Box Communal Collections 12
Container
Contains 23 Collections and/or Records:
J. Edgar Scholl diary
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSA 209
Scope and Contents
Daily diary of J. Edgar Scholl, January 1, 1901 to December 8, 1902. The diary provides a daily account of the life of a young man in Indiana as he begins farming and prepares to marry.
Dates:
1901 - 1902
Woody Strong collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 18
Identifier: MSA 221
Scope and Contents
Articles about Woody and Penny Strong's mission trips to Nepal.
Dates:
1988 - 1995
Roger H. Schnurlein Collection on the Class of 1926
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSA 208
Scope and Contents
Roster of Class of 1926 Mechanical Engineering graduates, 25th, 60th, 65th, Class of 1926 anniversary testimonial certificates, and other items from the Class of 1926, post-graduation.
Dates:
1951 - 1991
Collection on A. A. Sego
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 30
Scope and Contents
The Collection on A. A. Sego documents the life and career of Sego, a 1917 Purdue alumnus and test pilot. The collection includes Sego's 1917 leather bound Gala Week program, one photograph of Sego in his aviator helmet, and several photocopied articles pertaining to his life and career.
Dates:
1917 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1919
Jim Shearer collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 08
Identifier: MSA 212
Scope and Contents
Membership card, Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Purdue University, circa 1904.
Program, Philalethean, Twenty-seventh Annual, Friday, April 28, 1905.
Program, Philalethean, Twenty-seventh Annual, Friday, April 28, 1905.
Dates:
undated
Stockton family collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 17
Identifier: MSA 22
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials relating to Purdue alumni James W. Stockton and Ann Stockton, 1919-1947. Includes one postcard of Theta Xi house at Purdue University, one report card for James W. Stockton, and one newspaper clipping on Ann Stockton's injury in the Purdue bleachers collapse.
Dates:
1919 - 1947
Douglass Shortridge collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 213
Scope and Contents
The Douglass Shortridge collection contains artifacts from Shortridge's student years at Purdue, historical newspapers from the end of World War II, a newspaper obituary of Abram C. Shortridge, and other documents accumulated during Shortridge's career.
Dates:
1919 - 2003
Robert Thomas papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 23
Identifier: MSA 226
Scope and Contents
Articles and notations by Robert Thomas.
Dates:
1949 - 1951
Albert Scheible papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 02
Identifier: MSA 207
Scope and Contents
Booklet and article written by Albert Scheible.
Dates:
1894 - 1916
Lynn A. Scipio papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 05
Identifier: MSA 210
Scope and Contents
The papers contain articles by Purdue alumnus, Lynn Scipio.
Dates:
1920 - 1921
Howard E. Satterfield papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSA 206
Scope and Contents
"From Whence We Came," by Frances Gilchrist Gibson Satterfield, 1973 [family history]
Dates:
undated
C. F. Smith collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 13
Identifier: MSA 217
Scope and Contents
The C. F. Smith papers consist of publications issued by the Bournonville Rotary Valve Motor Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, under the guidance of Smith as the company's chief engineer.
Dates:
1921 - 1922
Fred F. and Charles W. Shafer collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSA 211
Scope and Contents
Family photograph, 1896, which includes Fred and Charles Shafer, information from 1907 Debris and Purdue Students' Directory, 1907-1908, along with a manuscript (interview) with Fred Fletcher Shafer, 1957
Dates:
1896 - 1957
E. E. Sickler papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 10
Identifier: MSA 214
Scope and Contents
"Thoughts At The Anvil," by E. E. Sickler.
Dates:
circa 1882
Vern N. Smiley collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 12
Identifier: MSA 216
Scope and Contents
Gala Week 1921 booklet; Pi Omicron National Sorority - program, 1933-1934; Pi Omicron National Sorority directory, April 1935, and small Alpha Chapter Pi Omicron scrapbook, 5" x 4" with thirty-six photographs in it, 1930-1931.
Dates:
1921 - 1934
Collection on Karl R. Templeton
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 21
Identifier: MSA 224
Scope and Contents
Information about Karl R. Templeton taken from Purdue Students' Directory, 1909-1910 and Debris, 1910.
Dates:
1909 - 1910
R. E. Stephenson papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 16
Identifier: MSA 220
Scope and Contents
Articles and bulletin by R. E. Stephenson.
Dates:
1918 - 1920
Lena A. Sutton papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 19
Identifier: MSA 222
Scope and Contents
Publication co-authored by Lena Sutton entitled, "The Efficiency of the Preparation of Ether from Alcohol and Sulfuric Acid." Reprinted from the Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. XXXV, no. 6, June, 1913, pp. 794-800.
Dates:
1913
Booth Tarkington collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 20
Identifier: MSA 223
Scope and Contents
Excerpts from the book, My Maiden Effort, by Gelett Burgess, which includes some of Booth Tarkington's first writings. Obituaries and stories written upon Tarkington's death.
Dates:
1921 - 1946
Joseph A. Starkey collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 15
Identifier: MSA 219
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken at Purdue University during the 1923-1924 school year. Correspondence from Starkey's son, Mirwood A. Starkey, concerning the death of his mother, Lena Smith Starkey and the donation of the photographs.
Dates:
1923 - 2005
William M. Snyder collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 218
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from William Snyder describing the U.S.S. Lafayette, photograph of the Lafayette's launch, a U.S.S. Enterprise CVN-65 baseball cap, and a Trident tie clip.
Dates:
1989 - 1991
Paul M. Thayer papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 22
Identifier: MSA 225
Scope and Contents
"The Book Nobody Will Read," by Paul M. Thayer, 1983. [2 copies]
Dates:
undated
Ella B. Silance collection
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 12, Placement: 11
Identifier: MSA 215
Scope and Contents
One photograph, with Ella B. Silance's named marked on the back, but a group of unidentified people in the photograph.
Dates:
circa 1932