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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Myra Chapman Wildt collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.190
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of the Michigan Agricultural College scrapbook of Myra Cornelia Chapman. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of campus events, programs, dance cards, letters and invitations, a list of her friends, and a list of shows and social functions she attended. Also included are photographs of Myra, her friends, relatives, a few scenes of campus, the 1921 freshman baseball and swimming teams, the 1921 women's lifesaving corps, and a group shot of the 1921 residents...
Dates: 1920 - 1922
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Norman O. Weil collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.133
Scope and Contents

This scrapbook was complied by Norman O. Weil of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), Class of 1917. The scrapbook contains student autographs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and bulletins which depict scenes and student life at M.A.C. from 1911 to 1917.

Dates: 1917
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Robert Clark Kedzie papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.109
Scope and Contents The papers of Robert Clark Kedzie consist primarily of materials relating to his position at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) as a professor of chemistry from 1863 to his death in 1902. They include scrapbooks, lecture notes, correspondence, awards, and biographical material. The three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, the first pertaining to the Samuel Johnson case in 1889, the second concerning the removal of M.A.C. President Lewis G. Gorton in 1895,...
Dates: 1851, 1863-1905, circa 1955, 1961
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

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