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Department of Forestry records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.51
Scope and Contents
The records of the forestry department consist of research papers, correspondence, pamphlets, and field reports from various counties in Michigan. Also included is a folder of correspondence from C. O. Willets with the Agriculture Research Service, history of the Conservation Nursery at Michigan State University, and materials about maple syrup production including reports, and correspondence. Other notable topics include Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and Xi Sigma Pi, the...
Dates:
1920 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2010
Edward H. Ryder papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.40
Scope and Contents
The Edward H. Ryder collection contains correspondence, travel information from his trip around the world in 1923 and personal remembrances, including memorials and programs. Also found in the collection are materials pertaining to his wife, Georgia Smyth Ryder. The collection also contains correspondence to and from both Edward and Georgia Ryder. It includes copies of their original birth certificates as well as their obituaries. The bulk of the material relates to Edward Ryder and his...
Dates:
1854 - 1955
Irwin B. Winsor collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.147
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four folders of photographs. The Buildings folder contains images of 703 Sigmour St. (Sycamor St.?), Howard Terrace, Linton Hall, and Williams Hall. The Military Science folder contains a group portrait of Company A, and a group portrait of Company B at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). The People folder contains a class portrait with Irwin Winsor, a portrait of Irwin Blucker Winsor, and an informal shot of a man holding a watermelon....
Dates:
circa 1886-1889
James G. Hays papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.69
Scope and Contents
The James G. Hays collection contains commencement invitations and programs for the class of 1911 as well as alumni reunion programs for 1913. Also included are Hay’s descriptions of campus life in 1911 in which he describes campus grounds and buildings, social life, coeds, canoeing, street cars, small pox, and athletics. There is also a 1910 memo about preventing small pox on campus in which Thanksgiving recess is canceled. The collection contains photographs of the class of 1911, class of...
Dates:
1907 - 1975
John Brattin family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.429
Scope and Content
The John Brattin family papers consist of mainly John Brattin’s papers and correspondence, but it does contain materials and correspondence from his first wife, Alice Jane, and his mother-in-law, Kate Baker Knight. This collection covers John’s life from high school graduation until his death. Included in the collection are correspondence, work documents, photographs related to the Bowlby, Baker, and Knight families, certificates, family newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a...
Dates:
1849 - 1995
Margaret Shadduck Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.173
Scope and Contents
The Margaret Foster Shadduck collection contains programs, schedules, season tickets for Michigan State University Lecture-Concert Series and World Travel Series from 1968-1981. There are also Michigan State University class of 1926 reunion materials which include photographs and newsletters. Other materials include Shadduck's Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) diploma, graduation hood and a Cooperative Extension Workers creed.
Dates:
1968 - 1981
Media Communications records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1.1
Series Description
News Releases SeriesThe news releases contain information on students, graduations and honors lists for hometown newspapers; faculty biographies, awards, speeches, papers and publications; the official policies of the University; and campus non-athletic activities and events. One event that has a large number of news releases is the MSU Centennial, which took place in 1955. There are gaps in the series during the period 1956 to June 1965. There are...
Dates:
1925 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1936 - 2003
Ruth Ryder St. John papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.123
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a great deal of correspondence, including many to and from family and friends while Ruth Ryder was in the American Red Cross. Other subject materials cover the topics of the June 10, 1945 alumni reunion in Manila, the establishment of the Edward H. Ryder and Georgia R. Ryder Scholarship Fund, and the East Lansing High School Class of 1931 Fifty Year Reunion. The scrapbook in this collection is dedicated to the Manila reunion and contains lists of attendants and...
Dates:
1925 - 1997
School of Packaging records
Collection
Identifier: UA-16.90
Scope and Contents
The School of Packaging collection contains many items including histories of the program, the book "Beyond the Box: The History of the School of Packaging, Michigan State University 1952-2017" by Diana Twede, newsletters, news releases, newspaper clippings and publications related to the school, pamphlets, and brochures.Also included is information related to the construction of the School of Packaging building addition in 1986 and 1987 and the 25th and 50th anniversaries of the...
Dates:
1952 - 2017
W. Victor Bielinski papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.171
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the commencement program for the Class of 1936 with commemorative ribbon, a photograph of the 35th reunion of the Class of 1936 taken in 1971, and a letter from the Alumni Association.
Dates:
1936 - 1971