Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Harold J. McGarvey collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.311
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs and negatives of buildings, some during construction, at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) taken by Harold J. McGarvey. There are also photographs and negatives of what appears to be the East Lansing area.
Dates:
1937, 1939
Herbert A. Berg papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.93
Scope and Content
This collections contains publications about the history of Michigan Agricultural College, the impact the U.S. Civil War had on agricultural extension in Michigan, the Morrill Land Grant College Act and life of Bela Hubbard, an Michigan pioneer. Also included in the Berg collection are the articles of incorporation and by-laws and some correspondence of the Michigan State University chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national honorary extension fraternity. There is a newspaper plate from the...
Dates:
1930 - 1969
Infrastructure Planning and Facilities records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-5.13
Scope and Contents
The Physical Plant records include reports, summaries, evaluations, and facility surveys for the Michigan State University campus. Information is primarily of a technical nature.
Also included are 13 aerial photographs of campus which show the entire campus as of April, 1967. The numbers referred to are those used by the photographer and also relate to the accompanying small-scale grid finding aid.Other photographs in the collection include campus farms, farm houses, campus...
Dates:
1941-2023
James W. Faulkner collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.312
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs and negatives from Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) dating to 1948 of the stadium rededication and the MSC-UM football Game, the Spring Parade and Water Carnival, a spring flood on the Red Cedar River, a ROTC Unit, and MSC buildings, including construction on the Union building, the Physics-Astronomy Building, Beaumont Tower, the Auditorium, the library (present-day Museum), Mason Hall, the Music building (labelled as Home...
Dates:
1947 - 1948
John and Helen Knecht scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.318
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the student scrapbooks of John Wesley Knecht and Helen Louise Norton who later married. Helen's scrapbooks contains dance cards, event programs, photos of campus and people, information about her classes, flyers for pep rallies, college circus program, notice about small pox from 1910 and a note from Maud Gilchrist say that Helen is not working hard enough at her studies.John Knechts scrapbook contains photos of athletics including football, baseball,...
Dates:
1907-1913, 1921, Undated
Kinton B. Stevens collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.250
Scope and Contents
The Kinton B. Stevens collection contains photographs of Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) campus life in the early 1900s. Included are photographs of M.A.C.'s baseball, basketball, football, tennis, and track teams as well as early campus buildings and active student life.
Dates:
circa 1900-1910
Margaret P. Thorp papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.182
Scope and Contents
The collections contain papers and photographs. The papers include a 1931 Detroit alumni club directory, two different issues of the May 13, 1931 issue of The Eczema, newspaper articles about The Eczema from 1931, “On the Campus” booklet about campus, and a wedding announcement for Jessamine Van Buren Kennedy and Frederic B. Mumford for 1895. There is also a draft of a August 1875 letter from Governor Bagley about Frank Wells leaving a board because of problems with the Finance Committee...
Dates:
1875 - 1932
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
Mayo family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.1
Scope and Contents
Over fifty Civil War letters of Perry Mayo, written to his family in Calhoun County, Michigan, from June 1861 to May 1864, constitute the bulk of this collection. They include vivid descriptions of battles, marches, military personnel and camp life, together with observations on the conduct of the war. Also in this collection are numerous and fragmentary attempts at genealogy, with related correspondence which, in addition to Mayo, include such family names as Angell, Bryant,...
Dates:
1861 - 1966
Nathan Taisch collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00696
Scope and Content
The collection consists of eleven photographs taken by Nathan Taisch in 1929. Five of the photographs show the Michigan State College band performing at a football game. One photograph is of Wells Hall decorated with a large "S" and a banner reading "Spartans Beat Detroit." Four of the photographs are of men standing around a tower of junk for the sophomore barbeque with signs reading "U. of Detroit" and "Health Service." The final photograph is of eight men posing for a picture with the...
Dates:
1929, undated