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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
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.91
Scope and Contents
The papers of Eben Mumford contain case notes, data, and manuscripts of rural communities and land utilization studies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Professional correspondence, research data, manuscripts, research notes from the agriculture experiment station, standard of living in Michigan projects, the rural church project, and Michigan school districts are also found in Mumford’s papers. Also included are class notes, possibly from classes Mumford taught.The...
Dates:
1915 - 1940
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.3
Scope and Contents
The three ledgers contain accounting information for the Eclectic Society from 1917-1929. There is information about the society's house, its members, its social events, and the café it ran.
The folders contain a social activity program, information on a proposed building for the society, stockholders in the society, society directories, copies of their newsletter, The Tic, from 1894, 1915, 1921 and 1924.
Dates:
1916 - 1929
Collection
Identifier: 00199
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a very complete set of records (1961 - 2007) pertaining to the operation of a cooperative preschool. These records include Board of Directors minutes and other correspondence, committee materials, parent handbooks, history description, job information, publications, rosters, surveys, and information on their website.The publications include advertisements, brochures, and newsletters (1962 - 2005). The surveys include data on surrounding area preschools...
Dates:
1961 - 2007
Collection
Identifier: c-00363
Scope and Contents
The collection contains miscellaneous items from Keweenaw County, Michigan assembled by the donor. Included are three small volumes containing household expense records, grocery store accounts, and livestock and farm produce records (1893-1944). Also, several stockholder's notices from the Fulton Mining Company of New York (later the Fulton Copper Company) (1854-1855); teachers' certificates from Macomb and Keweenaw Counties (1868-1892); and Insurance Company of Detroit correspondence...
Dates:
1854 - 1944
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.419
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of several scrapbooks containing newspaper articles of Franklin D. Roosevelt's private and political life from 1934 to 1940. There is also a Vermontville School Register (1891-1895), a booklet containing teacher contracts in Eaton County, financial records, data pertaining to Michigan railroads, Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1907 Handbook, and diaries dating from 1908 to 1933.
Dates:
1859 - 1940
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
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.523
Scope and Contents
The Edward C. Hayhow collection includes an MAC scrapbook containing items relating to sporting events, student activities, and entertainment; dance cards; an athletic association membership ticket, letters addressed to Hayhow regarding the National Society of Scabbard and Blade, and Pi Delta Epsilon; MAC Horse Show and Football tickets; an “I helped send the Band to Indiana” tag; and an article pertaining to Varsity Debate activities. Photographs in the scrapbook include...
Dates:
1922 - 1925
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.29
Scope and Contents
The Edward E. Kinney papers consist of five items, including letter of recommendation for E. E. Kinney to the Michigan State Board of Registration, a letter from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company, one letter to Kinney from a Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) graduate and one from a former colleague at M.A.C., and a 1948 magazine article about the school of Electrical Engineering at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) in which...
Dates:
1938 - 1975
Collection
Identifier: 00221
Scope and Content
The Edward G. Read papers contain materials related to Read, his wife, children, and relatives. Included are personal and business correspondence, recipe books, pamphlets, cards, and publications. The family papers series has a four volume set titled The Peak - Peake Family History by Cyrus Peak.
The photographs include the Barber, Shepard, Read, and Peak families, as well as unidentified people and an aerial view of a farm.
Dates:
1859-1982
