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Shakespeare Company records
Collection
Identifier: 00071
Scope and Contents
The Shakespeare Company records consist of a history of the company, financial records, legal records, advertising and marketing records, catalogues and price lists, equipment specifications, Sport Fishing Institute materials, correspondence, and photographs. The photographs in the collection include images of fishing, fishing and golf equipment, and advertisements. There are also images of employees as well as C. W. Davis, Henry Shakespeare, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith.
Dates:
1913 - 1973
Stanley Johnston papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.132
Scope and Content
The Johnston papers document the experiments, developments, and accomplishments of South Haven Experiment Station under the direction of Stanley Johnston. The collection includes correspondence, records of experiments, reports, photographs, slides, postcards, research papers (published and unpublished), and maps. These papers document the development of the Haven peach and the world-wide importance of that development; and the importance of his research with other fruits, especially...
Dates:
1921 - 1980
State Board of Agriculture / Board of Trustee records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-1
Scope and Contents
The State Board of Agriculture papers include correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, legal records and newspaper clippings of the first governing body of the state agriculture college. The College Lands series includes correspondence, reports, land descriptions, employment records, financial records, minutes, legal documents, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the management of state lands endowed to the college via the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862. ...
Dates:
1850 - 2018
The State News records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.7.2
Scope and Contents
The records of the State News consist of a style book from 1929, a handbook from 1972 and an undated handbook possibly from the 1970s. There are also sample banners (Complete issues selected to show varying banners) (1925-1954) and selected issues (selected on basis of headline or relevance to University or East Lansing history). Also included are a few issues of the supplements including “Collage,” “MSU Extra,” and “Counterpoint.” Also included are...
Dates:
1925 - 1999
Tower Guard records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.45
Scope and Content
The records of the Tower Guard consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, memos, agendas, and scrapbooks. The records have been created by the students in the organization and are rather informal and vary in their content. In addition, there are a large number of undated records.
The minute book contains a brief history of the Tower Guard and minutes of the meetings from 1933 to 1944. The administrative folder contains the Articles of the Tower Guard and the Preamble. The agendas...
Dates:
1933 - 2012
Union Building records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-5.5.5
Scope and Contents
Union Building records document the activities and decisions of the Union Board, the group governing the use of the Michigan State University Union Building. Records include the constitution, articles of association, and operation plans; meeting minutes; Union Building activities; publications of and advertisements for the Union Building; financial records such as audit reports, statements, and correspondence; and miscellaneous information pertaining to college unions, activity forms, and...
Dates:
1918-circa 2012
William B. Drew papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.135
Scope and Contents
The William B. Drew collection consists of materials from Drew’s Cinchona mission in Ecuador, reports about the effects of herbicide in South Vietnam, reports about swidden (slash and burn) to forest in Thailand, and the essay “History of the Botany and Plant Pathology Department from 1945-1973.” In this essay Drew writes about his time as a professor and head of the department and describes events in the department as well as faculty members. The collection also includes MSU...
Dates:
1943 - 2005
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.68
Scope and Contents
Nearly all of the records in series 1–5 of this collection dating through 1955 originated in the offices of Colin M. McCrary (1884-1956), the first farm manager, from 1930 until 1948, when he became station superintendent. In the Administrative series, the first three folders contain letters from and carbon responses to W. K. Kellogg, as McCrary reported monthly to the farm benefactor at his Arabian horse Farm in California and later kept up contact with Kellogg on a more personal level. ...
Dates:
1908 - 2001
Zee and Schober families papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.144.1
Scope and Content
This collection consists of memorial books, correspondence, diaries, notebooks, school materials, scrapbooks, Elsie Zee’s teaching materials, family photographs, and genealogical papers. James Wilmer Zee and Elsie Schober Zee’s courtship love letters are also included. There are also post-World War II letters to Elsie Schober Zee and William (Wilhelm) Schober from family members in Germany and from former German P.O.W.s who worked for the Zees. The letters are in German. Many were translated...
Dates:
1908 - 1987