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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 593 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs

 File
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The Instructional Media Center collection consists of correspondence, financial records, and information about services. There are also a few reports about University of the Air as well as closed circuit television.The collection also contains photographs, negatives, contact sheets and slides. Images include the construction of the Breslin Center and Communication Arts Center, Michigan State University (MSU) retirement ceremonies, the 1992 U.S. Presidential debate held on...
Dates: 1960 - 2006
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Instructional Media Center records / Electronic Resources

Porpoise Fraternity records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.5
Scope and Content

The records of the Porpoise Fraternity consist of one copy of the June 1948 Aquatic Yearbook. It includes lists of members and pledges, and statistics about the 1947-1948 season for varsity and junior varsity swimming and includes some diving. Also included is one folder of photographs of the Porpoise queens and her court, circa 1950s.

Dates: 1948, circa 1950s, 1954
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Porter family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00179
Scope and Contents The Porter family papers consist of correspondence and printed materials relating to members of the Porter, Prindle, and Pierce families, primarily to Grace Porter Pierce of Grand Ledge, Michigan. The daughter of Henry and Emma Prindle Porter, she married William Pierce in 1898.The collection contains letters between family members primarily dealing with family concerns. It also includes a series of letters from Bert Porter, Grace Porter Pierce's brother, who served with the 8th...
Dates: 1836 - 1957
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Poultry Club records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.3.14
Scope and Contents

The records of the Poultry Club include a menu from a banquet hosted by the club in 1916, a 1973 club yearbook, and a photograph of the members of the club.

Dates: 1916 - 1973
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Psi Upsilon Fraternity records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.23
Scope and Content

Records of the Epsilon Nu Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity consist of several dance and banquet programs. Also included are two folders of photographs.

Dates: 1916 - 1919
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Public Relations records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1
Scope and Contents The Public Relations office records consist of subject files relating to campus, photographs, video recordings, annual reports, negatives and electronic resources. Topics of the subject files concern motion pictures, the MSU Centennial, magazine articles, conferences and workshops and many others. The photographs in the collection include images of conferences and workshops on campus, people, buildings, campus life, commencement, student activities and organizations, student awards,...
Dates: 1943 - 2004
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Publications Office records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1.2
Scope and Content

The collection consists of brochures and other publications. There are also photographs of campus, students, staff, cheerleaders, Spartan Marching Band, football games, track, and golf.

Dates: 1963-1989, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Putnam family collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00208
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials relating to social and political issues in Michigan during the World War I era. They include pamphlets circulated by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association advocating women's suffrage. It also includes pamphlets and sample ballots from the Michigan Anti-Saloon League concerning a proposed "Beer and Wine Amendment" to the state constitution, which would set up protection for the liquor trade. Other materials relate to voter registration procedures,...
Dates: 1918-1919, circa 1925
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.116.1
Scope and Content The collection contains materials that the Quello Center collected about James H. Quello’s career as an FCC commissioner and acting chairman (1974-1999). Materials includes copies of speeches, statements, news articles, reports and a small amount of correspondence. An index provides an itemized list of the documents up to 2005. Of particular interest are Quello’s correspondence, statements, and speeches related to children’s programming, the fining of Howard Stern, and personal...
Dates: 1974 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

R. H. Pettit papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.213
Scope and Contents

Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) memorabilia includes a class rivalry poster (1915), seven photographs of campus depicting an elk in the campus deer park, a group of people at Lake Lansing, M.A.C. faculty/staff circa 1899-1900, R. H. Pettit in an REO automobile, and A. J. Cook at the campus apiary. There is also one letter (1954), and one newsclipping of Professor R. H. Pettit's obituary.

Dates: 1915, 1946, 1954, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections