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Clifford E. Foster Scrapbook
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.528
Content Description
The Clifford E. Foster Scrapbook consists of photographs, tickets, dance cards, event programs, barbecue ribbons, grade reports, registration fees, and M. A. C. flags ranging in date from 1908-1914, during Foster’s time as a student at Michigan Agricultural College. Included are events for the Feronian Society, Olympic Society, Phi Epsilon Society, Sigma Phi, J Hop, Cap Night, Barbeques, Banquets, and Picnics. The scrapbook also contains the top button and a bit of fabric from Foster’s...
Dates:
1908-1914, Undated
David C. Hollister papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.428
Scope and Contents
The David C. Hollister collection contains papers biographical and personal in nature, as well as papers from his political career. The collection contains information about his childhood and includes documentation of his school years from elementary through graduate school. There is also material about his teenage activities including sports, journalism, and student government. There are letters to his friends and parents including information about his high school sweetheart Judy Artz,...
Dates:
1957 - 2008
Democratic Party campaign materials
Collection
Identifier: 00034
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Democratic Party campaign materials from 1874 to 1966 including handbills, pamphlets, posters, comic books and programs. Also included are voting tickets for several Lansing, Michigan, area communities, voting information and campaign instructions, and tickets, programs and statements from Democratic conventions, both in Michigan and on a national level. Biographical and political information on Michigan candidates for governor, legislature, and other offices,...
Dates:
1874 - 1966
East Lansing Planning Commission records
Collection
Identifier: 00080
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of materials relating to the East Lansing Planning Commission. The donor, James H. Denison, was a member from its founding in 1958, serving as Vice-Chairman from 1958 to 1961 and as its Chairman from 1962 to 1968.Minutes of the meetings of the Planning Commission are complete from 1958 to June, 1969, including minutes of several sub-committee meetings. Planning studies done by the Commission and several done for it by outside consultant firms deal...
Dates:
1958 - 1969
Edward Banks papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.180
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photographs of Michigan State University, East Lansing and Lansing, Michigan. Six photographs taken between March to May 1932 show a chemistry classroom/lab and chemistry apparatus, some with and without students. Three photographs show downtown Lansing, including the State Capitol, a view of Michigan Avenue taken from the steps of the Capitol building, and a view of the R.E. Olds Building taken from the 12th floor. Two...
Dates:
1932
Frank Peabody papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials relating to Frank Peabody's time as a student at Michigan State College, as well as his career as a professor at Michigan State University. Included are correspondence, photographs, newspapers, course materials, publications, and materials from the Summer Institute in Biology.
Dates:
1935 - 1973
Gordon L. and Phyllis M. Thomas collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.489
Scope and Contents
The Gordon L. and Phyllis M. Thomas collection contains articles about Gordon Thomas' election and time on the East Lansing City Council and as mayor, a small amount of correspondence, City of East Lansing annual reports, articles and two letters about Civil Rights, as well as articles and biographical information related to his time at Michigan State University. There are also photographs of Gordon Thomas.The Phyllis Thomas materials contain articles, drafts, and notes for the...
Dates:
undated
H. J. Karn collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00184
Scope and Contents
This collection contains notes made by Bill Taylor from a 1964 interview with H. J. Karn, in which Karn discusses his working experience in the Lansing plant of the REO Motor Car Company during the years 1906-1916. Also included is a REO Company brochure describing a 1910 record-breaking transcontinental trip from New York to San Francisco in a REO car. The collection includes a photograph of the REO bus that traveled across the country in 1920.
Dates:
1910 - 1964
Harold J. McGarvey collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.311
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs and negatives of buildings, some during construction, at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) taken by Harold J. McGarvey. There are also photographs and negatives of what appears to be the East Lansing area.
Dates:
1937, 1939
Henrik Joakim Stafseth papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.66
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, diaries, and other papers of Henrik Joakim Stafseth. Several diaries describe Stafseth's 1925-1926 tour of veterinary and other colleges in seven European countries. At this time he was an Exchange Professor at the Royal Hungarian Veterinary College.In 1945-1946 Stafseth served as Chief Veterinarian for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in China, where he was instrumental in establishing China's first modern...
Dates:
1902 - 1967