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This collection consists of materials relating to Frank Peabody's time as a student at Michigan State College, as well as his career as a professor at Michigan State University. Included are correspondence, photographs, newspapers, course materials, publications, and materials from the Summer Institute in Biology.

Scope and Contents The Gordan and Nancy Milne collection contains materials related to Gordon's military training at MSC and elsewhere as well as materials from his service in World War II. Included are aeronatical and navigation training materials, orders, military newsletters, and photographs of his time in World War II. There are also materials he saved during his service related to Germany and the Nazi party. Also included is a scrapbook created by Nancy with materials from her time at Eastern High...

Scope and Contents The Harold Lautner papers includes an issue of "Landscape Architecture" from January 1954 which contains the article by Lautner, "The Landscape Architect Serving a University Combined Teaching and Creation of Landscape Values." In addition there is an audio cassette tape recording of Lautner reminiscing about his days as a student at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) and describing the campus during his time as an employee at MSU. There is also one photograph of...

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The Herbert Baer papers consist of letters Baer sent to his family during his freshman year at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University). In the letters he writes about his activities, events attended, his student job in the kitchen and a little bit about his classes. He also writes a little bit about World War II and mentions rationing.

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The records of the Inter-Cooperative Council consist of meeting minutes, history of MSU cooperative housing by Orion Ulrey and George Motts, by-laws, and one issue of the Inter-Cooperative Council committee newsletter. There are also documents about the role of the faculty advisor and a job description of the general manager. There is also an Elsworth House orientation book that includes membership information including an application.

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The International Center records consist of a “MSC Directory of Students from Other Lands” from the fall of 1948. Also included are published and unpublished annual reports from the 1950s.

Scope and Content The James William Ochs collection contains six folders of photographs taken by James during his time at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University). The photos show student activities including sports. The sports photos include basketball, both intercollegiate and intramural, football, and boxing. Of particular interest are the photos of the annual Class Rivalry between freshmen and sophomores at the college showing the tug of war and defending the flag. Also included in the...

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The collection consists of a photograph album with portraits of women and men and small images of Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) military activities. There are also photographs of Kathryn Faner Lobban and her husband Andrew Lobban. The images are in a 1927 MSC Military Ball souvenir album. Also included are photographs of musicians and MSC music faculty Alexander Schuster, Michael Press and Arthur Farwell which are inscribed to Kathryn Faner.

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The collection consists of photocopies of pages from the Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) yearbook, the Wolverine, from 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942 that have handwritten dates of death for some students. Also included is play information from football games. The dates of the games are unknown but they are from a MSC vs. Wayne game and a MSC vs. University of Michigan game. There are also sheets that list the positions of the players.

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The catalogs contains description of classes, descriptions of campus grounds and buildings. Early catalogs contains lists of student and faculty.