Serial # 608: Facilities Focus (formerly Physical Plant Newsletter)
Scope and Contents
The Physical Plant records include reports, summaries, evaluations, and facility surveys for the Michigan State University campus. Information is primarily of a technical nature.
Also included are 13 aerial photographs of campus which show the entire campus as of April, 1967. The numbers referred to are those used by the photographer and also relate to the accompanying small-scale grid finding aid.
Other photographs in the collection include campus farms, farm houses, campus buildings, W.P.A Garage, the stadium under construction, and the dedication of IM East in 1989
The collection includes microfiche of building plans for Pewabic Pottery and Camp Shaw 4-H Camp in Chatham, Michigan.
The "Save Our Sparty" series contains photographs, negatives, memoranda, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials documenting the 1988-1989 restoration of the Spartan statue.
The collection includes the Water Quality Reports issued each year for the campus.
Electronic Resources include correspondence in the form of e-mail memos and attachments; photographs of murals in the Multicultural Center of the MSU Union, along with a document detailing the transfer of those photos to UAHC; the Facilities Focus employee newsletter; and an MSU Construction: 2016 video file.
Dates
- Creation: 1941-2023
Creator
- From the Record Group: Michigan State University. Infrastructure Planning and Facilities (Organization)
- From the Record Group: Michigan State University. Physical Plant Division (Organization)
- From the Record Group: Jungwirth, Irene G. (Irene Gayas) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Photographs of the Union Building Transformer Room are restricted.
Extent
From the Record Group: 2 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Record Group: English
Preservica Public URL
https://msu.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection|2b7ddc50-d36b-4873-aa1d-08f65880cc68/
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Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Historical Collections Repository
Conrad Hall
943 Conrad Road, Room 101
East Lansing MI 48824 US
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu