Minutes of Board of Trustees Meetings
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.
The Board of Trustees records include minutes of meetings, reference materials and supporting documentation for the Board meetings. Note there was no State Board of Agricultural Annual Report for 1861 produced.
The collection includes information of significant campus events including its centennial and sesquiennial celebrations.
The CDs series includes digitized audio recordings.
The Electronic Resources series includes digitized audio recordings and text documents of meeting minutes.
Dates
- Creation: 1850 - 2018
Creator
- From the Record Group: Michigan State University. Board of Trustees (Organization)
- From the Record Group: Brown, Addison Makepeace, 1859-1931 (Person)
- From the Record Group: Johnson, Samuel, 1839-1916 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Record Group: 110.5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Record Group: English
Preservica Public URL
https://msu.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection|317defa3-00ad-42ff-83b3-825a7832b5a6/
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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