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Postcards

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

Ezra Randolph Wilson papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.25
Scope and Contents

The Ezra Wilson scrapbook contains postcards, tickets, programs relating to activities at the Phi Delta Literary Society (Phi Delta Theta Fraternity) and at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), and photographs of friends and campus life. A report card dated 1914 lists Wilson's classes and standings to that date.

Dates: 1911-1915, 1920
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Forest H. Akers papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-1.1.1
Scope and Contents

The Forest Akers papers include correspondence, speeches, news clippings and other materials related to Michigan State University; a variety of educational materials, legal documents, and articles; a history of Williamston, Michigan; and personal papers including Akers' class reunion information (1950) and a certificate of appointment to the State Board of Agriculture. Scrapbooks contain family photographs and photographs and other information relating to Chrysler Corporation.

Dates: 1898 - 1965
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

Francis W. Steer collection of White family history documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 105 small
Dates: 1940 - 1972
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Frank Benton papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.438
Scope and Contents The Frank Benton papers include academic correspondence, newspaper clippings which discuss apiculture, Benton's work in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the 25th Annual Meeting of the North American Beekeepers Association and miscellaneous poems and writings, papers from the Association, a Japanese translation of his book The Honey Bee, personal notes, and a cash book for the Carnolian Apiaries (1899-1900). Of note are personal manuscripts by Benton on topics such as the...
Dates: 1879 - 1915
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Frank W. Holder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00021
Scope and Contents The Holder collection is divided into three basic series. The first deals with his work for the Taft Highway Association. This series includes correspondence, records of the association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates records of the Association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates to Holder's position with the Michigan State Highway Department during World War II. This material contains records of bus line surveys as well as gasoline and tire rationing...
Dates: 1925 - 1959
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Fred Avery Thompson papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.285
Scope and Content The collection consists of photographs from Thompson's years as a Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) student (1913-1916) and his career as a forester in the 1930s. The M.A.C. photographs include group shots of the Forestry Club, Thompson studying, Class Rush events, and Forestry Club Summer Camp. There are also images of campus buildings including the Engineering Building fire, baseball, football and track and field images, and images of the band. The photographs...
Dates: 1912 - 1939
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Frederick G. Adler papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00113
Scope and Contents

These papers consist of correspondence (1896-1908), a coroner's inquest book (1890-1893), newspaper clippings, and campaign and election materials of Frederick G. Adler of Jackson, Michigan.

Also included are a Jackson County Circuit Court calendar for September 1903, and a memo book belonging to Adler with a typewritten explanation of some of the entries by his son, Gar A. Adler.

Dates: 1853 - 1910
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Gamble family collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00616
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the Gamble family collection consists of postcards of Michigan communities. Also included are a postcard of Chautauqua, New York, and of a fence made of tree stumps.

Dates: 1900 - 1920
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

George M. Bitzer records

 Collection
Identifier: 00160
Scope and Contents The collection is divided into eleven series:FARM INCOME TAX RECORDS. 1942-1966. This series contains accounting information for federal income taxes and farm business analyses.JOURNALS. 1948-1965. This series contains journals consisting of income and expense accounts with some subsidiary ledgers.DIARIES. 1931-1979. This series contains mainly diaries of George Bitzer and one diary of Tula Bitzer. MISCELLANEOUS. 1921-1968. This series...
Dates: 1905 - 1967
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections