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Michigan Agricultural College

 Organization

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

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

Robert B. Huxtable papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.51
Scope and Content

The collection consists of an oversize photograph of the Sanford Natural Area, two copies of the program from the 1917 commencement ceremony, The Holcad ballots from 1918, and a program to the 10th Annual Fruit and Flower Show in 1919.

Dates: 1917-1918, circa 1960
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Robert Clark Kedzie papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.109
Scope and Contents The papers of Robert Clark Kedzie consist primarily of materials relating to his position at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) as a professor of chemistry from 1863 to his death in 1902. They include scrapbooks, lecture notes, correspondence, awards, and biographical material. The three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, the first pertaining to the Samuel Johnson case in 1889, the second concerning the removal of M.A.C. President Lewis G. Gorton in 1895,...
Dates: 1851, 1863-1905, circa 1955, 1961
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Rule family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00216
Scope and Content The Rule and Alward papers consists of photographs, postcards, Officer Training notes, a commencement program from Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University), and class notes. About half of the postcards were sent from Clifford Rule to Lela Alward during World War I while he was deployed in France. Many of the postcards are scenes from France, or of soldiers training. Some notable photographs include Notre Dame Cathedral with supports for protection during air raids,...
Dates: 1911, 1917-1919
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

State Board of Agriculture / Board of Trustee records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-1
Scope and Contents The State Board of Agriculture papers include correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, legal records and newspaper clippings of the first governing body of the state agriculture college. The College Lands series includes correspondence, reports, land descriptions, employment records, financial records, minutes, legal documents, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the management of state lands endowed to the college via the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862. ...
Dates: 1850 - 2018
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Steven Stardevant collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.252
Scope and Contents

The Steven Stardevant collection consists of 18 postcards and photographs taken by Roscoe Ellsworth Brightup of Michigan Agricultural College football, military science, buildings, unidentified groups, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates: circa 1900-1915
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

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

Walter George Knickerbocker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.19
Scope and Contents

Walter A. Knickerbocker's papers consist of one scrapbook (1913-1916) containing programs and tickets from campus activities; receipts; report cards; newsclippings; photographs of family, friends, and Michigan Agricultural College; and postcards from various Michigan cities such as Flint, Pontiac, Mt. Pleasant, Alma, St. Charles, and Port Huron as well as El Paso, Texas, and Mexico. Also included are programs, receipts and miscellaneous memorabilia from M.A.C.

Dates: 1913 - 1916
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William L. Carpenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.411
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection is composed of letters Carpenter received and duplicates of many of those that he sent. Many of them are of an essentially personal nature. In later life he became particularly interested in family genealogy and many letters were written and received on this subject.Included in the collection are a number of writings by Carpenter relating his experiences as a lawyer and judge. References to Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University)...
Dates: 1851 - 1950
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections