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Michigan Agricultural College

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Abbott Family Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.484
Content Description

The Abbott Family Collection includes general and personal correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, certificates, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and realia. This includes letters written and photographs taken by Ai and Elizabeth Abbott during their time in Peru, correspondence and journals from Inez Abbott and Ella Snyder during their time in Europe and Bulgaria, and photographs and realia relating to the Chicago Commons Settlement.

Dates: 1892 - 2016
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Howard D. Severance papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.323
Scope and Content

The Howard D. Severance papers consist of his 1903 B.S. degree in the Mechanical Course and his 1913 Civil Engineering degree both from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University).

Dates: 1903, 1913
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lester Paige Breckenridge papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.8
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Breckenridge’s responses to correspondence including information about his attempts to patent an automatic recording machine, his position at Yale, and Jeme Tien Yow, a colleague and friend living in Peking, China.

Dates: 1892 - 1925
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Maude Nason Powell papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.59
Scope and Contents The Maude Powell papers consist of correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, publications, a journal, and legal documents. The bulk of the correspondence relates to life in China between 1917 and 1987, beginning with letters between Maude and Ralph in 1916 as they prepared to go to China. From 1917 to 1927 their letters to friends and relatives back home describe and comment on their life in China as missionaries. Letters between Maude and Ralph during their separations discuss their...
Dates: 1908 - 1987
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Phyllis Glidden Rodenhouse papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.191
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopies of papers relating to Rodenhouse's time as a Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Fellow-Engineering Aide in Hartford, Connecticut. Included in the papers are excerpt from newsletters relating to the Fellows from Michigan State University, photographs from newspapers, a diagram of an engine, a group photograph of unidentified people, two pages of chronological reminisces with a brief mention of the Hartford, Connecticut Circus Fire of 1944, program for the 20th...
Dates: 1943-1945, 1998, 2006, 2011, Undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections