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East Lansing (Mich.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Name Authority File

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

Walter L. Mallmann papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.34
Scope and Contents This collection contains the speech presenting Walter Mallmann with the Michigan Public Health Association Distinguished Service Award. Also included is the transcript and audio reels of four oral history interviews conducted by Vergil Noble for a history class at Michigan State University. In the first interview Mallmann discussed his family and life growing up in Escanaba. The second interview covers Mallmann's years as a student at Michigan Agricultural College. He talks about his...
Dates: 1913 - 1981
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Walter Neller family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.426
Scope and Contents This collection contains of 25 scrapbooks which span from 1924 to 1991. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, correspondence and ephemera highlighting the Neller's social life and activities in Lansing and East Lansing. There is also information about the real estate business in Lansing, and East Lansing.Scrapbook 1 (1924-1928) contains newspaper clippings, mostly from the social pages, detailing the lives of Frances Harvey Neller’s friends. There are also many pieces of...
Dates: 1924 - 1991
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Weekly Star, The UA 12.7.17

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-00746
Dates: 1911-1912, 1914
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William A. Ball Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.306
Scope and Contents

The William A. Ball collection consists of color slides taken by Ball of the dedication of the Macklin Field in 1948. The dedication slides show the bands as well as dignitaries on the field. Other slides in the collection include flooding in Lansing and East Lansing in 1947, and a Lansing Memorial Day parade in 1947. One of the flooding pictures shows the MSC Band Shell with water around it.

Dates: 1947 - 1948
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William Purdy Peters papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.105
Scope and Contents

William Purdy Peters papers consist of a nine page paper entitled "Opening Closed Doors," which describes Michigan State University from about 1926 to 1928, when Peters was a student. The paper discusses classes (physical education, English, and animal husbandry), Reserve Officer Training Corp, professors, students, student activities (including hazing and class rush), and the city of East Lansing.

Dates: 1983
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections