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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Bessey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.416
Scope and Contents The Bessey family papers have been arranged into the following series: Biographical Data, Manuscripts and Publications, General, Correspondence, Scrapbooks, Oversized materials and Photographs.The biographical data series includes information on Charles and Ernst Bessey, and on relatives of Edith Carleton Higgins (Mrs. Ernst A. Bessey), including her mother, Ella M. (Noyes) Higgins (1851-1913); her sisters, Mabel Cornell Porter and Bertha Noyes and, her brothers, Leslie A. Higgins...
Dates: 1878 - 1968
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Child Development Laboratories/Spartan Cooperative Nursery School records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.173
Scope and Contents This collection contains press clippings, photographs, correspondence and publications from the history of the Child Development Laboratories. There are also materials dealing with the history of the Laboratory Preschool and Spartan Cooperative Nursery School and the purchase and renovation of the Central School building to house the two programs. The photographs consist of scrapbooks with early shots of the Spartan Nursery School as well as well as the Child Development Laboratories. Also...
Dates: 1928 - 2003
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

David C. Hollister papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.428
Scope and Contents The David C. Hollister collection contains papers biographical and personal in nature, as well as papers from his political career. The collection contains information about his childhood and includes documentation of his school years from elementary through graduate school. There is also material about his teenage activities including sports, journalism, and student government. There are letters to his friends and parents including information about his high school sweetheart Judy Artz,...
Dates: 1957 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Department of Educational Administration records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.151
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of materials relating to the history of the Extern Program in the Department of Educational Administration, beginning in the 1956-1957 academic year and ending after the 1991-1992 academic year. The history includes correspondence, program plans, rosters, memos, and policies.

Dates: 1970 - 1974
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Ernst A. Bessey Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.5
Content Description

The Ernst A. Bessey Papers includes personal and professional correspondence from 1935 to 1956. Topics include botany, various national and international science organizations, research, and publications. Of note are a few letters from Albert Einstein.

Dates: 1935 - 1956
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Floyd W. Reeves papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.12.1
Scope and Contents This collection is divided into six series. The first series consists of biographical information pertaining to Reeves. It also contains his general correspondence while at the University of Kentucky, the University of Chicago, and Michigan State University. The second series contains material related to the various committees with which Reeves was associated. It consists primarily of correspondence and pamphlets. The committees are in alphabetical order. The third series is composed of...
Dates: 1903 - 1970
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Harvey M. Choldin papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.187
Scope and Content

The Harvey M. Choldin papers contain reports relating to the Pakistan Academy for Village/Rural Development. There are also materials and reports relating to the Director, Akhter Hameed Khan. There are also reports relating to the Agro-Economic Research Center, East-West Center, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, as well as India and Pakistan.

Dates: 1950 - 1976
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Human Rights Information Service - Book Review UA 3.3.1

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-00359
Dates: 1977 - 1979
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

Leroy S. Foltz papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.17
Scope and Contents

This collection consists mainly of publications credited to Leroy S. Foltz over his distinguished career. Also included is personal correspondence between Foltz and organizations in which he was a member, and correspondence with John Hannah, president of Michigan State College (now Michigan State University), as well as newspaper clippings, talks given on education by Foltz and letters to the editor of various newspapers.

Dates: 1922-1970, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections