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Letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Spartan Women's League records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.3.9
Scope and Contents

The Spartan Women's League records consists of correspondence, constitutions of the organization, event programs, a history of the organization, membership lists, newspaper clippings, and a faculty questionnaire. Also included are two campus etiquette books, "We Like It This Way at Michigan State College" and "This We Do at MSU." The collection also contains photographs of members and activities.

Dates: 1930-1969, undated

Spiritualist letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00200
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter relaying a message from a deceased father to his surviving daughter through a spirit medium.

Dates: 1892

Sprague and Strange families correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: c-00338
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence for the most part addressed to John Strange of Oneida, Eaton County, Michigan, and to his spouse Orinda (nee Sprague), from members of their families in Massachusetts and New York.

The letters are concerned with family matters -- births, deaths, and marriages -- and flavored with pious comments. Beginning in 1849, the correspondence includes much discussion of California and the Gold Rush, and of travel to the West.

Dates: 1832 - 1869

Stanley Edwin Crowe papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.61
Scope and Contents The Stanley Edwin Crowe collection contains office files relating to his time as director and dean of the General College, coordinator of the army training program, and dean of students. This includes correspondence between Crowe and Presidents Shaw and Hannah. One subject of particular interest is the collection of comments made by Crowe on women's attire, claiming that women wearing jeans is linked to excessive drinking and partying. Many responses, both for and against this view, are...
Dates: 1933-1956, undated

Stanley Hollander papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.287
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a journal article about Hollander written by Robert Nason, a journal article that Hollander wrote about himself, a program for a 2004 memorial concert, memorial service invitations, Hollander's obituary from the Lansing State Journal, photographs of Hollander, and comments about Hollander from friends and colleagues at the time of his death.

The electronic resource contains one photo of Hollander reading a book.

Dates: 1995 - 2009

Stanley Johnston papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.132
Scope and Content The Johnston papers document the experiments, developments, and accomplishments of South Haven Experiment Station under the direction of Stanley Johnston. The collection includes correspondence, records of experiments, reports, photographs, slides, postcards, research papers (published and unpublished), and maps. These papers document the development of the Haven peach and the world-wide importance of that development; and the importance of his research with other fruits, especially...
Dates: 1921 - 1980

State of Michigan Board of Agriculture / Michigan State University Board of Trustees records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-1
Scope and Contents The State Board of Agriculture papers include correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, legal records and newspaper clippings of the first governing body of the state agriculture college. The College Lands series includes correspondence, reports, land descriptions, employment records, financial records, minutes, legal documents, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the management of state lands endowed to the college via the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862. ...
Dates: 1850 - 2018

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