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Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.231
Scope and Contents
The majority of Erdman’s photographs are images he took while on campus as an instructor. Many of the images bear the name “Kodak Shop Photo.” The Action Shots folder contains images Erdman took of activities during his time at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Some examples of campus action shots are the field testing of vehicles, servicemen, and portable barracks. Other notable photos include an early tank, caterpillar vehicles, trucks carrying portable...
Dates:
1918
Collection
Identifier: 00008
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, receipts, account books, and diaries relating mainly to Arnold W. Miller, a Saginaw County, Michigan, farmer. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from friends and relatives of Miller, residing in Kansas, Vermont, and Massachusetts. The letters include information on agricultural and business conditions, as well as the family's intense interest in spiritualism. One folder contains correspondence from Jasper Miller, who corresponded...
Dates:
1847 - 1928
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.266
Scope and Contents
The Arthur Sorenson collection consists of a scrapbook documenting his college years and a folder of photocopies of materials that were originally in the scrapbook. The scrapbook contains photographs, event programs and ribbons, dance cards, correspondence, announcements, tickets, and newspaper clippings. The photographs depict athletic events, university organizations, school events, candid pictures of students, images of campus, and other miscellaneous events.
The scrapbook includes...
Dates:
1903 - 1913
Collection
Identifier: MSS 78 small
Scope and Contents
The Baurat Theodor Reh papers include correspondence, mostly dated 1939, to and from Baurat Theodor Reh, Reichsverkehrsminister Julius Dorpmüller, and others, relating to the railroad system in German South-West Africa (now Namibia). Dorpmüller was the Nazi Germany Minister of Transportation. Also in the collection is a map, charts, printed matter, and Reh's "Supf-Plakette" certificate. The materials document some of Nazi Germany's plans for post-World War II port construction, railroad...
Dates:
1929 - 1941
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.455
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photocopies of several United States military documents, including discharge papers of Native American scouts.
Dates:
1812 - 1882
Collection
Identifier: 00114
Scope and Contents
These papers contain military records (1861-1866) of Captain Charles H. Gorsuch, who commanded Company K, 38th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War. The records include clothing and equipment inventories, invoices for ordinance and ordinance stores, and equipment depositions. Also included are correspondence, legal documents and receipts relating to Gorsuch's involvement in farming and in business activities after the war in Ohio and then in Waldron, Hillsdale County, Michigan.
Dates:
1861 - 1923
Record Group
Identifier: UA-15.2
Scope and Contents
The records of the Engineering College includes material relating to World War I training including the Student Army Training Corps, course information, Committee on Education and Special Training, information on armored vehicles, as well as correspondence.
Other records in the collection include surveys and studies of engineering students, alumni and professor information, minutes of faculty meetings for 1967 to 1975, brochures about the college, reports about the college, and a 1960...
Dates:
1913 - 2017
Collection
Identifier: MSS 77 small
Scope and Contents
The Colonel I. Palle papers consist of material generated during the course of the 1895 war in Madagascar. Material includes the field notes of Colonel I. Palle, maps, and correspondence. Subjects and persons mentioned in the documents include General Jacques Charles Rene Achille Duchesne, military field operations, material and food supply for the troops, and the military drive and advance to occupy Tananarive.
Dates:
1895
Record Group — Drawer: F.D., Folder: 1
Identifier: UA-3.17.2
Scope and Contents
The annual reports of the Aerospace Studies Department contain enrollment statistics, staff changes, reports of extra curricular activities, budgetary information, listings of commissions, and information about the facilities of the department. The 1963 report also contains a draft and the final copy of a study entitled "Who Takes ROTC at Michigan State?" by John M. Engebresten, Gordon W. Paul, and Edward P. Ozybko.
Dates:
1952 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1963
Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.17.1
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records relating to the Michigan State University Military Science Department/ROTC. The class materials folder contains a receipt listing the uniform items issued to students, a syllabus for MS 102 chronologically listing the subjects covered in the class and chapters in the ROTC manual, and a list of basic concepts and their definitions. There is also a folder of correspondence relating to the creation of a trophy for the top member on the MSU rifle team to be...
Dates:
1885 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1986
