Scope and Content This collection consists of an oral history recording on audio cassette tape. The recording is reminiscences of Ruth Tukey Bates (widow of Harold B. Tukey, later Mrs. Emmert Bates) made at her home in Woodland, Michigan on August 30, 1978. Bates recounts aspects of Harold Tukey's professional life, including his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, his work with embryo culture of stone fruits, his decision to move to East Lansing to head the Michigan State College Department of...

Scope and Content The collection consists of photographs of professors and students from Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C., now Michigan State University). Edgar Burnett graduated in 1887 and later taught livestock courses. Lyster Dewey graduated 1888 and went with W. J. Beal on the 1888 expedition to survey Michigan's cutover forest. Perry Holden graduated in 1889 and worked with and taught field crops. William Holdsworth graduated in 1878 and was professor of drawing and...