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Alumni Memorial Chapel records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-5.5.5.1
Scope and Contents
The Alumni Memorial Chapel records contain newspaper clippings and manuscripts on the history of the chapel, bids and information seeking a new organ in the early 1990s, brochures, a proposal to fix the chapel’s stained glass windows, and projects that the United States Armed Forces Alumni Association of Michigan State University undertook to update and repair the chapel. There are lists of the MSU veterans who died during service which appear on the walls of the Alumni Memorial Chapel. Also...
Dates:
1952 - 2008
Arne Gerald Kettunen papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.89
Scope and Contents
The Arne Kettunen papers include correspondence, printed materials on extension programs and committees, and information on youth activities, as well as correspondence relating to several hunting and fishing trips taken with various members of the Cooperative Extension Service. Of special interest is his work with the Finnish Relief Fund and Finnish Extension Program. His scrapbook contains material relating to his years as a student at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State...
Dates:
1913 - 1957
Associated Students of MSU records (ASMSU)
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.1.1
Scope and Content
The records of the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) include policy codes, meeting minutes, agendas, proposals, reports, correspondence with campus and other universities' departments and officials, materials relating to ASMSU presidents, handbooks, news clippings, fact sheets, press bulletins, and scrapbooks.
Topics of interest in the records include People’s Park, women’s curfew for dormitories, Women’s Inter-Residence Council, Men’s Hall Association, student...
Dates:
1940 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1954 - 2010
Associated Women Students records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.1.9
Scope and Content
This collection contains constitutions, undated correspondence between future attendees of Michigan State and the association, which include such information as formal sorority rush and a list of freshman books required for fall semester 1944. There are also blank forms that a student would fill out for the council, including student information sheets, petition for offices and chairmanships in organizations, certificate of service for cooperative extension work and a sickness report form. ...
Dates:
1948 - 1967
Austin and Foote families papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00495
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the records of the Austin and Foote families of Milford from 1842 to 1907.An account book (1852-1866) and household accounts of the Foote family (1840-1878) are included as well as political tickets for Oakland County in the election of 1864. Materials on reunions of the Grand Army of the Republic and Women's Relief Corps (1890s) and articles of the Battle of Chickamauga are also included. The Civil War related materials have been scanned and put online...
Dates:
1842 - 1907
Bagg family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00251
Scope and Contents
The Bagg family papers contain a letter of welcome from residents of Savannah, Georgia, to George Washington, during his visit to Savannah in 1791. Also included are letters to Dr. Joseph Bagg and his wife, Eliza, of Detroit, Michigan. Two letters from Eliza's sister, Abby Billings, send family news and complain about housework (1843, 1844). A letter from the Baggs' son-in-law, W.G. Austin, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, describes the presidential election of 1844. School compositions by the Baggs'...
Dates:
1791, 1839-1844, 1878
Bagley family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00018
Scope and Contents
The Bagley family papers includes the personal papers of David M. Bagley, his wife, Bennette Bagley, his son, William, and his grandson, Laurence. The material, dating from 1830 to 1932, is arranged by family member. Bennette Bagley's papers contain personal correspondence from friends and family members in England wishing her a safe journey to America in 1833, and her will and estate papers of 1888.David M. Bagley's papers include correspondence relating to the Civil...
Dates:
1830 - 1932
Bamber family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.447
Scope and Contents
The Bamber family papers consist primarily of correspondence written or received by members of the family of Joseph S. Bamber, a farmer residing in Oakland County, Michigan. The collection includes letters (1862-1865) to Bamber from members of the Hayes family, related to the Bambers by marriage. These letters describe civilian experiences during the Civil War and contain information on food prices, the draft, and "Copperhead" activity in 1864. Also included are letters...
Dates:
1861 - 1883
Barry D. Amis papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.500
Content Description
The collection contains flyers, notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to the creation of the Black Student Alliance and its early history from 1967 to 1969. Included are newspaper clipping editorials that Amis wrote while a student. Also included are blank forms, hate mail, and a factsheet about the Orangeburg Massacre.
The collection can be viewed online at https://onthebanks.msu.edu/Object/162-565-7729/barry-d-amis-papers-/ and ...
Dates:
1967-1970, undated
Bernice McQueary collection
Collection
Identifier: 00142
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, press releases, and related materials from the office of "Romney Volunteers" during the first six months of 1963. Also included are biographical materials, executive speeches and releases, Romney's daily schedules as Governor, photographs, newspaper clippings and campaign materials.
Dates:
1961 - 1963