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Hideya Kumata papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.94
Scope and Contents
The Hideya Kumata papers consist primarily of materials related to Kumata’s job as a professor of communications. The majority of these materials are undated.The bulk of these papers consists of original research data that Kumata used when working on papers, such as anonymous surveys, tests, and computer printouts processing survey data. Most of the research data is undated. The only date found indicated some of the computer printouts were from 1966.In addition to...
Dates:
1956-1966, undated
John Fiske Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.327
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the manuscript for "Keep Smiling Through the Grease: The Making of an Engineer in Mid-Twentieth Century America" by John Fiske Brown, an alumnus of Michigan State University (1953-1957), in which he writes about his life including his education and career. Also included are some family photographs and recipes.
Dates:
circa 1989
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
Lloyd G. Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.374
Scope and Contents
The papers of Lloyd G. Wilson consist of lab notebooks about sulfur dioxide and sulfate research related to plants, other research, reprints of his articles, presentations and other of his faculty papers. Also included is material related to a cellulolytic fungi project he worked on at the Wright Air Development Center. The collection also contains materials related to the design and construction of the Michigan State University Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory as...
Dates:
1939 - 1990
Marie Dye papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.14
Scope and Contents
The papers document Dye's professional life and reflect her interest in Nutrition research, the teaching of Home Economics at the college level, and women's changing roles in contemporary American society. Included are speeches and manuscripts written by Dye, records relating to the College of Home Economics (later called Human Ecology), correspondence, notes, journal reprints, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia. The records relating to the College of Home Economics consist primarily of...
Dates:
1896 - 1973
Milton Rokeach papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.304
Scope and Content
The collection contains manuscript drafts and notes pertaining to Rokeach’s psychological studies and published works, including clinical materials, psychological profiles, doctors’ and nurses’ notes, correspondence, patients’ writings, and transcripts of interviews with patients, all collected in the course of his research. Most of the collection concerns research for his book The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. The collection is organized into 8 series:
I....
Dates:
1957 - 1964
Robert Clark Kedzie papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.109
Scope and Contents
The papers of Robert Clark Kedzie consist primarily of materials relating to his position at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) as a professor of chemistry from 1863 to his death in 1902. They include scrapbooks, lecture notes, correspondence, awards, and biographical material. The three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, the first pertaining to the Samuel Johnson case in 1889, the second concerning the removal of M.A.C. President Lewis G. Gorton in 1895,...
Dates:
1851, 1863-1905, circa 1955, 1961
Rollin Harold Baker papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.111
Scope and Contents
The collection contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, course notes, photographs, autobiographical information, both personal and professional, of Rollin H. Baker, Museum Director and Professor in the Department of Zoology and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University.
Dates:
1936 - 1991
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