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Collection
Identifier: UA-17.215
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a copy of the publication "Chicanas: Their Voices, Their Lives," edited by Lucia Fox-Lockert and illustrated by Nora Chapa Mendoza. The Michigan State Board of Education published the booklet in 1988. The publication functions as an oral history of ten Chicana women who have been through hard events during the course of their lives. "The profiles contained herein are candid poetic expressions of the life experiences of ten Chicana women," (Foreword, p. v). Also...
Dates:
1982 - 1988
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.43
Scope and Content
The Guy Speeker papers contain gradebooks for mathematics and physics classes that Speeker taught at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Also included are letters of recommendation for Speeker, correspondence from Speeker as dormitory inspector and correspondence regarding World War I. There is a newspaper clipping about the resignation of M.A.C. President Jonathan Snyder and postcards of M.A.C. students and faculty.
Dates:
1912 - 1948
Collection
Identifier: 00097
Scope and Contents
The Hackley and Hume papers contain the business records of several inter-related Michigan-based business firms and some of the private papers of the families of Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume. The papers span the years 1859-1955. The papers document lumbering and lumber investments in Michigan and other states. The papers also document Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume, both prominent timbermen and philanthropists, as well as other family members. Hackley and Hume were active...
Dates:
1859 - 1955
Collection
Identifier: c-00574
Scope and Contents
The Harley Krapohl papers consist of letters, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and a partially released Federal Bureau of Investigation file regarding the arrest and trial of George Viereck for violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1943. Viereck was an author who was a suspected Nazi propagandist in the United States prior to and during World War II. Senator Donald Riegle obtained the F.B.I. file for Mr. Krapohl, a former employee of the state of Michigan, through the...
Dates:
1940-1943, 1989; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1943
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.211
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research compiled by Harold Bond Fields. One set of research notes pertains to Captain Ransford D. Bucknam. This research is composed of newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence, and some rough drafts of a biography on Bucknam. The last will and testament of Bucknam’s adoptive mother, Julia A. Elliott, is also included. Another set of research notes relates to Edward H. Ryder, dean and history professor at Michigan State University. This...
Dates:
1894-1988, undated
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.272
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials related to Harry Begian’s career at Michigan State University. These consist of band performance information, clippings, and photographs. The photographs include groups, band formations, and people. Notable people in the photographs are Governor William Milliken, MSU President Clifford Wharton, Jack Breslin, Clarence "Biggie" Munn, Randall J. Spicer, and Harry Begian.
Dates:
1957 - 1984
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.27
Scope and Contents
The Harry Kimber records consist of committee material relating to Michigan State University including the Military Affairs committee, University Publications committee, All College Educational Research Committee, Committee on American Studies Curriculum, Communications Center of Communications and Government Curriculum, Committee on International programs, committees relating to the Basic College, Improvement of Teaching Committee, and teacher education and certification committees. Other...
Dates:
1939 - 1966
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.88.1
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of clippings, correspondence, grant applications, meeting minutes, publications, and other administrative records. The minutes are from the Health Promotion Policy Task Force and the Health Promotion Task Force (1983-1984). The minutes and correspondence include information regarding the creation of the program and its relationship with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the university administration.
Dates:
1981 - 2009
Collection
Identifier: c-00688
Scope and Contents
The collections contains correspondence and diaries of the Helmick Family. The correspondence consists of letters sent by David Helmick to his family. The letters and diary pages describe his life in the military including his time during the Spanish American War. Some of the letters are incomplete. Also in the collection is a letter from Harry E. Helmick to his brother and a letter from his son, Harry Mortimer Helmick, to his sister. The letter was written five days before he passed away...
Dates:
1898 - 1918
Collection
Identifier: 00139
Scope and Contents
This collection includes some of his plans and sketches for inventions such as the shoe tree, wire shoehorn, Merriman Windjammer, spacecraft toilet, roll dispenser, belt tester, lubricated bushing, Merriman valves, lug tester, and window hook test equipment.The collection also contains correspondence between the inventor and his patent attorneys, Beaman and Beaman, Merriman's New Ideas, a Merriman family history, rather lengthy memoirs entitled "The Early Years in Kent County and West...
Dates:
1887 - 1969
