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Michigan State University. Wells Hall

 Organization

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Brian Gladue collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.361
Scope and Contents The Brian Gladue collection consists of slides of take by alumnus Brian Gladue during his time at MSU 1975-1979. Include are images of campus buildings and grounds, the marching band on the field at Spartan Stadium, tennis courts near Spartan Stadium, the Spartan/ Sparty Statue, and students walking and biking to class. Of note is an image of an MSU Police car and officer at Transportation Services under Spartan Stadium. There is also an image of entrance sign to MSU near Hagadorn Road and...
Dates: 1975, 1978-1979

Edward J. Frost collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.365
Scope and Contents The Edward J. Frost collection contains a photograph album of cyanotypes created by Edward J. Frost of Michigan Agricultural College. Frost made the cyanotype prints from negatives borrowed from M.A.C. Professor Rolla C. Carpenter. The images were taken circa 1888, and are of buildings, grounds, students, and interior shots of classrooms, greenhouses, library, museum and shops. Buildings include the Linton Hall, the Armory, the first Williams Hall, Chemical Laboratory/Physics and...
Dates: circa 1888, Undated

Fidelis Fuester Hill collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.40
Content Description

This collection consists of three photographs of the fire that consumed the first Wells Hall on February 11, 1905.

Dates: 1905

Harold J. McGarvey collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.311
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs and negatives of buildings, some during construction, at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) taken by Harold J. McGarvey. There are also photographs and negatives of what appears to be the East Lansing area.

Dates: 1937, 1939

John Adams Henry papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.61
Scope and Contents John Henry papers consist of reminiscences of Michigan State College entitled, "Life in Old Wells Hall: Apology or Appreciation?" It covers the years 1927 to 1930, and discusses life in Wells Dormitory, Michigan State College traditions, Reserve Officer Training Corp, faculty and staff, student social life, finances, modes of transportation, and world events. Also included is one small photograph of Wells Hall, dated November 1930, in which it is decorated for the Detroit football...
Dates: 1980

Nathan Taisch collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00696
Scope and Content The collection consists of eleven photographs taken by Nathan Taisch in 1929. Five of the photographs show the Michigan State College band performing at a football game. One photograph is of Wells Hall decorated with a large "S" and a banner reading "Spartans Beat Detroit." Four of the photographs are of men standing around a tower of junk for the sophomore barbeque with signs reading "U. of Detroit" and "Health Service." The final photograph is of eight men posing for a picture with the...
Dates: 1929, undated

Ray C. Edwards papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.456
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 11 postcards of scenes and buildings of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Notable images include sheep grazing along Farm Lane; "the Shops" consisting of the Wood Shop, Machine Shop, Foundry, and Forge Shop; Wells Hall; interior of M.A.C. Power Plant; interior of the Chapel; Old College Hall surrounded by stumps; scenes of the Red Cedar River; and a scene of a student standing on top of the Class of 1900 fountain/horse trough as an...
Dates: 1908 - 1909

Shanty Issues, 1990

 File — Box 5177, Folder: 41
Scope and Content From the Record Group:

This collection contains records from the Office of the President and includes commencement addresses, speeches, reports, photographs and other materials. The Subject Files are general files containing topics of interest to and involvement with the Office from the late 1980s through the 1990s. These files span several presidencies.

Dates: 1990

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

Unattributed MSU History collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-26.3
Scope and Content The collection contains MSU historical materials from unknown sources. The materials include an announcement for an alumni reunion, alumni reunion program held during the Semicentennial year, Feronian Society twenty-fifth anniversary event program, program for the junior banquet for the class of 1906, a page recording weekly hours for labor for the Mechanical Engineering department in 1895, postcards of the library (Linton Hall) and Wild Garden (Beal Garden), MIAA field meet ticket,...
Dates: 1867-1989, undated

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Type
Collection 9
Archival Object 1
 
Subject
Photographs 4
College campuses -- Michigan -- East Lansing 3
Postcards 3
College buildings -- Michigan -- East Lansing 2
Red Cedar River (Mich.) 2