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Michigan Agricultural College

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Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

Seneca Freeman Russell diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00498
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the diary of Seneca Freeman Russell of Otsego, Michigan for the year 1877.

Dates: 1877
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sidney S. Sessions papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.9
Scope and Contents

Six letters from Sessions to his cousins, Mary Elizabeth and Herbert Lockwood Yates, of Ionia, Michigan. The letters concern campus life at MAC and happenings at home.

Dates: 1859 - 1860
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sidney Stevens collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.259
Scope and Contents The Sidney Stevens collection contains an Michigan Agricultural College Bulletin from 1912 that advertises the college. The bulletin has photographs of the Agriculture Building, Engineering Hall, Wells Hall, Abbot Hall, Williams Hall, the Women's Building [Morrill Hall], the college band, the college post office, the forest nursery, the main dairy barn and a panoramic photograph of a vista near the main entrance of campus. There are also M.A.C. postcards of cannons in front of Wells Hall,...
Dates: 1912, 1914, Undated
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

Summer School Catalog UA 22.14

 Collection — Box 1-3
Identifier: Serial-00683
Dates: 1915 - 2002
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

Theophilus Capen Abbot papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.3
Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, poetry, speeches, and diaries. There are also Abbot's testimonial records from the State Board of Agriculture.

Dates: 1844 - 1893
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

UA 1.0 Michigan Board of Agriculture Report

 Record Group — Volume Michigan State Board of Agriculture volumes
Identifier: Serial-00463
Scope and Contents The Michigan Board of Agriculture Reports document that activities of ths Michigan State Agricultural Society which was formed to provide information to farmers.The Society went on to manage the Michigan Agricultural College. This responsibility was later turned over to a newly created State Board of Agriculture. Because of this yearly reports of the college appear in these volumes. Information about MSU includes, finances, enrollment, research acitivies, as well as reports by individual...
Dates: 1849-1859, 1864-1957
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