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Clinton D. Smith papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.170
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an annotated photocopy of one letter written by Clinton D. Smith to the Wheelers on November 29, 1902. Smith describes many of recent happenings on the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) campus including the death of Robert Kedzie. He also mentions William J. Beal, Robert Shaw, Ulysses P. Henrick, and Levi R. Taft. Topics in the letter include changes in personnel, the cutting down of trees on campus and the personal lives of some of...
Dates:
1902
Elton B. Hill papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection contains material relating to the issues that interested Hill most as a teacher and researcher. He taught a number of courses on farm appraisal and agricultural finance, and his reference material appears here. Land tenure, especially the legal and moral implications of father-son partnerships and farm ownership transfers, were of special interest to him.In addition to this, there is also a scrapbook and some memorabilia from his college days at...
Dates:
1862 - 1972
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 Guyer papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-2.1.18
Scope and Content
The records of Gordon Guyer were created or collected primarily in his capacity as acting President of Michigan State University. Guyer was acting president for one year from 1992 to 1993 during which a formal search for a new president was conducted and the appointment was completed. For that reason, the amount of records created during his presidency is reduced. These records are organized in four series: Administrative, Correspondence, Speeches, and Subjects Files....
Dates:
1992 - 1993
John and Helen Knecht scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.318
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the student scrapbooks of John Wesley Knecht and Helen Louise Norton who later married. Helen's scrapbooks contains dance cards, event programs, photos of campus and people, information about her classes, flyers for pep rallies, college circus program, notice about small pox from 1910 and a note from Maud Gilchrist say that Helen is not working hard enough at her studies.John Knechts scrapbook contains photos of athletics including football, baseball,...
Dates:
1907-1913, 1921, Undated
Lana Dart papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.263
Scope and Contents
The Lana Dart collection contains materials relating to student services and student activities at Michigan State University. There are materials about orientation and welcome week, as well as drafts of student handbooks. There are also reports from the assistant director of student activities and reports of the assistant director of the Women’s Division of Student Affairs. There is also the Report to the Committee to Reevaluate the Role and Function of Student Government from the...
Dates:
1930 - 2006
Larry Bielat collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.423
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one program, one poster, 151 photographs (147 regular plus 4 oversize), and 25 postcards dealing with Michigan State University history collected by Larry Bielat. The photographs contain many individual photographs of athletes from 1929-1944. There are also many early photographs of the football team and a variety of pictures from the marching band spanning over thirty years. Of special interest are several photographs of MSU football coach Muddy Waters...
Dates:
1906-1985, Undated
Lawrence Sommers papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.315
Scope and Content
The Lawrence Sommers papers contain his work in the field of Geography from the early 1940s until his death in 2007. The earliest works are from his time spent as a Ph.D. candidate researching Norway and many of his later files include further in-depth research on Scandinavia. His collection also includes travel notebooks, photographs, and slides from his many travels abroad doing research in Europe, Africa, and South America. There is also a large collection of photographs from his time...
Dates:
1944 - 2010
LeMoyne Snyder papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.97
Scope and Content
The LeMoyne Snyder papers document the professional life of an expert in forensic medicine from his early medical practice in Lansing, Michigan to his later years as a "medicolegal expert" in Paradise, California. The collection covers Snyder's career from 1934 to 1984, with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1950s and 1960s.
The Correspondence series consists of 3.5 cubic feet of Snyder's correspondence which does not directly relate to his activities with the Court of...
Dates:
1917 - 1984
Levi Taft and Thacker family collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.381
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of items from three members of the Levi Taft family. Included is a brief history of the descendants of the Levi Taft family and a history of Thomas Thacker's ROTC summer stories. Related to Levi Taft, there are numerous photos of him, his wife, and life on the campus of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) at the turn of the century. Also included are minutes, a constitution, articles of incorporation and bylaws, treasurer's reports, a...
Dates:
1899-1921, circa 1920-1930, 2007, 2012, undated