967. The numbers referred to are those used by the photographer and also relate to the accompanying small-scale grid finding aid.Other photographs in the collection include campus farms, farm houses, campus...
Dates:
1941-2023
John and Helen Knecht scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.318
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the student scrapbooks of John Wesley Knecht and Helen Louise Norton who later married. Helen's scrapbooks contains dance cards, event programs, photos of campus and people, information about her classes, flyers for pep rallies, college circus program, notice about small pox from 1910 and a note from Maud Gilchrist say that Helen is not working hard enough at her studies.John Knechts scrapbook contains photos of athletics including football, baseball,...
Dates:
1907-1913, 1921, Undated
Margaret P. Thorp papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.182
Scope and Contents
The collections contain papers and photographs. The papers include a 1931 Detroit alumni club directory, two different issues of the May 13, 1931 issue of The Eczema, newspaper articles about The Eczema from 1931, “On the Campus” booklet about campus, and a wedding announcement for Jessamine Van Buren Kennedy and Frederic B. Mumford for 1895. There is also a draft of a August 1875 letter from Governor Bagley about Frank Wells leaving a board because of problems with the Finance Committee...
Dates:
1875 - 1932
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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- Letters (correspondence) 7
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty 3
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 2
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
- Electronic mail messages 2
- Memorandums 2
- Publications 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Agricultural colleges -- Michigan 1
- Agricultural education -- Michigan 1
- Agricultural extension work 1
- Agricultural extension workers 1
- Architectural design -- Study and teaching 1
- Architecture -- Designs and plans 1
- By-laws 1
- Campus planning -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- College buildings 1
- College buildings -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- College campuses -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- College facilities -- Maintenance and repair 1
- College students -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- Correspondence 1
- Course materials 1
- Dance cards 1
- East Lansing (Mich.) -- History 1
- Economics -- Study and teaching 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Engineering -- Study and teaching 1
- Family histories 1
- Laboratories -- Design and construction 1
- Land grants -- Michigan 1
- Landscape gardening 1
- Lectures 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Mechanical drawing -- Study and teaching 1
- Michigan 1
- Military education -- United States 1
- Mural painting and decoration 1
- Negatives (Photographs) 1
- Newsletters 1
- Political science -- Study and teaching 1
- Populism -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century 1
- Postcards 1
- Sculpture -- Conservation and restoration 1
- Spartan engineer 1
- State universities and colleges -- United States 1
- Students -- Societies, etc. 1
- Sustainability 1
- The eczema 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Universities and colleges -- Curricula 1
- Voyages around the world 1
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