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Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.23
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the dictated manuscipt "Notes on M.A.C. History" by W. O. Hedrick which was completed around 1942. It is a candid and personal history of the campus, faculty, and students beginning around 1887, Hedrick's freshman year at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). A few of the topics covered in his "Notes" include Student Life, Social Committee Chairmanship, Commencements, Military Drill, and Faculty Strains and Tensions. The scrapbook...
Dates:
1942 - 1949
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.306
Scope and Contents
The William A. Ball collection consists of color slides taken by Ball of the dedication of the Macklin Field in 1948. The dedication slides show the bands as well as dignitaries on the field. Other slides in the collection include flooding in Lansing and East Lansing in 1947, and a Lansing Memorial Day parade in 1947. One of the flooding pictures shows the MSC Band Shell with water around it.
Dates:
1947 - 1948
Collection
Identifier: 00100
Scope and Contents
Oral History
This collection is an oral history of hardwood logging in and around Benzie County, Michigan from 1890 to 1920. A good description of the work and life of loggers, cooks, and other employees of logging camps in Northern Michigan was obtained through taped interviews with the following people: Bob Bailey (1885- ) James Bargerstock (1872-1972) Mrs. Bargerstock ( )Lloyd Bates (1879-1974) Claude Carrier ( )...
Dates:
1890 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1973
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.96
Scope and Contents
The William Raven papers consist of correspondence related his job as an Agricultural Extension Agent. The correspondence consists of letters to Raven requesting information, replies to his letters, a few letters from his superiors, and some letters relating to his duties as an agent. There are also a few letters in the collection from Raven himself. The Raven family materials folder contains copies of genealogical information on Edwin Morse who was Paulina Raven's husband, newspaper...
Dates:
1913 - 1915, 1981, Undated
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.360
Scope and Contents
The William Farquhar papers contain Farquhar's vita as well as reports and articles written by Farquhar about academic achievement, motivation, and counseling. Also included is the report "1976 Inventory of Summer Project Resources Region V, Migrant Education Project Directors Report Full Technical Report Part II" from the Montcalm Area Intermediate School District Region VI Migrant Education Program.
Dates:
1965 - 1995
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.172
Scope and Contents
The William F. Staley collection includes a class of 1888 M.A.C. yearbook with WF Staley embossed on front and book mark at his picture. Throughout the yearbook, death dates have been written by some of the portraits. Also included is a 50th Anniversary photograph of the class of 1888 (W. F. Staley is 4th from left front) with notations on back, and a photograph of the Staley family.
Dates:
1888 - 1938
Collection
Identifier: MSS 535 large
Scope and Contents
The William G. Lockwood Ann Arbor wine societies collection contains publications and ephemera relating to William and Yvonne Lockwood's participation in wine societies in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Materials include the First Press newsletter of the Wine and Food Society of Ann Arbor, Complete Cuisine's un Soupçon d'épices, The Wines of Warner, Vintage (American Wine Society), Wine and Food Society, Wineland Grapevine, Michigan State University's Cooperative Extension Service publication...
Dates:
1969 - 1985
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.166
Scope and Contents
The collection includes William Bartel's class schedules and course receipts, a textbook for working at a forge, engineering experiments assignments, a play program for "The Beginnings: A Drama of Michigan History," and a 1927 commencement program. It also contains records from the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, Alpha Chapter, and the address of Joseph Bell Cotton (class of 1886) for Michigan State College's (now Michigan State University) 70th anniversary in 1927. The collection also contains...
Dates:
1921 - 1927
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.116
Scope and Contents
The papers are organized into five series: Tennessee Papers, Michigan Papers, Michigan State University Papers, Volumes, and Photographs.Included in the Tennessee papers are his book Tennessee: A Political Study, published in 1940 in collaboration with
William E. Cole, preliminary drafts of chapters and correspondence relating to subjects in the book.
Other materials include a "Biennial Report of the University of Tennessee (1936-1938),"...
Dates:
1936 - 1979
Collection
Identifier: c-00488
Scope and Contents
The diary includes the records of expenses and earnings for Osborne's farm in 1864 as well as personal entries. Also included are cash accounts involving work in the legislature and a record of bounty funds paid to Osborne for recruitment of Civil War soldiers.
Dates:
1864
