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Ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: BGTCHM
Scope Note: Transient everyday items, usually printed and on paper, that are manufactured for a specific limited use, then often discarded. Includes everyday items that are meant to be saved, at least for a while, such as keepsakes and stock certificates. (or receipts)

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

A. W. Sutton papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.34
Scope and Contents

The A. W. Sutton papers contain receipts from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) for room and board, subscriptions to "The College Speculum", and enrollment fees from 1881-1883. The collection also contains a few pieces of handwritten poetry as well as quotes.

Dates: 1881 - 1883
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Abbott family collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.484
Content Description

The Abbott family collection includes general and personal correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, certificates, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and realia. This includes letters written and photographs taken by Ai and Elizabeth Abbott during their time in Peru, correspondence and journals from Inez Abbott and Ella Snyder during their time in Europe and Bulgaria, and photographs and realia relating to the Chicago Commons Settlement.

Dates: 1892 - 2016
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Advocates for Latino Students Advancement in Michigan Education records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 623
Scope and Contents

The Advocates for Latino Students Advancement in Michigan Education records consist of bylaws, meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, promotional materials, and ephemera from both the predecessor organization College Recruitment Association for Hispanics (CRAH) and Advocates for Latino Students Advancement in Michigan Education (ALSAME).

Dates: 1980 - 2006
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Andrew Hunt collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00113
Scope and Contents

The Andrew Hunt collection includes tax receipts (1844-1866) for land in Ingham County, Michigan, a road district labor assessment for Ingham Township, Ingham County, Michigan (1882), a copy of American Swineherd for July 1891, a People's Party state ticket for New York (circa 1870), a National Greenback ticket (circa 1884), and a brochure (1872) describing the Dodge Reaper and Mower.

Dates: 1844 - 1891
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Angolan political ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 283 large
Scope and Contents

These are items produced by MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola) and UNITA (Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola) for 2012 National Assembly election—only the third since independence. Materials include: 5 badges, 3 ball caps, 1 bracelet, 4 flags, 1 key chain, 1 musical bottle opener, 1 pen, 1 pendant, 1 plastic bag, 1 polo shirt, 1 sun hat, 3 t-shirts, 1 tie clip, 1 tote bag, 1 umbrella, and 1 USB drive.

Dates: 2012
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Barbara and John Dewey papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.326
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents of John H. Dewey and Barbara Davis Dewey during their time as students at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) from 1949 to 1951. Included in the collection are commencement ceremony programs, tickets, programs, and scorecards for MSC football and baseball games, and tickets and programs from the MSC Lecture-Concert Series. Of particular note are publications from the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, including a book of songs, and newspaper...
Dates: 1949 - 1951
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Berrien County train tickets

 Collection
Identifier: c-00382
Scope and Contents

This collection is made up of miscellaneous tickets, most of them for railroad use. There are tickets from the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, Michigan Central Rail Road; Peoples Transit Company; Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore Rail Road; The North-Western Line; Chicago & North-Western Railway. Also there is a lottery ticket and advertisements for the Railroad Hotel of Detroit and Pan American Exposition souvenirs.

Dates: 1868 - 1918
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Bob Stein collection of leftist political ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 563 large
Scope and Contents The Bob Stein collection of leftist political ephemera consists of newsletters, mailings, meeting agendas, and other printed ephemera and personal notes relating to U. S. leftist political organizations. Organizations and publications represented within the collection include the Students for a Democratic Society, POLIT, Student Representative Party (SRP), Maroon Chicago, and the Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) newsletter. Subjects include anti-McCarthyism, anti-nuclear weapons,...
Dates: 1940 - 1967
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Bonnie J. Morris Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 754
Scope and Contents

The Bonnie J. Morris Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival collection consist of approximately 0.5 linear feet of personal items from the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival dating approximately from 1995 to 2015. The collection includes journals, stage notes, and ephemera.

Dates: 1996 - 2015
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Carolyn Mund papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.376
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a 1966 Water Carnival program and ticket.

Dates: 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections