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Elizabeth Ussher Groff collection of Portland Anti-Apartheid material

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 502 small
Scope and Contents

Most documents are about anti-apartheid organizations in Portland, Oregon. Also included are several items from the American Friends Service Committee national office in Philadelphia and a teaching guide written by Bill Bigelow to the film "Witness to Apartheid" by Sharon Sopher.

Dates: 1981 - 1989
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Elliot Berg papers on African development

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 308 large
Scope and Contents The Elliot Berg Papers on African Economic Development are selected working files donated to Michigan State University Libraries in 2003 by Nancy Berg, his widow. This archive contains professional correspondence, articles, research, meeting minutes, and personal notes pertaining to Berg’s work with economic development in Africa. The majority of this collection is made up of internal documents and notes from Berg’s work with the African Capacity Building Foundation, 1995 – 2001. Other major...
Dates: 1988-2001
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Eric Crawford collection on food security and agricultural development in Senegal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 361 large
Scope and Contents

Part of a collection of 1980s documents gathered by Food Security Project staff in the MSU Dept. of Agricultural Economics. Countries covered include Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.

Dates: 1980-1989
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Ethel Rathke papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.441
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of scrapbooks. The twenty scrapbooks are filled with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and pictures covering such diverse topics as World War II, the Middle East, Lansing and East Lansing, Japanese culture and flower gardening. Also included are Ethel Rathke's prose and poetry and her correspondence with publishing companies, friends, and acquaintances.

Dates: 1900 - 1970
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

George Axinn papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.225
Scope and Content The George Axinn papers contain correspondence from his time with the University of Nigeria (Nsukka) project and an end of tour report. There are also “running notes” detailing his day to day activities, observations, and duties while on the project. Other materials include subject files about the Nigerian Civil War (1968-1970), and the Nsukka Igbo people. Materials about the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and MSU’s involvement in its development include reports, curriculum information,...
Dates: 1960 - 1973
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

George E. Brooks collection on West African trade

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 386 large
Dates: 1960-2011
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

George M. Houser Africa collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 294 large
Scope and Contents Covers most countries of Africa, and includes notes on George Houser's many trips to Africa: to Guinea-Bissau in 1960, 1961, 1967, 1972, 1973; Lusaka, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde in 1974, 1975/6; Western Sahara and Algeria in 1978, 1979, 1981 (taped); 1983, and Namibia in 1989. The collection includes material relating to the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Africa Action, American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa, and International Defence and Aid Fund. Some of the many...
Dates: approximately 1950-1999
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

German East Africa photograph collection.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 639
Content Description Album of 94 photographs taken in German East Africa along the Tanganyika Railway or Central Line. Photographs were likely taken by a German engineer or a high-ranking worker on the railway. Photos in the collection document the construction of the railway, including images of the German engineers' camps, different sections of the line, bridges, locomotives, an accident, native workers, and several stations, including Msua, Ngerengere, Kigwe, Saranda, and Tabora. Several photos depict German...
Dates: 1904 - 1912
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

German South West Africa photographs.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 517 small
Dates: 1910
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Gordon Schlubatis papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.342
Scope and Contents

The collection contains trip reports, correspondence, slides, maps and travel booklets related to Schlubatis' time spent working as an agriculture agent overseas. There are also awards, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also included are materials related to his wife Harriet Schlubatis including awards, a Michigan Normal School yearbook, and a student expense register.

Dates: 1905 - 1983
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections 72
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Subject
Africa 15
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Africa -- Study and teaching 11
Newsletters 11
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Records (Documents) 10
Reports 9
Rural development 8
Fliers (Ephemera) 6
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1978-1989 -- Sources. 6
Apartheid -- Sources 5
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Anti-apartheid activists -- United States -- Sources. 4
Anti-apartheid movements -- United States 4
Anti-apartheid movements -- United States -- Sources 4
Apartheid -- South Africa -- Sources 4
Boycotts -- South Africa. 4
Business correspondence 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
International education 4
Maps 4
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994 -- Sources 4
Speeches 4
Africa -- Social life and customs -- Sources 3
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Africa 3
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Anti-apartheid movements -- New York (State) -- Sources. 3
Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- Sources. 3
Apartheid -- South Africa. 3
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 3
Course materials 3
Disinvestment -- South Africa. 3
Investments, American -- South Africa. 3
National liberation movements -- Africa, Southern -- Sources. 3
Newspaper clippings 3
Personal correspondence 3
Postcards 3
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1989-1994 -- Sources. 3
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- -- Sources. 3
Africa -- Politics and government 2
Africa, East -- Description and travel. 2
Agricultural machinery 2
Agriculture 2
Agriculture -- Africa 2
Agriculture -- Economic aspects 2
Agriculture -- International cooperation 2
Anti-apartheid movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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Disinvestment -- South Africa -- History -- Sources 2
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Education -- Nigeria 2
Elections -- South Africa -- Sources 2
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Posters, African. 2
Press releases 2
Scrapbooks 2
Sound recordings 2
Sports and state -- South Africa. 2
T-shirts 2
Video recordings 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
AIDS (Disease) -- Africa -- History -- Sources 1
Academic libraries -- Acquisitions 1
Affidavits 1
Affirmative action programs -- United States 1
Africa -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources. 1
Africa -- Library resources 1
Africa -- Newspapers 1
Africa -- Periodicals 1
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- 1
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- -- Sources. 1
Africa -- Politics and government -- Poetry 1
Africa -- Politics and government. 1
Africa -- Posters. 1
Africa -- Relations -- United States. 1
Africa, East -- Description and travel -- History 1
Africa, East -- Historiography -- Sources 1
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Michigan State University. African Studies Center 11
Michigan State University. Department of Agricultural Economics 9
American Committee on Africa 3
Hamilton, Ruth Simms 3
Michigan State College 2
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Michigan State University. African Agricultural Mechanization Study 2
Michigan State University. Department of Geography 2
Michigan State University. Institute for International Studies in Education 2
Michigan State University. Libraries 2
Michigan State University. Office of International Studies and Programs 2
Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities 2
United States. Agency for International Development 2
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Africa Policy Information Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
Africa Resource Center, Inc 1
African National Congress 1
African Studies Association 1
American Association of University Professors 1
American Council on Education 1
American Educational Studies Association 1
American Friends Service Committee. Portland (Or.) 1
American Geographical Society of New York 1
Applied Geography Conference 1
Association of American Geographers 1
Association of American Universities 1
Association of State Colleges and Universities 1
Axinn, George Harold, 1926- 1
Axinn, Nancy W. 1
Bay Area Namibia Action Group 1
Big Ten Conference (U.S.) 1
Blosser, Henry G. 1
Brembeck, Cole Speicher 1
Campbell, David J. (David John), 1948- 1
Capital Area Coalition Against Apartheid 1
Carlisle, Fred 1
Carr, Leland W. (Leland Walker), 1883-1969 1
Cathcart, C. W. (Charles William), 1809-1888 1
Cathcart, James L. (James Leander), 1767-1843 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Coalition to Stop Rhodesian and South African Imports 1
Committee for a Free Mozambique 1
Committee of Returned Volunteers 1
Committee to Free Moses Mayekiso 1
De Beers Consolidated Mines 1
De Benko, Eugene 1
Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. Alpha Pi Chapter (Michigan State University) 1
DiBiaggio, John A., 1932- 1
Dollard, Michael J., 1939-2012 1
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 1
Dow, Maynard Weston 1
Eicher, Carl K. 1
Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa 1
Ferguson, Ed 1
Freed, Leonard 1
Greater Lansing Flyer Task Force 1
Groff, Elizabeth Ussher 1
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, I, 1892-1975 1
Harden, Edgar L. 1
Hartman, Chester W. 1
Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid 1
Hecathorn, Miloanne 1
Heenan, David K. 1
Holdcroft, Lane E. 1
Höhnel, Ludwig, Ritter von, 1857-1942 1
Hunter, John M. (John Melton), 1928- 1
Imperato, Pascal James 1
International Association of Universities 1
International Association of University Presidents 1
International Geographical Union 1
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Klingler, Vincent, 1951- 1
Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 1
Kyle, Patricia 1
Landis, Elizabeth S. 1
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law 1
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Africa Project 1
Leiberg, Henry 1
Mackey, Maurice Cecil, Jr., 1929-2018 1
Madison, James, 1751-1836 1
Marcus, Harold G. 1
McCutcheon, Aubrey 1
McGoff, John P. 1
Menelik, Negus of Ethiopia, II, 1844-1913 1
Michigan State Grange 1
Michigan State Normal School 1
Michigan State University 1
Michigan State University--University of Nigeria Program 1
Michigan State University. Agricultural Engineering Department 1
Michigan State University. Alumni Association 1
Michigan State University. Asian Studies Center 1
Michigan State University. Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Association 1
Michigan State University. Black Student Alliance 1
Michigan State University. Canadian Studies Center 1
Michigan State University. College of Education 1
Michigan State University. Cooperative Extension Service 1
Michigan State University. Department of History 1
Michigan State University. Department of Information Services 1
Michigan State University. Department of Sociology 1
Michigan State University. Faculty 1
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