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College students -- Michigan -- East Lansing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:

Jon L. Young papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.116
Scope and Contents This collection contains the reminiscences of Jon L. Young, based on diaries he kept while a student at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) from 1931 to 1935.Young talks about classes, work, and social activities as well as his family which lived in and around the Lansing area. His memoirs also include photographs of himself, brother, and college friends, and an epilogue which briefly summarizes Young's life after college.Young describes classes...
Dates: April 1986
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kamuyu-wa-Kang'ethe papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.112
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the 1970 essay "A Thesis of Protest," by Kamuyu-wa-Kang'ethe, a Michigan State University anthropology student, which he wrote instead of his master's thesis. It decries western education, anthropology, and demands acceptance of African institutions as equal to European.

Dates: 1970
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kinton B. Stevens collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.250
Scope and Contents

The Kinton B. Stevens collection contains photographs of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) campus life in the early 1900s. Included are photographs of M.A.C.'s baseball, basketball, football, tennis, and track teams as well as early campus buildings and active student life.

Dates: circa 1900-1910
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lambda Chi Alpha records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.21
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photographs, a scrapbook, a film and DVD copy of the Junior 500 pushcart race. The photographs are of the members of the fraternity and are mostly composites of head shots. There is also one photograph of a water carnival float. The scrapbook contains photographs, newspaper clippings and memorabilia of events of the fraternity. The film contains footage of the 1968 Junior 500 pushcart race. It is in color but has no sound. Also included in the collection are a...
Dates: 1922-2005, 2010
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Larry Bielat collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.423
Scope and Contents This collection contains one program, one poster, 151 photographs (147 regular plus 4 oversize), and 25 postcards dealing with Michigan State University history collected by Larry Bielat. The photographs contain many individual photographs of athletes from 1929-1944. There are also many early photographs of the football team and a variety of pictures from the marching band spanning over thirty years. Of special interest are several photographs of MSU football coach Muddy Waters...
Dates: 1906-1985, Undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Laurence H. White papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.247
Scope and Contents The Laurence H. White collection contains a story written by the group the Greek Interpreters for entry into the Baker Street Irregulars Club. Also included are personal reminiscences pertaining to Michigan State University events and activities. The manuscript story is called “The Singular Affair of Mr. Phillip Phot,” a Sherlock Holmes story written by White and other club members. The story follows Sherlock Holmes as he attempts to understand a mysterious telegram sent to him by his...
Dates: 1947, 2010-2011
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lee West Maurer photographs

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.290
Scope and Content

The electronic resource consists of digitized photos of Lee West Maurer between 1923-1927. The images feature a model bridge built by West for his civil engineering thesis, shots of the marching band on the football field, and West posing in his band uniform.

Dates: Undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Leon S. Monroe papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.364
Scope and Contents This collection contains Senior Week magazines for 1958 and 1959, Department of Accounting curriculum information sheet, alumni membership card, an article about Monroe from 1980, State News issue January 2, 1959, commencement programs from 1959, MSU ROTC commissioning program and invitation (June 1959), blue print of Lot 227 Chesterfield Hills, East Lansing (1936), a 1957 ROTC Summer Camp publication from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and a photograph of Third Platoon Company F that appears in...
Dates: 1936, 1957-1961, 1980
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Louis S. Russell collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.236
Scope and Contents The Louis Russell collection contains a photograph album and a student beanie hat. The photograph album contains signatures of Russell's friends, images of Russell and his friends, interior and exterior images of the Union Literary Society house, images of the college circus and parade which was put on by students, and images of class rush/class rivalry activities. Also included is a student activity ticket book from spring 1947 belonging to Dale E. Hathaway. According to the donor,...
Dates: 1909-1912, 1947
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary Duthie Anderson papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.128
Scope and Contents

The personal papers of Mary Duthie Anderson, Michigan State College (MSC, now University) class of 1947, include notebooks, publications, newspapers and clippings, a photograph, and MSC memorabilia.

Dates: 1895 - 1913
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections