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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 597 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Tukey Bates collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.452
Scope and Content The collection consists of photographs of professors and students from Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C., now Michigan State University). Edgar Burnett graduated in 1887 and later taught livestock courses. Lyster Dewey graduated 1888 and went with W. J. Beal on the 1888 expedition to survey Michigan's cutover forest. Perry Holden graduated in 1889 and worked with and taught field crops. William Holdsworth graduated in 1878 and was professor of drawing and...
Dates: 1894, 1899, 1928-1939, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sadayoshi Omoto papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.344
Scope and Content The Sadayoshi Omoto papers contain material related to his career and personal life. Omoto's professional material include teaching material such as syllabi, lecture notes and exams. Also included are memos, correspondence and committee files relating to the Michigan State University Art Department. There is also material related to Omoto's research and publications on Worthington Whittredge, Queen Anne-style architecture in Ohio, architectural surveys of Michigan, and Japanese American...
Dates: 1894, 1942-2013, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-1.1.3
Scope and Contents The Sarah Van Hoosen Jones papers document her academic, agricultural, and civic accomplishments, and her interest in local Rochester history, but offer a very incomplete record of her activities as a farmer and a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions. In her master's thesis and scientific articles, she discusses theories of dairy farm management and animal genetics, but there is almost no information...
Dates: 1852 - 1972
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

School of Music records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.86
Scope and Contents The collection includes annual reports, band rehearsal attendance, marching band formation charts, news clippings, magazines, and marching band halftime programs. The Music Department information includes correspondence, reports, and pamphlets. There are also Michigan State Institute of Music and Allied Arts materials that includes music programs and press releases. The collection also includes scrapbooks containing concert programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and service bulletins...
Dates: 1870 - 2007
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

School of Packaging records

 Collection
Identifier: UA-16.90
Scope and Contents The School of Packaging collection contains many items including histories of the program, the book "Beyond the Box: The History of the School of Packaging, Michigan State University 1952-2017" by Diana Twede, newsletters, news releases, newspaper clippings and publications related to the school, pamphlets, and brochures.Also included is information related to the construction of the School of Packaging building addition in 1986 and 1987 and the 25th and 50th anniversaries of the...
Dates: 1952 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Science and Mathematics Teaching Center records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.106
Scope and Contents

The records contain a Traveling Science Teacher Program Report of the Director 1959-1960 and a booklet on metric education.

Photographs in the collection include group photographs from 1957 to 1965 for CHEM Study Institute, Institute for Physical Science and Mathematics, Summer Institute in Biology, and Summer Institute in Mathematics. There is also a photograph of a P. G. Ashmore.

Also included in the collection are annual reports from 1957 through 1970-1971.

Dates: 1957 - 1974
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Shakespeare Company records

 Collection
Identifier: 00071
Scope and Contents

The Shakespeare Company records consist of a history of the company, financial records, legal records, advertising and marketing records, catalogues and price lists, equipment specifications, Sport Fishing Institute materials, correspondence, and photographs. The photographs in the collection include images of fishing, fishing and golf equipment, and advertisements. There are also images of employees as well as C. W. Davis, Henry Shakespeare, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith.

Dates: 1913 - 1973
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sigma Alpha Epsilon records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.20
Scope and Content

Records of Sigma Alpha Epsilon consist of a dance program and menu from the 1907 commencement celebration and a booklet (1906) describing the evolution of the fraternity. Also included is one folder of photographs of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members.

Dates: 1906 - 1907
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sigma Chi Fraternity, Gamma Psi Chapter records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.26
Scope and Content

The records consist of a constitution and statute law for all the chapters of the Beta Kappa fraternity and several issues of the Spartan Sig newsletter (1989-1991). The constitution is not dated but was adopted in 1935.

Dates: 1989-1991, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Smith and Carpenter families papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00301
Scope and Contents This collection contains four Civil War letters and a small diary of Josiah B. Smith, kept during his service as a bugler in the 8th Michigan Cavalry in Tennessee and Kentucky. The letters were written to Josiah's wife, Mary A. Smith. In the diary, Josiah writes about daily duties in camp, his letter writing schedule, and the condition of his health. The collection also includes an official copy of his enlistment and discharge papers.In addition, receipts for taxes on land in...
Dates: 1864 - 1913
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections