Manuscripts
Subject
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Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
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correspondence, records of experiments, reports, photographs, slides, postcards, research papers (published and unpublished), and maps.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
Wilbur Olin Hedrick papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.23
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the dictated manuscipt "Notes on M.A.C. History" by W. O. Hedrick which was completed around 1942. It is a candid and personal history of the campus, faculty, and students beginning around 1887, Hedrick's freshman year at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). A few of the topics covered in his "Notes" include Student Life, Social Committee Chairmanship, Commencements, Military Drill, and Faculty Strains and Tensions. The scrapbook...
Dates:
1942 - 1949
William B. Drew papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.135
Scope and Contents
The William B. Drew collection consists of materials from Drew’s Cinchona mission in Ecuador, reports about the effects of herbicide in South Vietnam, reports about swidden (slash and burn) to forest in Thailand, and the essay “History of the Botany and Plant Pathology Department from 1945-1973.” In this essay Drew writes about his time as a professor and head of the department and describes events in the department as well as faculty members. The collection also includes MSU...
Dates:
1943 - 2005