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Arthur Sorenson collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.266
Scope and Contents
The Arthur Sorenson collection consists of a scrapbook documenting his college years and a folder of photocopies of materials that were originally in the scrapbook. The scrapbook contains photographs, event programs and ribbons, dance cards, correspondence, announcements, tickets, and newspaper clippings. The photographs depict athletic events, university organizations, school events, candid pictures of students, images of campus, and other miscellaneous events.
The scrapbook includes...
Dates:
1903 - 1913
Associated Students of MSU records (ASMSU)
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.1.1
Scope and Content
The records of the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) include policy codes, meeting minutes, agendas, proposals, reports, correspondence with campus and other universities' departments and officials, materials relating to ASMSU presidents, handbooks, news clippings, fact sheets, press bulletins, and scrapbooks.
Topics of interest in the records include People’s Park, women’s curfew for dormitories, Women’s Inter-Residence Council, Men’s Hall Association, student...
Dates:
1940 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1954 - 2010
Barbara J. Lodge Alexander collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.513
Content Description
The Barbara J. Lodge Alexander collection contains a scrapbook of the activities of the 1949-1950 Delta Phi Delta - Alpha Mu art honorary society. The scrapbook was most likely created by Barbara J. (Lodge) Rockwood Alexander and her first husband Louis Rockwood. The scrapbook contains photographs of events, newspaper clippings, and lists of members for 1948-1950. The photographs show silkscreening, gallery exhibits, the Artist's and Model's Ball, Art Department faculty and staff, the annual...
Dates:
1948-1951
Benjamin Lafene collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.221
Scope and Contents
The Benjamin Lafene collection consists of a scrapbook kept during his time at Michigan State University, as well as personal items from his time at Louisiana State University and Kansas State University. Items in the scrapbook include dance cards, photographs, objects pertaining to the Forensic Literary Society and Lambda Chi Alpha, event ticket stubs, and autographs from fellow students, and other mementos. Loose materials and items Lafene never adhered to the scrapbook pages were removed...
Dates:
1919 - 1988
Beryl Williamson papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.242
Scope and Contents
The Beryl Williamson papers consist of albums, programs, clippings about Williamson and her skaters, Lansing Skating Club directories, photographs, scrapbooks, audio, films and videos with segments about Williamson.
Many of the albums in the collection contained pages that over time would harm the photographs inside. Where it was appropriate, the pages were photocopied to show arrangement and then the photographs removed from the album. The page number was written on the back of the photo....
Dates:
1942 - 1996
Bessey family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.416
Scope and Contents
The Bessey family papers have been arranged into the following series: Biographical Data, Manuscripts and Publications, General, Correspondence, Scrapbooks, Oversized materials and Photographs.The biographical data series includes information on Charles and Ernst Bessey, and on relatives of Edith Carleton Higgins (Mrs. Ernst A. Bessey), including her mother, Ella M. (Noyes) Higgins (1851-1913); her sisters, Mabel Cornell Porter and Bertha Noyes and, her brothers, Leslie A. Higgins...
Dates:
1878 - 1968
Cecile Gebhart collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.163
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a scrapbook created by Cecile Gebhart during her time as a student at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). It includes photographs of campus buildings and student activities as well as mementos from various events put on by student organizations. Also included are ticket stubs from athletic events, receipts, telephone and package slips, and commencement programs. There are a variety of items involving World War I, including a banner...
Dates:
1916 - 1921
Centennial Celebration records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-13.3.1
Scope and Contents
The records of Michigan State University's centennial include administrative subject files (1949-1956), files pertaining to the eleven academic symposia held throughout 1955 (1954-1956), reference materials pertaining to anniversary celebrations held by other colleges and universities (1936-1955), and resolutions and correspondence from other institutions congratulating MSU in its centennial year. The collection also contains a great deal of correspondence in the first two series...
Dates:
1936 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1956
Chace Newman papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.37
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal papers of Chace Newman, including correspondence, newspaper articles, papers he authored, manuscripts, notes, drawings, collected research materials, a scrapbook of events and happenings at the college, and other materials he used to teach courses in mechanical drawing and design. There are also scripts for lectures he gave on WKAR Radio about the architecture of the home. Also include are Ruth Newman photographs which include images that are probably of...
Dates:
1894 - 1951
Charles Hague Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00387
Scope and Contents
The papers include a scrapbook (1899-1955) containing Davis' circus business correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings; and a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Davis written in 1956 by his daughter, Mildred Davis Barr; and a 1908 program for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Dates:
1899 - 1956