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Collection
Identifier: c-00314
Scope and Contents
This collection contains diaries of Elizabeth Cooper Matheson who moved with her family from Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, to Salem, Ohio in 1862, and to Riverside, Michigan in 1867. The early entries include many observations on events of the Civil War. Matheson, a Quaker, also gives details of Quaker meetings and of the Temperance Society which she joined in 1862. In addition, she describes in detail the journey from Ohio to Michigan including the crossing of Lake Erie and...
Dates:
1861 - 1873
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
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.103
Scope and Contents
The papers of Emil Volz consist of a scrapbook containing postcards and photographs depicting student life, students, campus scenes, scenes from Pine Lake (Lake Lansing), Michigan, faculty, and athletic events at Michigan Agricultural College. It also contains programs from various campus social functions, numerous dance cards, menus, ribbons, and many items relating to football at Michigan Agricultural College.
Dates:
1910 - 1914
Collection
Identifier: 00064
Scope and Contents
This collection relates mainly to Albert D. English, his wife, the former Marion Brown Monteith, their daughter Jean English Wisner, and Albert's sister, Annetta English.Many letters in Albert's personal correspondence, especially those from his sister, Annetta, contain references of local historical interest. Annetta English, in her diaries and essays, recorded a great deal of the history of the Manchester, Michigan area. Albert kept personal notes in this field, and also...
Dates:
1829 - 1954
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.516
Scope and Contents
The Eric Nies collection contains scrapbook pages, a diploma, and the Eric Nies Chronicle by Nancy Nies, American Iris Society. The scrapbook pages contain photos of cadets, photos of the basketball team and photo of the baseball team with Nies. There are also event and athletic tickets, a bath ticket, a cadet certificate, dormitory regulations, Intercollegiate Athletics Rules of Eligibility, a note of punishment, and an athletic mass meeting flyer. There are also loose photographs of...
Dates:
circa 1904-1907, 1915, 2006
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.396
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Winston's job promotion letters, personal correspondence, a handbook for MSU's College of Education doctoral students, and early research he conducted on Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.
Two folders are restricted, Winston's job promotion letters and the questionnaire results he received back for his dissertation.
Dates:
1969 - 1974
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.81
Scope and Contents
The collection contains college memorabilia collected by Esther M. Rehkopf. This includes a postcard of the Eunomian House, 1919-1920 YMCA Handbook from Michigan Agricultural College, and a 1921 commencement program. The memorabilia also includes the M.A.C. Catalog for 1917-1918, the college handbook for 1920-1921, student directories for 1917 through 1920, rules for women, regulations for undergraduate students, an M.A.C. souvenir booklet, The Holcad newsletter, athletics schedules, and...
Dates:
1917 - 1921
Collection
Identifier: c-00617
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 60 postcards from Canada, England, the United States, and 32 stereocards primarily of biblical scenes. Twenty postcards are scenes from communities in Massachusetts. Also included in the collection is a photograph of Calvin Coolidge taken by Allison B. Spence of Northampton, Massachusetts, and a tin type photograph of Martha Wonsey, Delos Wonsey and Seraph Wonsey Page (Paige).
Dates:
1904 - 1923
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.299
Scope and Content
This collection contains a six-page account of a fall tour (October 15-17, 1982) of northern Michigan by Eugene Huddleston. Huddleston describes the railroad and equipment used for the tour, and various scenic areas visited during the trip. Also included is a draft of Huddleston's article "Moving Pere Marquette 1225 from East Lansing to Owosso" from February 22, 1983 and a photograph of a Pere Marquette Pacific train taken in 1948.
Dates:
1948 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1983
Collection
Identifier: UA-12.3.69
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a photograph of Excalibur members from 1968, membership list for 1967-1968 and membership list of Blue Key for 1967-1968. There is also a photograph of a framed membership certificate sitting on a shelf.
Dates:
1967-1968, 2012
