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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 202 Collections and/or Records:

Sarah Shaw Hannah collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.243
Scope and Contents The Sarah Shaw Hannah Collection contains family scrapbooks and a photo album. The photo album was probably created by May Travis (box 2506). The album contains identified and unidentified portraits. Some of the portraits came from Bozeman, Montana photographers. There are also images of May Travis and her mother.The scrapbook labeled “May Travis Shaw” (box 2507) contains photographs relating the Travis and Shaw families. There are images from Bozeman, Montana, the Travis...
Dates: 1905 - 1987
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-1.1.3
Scope and Contents The Sarah Van Hoosen Jones papers document her academic, agricultural, and civic accomplishments, and her interest in local Rochester history, but offer a very incomplete record of her activities as a farmer and a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions. In her master's thesis and scientific articles, she discusses theories of dairy farm management and animal genetics, but there is almost no information...
Dates: 1852 - 1972
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sarajah Bunn account book

 Collection
Identifier: c-00078
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the account book of Sarajah Bunn, a shoemaker and leather worker. The accounts, listed by customer, cover the years 1793-1840 and all entries were made in pounds, shillings, and pence. Bunn resided in a town called Columbia, but the county or state is not mentioned. At a later date the account book was used as a scrapbook, with articles and poems affixed through page 27.

Dates: 1793 - 1840
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

School of Music records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.86
Scope and Contents The collection includes annual reports, band rehearsal attendance, marching band formation charts, news clippings, magazines, and marching band halftime programs. The Music Department information includes correspondence, reports, and pamphlets. There are also Michigan State Institute of Music and Allied Arts materials that includes music programs and press releases. The collection also includes scrapbooks containing concert programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and service bulletins...
Dates: 1870 - 2007
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

School of Packaging records

 Collection
Identifier: UA-16.90
Scope and Contents The School of Packaging collection contains many items including histories of the program, the book "Beyond the Box: The History of the School of Packaging, Michigan State University 1952-2017" by Diana Twede, newsletters, news releases, newspaper clippings and publications related to the school, pamphlets, and brochures.Also included is information related to the construction of the School of Packaging building addition in 1986 and 1987 and the 25th and 50th anniversaries of the...
Dates: 1952 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Soil Conservation Society of America, Michigan Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: 00151
Scope and Contents The collection contains the records of the Michigan Chapter of the Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) and includes by-laws and constitution, annual reports, memberships records, treasurer reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also included are publications, newsletters, and a video recording of the state chapter. National SCSA records include booklets, newsletters, special reports, and publications. There are also materials from other state...
Dates: 1938 - 2013
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Spanish-American War scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: c-00550
Scope and Contents This scrapbook covers the Spanish-American War through newspaper clippings from Detroit newspapers from April 18 to May 14, 1898. Subjects of the clippings in the collection include government statements and declarations, United States House of Representatives and Senate decisions and reactions, Commodore Dewey, and the progress of the war. Also included are troop and ship movements, the capture of enemy vessels, and articles about officers, spies, and the heroic action of soldiers. Several...
Dates: 1898
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Spartan Wives Club records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.3.31
Scope and Contents

This collection contains meeting agendas, member directories, financial records, newsletters summaries of club activities. There is also a Handbook for Student Leaders as well as guides for student organizations. Also included is a transcript of a panel discussion of Spartan Wives members in an education department class on April 14, 1947. There are also scrapbooks which contain photographs, newspaper clippings about the organization, event programs and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1946 - 1976
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Stebbins family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00014
Scope and Contents A manuscript copy of Stebbins' book A History of Plymouth Church (of Lansing) written in 1893 is included. Stebbins compiled an autobiography entitled Sketches of My Life, which he was completing at his death in 1901. A copy of the text is included, as well as his diaries, account books and newspaper clippings on railroads.Other materials in the papers are those of his children Arthur C. and Bliss Stebbins and Susan...
Dates: 1741 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1940
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Swimming records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-4.3.10
Scope and Contents

These records contain swimming championships programs for 1941, 1959, 1960, 1962, a handout of land exercises for competitive swimming from 1956, and a memo about judging by lanes from 1956. Also included are 22 volumes of scrapbooks which contain newspaper articles about the Michigan State University swim team, local high school and recreational teams, as well as some articles about swimming on the national level.

Dates: 1932 - 1962
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections