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College campuses -- Michigan -- East Lansing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 211 Collections and/or Records:

Clyde Olin papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.199
Scope and Contents The Campus Images folder contains images of the Library/Museum, Agricultural building, Wells Hall, R.E. Olds Engineering Hall, Gymnasium, an image with the Armory and Abbot Hall, the Chemistry Building, the Woman’s Building, the Barns, and Laboratory Row with the Horticulture, Bacteriology, Botany, Forestry, and Entomology buildings. There is also a photomontage of the Veterinary Surgery and Clinic, Engineering Shops, U.S. Weather Bureau station, Howard Terrace, and the Dairy Building. ...
Dates: circa 1855, 1926-1988
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

College of Veterinary Medicine records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-15.4
Scope and Contents The records of the College of Veterinary Medicine consist of materials related to academic programs, publications, and annual reports. The College Administrative Documents series includes information related to budgets, accreditation, faculty interests, mission statements, and Dean's reports. Note that the two of the ledgers date from 1900 and earlier. Record books of cases are also included. Audio/visual materials include a class of 1960 photograph, a slide of a oath ceremony, and...
Dates: 1853 - 2013
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Donald Sayre collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.231
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of photographs and souvenirs kept by Donald Sayre, a Horticulture alumnus, that were given to the Horticulture Department in the 1970s. The collection includes a student register of names, postcards of campus scenes, photographs of an engineering squad, the Phylean Society members, celebration of Michigan State University's victory over Wabash, and an Ag Council Newsletter from 1956.

Dates: 1912 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1913
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Dorothy Pettit Reed Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.337
Scope and Contents

The Dorothy Pettit Reed Collection contains the book 14 Faculty Row: A Historical Account of Michigan Agricultural College Now Known as Michigan State University by Dorothy Pettit Reed. The book contains remiscences of her childhood living in faculty housing on the campus of Michigan Agricultural College.

Dates: 1978
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Elizabeth Palm collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.392
Content Description The Elizabeth Palm collection consists of a scrapbook. The scrapbook contains printouts of the M.A.C (Michigan Agricultural College) alma mater and football songs, a M.A.C Dramatic Club program, photographs dated from 1907 to 1916 including groups of M.A.C students, buildings and grounds around the college, May Day event, and the circus student event. The scrapbook also includes dance cards from literary society events, ephemera, tickets, newspaper clippings, an issue of The Ju Shak Ma by...
Dates: 1909-1916
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Elton B. Hill papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.67
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection contains material relating to the issues that interested Hill most as a teacher and researcher. He taught a number of courses on farm appraisal and agricultural finance, and his reference material appears here. Land tenure, especially the legal and moral implications of father-son partnerships and farm ownership transfers, were of special interest to him.In addition to this, there is also a scrapbook and some memorabilia from his college days at...
Dates: 1862 - 1972
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Facilities Focus (formerly Physical Plant Newsletter) UA 5.13

 Collection — Box 1-3
Identifier: Serial-00608
Dates: 1971, 1984-2012, 2019
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Faith Kedzie Dutton book

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.12
Scope and Contents The collection contains the book A Boy's View of Michigan Agricultural College in the 1890s. The book uses issues of The Eagle to look at life at Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C., now Michigan State University) in 1892-1893. The Eagle was a small newspaper published by Dutton’s father, Roscoe Kedzie, when he was a teenager living with his grandfather, Robert C....
Dates: 1982
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

First TV Show, 1948

 Item — Reel 75
Scope and Contents

A documentary production created by Michigan State College (MSC), this program first aired on WWJ-TV in May of 1948. Footage includes an introduction by MSC President John A. Hannah, scenes portrayed by MSC students, and various shots of the campus and its buildings.

Dates: 1948
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Madison Kuhn collection / (20) Film

Format UA 8.1

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-00309
Dates: 1965 - 1969
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections