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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:

Tom Mosmiller papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 683
Scope and Contents The Tom Mosmiller papers consist of personal and professional records created and collected by Mosmiller, including correspondence, reports, promotional material, research material, and photographs. There are extrensive records and memorabilia from men's movement organizations such as National Men & Masculinity Conferences, Changing Men, National Organization for Men Against Sexism, California Men's Gatherins, and California Anti-Sexism Men's Political Caucus. Mosmiller's biographical...
Dates: 1978 - 2019
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Uhuru Kenyatta presidential election collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 360
Scope and Contents

The Uhuru Kenyatta presidential election collection contains publications, posters, and physical artifacts relating to Kenya's 2013 presidential election. The collection features a variety of materials relating to election education, anti-bribery, promotional materials of the candidates.

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

Unattributed MSU History collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-26.3
Scope and Content The collection contains MSU historical materials from unknown sources. The materials include an announcement for an alumni reunion, alumni reunion program held during the Semicentennial year, Feronian Society twenty-fifth anniversary event program, program for the junior banquet for the class of 1906, a page recording weekly hours for labor for the Mechanical Engineering department in 1895, postcards of the library (Linton Hall) and Wild Garden (Beal Garden), MIAA field meet ticket,...
Dates: 1867-2012, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 551 large
Scope and Contents

The Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies contains books, dissertations, journal articles, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, audio-visual materials, and ephemera relating to the documentation and study of Gypsy and Traveler cultures including the Rom, Romanichels, Cale, Sinti, Ludar, Romungre, Irish Travelers, Scottish Travelers and many others.

Dates: 1907 - 2016
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Walter N. Mack collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00212
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an undated local ticket for the National Greenback Party, an undated ticket for the People's Ticket (Democratic Party) headed by Henry Chamberlain, and an official songbook (1912) of the Progressive Party (missing as of 2000).

Dates: undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wesley Fishel papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.95
Series Description (1) BIOGRAPHICAL FILES. 1940-1948, 1955-1977, undated. 0.2 cubic feet This series provides a broad overview of Wesley R. Fishel's professional life. Included are resumes, academic appointment papers and award certifications received by the scholar. Materials in the first nine folders reflect the beginnings of Fishel's early academic career, such as his appointment as an instructor of political science at UCLA. This series is arranged chronologically by subject.(2) ...
Dates: 1921 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1977
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William H. Bartels papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.166
Scope and Contents The collection includes William Bartel's class schedules and course receipts, a textbook for working at a forge, engineering experiments assignments, a play program for "The Beginnings: A Drama of Michigan History," and a 1927 commencement program. It also contains records from the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, Alpha Chapter, and the address of Joseph Bell Cotton (class of 1886) for Michigan State College's (now Michigan State University) 70th anniversary in 1927. The collection also contains...
Dates: 1921 - 1927
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

World War II ration books

 Collection
Identifier: c-00360
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three World War II ration books belonging to Bert F. Crapser of Swartz Creek, Michigan.

Dates: 1942 - 1943
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections