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Michigan Agricultural College

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Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Kinton B. Stevens collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.250
Scope and Contents

The Kinton B. Stevens collection contains photographs of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) campus life in the early 1900s. Included are photographs of M.A.C.'s baseball, basketball, football, tennis, and track teams as well as early campus buildings and active student life.

Dates: circa 1900-1910
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lyman J. Briggs papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.137
Scope and Contents

The Lyman Briggs collection contains publications, correspondence, and articles written by Lyman Briggs. Also included is memorabilia including identification cards and passes, invitations, and Michigan State University memorabilia.

Dates: 1882-1979, Undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Madison Kuhn collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.107
Scope and Contents The Madison Kuhn collection consists of materials accumulated by Kuhn during his tenure as University Historian. This collection, which was drawn from his reference files, constitutes only a small portion of the total documentation which he donated to the Archives. A large number of manuscript materials have been transferred, based on their provenance, to other University Archives collections. This collection deals largely, but not exclusively, with the history of Michigan State...
Dates: 1827 - 1966
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

Myra Chapman Wildt collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.190
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of the Michigan Agricultural College scrapbook of Myra Cornelia Chapman. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of campus events, programs, dance cards, letters and invitations, a list of her friends, and a list of shows and social functions she attended. Also included are photographs of Myra, her friends, relatives, a few scenes of campus, the 1921 freshman baseball and swimming teams, the 1921 women's lifesaving corps, and a group shot of the 1921 residents...
Dates: 1920 - 1922
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Norman O. Weil collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.133
Scope and Contents

This scrapbook was complied by Norman O. Weil of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), Class of 1917. The scrapbook contains student autographs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and bulletins which depict scenes and student life at M.A.C. from 1911 to 1917.

Dates: 1917
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Public Relations records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1
Scope and Contents The Public Relations office records consist of subject files relating to campus, photographs, video recordings, annual reports, negatives and electronic resources. Topics of the subject files concern motion pictures, the MSU Centennial, magazine articles, conferences and workshops and many others. The photographs in the collection include images of conferences and workshops on campus, people, buildings, campus life, commencement, student activities and organizations, student awards,...
Dates: 1943 - 2004
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Tekla Sparks papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.292
Scope and Content

This collection consists of photographs, pamphlets, various handbooks, music programs, a commencement program, and other printed materials.

Dates: 1923 - 1926
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Victor R. Gardner papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.18
Scope and Contents In 1972 and 1973, Professor Frank Dennis interviewed Victor Gardner as part of an oral history project. Gardner's papers include tape recordings and transcripts of these interviews as well as his own written reminiscences. In these Gardner discusses his experience while a student at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) (1901-1905), the development of the Horticultural Department and his colleagues in the department (1923-1945), and achievements throughout his...
Dates: 1972 - 1973
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Walter Alfred Newton papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.17
Scope and Contents

Papers of Walter Newton consist of one scrapbook, containing programs, tickets, greeting cards, postcards, party invitations, photographs, and news clippings describing activities of the Phi Delta Society, athletic events, and campus life. Also included is Michigan Agricultural College memorabilia, as well as handouts from a surveying class, and a 1911 Commencement program.

Dates: 1909 - 1928
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections