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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 199 Collections and/or Records:

Lowe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00136
Scope and Contents The materials in this collection include letters (1884-1913) from Vincent Lowe, a pharmacist in Benton Harbor, Michigan, to his wife, Mary Emma Lowe; his son, Harvey; and his cousin, Angela Crooks. Also included is an 1871 land title deed to Margaret M. Crooks. The original pages, together with photocopies, of the diary of Mary Emma Lowe, nee Miller, covering the period from her marriage on the 10th of April 1888, to 1890 are also included; the diary contains accounts for clothing for the...
Dates: 1870 - 1975
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lucia Dains Denison papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00517
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a family photograph album which includes views of Lansing, Bellevue, Battle Creek, Detroit, Belle Isle, Palmer Park, Wyandotte (all in Michigan); New York City; Niagara Falls, Georgian Bay, and Thousand Islands, Canada.

Dates: 1900 - 1923
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mabel Claire Henderson Hutchinson scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 00158
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Mabel Henderson Hutchinson's scrapbooks which include an autobiographical sketch from birth to 1943 with many mementos from school, friends, activities and news clippings. Mabel kept extensive journals of each Florida trip she and her husband took, as well as other trips across the west. Also included in the collection are photographs of relatives of the John Henderson family, friends and their families and a sewing book done by Mabel.

Dates: 1889 - 1943
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mabel F. Petersen papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.192
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a scrapbook for "Mabel Petersen Night" held on May 4, 1971 honoring Petersen for her work with sororities and Pan Hellenic organizations. The scrapbook contains letters to Petersen from chapter advisors thanking her for her work, a program of the event, guest signatures, and a newspaper article about the event.

Dates: 1971
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Madison Kuhn collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.107
Scope and Contents The Madison Kuhn collection consists of materials accumulated by Kuhn during his tenure as University Historian. This collection, which was drawn from his reference files, constitutes only a small portion of the total documentation which he donated to the Archives. A large number of manuscript materials have been transferred, based on their provenance, to other University Archives collections. This collection deals largely, but not exclusively, with the history of Michigan State...
Dates: 1827 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Manly Miles papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.449
Scope and Contents The four letters were written by Manly Miles to his brother, Isaac. Three dated 1848 were written while he was at Western Reserve College, and the fourth, dated 1850, while he attended Rush Medical College. Typewritten copies are included for each. Letters dated 1848 provide descriptions of Western Reserve College and various professors. There are references to fellow Michigan students C. Bartlett, I. T. Hinman, H. A. Goodale, and Doc Kenny, and to family matters and members including an...
Dates: 1848 - 1888
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Marie R. Rouse papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.20
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a scrapbook for an Extension Service class from 1928 to 1930. The scrapbook includes sewing samples and handouts for classes on child care that Rouse took. The photographs folder contains images of friends and family including children in front of a school, men out in a vineyard possibly at a party at Michigan State College, and men with tractors with the caption "at M.A.C. Feb. 1925" which may be the tractor repair short course. There is also a card dated 1919...
Dates: 1919 - 1930
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary Crocker Boutell papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.104
Scope and Contents Mary Crocker’s scrapbook contains numerous mementos from her college days at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). The collection spans the years 1914 to 1918, although a few items date from 1923 to 1925. Letters and loose items have been removed from the scrapbook placed into folders.Her scrapbook contains various artifacts and letters which shed light into the life of a co-ed at Michigan Agricultural College during the early twentieth century. It is...
Dates: 1914 - 1923
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary K. Sarlow collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00255
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscript materials that were written by Mary K. Sarlow along with correspondence, articles, personal materials, sheet music, demo records, poetry, lyrics, and photographs.

Dates: 1914 - 1984
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary-Kirk MacKinnon Woodford collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.506
Content Description The Mary-Kirk MacKinnon Woodford collection contains a scrapbook, photographs, alumni reunion materials. The scrapbook contains dance cards, event programs, concert programs, ephemera, football programs for 1922 and 1923, and Alpha Phi sorortiy materials. The scrapbook also includes photographs of students, campus and the exterior of the Alpha Phi house. Of note is a paper megaphone with the words “Go Get’em Aggies” compliments of the Men’s Style Shop of Lansing, yearbook receipts, Cap...
Dates: 1922-1936, 1975-1980
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections