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Ephemera

 Subject

Staff Only
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 75 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Druse papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.230
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers, photographs, slides, and oversized materials. The bulk of the materials in the collection relate to Druse’s experience in Nigeria. Included are lecture notes for different courses; 80 slides featuring pots, baskets, houses, dolls, and masks; photographs featuring buildings, students, and individuals working with Druse; and a two issues of a Nsukka newspaper.The collection also contains several historical newspapers, an 1860 voter guide, maps,...
Dates: 1800, 1860, 1865, 1917-1964
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Katherine Guins peace and social justice collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 625
Scope and Contents The Katherine Guins’ Peace and Social Justice collection (1941-2010; bulk 1970-1994) contains materials primarily related to peace and social justice organizations and activism in the East Lansing/Lansing, Michigan area. The majority of the records pertain to: the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Ingham County Branch; the Peace Education Center (PEC); Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND); and Urban Options. These records include newsletters, newspapers,...
Dates: 1941 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1994
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Leonard Falcone Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.133
Scope and Contents The materials in this collection span from 1916, with photographs of Falcone's arrival to the United States from his native country Italy, until 2014, with the honoring of his legacy decades after his passing.The most comprehensive range of materials in this collection are contained in Falcone's personal collection of scrapbooks. In particular, the early volumes provide much information on Falcone during his early years, including concert programs from his first recital as a...
Dates: 1916 - 2014
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Levi Taft and Thacker family collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.381
Scope and Contents This collection consists of items from three members of the Levi Taft family. Included is a brief history of the descendants of the Levi Taft family and a history of Thomas Thacker's ROTC summer stories. Related to Levi Taft, there are numerous photos of him, his wife, and life on the campus of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) at the turn of the century. Also included are minutes, a constitution, articles of incorporation and bylaws, treasurer's reports, a...
Dates: 1899-1921, circa 1920-1930, 2007, 2012, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

LGBTQ+ vertical files collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 766
Scope and Contents The LGBTQ+ vertical files collection is an artificial collection that contains approximately 13 linear feet of material collected over a span of 5 decades by Michigan State University Special Collections staff. The collection includes a wide range of ephemera that was originally used as reference consultation material for many years. These materials include event flyers, programs, correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, and other documentation of local, regional, and national LGBTQ+...
Dates: 1970 - 2023
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Linda Millette collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.507
Scope and Contents This Linda Millette collection contains many items pertaining to student life at Michigan State University (MSU) from 1958-1965. The collection includes MSU student identification cards, a student handbook, and a Michigan Liquor ID Card. Also included are materials from Aloha Week at MSU, a Circle Honorary membership invitation and a circle of metal on a ribbon, a Fine Arts Festival concert program signed by Robert Shaw, and information on Camp Oakland. There are also photographs including...
Dates: 1958-1965
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Louis S. Russell collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.236
Scope and Contents The Louis Russell collection contains a photograph album and a student beanie hat. The photograph album contains signatures of Russell's friends, images of Russell and his friends, interior and exterior images of the Union Literary Society house, images of the college circus and parade which was put on by students, and images of class rush/class rivalry activities. Also included is a student activity ticket book from spring 1947 belonging to Dale E. Hathaway. According to the donor,...
Dates: 1909-1912, 1947
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Maida Tilchen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 794
Scope and Contents

The Maida Tilchen papers consist of approximately 1.5 linear feet of material dating from 1973 to 2021. The collection consists of correspondence, published and unpublished articles, journal entries, concert ephemera, interviews with musicians, recordings of women’s music and other performances. Audio recordings will be transferred to a digital format for user access.

Dates: 1973 - 2021
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Marilyn Frye papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 797
Scope and Contents

The Marilyn Frye papers consist of approximately 13 linear feet of material dating from 1964 to 2013. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, administrative records, drafts and manuscripts for publication, reprinted materials, reference materials, teaching files, catalogs and other printed ephemera.

Recordings and other born-digital material will be available in our reading room.

Dates: 1964 - 2013
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 508 large
Scope and Contents

The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival records (1976-2015) contain crew guides and handbooks, maps, banners, t-shirts, programs, brochures, posters, meeting minutes, correspondence, inventories, press clippings, as well as recordings and photographs taken during the festival. The collection gives an insight of the intense effort and amount of coordination it took to make the festival possible, and how it evolved and grew more complex with each iteration.

Dates: 1976 - 2015
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections