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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 185 Collections and/or Records:

Paul Cross Morrison papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.117
Scope and Content

The collection contains Paul C. Morrison's research on the the origins of place names in Michigan.The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper clippings that Morrison collected. Also contained are student papers, as well as Morrison’s own research. In addition to Michigan names, origins for California, Nebraska, Ohio, and other U.S. States' names are in the collection.

Dates: 1943 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Paul D. Bagwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.6
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, speeches, records, newspaper clippings, photographs and printed material of the public and private career of Paul D. Bagwell. The collection also includes two scrapbooks.

Dates: 1938 - 1960
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Paul Dressel and family papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.112
Scope and Contents This collection has been arranged into eight series. Series 1 (Dressel Papers) is composed of Paul Dressel’s papers and writings. This includes papers authored, co-authored or edited by him. Included are manuscripts and rough drafts, pamphlets, individual papers, and photographs. His personal reminisces of MSU include many stories about MSU departments and individuals. Topics include the registrar, library, women students, homosexuality on campus, counseling center, ROTC...
Dates: 1939 - 2005
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Perry Greeley Holden collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.26
Scope and Contents The Holden Memoirs, which were printed in a scrapbook format, includes photographs, genealogies, and reproductions of correspondence, certificates and news clippings. The collection also includes a glass portrait of a woman in a wooden box.There are also materials donated by a niece of Perry G. Holden including a photo album of car trips that Perry Holden and his wife, Carrie, took with Perry's brother, Ellsworth. They drove from Chicago to Wisconsin, South Dakota, Wyoming, ...
Dates: 1891 - 1959
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Phi Beta Kappa records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.7
Scope and Content

The collection consists of the constitution and by-laws of the chapter, meeting announcements and minutes, committee information, correspondence between 1945 and 1977, and copies of the Key Reporter from 1948-1959. There are also two volumes: reports supporting the application for forming a chapter at Michigan State University (1959) and the Phi Beta Kappa Report for 1965.

Dates: 1944-1990, 2006
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Phi Kappa Phi records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.12
Scope and Content Included in the collection are correspondence, and membership information, such as membership, initiate, and officer lists. The bulk of this material is from the 1960s and 1970s. Records from national (1968-1980), and regional (1969-1979) conventions, symposia sponsored by Phi Kappa Phi (1970s), and national and regional publications are included in the collection. Programs, ceremony guides, and seating information for the annual Phi Kappa Phi Banquet and Initiation (1927-1995), as well...
Dates: 1927 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1979
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Philip Elton Gunby papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.158
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the program to the Water Carnival of 1954, a photograph montage featuring images of Michigan State College joining the Big Ten in 1948 and the 1953 Rose Bowl, a newspaper clipping from the Columbus Dispatch (OH) regarding Michigan State University's centennial, a 1955 MSU centennial first day cover stamp, and a letter outlining the achievements of Philip Gunby.

Dates: 1948 - 1955
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

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