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Lansing (Mich.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Treiber family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00151
Scope and Contents The Treiber papers consist of correspondence, family history, and teaching certificates. John Treiber's letters to his wife, which make up the bulk of the collection, were written in 1872 and 1873 when he was sailing on the Great Lakes and working as a lumberjack in Oconto, Wisconsin. Mary Treiber's letters from family and friends (1869-1889) discuss everyday matters such as sick babies, sharecroppers, and family activities. Correspondence from Marion Howell of Lansing describe life in the...
Dates: 1863 - 1889
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Triennial Capsule Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00190
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter from the Triennial Capsule Committee of Lansing Community College to Michigan State University, thanking MSU for its donation of materials to the capsule. Also included are a list of other donors and their donations and a program from the Lansing Bicentennial Celebration at the capsule dedication.

Dates: 1976
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association of Greater Lansing records

 Collection
Identifier: 00239
Scope and Contents

The U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association of Greater Lansing collection contains newsletters, activity flyers, financial records and trip materials. There are also newsletters from other U.S.-China Peoples Friendship groups, press releases from the Chinese embassy, material about regional conferences, and magazines about China in English.

Dates: 1976 - 1985
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Vada Wolfe Derry collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00185
Scope and Contents The collection of Vada Wolfe Derry consists of a photograph of "The Children of Isaac Clinton Wolfe" (circa 1908), a photo album, and a scrapbook. The photo album contains photographs, presumably of the family of Vada Wolfe Derry, dated 1927 to 1940. The album contains many pictures of Mervin, who was her son, from a baby through childhood. The album also contains photographs of Horsehead Lake, Michigan; Houghton Lake, Michigan; Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan; Traverse City,...
Dates: 1908 - 1940
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Waldo family papers and the Waldo Travel Agency records

 Collection
Identifier: 00042
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal correspondence, notes, reports, and financial records. The majority of these relate to Mortimer Waldo's activities in Russia and Finland from 1916 to 1918.Letters to family and friends written from 1916 to 1917 describe life in Siberia and comment on the political situation in the United States and the entry of the U.S. into the First World War. Later letters (1918) concentrate on the Finnish Civil War. Those dating from after 1919 primarily...
Dates: 1904 - 1991
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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

Whitmer, Gretchen (Gretchen Esther), 1971-

 Person

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