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Postcards

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Edward H. Ryder papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.40
Scope and Contents The Edward H. Ryder collection contains correspondence, travel information from his trip around the world in 1923 and personal remembrances, including memorials and programs. Also found in the collection are materials pertaining to his wife, Georgia Smyth Ryder. The collection also contains correspondence to and from both Edward and Georgia Ryder. It includes copies of their original birth certificates as well as their obituaries. The bulk of the material relates to Edward Ryder and his...
Dates: 1854 - 1955
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Esther Munro Vaniman papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.214
Scope and Contents

The Esther Munro Vaniman papers consist of the booklet "What Home Economics Training Can Do for You" (1930) about the home economics programs at Michigan State College (MSC, now Michigan State University). Also included are nine postcards of MSC buildings and photographs of a group shot of a picnic and several campus buildings.

Dates: 1930 - 1933
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Frances Potter collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.31
Scope and Contents The Frances Potter collection contains postcards, a brochure, and a photograph. The postcards include an image of the sunken garden in the Beal Botanical Garden at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) with a note on the back about attending Farm Women's Week as a delegate from the Home Economics Club in July 1934. Other postcards show Beaumont Tower, the Home Economics Building, and Mary Mayo Hall. The brochure is for the new dormitory for women and includes a description...
Dates: circa 1930-1934
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

George W. Lindsley papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.279
Scope and Content The George W. Lindsley papers contains materials from his time at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). There are commencement programs from 1909 and 1913 and event programs for the Oratorical Society, the Chorus' production of Elijah, a Thanksgiving event, a production titled Idler's put on in the Women's Building, and the Alumni Banquet in 1913. There is a photograph of the college woods and three...
Dates: 1905 - 1913
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jackson Edmund Towne papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.46
Scope and Contents This collection consists mainly of Towne’s correspondence, articles, and speeches. Also included in the collection are documents and correspondence concerning the estate of Annie L. Towne, his mother, and the papers of his wife, Katherine Doyle Towne. The collection also includes papers on the World’s Columbian Exposition donated by Towne, consisting of committee reports, a contract for water services at the exposition, and two letters, one requesting exhibit space and the other...
Dates: 1892 - 1971
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Marietta Denison collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.457
Scope and Contents

The Marietta Denison collection consists of photographs and postcards primarily of Michigan cities, towns, schools, and notable points of interest.

Dates: 1900 - 1970
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Robert M. Williams collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.279
Scope and Contents

The Robert M. Williams collection primarily contains photographs and postcards of street scenes and daily life in the Michigan towns of Baraga, Brown City, Copper Harbor, Dryden, and L’Anse. There are also postcards and photographs of the dedication and planting of the L’Anse Township School Forest on May 23, 1930. The collection also includes photographs of Michigan State University’s Agriculture Hall, Morrill Hall, and the Physics and Electrical Engineering Building.

Dates: circa 1900s-1930s
Found in: University Archives and Historical 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: 1867-1989, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections