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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 205 Collections and/or Records:

Waldo family papers and the Waldo Travel Agency records

 Collection
Identifier: 00042
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal correspondence, notes, reports, and financial records. The majority of these relate to Mortimer Waldo's activities in Russia and Finland from 1916 to 1918.Letters to family and friends written from 1916 to 1917 describe life in Siberia and comment on the political situation in the United States and the entry of the U.S. into the First World War. Later letters (1918) concentrate on the Finnish Civil War. Those dating from after 1919 primarily...
Dates: 1904 - 1991
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Walter Alfred Newton papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.17
Scope and Contents

Papers of Walter Newton consist of one scrapbook, containing programs, tickets, greeting cards, postcards, party invitations, photographs, and news clippings describing activities of the Phi Delta Society, athletic events, and campus life. Also included is Michigan Agricultural College memorabilia, as well as handouts from a surveying class, and a 1911 Commencement program.

Dates: 1909 - 1928
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Walter George Knickerbocker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.19
Scope and Contents

Walter A. Knickerbocker's papers consist of one scrapbook (1913-1916) containing programs and tickets from campus activities; receipts; report cards; newsclippings; photographs of family, friends, and Michigan Agricultural College; and postcards from various Michigan cities such as Flint, Pontiac, Mt. Pleasant, Alma, St. Charles, and Port Huron as well as El Paso, Texas, and Mexico. Also included are programs, receipts and miscellaneous memorabilia from M.A.C.

Dates: 1913 - 1916
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Walter J. Carrier papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00138
Scope and Contents

The Walter J. Carrier papers consist of correspondence, government publications, scrapbooks, and volumes collected by Carrier during the years 1914-1931. The correspondence reveals Carrier's deep pacifistic beliefs. His views on such issues as World War I and the American intervention into Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the 1920s are of particular interest. The scrapbooks contain several pieces of correspondence as well as newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1914 - 1931
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Walter Neller family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.426
Scope and Contents This collection contains of 25 scrapbooks which span from 1924 to 1991. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, correspondence and ephemera highlighting the Neller's social life and activities in Lansing and East Lansing. There is also information about the real estate business in Lansing, and East Lansing.Scrapbook 1 (1924-1928) contains newspaper clippings, mostly from the social pages, detailing the lives of Frances Harvey Neller’s friends. There are also many pieces of...
Dates: 1924 - 1991
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Warren family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00007
Scope and Contents This collection primarily contains correspondence, diaries, religious materials, and legal documents of the Warren family of Three Oaks, Berrien County, Michigan. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters (1879-1899) from Albert L. Warren to his parents (Caroline C. and Rev. Waters Warren) and brothers (Edward K. and Frederick P.). Albert L. Warren was an itinerant watch repairman who tried prospecting gold, teaching, farming, selling wholesale groceries and later patent medicine,...
Dates: 1830 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wendell Paddock papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.71
Scope and Contents

Wendell Paddock papers consist of a scrapbook containing mostly receipts, also certificates, programs, letters, and invitations pertaining to Michigan Agricultural College.

Dates: 1888 - 1894
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wesley Fishel papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.95
Series Description (1) BIOGRAPHICAL FILES. 1940-1948, 1955-1977, undated. 0.2 cubic feet This series provides a broad overview of Wesley R. Fishel's professional life. Included are resumes, academic appointment papers and award certifications received by the scholar. Materials in the first nine folders reflect the beginnings of Fishel's early academic career, such as his appointment as an instructor of political science at UCLA. This series is arranged chronologically by subject.(2) ...
Dates: 1921 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1977
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wilbur Olin Hedrick papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.23
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the dictated manuscipt "Notes on M.A.C. History" by W. O. Hedrick which was completed around 1942. It is a candid and personal history of the campus, faculty, and students beginning around 1887, Hedrick's freshman year at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). A few of the topics covered in his "Notes" include Student Life, Social Committee Chairmanship, Commencements, Military Drill, and Faculty Strains and Tensions. The scrapbook...
Dates: 1942 - 1949
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William Hollister collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00449
Scope and Contents The collection contains two scrapbooks which detail, via newspaper clippings, magazine articles and photographs, the development of the sport of hydroplane racing during the 1940s and 1950s. The first scrapbook covers the period 1946 to 1955; the second the period 1955 to 1959. Most of the material deals with racing on the Detroit River and racing personalities in the Detroit area.Both scrapbooks are preserved on microfilm. Black and white copy negatives are available for...
Dates: 1946 - 1959
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections