University Archives. Purdue University Archives
Collecting Area
Identifier: University Archives
The University Archives preserves materials created by or related to Purdue University, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and associated organizations.
Found in 1398 Collections and/or Records:
Bits and Bots: A Guide to Ethical Artificial Intelligence, by & for Students
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-099
Dates:
2023
John R. Bittner collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 3, Placement: 16
Identifier: MSA 54
Scope and Contents
Two back and white photographs of John R. Bittner, circa 1997
"Faculty Footnotes - John Bittner," The UNC Journalist, Wintter 1997, p.5.
The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England - entry, Bittner, John Robert, circa 1997.
Curriculum Vitae, John R. Bittner, 2002.
Dates:
1997 - 2002
Purdue University Black Cultural Center records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 176
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection document the programs, activities, and community created by and surrounding the Purdue University Black Cultural Center (BCC) from its inception in 1969 up until the present day. It includes publications about the African American community; newspaper clippings and marketing material created by or with the subject of the BCC; photographs of the BCC, its events, students, and staff; speeches delivered by or about the BCC; correspondence between members of the BCC...
Dates:
1969 - 2023; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
James Blakesley Collection on the Class of 1950
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 28
Scope and Contents
The James Blakesley Collection on the Class of 1950 contains memorabilia from the Class of 1950's days at Purdue. Types of material include dance cards, newspaper clippings, event programs and playbills, along with photographs, record albums, and artifacts.
Dates:
1946 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1950
Blockite Spiel publication
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 52
Identifier: 2023-010
Dates:
circa 1965 - 1966
Donald A. Bloodgood papers
Collection — Box 1 flat box, 1 small mss. box
Identifier: MSA 314
Scope and Contents
The Donald A. Bloodgood papers (1946-1949; 1 cubic foot) documents the student life and fraternal pledging of former Purdue student Donald A. Bloodgood. The collection consists primarily of artifacts, with limited documentation concerning their use and function by the alumnus. These objects may be useful for researchers interested in the material culture of Purdue’s ROTC and fraternity organizations during the late 1940s. Types of materials include: pledge sashes, pledge boards, letters, and...
Dates:
1946 - 1949; Other: Date acquired: 09/06/2011
Donald E. Bloodgood papers
Collection — Box 6 Boxes, 1 Large Folder
Identifier: MSF 41
Overview
Publications, reports, correspondence, clippings, photos, and daily planners documenting the professional career of Purdue Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Donald E. Bloodgood.
Dates:
1926 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1979
Richard Blunk papers
Collection — Box Communal Collections 66, Placement: 02, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 285
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one callout card for Purdue Musical Organizations in the format of the Glee Club Pete from 1962. The ephemera belonged to Richard Blunk who also played the trumpet in Purdue's All-American Marching Band during the semester he attended Purdue.
Dates:
1962
Allen C. Boggs collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 3, Placement: 18
Identifier: MSA 55
Scope and Contents
Receipt - Purdue Alumni Association Life Membership, 1920 (Initialed "Paid HGL," by Harry G. Leslie, '04, who was executive director of the Association at that time, and who later was elected Governor of Indiana.)
Dates:
1920
Boilermaker Special III Key
Unprocessed — Box Communal Collections 87
Identifier: 2024-106
Dates:
1993
Charles E. Boonstra sketchbook
Collection — Box Communal Collections 3, Placement: 19
Identifier: MSA 56
Scope and Contents
Greenwalt, Charles E. (1906). A Few Inside Glimpses of Student Life at "Perdoo" from the Sketchbook of Greenawalt. (No other publication information available.)
Dates:
1906
Julius L. Born correspondence
Collection — Box Communal Collections 3, Placement: 21
Identifier: MSA 58
Scope and Contents
Typed versions of thirteen letters that Lieutenant Julius L. Born wrote home to his parents while stationed in France during World War I.
Dates:
circa 1914 - 1918
George B. Bosco Jr. collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 4, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSA 59
Scope and Contents
Schedule Card - grades and classes listed for George Bosco Jr.'s senior year at Purdue University, September 12, 1938.
Purdue University diploma, the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, June 11, 1939.
Dates:
1938 - 1939
Marcy Boynton papers
Collection — Box Communal Collections 4, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSA 60
Scope and Contents
Oral History Honors Project by Marcy Boynton, Fall 2002. Includes interviews with Dr. Victor Cicirelli, Dr. Clifford Swenson, and a third, unnamed senior Purdue psychology professor.
Dates:
2002
Guy D. Brewer Collection on the Class of 1911
Collection — Box Communal Collections 4, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSA 61
Scope and Contents
Various memorabilia from the Class of 1911.
Dates:
1911 - 1978
Charles R. Brouse collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 391
Content Description
Materials created by or about Charles R. Brouse, including an extensive journal of his experience serving in Europe during World War I. Also includes photographs, news clippings, and the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator of October 12, 1918.
Dates:
1917 - 1942
DeWitt Buchanan collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 4, Placement: 05
Identifier: MSA 62
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one folder which contains papers relating to Dewitt "Buck" Buchanan.
Dates:
1898 - 1978
Purdue University Business Services Office records
Collection — Box 1: Series UA 32, Series 1; Series UA 32, Series 2; Series UA 32, Series 3
Identifier: UA 32
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University Business Services Office records document the Business Services office at Freehafer Hall (formerly Administrative Services Building) circa 1971. It shows the reception of Administrative Management magazine’s 1970 Office of the Year Award by various staff. Other materials include a floor plan of the office, images of unnamed staff, as well as photographs of furniture. Types of materials include: photographs, a pamphlet, and other papers.
Dates:
circa 1971
Earl L. Butz papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 64
Abstract
Documents, photographs, letters, scrapbooks, correspondence, biographical material, speeches, artifacts, and subject files documenting the career of Earl L. Butz as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1971-1976.
Dates:
1945 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1976
Campus Art Survey records
Collection — Box Communal Collections 62, Placement: 02
Identifier: UA 142
Scope and Contents
The Campus Art Survey records contain reports and inventories of the various paintings and works of art that were present on campus. The reports include the locations of the works of art at that time.
Dates:
1938 - 1958
Carl Deimling papers, addition 01
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-111
Dates:
1958 - 2023
Carl F. Lutz photo album
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 52
Identifier: 2023-019
Dates:
circa 1940
Carlyle Literary Society records
Collection — Box 1: Series MSP 141, Series 1; Series MSP 141, Series 2; Series MSP 141, Series 3
Identifier: MSP 141
Scope and Contents
The Carlyle Literary Society records (1881-1922; 1 cubic foot) documents the meetings and activities of the Carlyle Literary Society, active at Purdue from 1881-1923. The collection includes records books that document the meetings of the society, its finances, and its constitution, as well as programs documenting society-sponsored events, and surveys administered to prospective new members. At this time, there are no records documenting the change by the Carlyle Literary Society to Kappa Phi...
Dates:
1881 - 1922