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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:

Casa de Unidad Newsletters, Chapbooks, and Flyers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 716
Abstract This collection consist almost exclusively of Casa de Unidad publications, from monographs to it serial publications "El Barrio" and its newslettertype accompaniments "Notas del Barrio", "Herencia del Barrio", and "Calendario del Barrio". Also includes poetry chapbooks like the Coffee House Series all dated from the early 1980s to the 1990s. Other items include flyers and announcements for cultural events to cultivate and promote interests in Latino cultural heritage in the Detroit area....
Dates: 1981 - 2003
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Catherine and Russ Hunt papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.319
Scope and Contents

The collection consists a booklet titled "The Technique of Good Manners: a handbook for College Men" by Mary Perin Barker (1935), a June 1932 commencement program, a MSC Concert Course program featuring George Barrere, Lewis Richards and Michael Press (March 2, 1932), "Songs of Michigan State College" (1931), a Green Splash Women's Swimming Club program (April 27, 1932), and an oversize sheet of red tissue paper with Japanese characters.

Dates: 1930-1935, 1940
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Charles Carlisle Hood papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.107
Scope and Contents

This collection includes personal papers and photographs belonging to Charles C. Hood. The material includes correspondence, copies of certificates and diploma, membership cards, clippings, Michigan State University publications, MSU music recording, and other miscellaneous items dating from 1916 to 1974.

Dates: 1916 - 1974
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Dairyland Co-operative Creamery records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00694
Scope and Contents

The Dairyland Co-operative Creamery Co. collection consists of cancelled checks, possibly from the people the creamery bought milk from.

Dates: 1943 - 1944
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

David C. Hollister papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.428
Scope and Contents The David C. Hollister collection contains papers biographical and personal in nature, as well as papers from his political career. The collection contains information about his childhood and includes documentation of his school years from elementary through graduate school. There is also material about his teenage activities including sports, journalism, and student government. There are letters to his friends and parents including information about his high school sweetheart Judy Artz,...
Dates: 1957 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

David Clements photographs and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 689
Scope and Contents The David Clements papers document the career and creative interests of Royce David Clements (1948-) who has spent more than 50 years involved in the cultural life of Detroit and southwest Michigan. In particular, the arts community in Detroit in the 1990s and 2000s is very well represented by postcards and flyers for gallery openings, museum exhibits, book signings, music festivals, and similar events.The collection includes abundant examples of Clements’ own photography work,...
Dates: between 1920-2019, bulk 1985-2005
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Department of Psychiatry records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.100
Scope and Contents

The Department of Psychiatry records consists of one folder containing a program booklet for the residency program at the Pontiac State Hospital and an unpublished annual report for 1968.

Also included are materials related to the AIDS Education and Training Center. The materials include publications about ministry and AIDS, promotional handouts, health and safe sex kits, and t-shirts (the majority of these materials was not created by Michigan State University).

Dates: 1968, 1990-2003, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

E. Lynnette Gatten papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.131
Scope and Contents The Lynnette Gatten collection contains seven folders of materials primarily dealing with Gatten’s involvement with food services at Michigan State University. There are two folders of newspaper clippings related to food service, staff, and buildings on campus and in the surrounding area; a folder containing programs related to food service and the campus; a folder containing clippings and pages from journals and newsletters regarding food service programs including clippings from issues of...
Dates: 1943 - 1978
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Emil Conrad Volz papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.103
Scope and Contents

The papers of Emil Volz consist of a scrapbook containing postcards and photographs depicting student life, students, campus scenes, scenes from Pine Lake (Lake Lansing), Michigan, faculty, and athletic events at Michigan Agricultural College. It also contains programs from various campus social functions, numerous dance cards, menus, ribbons, and many items relating to football at Michigan Agricultural College.

Dates: 1910 - 1914
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Eric Bates collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.38
Content Description The collection consists of small pieces of paper with photos of football players on them possibly sold as a fund raiser. The pieces have a photo, player's name and phrases like "Beat Michigan" and "I want to help." They also say "Watch for the On to Victory Poster" and "See Carp Julian- Harvey & Co. Service." George "Carp" Julian was a football player at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1911-1914. It is possible the Harvey & Co. refers to an East...
Dates: 1930, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections