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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
John Gibson Parkhurst papers
Collection
Identifier: 00025
Scope and Contents
The largest part of the collection consists of the pocket diaries Parkhurst kept from 1847 to 1906. The early diaries (1847-1860) relate details of his court cases and only rarely mention his personal life. Records of various financial transactions are incorporated in these early diaries. The diaries of the war years (1861-1865) include battle accounts and descriptions of Parkhurst's experiences as a prisoner-of-war in 1862. In the diaries of the post-war years, Parkhurst discusses primarily...
Dates:
1831 - 1906
John Harvey Kellogg papers
Collection
Identifier: 00013
Scope and Content
This collection is organized into four series.(1) PERSONAL PAPERS. 1893 1944, undated 2.1 cu. ft.
Contained in this series is John Harvey Kellogg's life long correspondence with the Seventh Day Adventist Church and a family album scrapbook.
(2) BUSINESS PAPERS. 1876 1959, undated 3.9 cu. ft., 132 vols.
Contained in this series is the bulk of the material. It covers a myriad of business, educational, and...
Dates:
1876 - 1959
John Herbert Thomson collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.320
Scope and Contents
The John Herbert Thomson collection includes a scrapbook which contains photos of class rush, the Michigan State University campus and buildings, and students. The scrapbook also includes photos of scenes in the Upper Peninsula including Tahquamenon Falls, Newberry, Michigan 4th of July events including a wrestling match between Pittsley and McLeod, University of Michigan, one image of Crisp Life Saving Station and Lighthouse, Camp Custer 1917. Photographs not in the scrapbook include Helen...
Dates:
1897, 1917-1992
John L. Whitelaw papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00379
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two folders of correspondence (1945) from Brigadier General John L. Whitelaw to relatives in East Lansing, Michigan, when he was stationed in Germany during World War II. In his letters, Whitelaw describes the Ruhr Valley area and Berlin after the German surrender, and comments on the Russian soldiers, trains and the civilian food situation.The collection also contains two scrapbooks. One (1883-1900) contains nineteenth-century pictorial advertisements,...
Dates:
1883 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1900
John Taylor Bregger papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.74
Scope and Content
John T. Bregger papers include biographical information; personal and professional correspondence; notes, papers, records and memorabilia from his elementary and high school education in Bangor, Michigan, (1903-1913) from his studies at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) (1913-1923; 1954-1967), and from his graduate studies at Cornell University (1921-1922) includes his Masters Thesis on Pomology; news clippings written by Bregger or collected for his personal...
Dates:
1903 - 1981
Katharine E. Cook Briggs papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.68
Scope and Contents
The papers of Katharine Cook Briggs contain two scrapbooks, three folders of genealogical information, and several of her published and private works. The first scrapbook by Cook contains images of Michigan Agricultural College campus, dance cards, concert programs, letters, and other memorabilia. The album begins in 1889 and contains materials through 1894. The second scrapbook consists of a joint photo album in which Cook and Mary Lilian Wheeler demonstrate various photographic printing...
Dates:
1889 - 1956
Kathleen F. Lawler papers
Collection
Identifier: 00134
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials from the 1907 land fraud case, the Republican Speaker's Bureau and the Newberry-Ford dispute. This includes correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, a scrapbook and photographs.
Dates:
1888 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1938
Kathryn Faner Lobban collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.388
Content Description
The collection consists of a photograph album with portraits of women and men and small images of Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) military activities. There are also photographs of Kathryn Faner Lobban and her husband Andrew Lobban. The images are in a 1927 MSC Military Ball souvenir album. Also included are photographs of musicians and MSC music faculty Alexander Schuster, Michael Press and Arthur Farwell which are inscribed to Kathryn Faner.
Dates:
1926 - 1933
Kathryn Lohr scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: c-00543
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a high school class sewing scrapbook that belonged to Kathryn Lohr. The scrapbook contains instructions on and examples of various aspects of sewing and includes fabric samples.
Dates:
1924 - 1925