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East Lansing (Mich.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Radimersky collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.451
Scope and Contents The postcards in this collection were sent between 1935 and 1937 to Ruth Steidte from George Radimersky, a Foreign Language professor at Michigan State College (MSC, now Michigan State University). The postcards are primarily the MSC campus and include buildings and gardens. Postcards of other Michigan locations (Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, East Lansing, Lansing, Marshall, and Olivet) as well as several postcards of Madison, Wisconsin are also part of the collection. Many of the messages on...
Dates: 1935 - 1937
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Ruth Radimersky collection

Schock, Harold

 Person

Sears, Roebuck and Company photographs

 Collection
Identifier: c-00588
Scope and Contents

These photographs are of the different locations of Sears stores in the Lansing, Michigan area. Each photo is 16”x 20”. Five images depict the Automotive Center, Retail Store, and Farm Store in downtown Lansing. Four images are of the Frandor Shopping Center site, one is of the pre-construction site. One image is a store advertisement.

Dates: circa 1920 - circa 1960
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Sears, Roebuck and Company photographs

Snow, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas), 1941-

 Person

The Black Sheep

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-01170
Dates: 2009 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / The Black Sheep

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 / U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association of Greater Lansing 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 L. Mallmann papers

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 / Walter Neller family papers

Weekly Star, The UA 12.7.17

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-00746
Dates: 1911-1912, 1914
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections / Weekly Star, The UA 12.7.17

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 A. Ball Collection