Michigan State University
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1955
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Sorenson collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.266
Scope and Contents
The Arthur Sorenson collection consists of a scrapbook documenting his college years and a folder of photocopies of materials that were originally in the scrapbook. The scrapbook contains photographs, event programs and ribbons, dance cards, correspondence, announcements, tickets, and newspaper clippings. The photographs depict athletic events, university organizations, school events, candid pictures of students, images of campus, and other miscellaneous events.
The scrapbook includes...
Dates:
1903 - 1913
Bill Castanier collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.370
Scope and Contents
This collection contains thirteen glass-plate negatives, depicting scenes of the campus of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), including farm and greenhouse buildings, the Chemical Laboratory, Morrill Hall, Agriculture Hall, and the original President's House. Although the images are undated, the buildings and dress suggest that they date to the late 1800s.Also included in this collection are a MSU Santa cartoon drawn by Phil Frank, and three decorated...
Dates:
1934 - 1935
Building records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-4.9.1
Scope and Contents
The collection contains specifications, correspondence, bills, and blueprints of many campus buildings. The collection is split into four series. The Buildings series contains files related to buildings. The buildings are arranged alphabetically. The Subject Files series contains files that are not related to specific buildings. These include reports, files containing material on several buildings, grounds, lighting, tunnels and conduits, drains, and swamp land sales,...
Dates:
1856 - 1987
Gordon Guyer papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-2.1.18
Scope and Content
The records of Gordon Guyer were created or collected primarily in his capacity as acting President of Michigan State University. Guyer was acting president for one year from 1992 to 1993 during which a formal search for a new president was conducted and the appointment was completed. For that reason, the amount of records created during his presidency is reduced. These records are organized in four series: Administrative, Correspondence, Speeches, and Subjects Files....
Dates:
1992 - 1993
James R. Stiefel papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.195
Scope and Contents
The collection includes two boxes of slides that depict the Michigan State University campus during the fall and winter and also a marching band performance on the football field. There are also two scrapbooks, "Cloud burst and flood", and one without a title. The first scrapbook contains pictures of the flooding on streets in East Lansing and on the MSU campus from February 12-14, 1938, as well as views of campus from 1937. The second scrapbook contains pictures of campus in the 1930s,...
Dates:
1934 - 1952
Joseph A. Bulkeley papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.98
Scope and Content
Joseph Bulkeley papers consist of transcripts of letters describing life at Michigan Agricultural College (1897-1898) and the writer's observations in his extensive travels around the United States. Added as a second accession is a set of transcribed letters of Joseph Bulkeley in the United States 1897-1899. It was edited by David Howell.
Dates:
1897-1898, Undated
Lana Dart papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.263
Scope and Contents
The Lana Dart collection contains materials relating to student services and student activities at Michigan State University. There are materials about orientation and welcome week, as well as drafts of student handbooks. There are also reports from the assistant director of student activities and reports of the assistant director of the Women’s Division of Student Affairs. There is also the Report to the Committee to Reevaluate the Role and Function of Student Government from the...
Dates:
1930 - 2006
LeMoyne Snyder papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.97
Scope and Content
The LeMoyne Snyder papers document the professional life of an expert in forensic medicine from his early medical practice in Lansing, Michigan to his later years as a "medicolegal expert" in Paradise, California. The collection covers Snyder's career from 1934 to 1984, with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1950s and 1960s.
The Correspondence series consists of 3.5 cubic feet of Snyder's correspondence which does not directly relate to his activities with the Court of...
Dates:
1917 - 1984