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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:

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 The collection consists of correspondence, unpublished essays, journal entries, published articles, concert ephemera, interviews with musicians, recordings of women’s music and other performances.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

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

Milton E. Muelder papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.77
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials pertaining to Milton E. Muelder's service with the Office of Military Government in Germany, spanning the years 1939-1958. Included are maps, plans, reports, policy directives, correspondence on postwar educational programs in Germany, de-Nazification, and the military government division of Germany by the Allied Forces (United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia) after the war.There are also materials written by Muelder during his tenure...
Dates: 1939 - 2000
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

MSU Press records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.14
Scope and Contents The records of the MSU Press consist of Board of Directors meeting minutes (1963-1966, undated), a handbook entitled MSC Press which gives guidelines for materials submitted (1950), and two booklets which review publications of the MSU Press (1955, undated). Also included are published (1948-1950, 1954-1957) and unpublished (1957-1958, 1961-1963, 1967, 1969) annual reports.The Fourth Genre series contains correspondence between authors and editors, between editors and outside...
Dates: 1949 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Native American advocacy and fundraising ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 596
Scope and Contents

The Native American advocacy and fundraising ephemera consists of fundraising mailings and associated pins and necklaces from the Native American Rights Fund and American Indian Relief Council. Objects include a medicine wheel pin, feather pin, 35th Anniversary NARF label pin, and a feather necklace.

Dates: approximately 2010
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Ralph F. Turner papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.149
Series Description (1) SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. 1930, 1938-1988, 1990, undated [1962-1975]. 6.33 cubic feetReports, memoranda, correspondence, notes, publications and extraneous materials relating to the function and activities of the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice. Topics range in breadth from University and student/classroom-related activities to areas of interest beyond campus boarders. Typical of these topics include: School of Criminal Justice work with the...
Dates: 1899 - 1999
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Richard Trapp papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.165
Scope and Contents

The papers include two certificates for courses in fixing Ford tractors and Dearborn Wood Brothers corn pickers. There is also student memorabilia including a football ticket, party ticket, a Michigan State College advertising card, and a program for the Dairy Department Bean Feed in 1940. Also included is a photograph of a Michigan State College Horse Management class from 1947, and photographs of campus and buildings.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Roberta Robinson Coulter Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.79
Scope and Content

This collection contains a 1946 Commencement program and invitation, dance cards, program from parties and other social activities, a MSC garter, and other ephemera.

Dates: 1945 - 1946
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections