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Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.136
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four folders, containing various materials such as programs and brochures pertaining to Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), an essay most likely written by Wallace B. Moffett, a prospectus on a Mark Twain book, and a copy of a Mark Twain speech. The essay is about Mark Twain’s visit to Lansing in 1871 at Mead’s Hall. The essay is detailed with notes and citation sources.
Dates:
1877 - 1966
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.13
Scope and Contents
Walter Adams' papers contain administrative subject files, speeches, and correspondence from his short term as President of Michigan State University. Subject files contain monographs, correspondence, and other documents related to the various schools and departments of the university, and to student affairs. Includes a proposal for a Russian and Eastern European Studies Center. Correspondence deals primarily with state and community issues, with some from the Board of Trustees and from the ...
Dates:
1969, 1973, 1994
Collection
Identifier: 00138
Scope and Contents
The Walter J. Carrier papers consist of correspondence, government publications, scrapbooks, and volumes collected by Carrier during the years 1914-1931. The correspondence reveals Carrier's deep pacifistic beliefs. His views on such issues as World War I and the American intervention into Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the 1920s are of particular interest. The scrapbooks contain several pieces of correspondence as well as newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1914 - 1931
Collection
Identifier: 00157
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into three main series: Personal, Business, and Publications.The Personal series is arranged into subgroupings: Confidentially U.S.A., The Muckraker, Correspondence, Corruption, Court Cases, and Clippings. These are followed by folders dealing with diverse subjects. The Muckraker and Confidentially U.S.A. were Goodwin's attempt to publish his saga of corruption in the federal government. The clippings were to be included in his monographs. Goodwin's...
Dates:
1893 - 1974
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.95
Series Description
(1) BIOGRAPHICAL FILES. 1940-1948, 1955-1977, undated. 0.2 cubic feet
This series provides a broad overview of Wesley R. Fishel's professional life. Included are resumes, academic appointment papers and award certifications received by the scholar. Materials in the first nine folders reflect the beginnings of Fishel's early academic career, such as his appointment as an instructor of political science at UCLA. This series is arranged chronologically by subject.(2) ...
Dates:
1921 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1977
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.166
Scope and Contents
The collection includes William Bartel's class schedules and course receipts, a textbook for working at a forge, engineering experiments assignments, a play program for "The Beginnings: A Drama of Michigan History," and a 1927 commencement program. It also contains records from the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, Alpha Chapter, and the address of Joseph Bell Cotton (class of 1886) for Michigan State College's (now Michigan State University) 70th anniversary in 1927. The collection also contains...
Dates:
1921 - 1927
Collection
Identifier: 00176
Scope and Contents
The collection is arranged into 17 series: Biographical Materials; Personal Papers; Correspondence; Speeches; Publications; Biographical Files; National Agrol Co.; Verdurin Co.; patents; Research Notebooks; Reports/Hearings; History of American Chemical Industry; Subject Files; Audio / Visual materials; Ephemera; Microfilm; and Oversized material. The series are summarized below.BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS Newspaper clippings, bibliographic lists, publications, autobiographical...
Dates:
1906 - 1959; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1959
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.28
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a speech given by William J. Kimball at the National Lutheran Council Home Mission Conference in Chicago, Illinois on January 21, 1963.
Dates:
1963
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.411
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is composed of letters Carpenter received and duplicates of many of those that he sent. Many of them are of an essentially personal nature. In later life he became particularly interested in family genealogy and many letters were written and received on this subject.Included in the collection are a number of writings by Carpenter relating his experiences as a lawyer and judge. References to Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University)...
Dates:
1851 - 1950
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.301
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the faculty papers of philosophy professor Winston Wilkinson. Materials include two bibliographies with commentaries on Spinoza and Whitehead, book reviews for individuals and for Choice Publications, course packs and syllabi for the various classes he taught, articles and speeches, and Wilkinson's curriculum vitae.
Dates:
1963 - 2002
