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1st NRR Kenya and Abyssinia Advance into Ethiopia photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 750
Scope and Contents

1st NRR Kenya and Abyssinia Advance into Ethiopia photograph album consists of 81 photographs in corners mount on 22 album leaves. The images depict white and Black soldiers, African people, wildlife, cattle, village life, and some photographs of killed people. Locations photographs include Nairobi, the Rift Valley in Kenya, Kolbio, Bardera, Tana River, Moyale, Yavello, Soropa, Giarso, Chinchilla, and the Alghe Forest.

Dates: 1941 January-June
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Advance Plating Company scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: 00188
Scope and Contents

The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about the company's entry candidate in the Miss Victory contest, winning the "E" award, and war bonds for workers. Also included are certificates and photographs, some with captions, of people working in various departments including women, and the "E" award ceremony.

Dates: 1942 - 1943
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Asher B. Abelow collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.201
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of nine photographs taken during Abelow's stay at Michigan State College. The photographs have been glued on pages and have captions written beside them. The collection includes a picture of Company B on parade, winter scenes of the Red Cedar River, views of campus, Abelow and other Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) members in the Union Lounge, and a winter scene of North Hall with ASTP members in front.

Dates: 1943 - 1944
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Broadcasting Services records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.5
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials from Broadcasting Services, WKAR-TV, WMSB, and WKAR AM/FM. Included are programming guides, meeting minutes, Federal Communications Commission channel hearings, and photographic materials. The Electronic Resources include digitized University Distinguished Professor videos from 2005 and 2007; a video of oral history interviews titled "Out of the Fields"; audio recordings of interviews of survivors and veterans of World War II living in...
Dates: 1920 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Carl Wilbur Saldeen collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.296
Scope and Contents

The Carl Wilbur Saldeen collection contains a student receipt from 1946. The receipt lists the fees Saldeen paid. The receipt is stamped with "Vet Admin GI" indicating that Saldeen was a veteran attending Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) on the GI bill. Also included is his student identification card from 1939.

Dates: 1939, 1946
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Children, Youth, Families and Communities records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.9
Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials created and managed from Michigan 4-H Youth Development activities as well as activities that staff, members, and volunteers participated during the years 1920 to 1998. These records include awards, clippings, correspondence and meeting minutes (1950–1955, 1991–1998), guides, conferences (1920–1977), organizations, programs, publications, audiovisual materials, and oversized material.Conference records are for the National 4-H Club Camp...
Dates: 1912 - 2006
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.21
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a pamphlet that gives a thorough description of the Sanford Natural Area; the booklet "Exploring the Ecology Along the Red Cedar River" by Dorothy McMeekin, news clippings of obituaries and funeral programs of faculty; and a comprehensive list of the requirements for a Bachelor's degree in Botany. There are also bulletins about plants and plant pathology information put out by the department. Also included are materials related to the Seminarium Botanicum (Sem Bot)...
Dates: 1876 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1992
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Department of Zoology records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.121
Scope and Contents The series Correspondence (1920-1928), Correspondence (1929-1934), and Correspondence (1941-1946) consist of the correspondence of Harrison R. Hunt, department chair from 1923 to 1953, and Joseph W. Stack, a professor in the department. The letters are from a wide variety of individuals and institutions. Also included are correspondence relating to special interests of Hunt and Stack. Hunt’s research focused on eugenics from 1920 to 1928. His correspondence during this time...
Dates: 1920 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1989
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Donald Hayworth papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.216
Scope and Contents The Donald Hayworth papers consist of political campaign material, photographs, scrapbooks, and personal certificates of Hayworth’s career. Also, the collection contains a scrapbook of a lecture tour of Louise Morley, “Role of British Youth and Women in World War II”. Also include are film of Report from Washington in which Congressman Donald Hayworth, U.S. Representative for the 6th Congressional District of Michigan, reports to his constituents on matters of special concern to his...
Dates: 1943 - 1958
Found in: University Archives and Historical 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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Towar, James D. 2
United States. Army -- Military life -- History 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
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
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
Hunt, Harrison R., 1889-1978 1
Huston, Ralph Chase, 1885- 1
Hutchings, Edward 1
Hồ, Chí Minh, 1890-1969 1
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