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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Charles McCaffree Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.354
Scope and Content This collection contains papers, correspondence, articles, photographs, and scrapbooks all relating to Charles McCaffree Jr.'s coaching career. Materials include items relating to his pre-MSU days, the Porpoise Fraternity, and his time as the U.S. National Swimming Team coach. The photographs and scrapbook albums include Battle Creek High School swimming team, Iowa State College, University of Michigan, the Pan-American games, and photos of McCaffree. Awards, certificates, and plaques...
Dates: 1929 - 2011
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Ethel Rathke papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.441
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of scrapbooks. The twenty scrapbooks are filled with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and pictures covering such diverse topics as World War II, the Middle East, Lansing and East Lansing, Japanese culture and flower gardening. Also included are Ethel Rathke's prose and poetry and her correspondence with publishing companies, friends, and acquaintances.

Dates: 1900 - 1970
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Gordon Schlubatis papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.342
Scope and Contents

The collection contains trip reports, correspondence, slides, maps and travel booklets related to Schlubatis' time spent working as an agriculture agent overseas. There are also awards, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also included are materials related to his wife Harriet Schlubatis including awards, a Michigan Normal School yearbook, and a student expense register.

Dates: 1905 - 1983
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Harald S. and Marguerite I. Patton papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.437
Scope and Contents Harald Patton papers primarily document his World War I experiences. The correspondence consists of letters written by Patton to Marguerite Irene Taylor, who later became his wife, friends and relatives, and dates almost entirely from 1915 to 1919. Included is a journal (in letter form) describing his voyage to England in 1915 on the troopship Northland. There are also postcards, photographs, and a scrapbook.Marguerite Patton papers includes correspondence, articles of...
Dates: 1884 - 1941
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

James R. Stiefel papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.195
Scope and Contents The collection includes two boxes of slides that depict the Michigan State University campus during the fall and winter and also a marching band performance on the football field. There are also two scrapbooks, "Cloud burst and flood", and one without a title. The first scrapbook contains pictures of the flooding on streets in East Lansing and on the MSU campus from February 12-14, 1938, as well as views of campus from 1937. The second scrapbook contains pictures of campus in the 1930s,...
Dates: 1934 - 1952
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan Bean Company records

 Collection
Identifier: 00110
Scope and Contents of the Records Efforts covering a sixty-year span to improve farm markets through the pooling of farm commodities, the organization of growers and shippers, promotional marketing and advertising, and bean research are documented in letters, newspaper clippings, articles and legal documents in the collection. In these records are correspondence, memoranda and articles on state and federal agricultural subsidy programs and restrictions. There also is the Wickes Corporation merger, documented through notes,...
Dates: 1906 - 1980
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Ruth Ryder St. John papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.123
Scope and Contents This collection contains a great deal of correspondence, including many to and from family and friends while Ruth Ryder was in the American Red Cross. Other subject materials cover the topics of the June 10, 1945 alumni reunion in Manila, the establishment of the Edward H. Ryder and Georgia R. Ryder Scholarship Fund, and the East Lansing High School Class of 1931 Fifty Year Reunion. The scrapbook in this collection is dedicated to the Manila reunion and contains lists of attendants and...
Dates: 1925 - 1997
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Viola Jensen Torgerson scrapbook

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.255
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a scrapbook circa 1928-1938 containing images of campus, Torgerson and her friends on campus, and a few images of people that are not related to Michigan State College. The MSC-related photographs include buildings, grounds and students. The back of the scrapbook contains an address book with names of friends, addresses, nick names, and thoughts on the person.

Dates: 1928 - 1938
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections