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Department of Geology records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.53
Scope and Contents
The records consist of correspondence, field trip reports, inventories of the department, financial statements, experiment station notes, material relating to the Works Progress Administration, the military college program during World War II, science fraternities, annual report materials. There are also records relating to the Glacial Institute. Graduate Assistants’ files during World War II are marked with an asterisk (*).Graduate Assistant files contain applications, program...
Dates:
1920 - 2010
Edward K. and Marion M. Sales papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.445
Scope and Contents
The Edward K. and Marion M. Sales papers include photographs and postcards from their military training and service during World War I. There are also military-themed World War I era clippings, maps of France, souvenir photograph albums of Germany, and other souvenir publications.Also included in the collection are World War II era materials, such as military pocket guides, Overseas Editions for Armed Services of various publications, and issues of Stars...
Dates:
1917 - 1943
Ethel Rathke papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.441
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection consists of scrapbooks. The twenty scrapbooks are filled with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and pictures covering such diverse topics as World War II, the Middle East, Lansing and East Lansing, Japanese culture and flower gardening. Also included are Ethel Rathke's prose and poetry and her correspondence with publishing companies, friends, and acquaintances.
Dates:
1900 - 1970
Frank Knox collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00189
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of various materials relating to Frank Knox's career. These include a clipping from the Alma Record (1898) describing Knox's recruiting activities on the Alma campus; an address by Knox to the War Congress of American Industry (1942), stressing the challenges brought by World War II; an editorial written by Knox of the death of John Muehling (1944); press releases and programs relating to Knox's military funeral...
Dates:
1898 - 1944
Frank W. Holder papers
Collection
Identifier: 00021
Scope and Contents
The Holder collection is divided into three basic series. The first deals with his work for the Taft Highway Association. This series includes correspondence, records of the association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates records of the Association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates to Holder's position with the Michigan State Highway Department during World War II. This material contains records of bus line surveys as well as gasoline and tire rationing...
Dates:
1925 - 1959
Frederick C. Belen papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.142
Scope and Contents
The Frederick C. Belen papers contain photographs related to Belen's career. Images include scenes of Belen with people and groups, including giving speeches, presenting gifts to dignitaries, and on tours. There are also photographs of groups without Belen, and of Belen's office. There are photographs of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy and W. Marvin Watson. Other images include mail trucks with logos on them about the new use of ZIP codes....
Dates:
1942 - 1969
Harley Krapohl papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00574
Scope and Contents
The Harley Krapohl papers consist of letters, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and a partially released Federal Bureau of Investigation file regarding the arrest and trial of George Viereck for violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1943. Viereck was an author who was a suspected Nazi propagandist in the United States prior to and during World War II. Senator Donald Riegle obtained the F.B.I. file for Mr. Krapohl, a former employee of the state of Michigan, through the...
Dates:
1940-1943, 1989; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1943
Jackson Edmund Towne papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.46
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of Towne’s correspondence, articles, and speeches. Also included in the collection are documents and correspondence concerning the estate of Annie L. Towne, his mother, and the papers of his wife, Katherine Doyle Towne.
The collection also includes papers on the World’s Columbian Exposition donated by Towne, consisting of committee reports, a contract for water services at the exposition, and two letters, one requesting exhibit space and the other...
Dates:
1892 - 1971
James Henry Denison papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.62
Scope and Contents
The James Denison papers include materials that were accumulated throughout Denison’s life. Denison’s personal papers consist primarily of correspondence, diaries, and newspaper clippings about himself. Also included are articles, stories, and poems written by Denison. Among the articles are several drafts of a piece he wrote about Mackinac Island, Michigan.
The bulk of the papers center around Denison’s professional career and in particular his career with the Michigan Office of...
Dates:
1925 - 1970
Kedzie family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.6
Scope and Contents
The Kedzie family papers consists of genealogies, correspondence, and books published by members of the family. Also included are photographs of Robert Mark Kedzie, Ester Hawley Kedzie, A. S. Kedzie, and unidentified men. Additionally, there are items relating to Michigan Agricultural College/Michigan State College (now Michigan State University), such as a 1907 Alumni luncheon program, a commencement program, and a brochure which seeks donations for various buildings titled "For the...
Dates:
1850 - 1976