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Letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 562 Collections and/or Records:

Guatemala Project records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.9
Scope and Contents The majority of the material deals with administrative concerns such as the budget, contracts, details of meetings, administrative notes, documents pertaining to various organizations and correspondence. Also included in the collection are documents pertaining to the development of proposals, programs and projects. Finally, the collection contains the reports from various projects and organizations as well as publications generated from the research. An addition to the collection was made...
Dates: 1960 - 1968
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Gumecindo Salas papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.215
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a copy of the publication "Chicanas: Their Voices, Their Lives," edited by Lucia Fox-Lockert and illustrated by Nora Chapa Mendoza. The Michigan State Board of Education published the booklet in 1988. The publication functions as an oral history of ten Chicana women who have been through hard events during the course of their lives. "The profiles contained herein are candid poetic expressions of the life experiences of ten Chicana women," (Foreword, p. v). Also...
Dates: 1982 - 1988
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Guy G. Speeker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.43
Scope and Content

The Guy Speeker papers contain gradebooks for mathematics and physics classes that Speeker taught at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Also included are letters of recommendation for Speeker, correspondence from Speeker as dormitory inspector and correspondence regarding World War I. There is a newspaper clipping about the resignation of M.A.C. President Jonathan Snyder and postcards of M.A.C. students and faculty.

Dates: 1912 - 1948
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Gwen Norrell papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.310
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of materials relating to Project Ethyl including a report by Gwen Norrell, correspondence, notes, lists of students and their grade point averages, and a Michigan State University press release. The project gave scholarships to socioeconomically disadvantaged students, including minorities.

Dates: 1963 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

H. Allen Tucker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.278
Scope and Contents

The Herbert Allen Tucker papers consist of personal papers, journal articles written by Tucker, lab procedures, lecture notes, awards, correspondence, photographs, and negatives. Also included are "The Anatomy of the Mammary Gland of Domestic and Laboratory Animals" and "The Physiology and Biochemistry of the Mammary Gland" by Charles W. Turner.

Dates: 1933 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Hackley and Hume Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00097
Scope and Contents The Hackley and Hume papers contain the business records of several inter-related Michigan-based business firms and some of the private papers of the families of Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume. The papers span the years 1859-1955. The papers document lumbering and lumber investments in Michigan and other states. The papers also document Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume, both prominent timbermen and philanthropists, as well as other family members. Hackley and Hume were active...
Dates: 1859 - 1955
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Haight family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00244
Scope and Contents

The Haight family papers consist of correspondence, legal notices, pedigrees and stock registers. The Haights owned pedigreed cattle and also raised sheep. In addition, the collection contains legal notices relating to proposed improvements on Haight land in California Township, Branch County, Michigan.

Dates: 1892 - 1928
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Hall and Wilcox families papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00001
Scope and Contents This collection consists of letters, legal documents, account books, bank books, school exercises and journals dealing with the Hall and Wilcox families. These two families were connected by marriage: Mrs. E. E. Hall was the daughter of Earl and Mary E. Ferdon Wilcox. Documents originate from Canaan and Columbia Counties, New York; Connecticut; Ohio; Wisconsin; Michigan; and various points in the western states. Materials deal principally with personal matters, agriculture, health, social...
Dates: 1795 - 1911
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Hamlin Garland letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00175
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a single letter, written by American author Hamlin Garland to Mrs. Edward K. Warren of Three Oaks, Michigan, regarding the establishment of a museum in Three Oaks.

Dates: undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Hanchett family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00552
Scope and Contents This collection consists of four letters between members of the Hanchett family of New York, which discuss family and personal matters, as well as their respective travels in the west (Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin) and Louisiana. The first letter from Mary Ann Hanchett to Elijah Hanchett in 1826, describes her travels in Michigan and Ohio. The next letter from Josiah and Nancy Hanchett and their son Lewis, who moved to Detroit in 1829, gives descriptions of people and life in Detroit. This...
Dates: 1826 - 1853
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections