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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 37
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The Orville Redenbacher papers contain artifacts, papers, certificates, plaques, photographs, advertisements, items from Purdue University (1928, the year Redenbacher received his Bachelor of Science degree) and a 1988 honorary Doctorate from Purdue, among other items which represent aspects of Orville Redenbacher's career. Some of the artifacts consist of an extensive bow tie and tie collection, various honorary 4-H plaques and certificates, photographs which document the first commercial...
Dates:
1928 - 1994; Other: Majority of material found within 1966 - 1994
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 533
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This collection contains reports generated by Hermann H. Remmers and the Purdue Opinion Panel from the 1940s to the 1970s. It also contains a photograph of Remmers.
Dates:
1940 - 2011
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 308
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The Albert H. Rerick and Donald J. Rerick papers (1915-1986; 1.25 cubic feet) documents student life of two generations of Purdue University alumni: Albert H. Rerick (1915-1917) and his grandson Donald J. Rerick (1968-1973). This collection includes a handful of Albert’s correspondence and personal artifacts, as well as a more expansive collection of Donald’s papers and artifacts that represent his experience at student events in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Types of materials include:...
Dates:
1915 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1917; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1973; Other: Date acquired: 12/09/2015
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 11, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSA 198
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Photographs taken inside the Mechanical Engineering Building, includes a picture of the "Schenectady" locomotive, circa 1894-1898. Color photographs of the clock parts from the clock that was in the Mechanical Engineering Building tower in 1894 and are now on display in a case in the MSEE building. Also includes correspondence and background information from the donator of the collection, March 30, 2001.Collection also includes the article, "Mascot Is Off Rose Bowl Track:...
Dates:
1894 - 2001
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 11, Placement: 06
Identifier: MSA 200
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Purdue University Mechanical Engineering Class of 1905, Gala Week Program, May 3-5, 1940, and certificate, Purdue University 1905-1940, the seventh quinquennial of the Class of 1905.
Dates:
1905 - 1940
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 470
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The Clarence B. Richey papers (1940s-1990s) document the professional and scholastic career of Clarence B. Richey. Types of materials include: photo-and-slide albums, blueprints, instructional materials for courses, notebooks and workbooks, photographs, negatives, films, books, microfilm, and slides. The papers are organized into five series, three of which have been further arranged into sub-series.
Dates:
1940s - 1990s
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 8, Placement: 17
Identifier: MSA 156
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographs of prominent buildings and scenes on the Purdue West Lafayette campus, circa 1906.
Dates:
circa 1906
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 2, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSA 39
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The Charles C. Roberts photographs (1946-1949; 0.25 cubic feet) documents Roberts’ student and family life as a student at Purdue University from 1946-1949. Included in the collection are photographs of campus buildings such as Cary Quad, Purdue Memorial Union, Hovde Hall and Heavilon Hall. Also included in the collection are photographs of students wearing the Senior Cords. Among the photographs are images of Roberts' family and home life.
Dates:
1946 - 1949; Other: Date acquired: 01/02/2009
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSA 299
Scope and Contents
The Richard C. Roberts papers on Saturn V Component Testing document Roberts' work on the Saturn V vehicle. The collection includes two test reports on components of the Saturn V vehicle. The reports were written by Richard C. Roberts, while he worked for the Brown Engineering Company at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In an e-mail to the Archives' staff, Richard Roberts noted, "Flex Hose Cycle Test was a qualification test for 6" and 8" diameter flexible...
Dates:
1957 - 1981
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 56, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSA 345
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The Charles M. Romanowitz papers (1907-1971; 0.2 cubic feet) document Charles Romanowitz’s Purdue career, from his application to Purdue in 1907 to a certificate for his sixtieth anniversary of his degree in 1971. The postcards in the collection, adressed to family members and his future wife Ruth Ritchie, are panoramic scenes of Purdue campus. Of particular interest might be his original senior thesis, “Comparative Costs Foundations in 11-story office bldg. (Variation story height).” The...
Dates:
1907 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1911
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283
Scope and Contents
The Jerry L. Ross papers document Ross' student life at Purdue, his test flight engineer work, and NASA career as an engineer and astronaut. The collection includes Purdue coursework and memorabilia; papers from Ross' work at Edwards Air Force Base, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Test Pilot School; NASA Space Shuttle training, mission documents and mission related scrapbooks, memorabilia, and flight crew films and interviews, along with documents and maps from Ross' work on Space...
Dates:
1940 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 66, Placement: 01, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 360
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The collection consists of seven individual photo album pages (includes 54 black and white photographs) documenting student activities and campus life at Purdue during the early 1920s. The photographs were taken by Robert K. Schelke who also provides the handwritten notes on the pages. Some of the photographs show campus buildings, including a shot of the Memorial Union while under construction.
Dates:
1919 - 1923
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 307
Content Description
This collection includes a collection of papers and artifacts that were collected during Helen Schleman's life and posthumously by individuals who were close to her, such as Dorothy Stratton and Betty Nelson. Some items were donated after they were removed from an exhibit on Schleman that was previously installed in Schleman Hall.
Dates:
1940 - 1992
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334
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The Helen Schleman papers document the life of Helen B. Schleman from her time as a student at Northwestern University in the 1920s up until her death in 1992. Much of the collection documents Schleman’s tenure at Purdue University as Head of the Women’s Residence Halls, Dean of Women, and Dean Emeritus, as well as her military service in the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (SPARs) during World War II. Additionally, the collection contains Schleman’s collection of newspaper clippings pertaining...
Dates:
1920 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1980
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSA 261
Scope and Contents
The Wilbur A. Schmitt scrapbook consists of black and white photographs from Schmitt's early family life, including Greencastle High School, days as a Purdue student, and some of his travels after graduation from Purdue. It also includes dance cards, a few programs and autographs from Purdue classmates from his days spent as a Purdue student. Some of the Purdue photographs include pictures of Theta Chi, the Mechanical Engineering building, the Library and Memorial Union, dated 1925; Purdue...
Dates:
1917 - 1932; Other: Majority of material found within 1924 - 1925
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 123
Scope and Contents
The Ralph H. Schneck Military collection (2.2 cubic feet; 1854-1973) documents Ralph H. Schneck’s childhood, military training, and service in the United States Army Air Corps. The collection includes personal correspondence, photo albums with detailed captions, artifacts and a DVD of Schneck giving a personal account of his childhood until his enlisting in the Army. Schneck’s correspondence and photographs in particular give a rare, detailed glimpse into the daily existence of a soldier...
Dates:
1854 - 1973; Other: Date acquired: 01/07/2013
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
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
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
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 447
Scope and Contents
Extensive research notes and publications related to D. Richard Smith's doctoral dissertation, "The Political Speaking of Henry F. Schricker of Indiana". Subjects of Smith's research include Indiana Governor Henry F. Schricker, Indiana politics, and Indiana history. Sources include newspaper articles, speech transcipts, interviews, correspondence, and publications. Also included are earlier papers written by Smith on the subject of Henry F. Schricker.The collection also includes...
Dates:
1921 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1958 - 1960
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 372
Scope and Contents
The Donna N. Stahl papers includes photographs, dance cards, clothing, and other ephemera, along with newspaper clippings and correspondence, all of which is memorabilia of Donna N. Stahl, a 1949 Purdue graduate in Home Economics. Of interest may be her personal reflections and article on the 1947 Purdue Bleacher Collapse. This collection may be useful to researchers interested in women in higher education, changing roles of women in the twentieth century, material culture of the...
Dates:
1945 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1951
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 50
Scope and Contents
The Paul E. Stanley papers document the earliest years of the School of Aeronautics and the planning that went into creating the school. Other material among the papers pertain to the early years of the Purdue Airport and Division of Engineering Sciences. Neil Armstrong was a student of Stanley's, and there are clippings, front pages of newspapers, reports, an invitation sent by Armstrong to Stanley for his homecoming celebrating in Wapakoneta, Ohio, along with other pre and post-Apollo 11...
Dates:
1909 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1969
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
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 360
Scope and Contents
The Max D. Steer papers (1931-2004; 17 cubic feet) document the academic and scientific career of Prof. Steer. The collection details the many different facets of his career at Purdue University including teaching, publishing, primary research, campus-wide, national, and international committee involvement, and awards. This collection would be very useful to anyone researching in the Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences at Purdue because Steer is the founder of that department. There...
Dates:
1931 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1983; Other: Date acquired: 03/03/1999
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 110
Scope and Contents
The Stewart Center records contain floor plans and materials related to the building's construction and correspondence between Dr. John H. Moriarty and various distinguished groups and individuals invited to the dedication ceremony. A program from the first student play held in Loeb Playhouse is also contained within the collection as well as several library documents.
Dates:
1955 - 1980
