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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 202 Collections and/or Records:

Theodore Foster papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.228
Scope and Contents The scrapbook contains images of campus buildings, class rivalry postcards and poster, and class ballots. There are also photographs and programs from Camp Custer, an ROTC camp. Materials relating to the Eunomian Literary Society include a newsletter, programs, a circa 1934 reunion photograph. There is also a photograph of the Scabbard and Blade Swing Out Convocation from November 11, 1925. Materials relating to football include homecoming programs from 1922 and 1923, a stadium dedication...
Dates: 1915 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1922 - 1926
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Tower Guard records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.45
Scope and Content The records of the Tower Guard consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, memos, agendas, and scrapbooks. The records have been created by the students in the organization and are rather informal and vary in their content. In addition, there are a large number of undated records. The minute book contains a brief history of the Tower Guard and minutes of the meetings from 1933 to 1944. The administrative folder contains the Articles of the Tower Guard and the Preamble. The agendas...
Dates: 1933 - 2012
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

University Housing and Food Services records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-5.5
Scope and Contents This collection contains informational and promotional materials for various University Housing and Food Service programs and facilities. The facilities include MSU Bakers, Kellogg Center, Forest Akers Golf Course, Brook Lodge, and Food Stores and Laundry. Also in the collection is the Association of College and University Housing Officers (ACUHO) newsletter which was edited at MSU and photos from Brody Dining Hall showing the various events held from the 1980s to 2000s. There are also...
Dates: 1952 - 2015
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Vada Wolfe Derry collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00185
Scope and Contents The collection of Vada Wolfe Derry consists of a photograph of "The Children of Isaac Clinton Wolfe" (circa 1908), a photo album, and a scrapbook. The photo album contains photographs, presumably of the family of Vada Wolfe Derry, dated 1927 to 1940. The album contains many pictures of Mervin, who was her son, from a baby through childhood. The album also contains photographs of Horsehead Lake, Michigan; Houghton Lake, Michigan; Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan; Traverse City,...
Dates: 1908 - 1940
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Vietnam Project records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.5
Scope and Contents The papers of the Michigan State University Vietnam Project comprise a voluminous record. They cover a seven-year period and comprise thousands of individual documents contained in 71 boxes and approximately 4,000 folders. The papers are arranged according to the three major areas into which the project was divided: Michigan State University Administration of the Project, Public Administration, and Police Administration. Though the division of the project's papers was suggested by the...
Dates: 1954 - 1961
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

W. Melvin Crook papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00536
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the diary and published writing of W. Melvin Crook on hydroplane racing and boat maintenance. This scrapbook collection contains monthly columns and photographs following the gold Cup race and other races from February 1937 to December 1965 in Yachting and Rudder magazines.

Dates: 1936 - 1965
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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