Postcards
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Ray C. Edwards papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.456
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 11 postcards of scenes and buildings of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Notable images include sheep grazing along Farm Lane; "the Shops" consisting of the Wood Shop, Machine Shop, Foundry, and Forge Shop; Wells Hall; interior of M.A.C. Power Plant; interior of the Chapel; Old College Hall surrounded by stumps; scenes of the Red Cedar River; and a scene of a student standing on top of the Class of 1900 fountain/horse trough as an...
Dates:
1908 - 1909
Rule family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00216
Scope and Content
The Rule and Alward papers consists of photographs, postcards, Officer Training notes, a commencement program from Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University), and class notes. About half of the postcards were sent from Clifford Rule to Lela Alward during World War I while he was deployed in France. Many of the postcards are scenes from France, or of soldiers training. Some notable photographs include Notre Dame Cathedral with supports for protection during air raids,...
Dates:
1911, 1917-1919
Sidney Stevens collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.259
Scope and Contents
The Sidney Stevens collection contains an Michigan Agricultural College Bulletin from 1912 that advertises the college. The bulletin has photographs of the Agriculture Building, Engineering Hall, Wells Hall, Abbot Hall, Williams Hall, the Women's Building [Morrill Hall], the college band, the college post office, the forest nursery, the main dairy barn and a panoramic photograph of a vista near the main entrance of campus. There are also M.A.C. postcards of cannons in front of Wells Hall,...
Dates:
1912, 1914, Undated
Steven Stardevant collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.252
Scope and Contents
The Steven Stardevant collection consists of 18 postcards and photographs taken by Roscoe Ellsworth Brightup of Michigan Agricultural College football, military science, buildings, unidentified groups, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Dates:
circa 1900-1915
Walter Alfred Newton papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.17
Scope and Contents
Papers of Walter Newton consist of one scrapbook, containing programs, tickets, greeting cards, postcards, party invitations, photographs, and news clippings describing activities of the Phi Delta Society, athletic events, and campus life. Also included is Michigan Agricultural College memorabilia, as well as handouts from a surveying class, and a 1911 Commencement program.
Dates:
1909 - 1928
William L. Carpenter papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.411
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is composed of letters Carpenter received and duplicates of many of those that he sent. Many of them are of an essentially personal nature. In later life he became particularly interested in family genealogy and many letters were written and received on this subject.Included in the collection are a number of writings by Carpenter relating his experiences as a lawyer and judge. References to Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University)...
Dates:
1851 - 1950