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Collection — Communal Collections Box: 60, Placement: 12
Identifier: UA 124
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The Mechanical Engineering Building records contain the program from the building's dedication and a booklet with information describing the new building, the history of the Mechanical Engineering program at Purdue University, and the speeches delivered during the dedication ceremonies.
Dates:
1933
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 164
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Bound volumes of medieval manuscripts, primarily religious texts. Further description is available in each item's details.
Dates:
circa early 1300s - circa early 1500s
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 10, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSA 174
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The papers consist of two articles by Joseph Mehlig.
Dates:
1926 - 1927
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 66, Placement: 13, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 305
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One accordion-style envelope of Purdue University prints. Includes 8 double sided panels with prints of Purdue buildings.
Dates:
November 24, 1921
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 263
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The G. Stanley Meikle papers outline contributions Meikle made to the Purdue Research Foundation as well as published works concerning his professional career at Purdue University. Personal items are included in the collection such as a briefcase owned by G. Stanley Meikle as well as documentation of his professional contacts with members of industry. An unpublished personal memoir of Meikle's time at Purdue, describes his interactions with Edward C. Elliott as well as other Purdue faculty...
Dates:
1926 - 1956
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 31, Placement: 13
Identifier: MSF 264
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The collection consists of three folders with articles by M. G. Mellon.
Dates:
1920 - 1986
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: UA 57
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Collection consists of pamphlets and programs of Memorial Day activities that took place on the campusof Purdue University.
Dates:
1899-1944
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 61, Placement: 02
Identifier: UA 133
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The Memorial Gymnasium records contain receipts from the donations given to the University for the construction of the building. Building dedication information as well as the memorial service programs for those that lost their lives in the Purdue train wreck are also included.
Dates:
1903 - 1935
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 17
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The L.V. Mercer Papers (1909-1911; 6 items) document the student life and activities of L.V. Mercer while enrolled at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Types of materials include photographic prints of student activities, dated 1909 to 1911.
Dates:
1909 - 1911
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 80
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The Meredith Hall Records contain four series regarding various information about the residence hall; History of the hall, Administrative documents, Events held at the hall, and information about Students that resided at the hall. The collection contains information about the building such as schematics and maps of the X shaped dormitory. A postcard that was sent to space on the space shuttle Discovery can be found in the collection. Information regarding the Winter Whisper, an elegant...
Dates:
1937-2008
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 31, Placement: 14
Identifier: MSF 265
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The collection consists of three folders which contain 63 articles about or by Virginia Claypool Meredith as well as a four leaf clover she found on the site of the Purdue Memorial Union Building immediately preceding the building dedication ceremonies.
Dates:
1851 - 2002
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 108
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The Paulina T. Merritt papers on the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Movement document Paulina Merritt’s activities pertaining to the suffrage movement in Indiana in the late 19th century. It includes correspondence to elected officials, among them Senator Benjamin Harrison, concerning voting rights as well as correspondence with leaders in the women’s suffrage movement including May Wright Sewall. Also included in the collection is an autobiographical sketch of Merritt, as well as some clippings...
Dates:
1860 - 1913; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1895
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 56
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The Ralph Metzner collection of articles documents the progression of psychoactive substance research, legality issues, and the religious or spiritual aspects of its use. These articles were not solely written by Ralph Metzner, but they instead represent the type of work that influenced Metzner during his career. These article files do not contain the personal papers of Ralph Metzner. Instead, they provide insight into the diverse sources that Metzner sampled while conducting his research....
Dates:
1958 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 60, Placement: 07
Identifier: UA 119
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The Michael Golden Shops records contain invitations and pamphlets from the building dedication as well as an information pamphlet describing the building and the classes offered by the Department of Practical Mechanics.
Dates:
1910 - 1921
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 31, Placement: 15
Identifier: MSF 267
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The collection consists of one folder which contains articles by A. R. Middleton.
Dates:
1909 - 1916
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: MSA 300
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The Emery D. Middleton Papers (1930-1933; .25 cubic feet), contains personal belongings of Middleton during his time as a student at Purdue. The collection includes grades, printed material, a ticket stub for a 1934 football game between Purdue and Indiana University, and a map of Lafayette and West Lafayette. The collection also includes photos of the Sigma Pi fraternity house, members of the fraternity, and the cook and house mother.
Dates:
1930 - 1934; Other: Date acquired: 10/06/2011
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 178
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Materials relating to the MPATI program for airborne television instruction.
Please see PDF Finding Aid for collection inventory.
Dates:
1961 - 1970
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2
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The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals...
Dates:
1862 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1965
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 291
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One scrapbook containing photographs and a typed account of a 6 week trip from New York to the west coast and back by Douglas J. Miller, Jr. with companions Tom Parker, Bill McHardy, and Edward Morton. The photographs and account are primarily about various United States National Parks.
Dates:
June 1935 - July 1935
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 49, Placement: 14
Identifier: MSA 280
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The papers include Eulora Miller's diploma from Purdue and a play she wrote.
Dates:
1880 - 1905
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 10, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSA 175
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The papers consist of articles written by Fred A. Miller.
Dates:
1912 - 1917
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 42, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSP 57
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The George W. Miller papers (1853-1865; 0.2 cubic feet) document the participation of George W. Miller, a baker, as a Union soldier in the Civil War. There are a few date discrepancies in the diary. In Diary 1 (1862-1863), Pages 1 through Page 80, Entry August 10 are thought to have been written in 1863. Although Diary 1 itself says 1861, on pages with entries for Saturday, January 17 through Thursday, January 22, Miller has marked out the date and written in "1863" instead. He has also had...
Dates:
1853 - 1864; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 56, Placement: 08
Identifier: MSA 348
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The Glennard Miller scrapbook contains 24 pages of photographs affixed to black paper documenting student life at Purdue in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Images include campus scenes, student activities, sporting events, military band, and steam engine lab, as well as photographs documenting the incident of Harry Weinshank being run off campus by his classmates for repeatedly impersonating a military officer.
Dates:
1914 - 1921
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 7, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSA 127
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The Nancy Griffith papers include a schedule for New Civilian Students and a Purdue News pamphlet, 1944.
Dates:
1944
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 277
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The John F. G. Miller papers document the collegiate and post collegiate career of John F. G. Miller. The collection includes a scrapbook from 1899-1904, a chemistry notebook, and correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and a final report related to football in the Intercollegiate Conference.
Dates:
1899 - 1936; Majority of material found within 1903, 1923-1927
