Academic theses
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Iwao Ishino papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.348
Scope and Content
The Iwao Ishino papers contain both personal and professional materials. There is also a small of amount of material relating to Mary Kobayashi Ishino.Personal materials include photographs of his family as well as school and U.S. Army entrance documents. Professional materials include memos, notes, correspondence, reports and publications relating to his career. The collection files are arranged in roughly chronological order. Ishino had originally organized them...
Dates:
1933 - 2010
Kenneth G. Hance papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.332
Scope and Contents
The Kenneth G. Hance collection is comprised of papers from the life and work of former Michigan State University professor Kenneth G. Hance. Included in the collection are notes, papers, and other materials from phonetics and speech classes that Hance took while a student at Olivet College in the 1920s, including his Master's thesis from 1926. There are also materials from his time teaching at Albion College and University of Michigan. Also included in the collection are religious study...
Dates:
1926-1935, 1983-1985, undated
Lauren H. Brown collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.72
Scope and Contents
The Lauren H. Brown collection contains three agricultural science manuscripts. Included are his master’s thesis, “The Comparative Advantage of Selected Areas in the United States in the Production of Dry Edible Beans," which analyzes the trends and shifts in bean production among the dry bean producing regions of the United States and his doctoral thesis, “Planning Dairy Farm Buildings,” concerning dairy barn design, layout and arrangement of equipment, the cost of housing dairy cows in a...
Dates:
1932 - 1948
Lloyd G. Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.374
Scope and Contents
The papers of Lloyd G. Wilson consist of lab notebooks about sulfur dioxide and sulfate research related to plants, other research, reprints of his articles, presentations and other of his faculty papers. Also included is material related to a cellulolytic fungi project he worked on at the Wright Air Development Center. The collection also contains materials related to the design and construction of the Michigan State University Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory as...
Dates:
1939 - 1990
Norris C. Bryson dissertation
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.167
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Norris C. Bryson's 1979 dissertation entitled “The Response of the Cooperative Extension Service to the Great Depression in Michigan, 1929-1938.” The dissertation outlines the priorities of the programs, personnel, and budget from 1929 to 1938, and how these priorities reflected both the local and national demands placed on the Extension Service. The work contains interviews with the county agents who implemented these plans, as well as reviews of the publications...
Dates:
1979
Paul Harder papers
Collection — Box 5702, Folder: 1
Identifier: UA-17.384
Scope and Contents
The Paul Harder collection consists of scores and parts for a variety of chamber music combinations as well as band, chamber orchestra and orchestra works. Those labeled “transparencies” are original copies on onionskin paper, which were used to make reproductions. Any item marked “reproduction” is copied from the transparency by the diazo (or ozalid) process. A few items are original manuscripts, on music manuscript paper. If the individual who prepared the manuscript is known, that...
Dates:
1949 - 1970
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
Winston Wilkinson papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.301
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the faculty papers of philosophy professor Winston Wilkinson. Materials include two bibliographies with commentaries on Spinoza and Whitehead, book reviews for individuals and for Choice Publications, course packs and syllabi for the various classes he taught, articles and speeches, and Wilkinson's curriculum vitae.
Dates:
1963 - 2002