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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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Stanley Edwin Crowe papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.61
Scope and Contents The Stanley Edwin Crowe collection contains office files relating to his time as director and dean of the General College, coordinator of the army training program, and dean of students. This includes correspondence between Crowe and Presidents Shaw and Hannah. One subject of particular interest is the collection of comments made by Crowe on women's attire, claiming that women wearing jeans is linked to excessive drinking and partying. Many responses, both for and against this view, are...
Dates: 1933-1956, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Stars and Stripes publications

 Collection
Identifier: 00197
Scope and Contents The collection consists of Stars and Stripes newspapers published during World War I and World War II. The issues 1918-1919, 1944-1946 are arranged in chronological order. When two dates are listed together, it indicates two issues were attached together. The designation of European and Mediterranean after the dates indicates which theater of war the issue came from.The newspapers contain information on the wars, life as a soldier, as well as some non-war...
Dates: 1918 - 1946
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Towar family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.418
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials from both Jennie and James Towar. The correspondence of Jennie Towar Woodard is addressed to family members as well as correspondence from those family members. The bulk of this correspondence prior to the second World War came from her brother, James. The letters of the latter half of the collection are from nieces and nephews. In general, the letters are chatty and relate some of the social or economic condition of the times. One exception to this are the...
Dates: 1882 - 1956
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

U.S. Military History collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00470
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a history of Parris Island from 1526 to 1952 and account of Blue Army maneuvers.

Dates: 1940, 1954
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Walter G. Kirkpatrick papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.30
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the collection consists of Kirkpatrick's daily appointment books from 1939-1950. Other materials in the collection consist of one publication credited to Kirkpatrick, a report on his travels in Europe and an annual report from the Antrim County Agricultural Agent. The collection also contains five 16mm films: four related to the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America and one related to the Antrim County [Michigan] USO War Fund Drive.

Dates: 1939 - 1951
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William L. Morris collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.494
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Morris' certificate to Captain, photocopies of a letter and poem written by Morris, photocopy articles about Morris and the Spartan Spirit being shot down, and photographs of Morris and his plane during the war.

Dates: 1941-1946, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Women in World War II greeting cards collection

 Collection — Container: Small MSS Shared Box 1
Identifier: MSS 22 small
Scope and Contents

The Women in World War II Greeting Collection is comprised of 25 World War II greeting cards designed to appeal to woman. To pass the censors, the cards were inoculated with light-hearted humor as well as some risqué humor. The cards represent a wide range of patriotic themes including the physical dangers, probable lack of food, interactions with superiors, and encounters with the opposite sex.

Dates: 1942 - 1945
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

World War II propaganda leaflets

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 631
Scope and Contents The World War II propaganda leaflets consist of primarily 1-page, small leaflets. Some or all leaflets may have been distributed to American troops in Europe via air drops or by other means by German forces and all leaflets are in English (with occasional pronounced vocabulary directed to American or British forces, with rare German spellings of words). Common themes include anti-Semitism and mistrust of Jewish or Eastern Europeans who may have to come America as refugees but now are...
Dates: approximately 1944
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

World War II war bonds leaflets

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 122 small
Scope and Contents

The World War II war bonds leaflets promote the purchase of United States war bonds. There are three fliers for the 4th War Loan. Four items are payroll deduction cards for the Third, Fourth, and Fifth War Loan programs. There are also two copies of a cash payment plan card for the Fourth War Loan program.

Dates: 1943 - 1944
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

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Hannah, John A., 1902-1991 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Lansing Civic Players Guild (Lansing, Mich.) 2
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W.K. Kellogg Biological Station 2
4-H Youth Development Program (U.S.) 1
Abelow, Asher B. 1
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902 1
Advance Plating Company 1
Alexander, Robert S. (Robert Seymour), 1923-1997 1
American Council on Education. Cooperative Study of Evaluation in General Education 1
American Geographical Society of New York 1
American Jewish Committee 1
American Library Association 1
American Red Cross 1
American Veterinary Medical Association. National Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners 1
Anderson, Eugene, 1911- 1
Applied Geography Conference 1
Arthur Hill High School (Saginaw, Mich.) 1
Association of American Geographers 1
Baer, Herbert (1922-1987) 1
Bagwell, Paul D. (Paul Douglas), 1913-1973 1
Baker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold), 1916-2007 1
Balbos, E. J. 1
Belen, Frederick C. 1
Benally, John Ashi, 1917-1980 1
Big Ten Conference (U.S.) 1
Blatchford, Paul H., 1917-2003 1
Brown, Donald A. 1
Brown, John, Jr., 1921-2009 1
Burr, Sandy, 1924-1997 1
Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech), 1868-1935 1
Cannon, Lee 1
Chi Omega Fraternity 1
Citizens for Eisenhower (Organization) 1
Claw, John 1
Coppin, John S., 1904-1986 (Portraitist) 1
Council of Foreign Ministers 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Denison, James Henry, 1907-1975 1
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) 1
Dewsbury, Donald A., 1939- 1
DiBiaggio, John A., 1932- 1
Dibble, George A. (1919-1998) 1
Dittrich, Francis Carl, Jr. , 1910-1985 1
Doty, Robert Douglas 1
Dow, Maynard Weston 1
Draper, Teddy 1
East Lansing Woman's Club 1
Eastern High School (Lansing, MI) 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 1
Estell, Dick 1
Eugenics Record Office 1
Eugenics Research Association 1
Evans, Ted 1
Faul, Henry 1
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation 1
Fort Lewis College 1
Friedenthal-Haase, Martha 1
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government 1
Giefel, Marjorie 1
Gilchrist, Maude 1
Goodwin, Maxwell A. 1
Gorman, Carl Nelson, 1907-1998 1
Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada 1
Griffiths, Martha W. (Martha Wright), 1912-2003 1
Halsey, Maxwell N. (Maxwell Nicoll), 1902- 1
Harrisberger, Ruth Hauffe 1
Harvard University 1
Hayworth, Donald 1
Henderson, Bernadette "Mac" McCarthy 1
Hickman, Dean, 1914-1982 1
Historical Association of Southern Florida 1
Holiday, Samuel, 1924- 1
Honigsheim, Paul, 1885-1963 1
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 1
House, Lloyd 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1