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Purdue University Convocations records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 42
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University Convocations Records (1892-2012, predominant 1903-2012) documents the pre-history and history of Purdue Convocations. This collection offers researchers an excellent glimpse into the wide-variety of performances offered and showcased, courtesy of Purdue Convocations. Types of materials include: budgets and other financial statements, committee meeting minutes, performance schedules, performer contracts, photographs, programs, newsletters, etc.
Dates:
1876-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1903-2012; Other: Date acquired: 08/02/2012
Purdue University Libraries records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 30
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University Libraries records document, the history, administration and activities of the Purdue University Libraries. Types of materials include: annual reports, brochures, ephemera, minutes, miscellaneous materials, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, publications, records, surveys, and training manuals. The original order of the records was maintained in most cases. Some boxes may include cross-departmental documents, and confidential items have been removed and housed in a...
Dates:
circa 1800s - 2000s; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2004
George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9
Scope and Contents
The George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers documents the personal life, aviation career, and business activities of pilot Amelia Earhart. Types of materials include: advertisements, articles, artifacts, awards, blueprints, books, certificates, charts, commemorative coins, contracts, correspondence, data sheets, diagrams, ephemera, flight logs, licenses, maps, newspaper clippings, notebooks, notes, permits, photographs, poetry, postage stamps, press releases, scrapbooks,...
Dates:
1785-1948; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1937
Railroad Scrapbooks collection
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: MSP 10
Scope and Contents
4 Railroad Scrapbooks, c. 1940s-1980s
Dates:
1940 - 1980; Other: Date acquired: 07/05/2009
Purdue University Regional Campuses records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 97
Scope and Contents
This collection contains administrative documents, publications, and promotional information relating to the regional campuses of Purdue University and their libraries.
Dates:
1943 - 2008
Wilbur A. Schmitt scrapbook
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
Evelyn Schmollinger papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 249
Scope and Contents
The Evelyn Schmollinger papers document the personal life of Evelyn Harvey Schmollinger as a student at Purdue University. The papers consist of scrapbooks, dance cards, annotated issues of the Purdue Agriculturist, and pins.
Dates:
1952 - 1956
Purdue University School of Medicine collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 174
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University School of Medicine collection documents the history of the short-lived School of Medicine of Purdue University, from its 1905 inception until its eventual 1908 merger with Indiana University and transformation into the current Indiana University School of Medicine. Topics covered in the collection include pre-medical courses offered at Purdue prior to 1905; early attempts by Indiana medical colleges to merge with Indiana University and Purdue University; the 1905...
Dates:
1895 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1907
Scrapbooks of John T. McCutcheon cartoons
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 14
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks of John McCutcheon cartoons, as cut out from the newspaper. Compiled by a friend of the McCutcheon family and later given to the family.
Dates:
1903 - 1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/11/2009
Guy R. Smith scrapbook
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: MSA 324
Scope and Contents
The Guy Smith scrapbook includes forty-two pages of photographs documenting student life, Purdue customs, and campus buildings and landmarks from around 1908. Notable images include a number of buildings that are no longer standing such as the Electrical Building, Purdue Hall, and Ladies Hall. There are also images related to early campus rituals such as the Mechanics Burning and the Tank Scrap, and scenes of Guy Smith passing time with friends, mainly other men from Tau Beta Pi and Emanon...
Dates:
1908 - 1913; Majority of material found in 1908 - 1908
Opal D. Stech scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSA 36
Scope and Contents
The Opal D. Stech collection is contained in a scrapbook, which documents Opal Stech's time as a Purdue student. The scrapbook includes programs from various events, invitations, newspaper clippings, news photographs and mementos. Some of the organizations and subjects in the scrapbook include the Purdue Christian Foundation, the Little Theater, the Women's Athletic Association, numerous convocations and lectures, Kappa Beta, Mother's Day events, The Twelve (Christian group), R. O. T. C.,...
Dates:
1928 - 1934
Winthrop E. Stone papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 49
Scope and Contents
The Winthrop E. Stone papers (1880s-1990s; 20.75 cubic feet) documents the life of Winthrop E. Stone, his family, and his administration as the fifth president of Purdue University. They feature Stone’s academic career as a chemist and agriculturalist as well as his various policies and endeavors while President at Purdue. They also document his interest in mountaineering. Extensive records of communication and reporting on Stone’s accidental death while mount climbing is also included....
Dates:
1870s-1920s; Other: Date acquired: 12/05/1985
Clifford and Jo Swanlund papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 24
Scope and Contents
The Clifford and Jo Swanlund papers document the lives and careers of Cliff Swanlund and Jo Carty Swanlund. The collection contains an extensive number of letters written by Cliff and Jo from the beginning of their relationship through the early years of their marriage. It also contains many letters written by Cliff's parents to him, while he was a student at Purdue University. The correspondence gives one a unique perspective not only on the family itself, but on outside events which...
Dates:
1943 - 2002; Other: Majority of material found within 1949 - 1953
College of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy Extension, Turfgrass Program and Midwest Regional Turf Foundation records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 67
Scope and Contents
Purdue University, College of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy Extension, Turfgrass Program and Midwest Regional Turf Foundation records (1931-2000; 6 cubic feet) document the work of Purdue agronomist Dr. William H. Daniel. The records include financial records, newsletters and research summaries, membership information, and meeting minutes and miscellaneous papers of the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation, Incorporated. It also includes Turf Conference Proceedings, numerous photographs...
Dates:
1931 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1995; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/2010
W. G. VanName, pamphlet and broadside collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 17
Scope and Contents
25 Water Wheel and Turbine Pamphlets and Broadsides, Small Scrapbook and an Article
Dates:
1868 - 1906
Vater Family scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 236
Scope and Contents
The Vater Family scrapbooks compiled by Septimus Vater and Williamson Dunn Vater primarily contain newspaper clippings related to Indiana politics and elections as well as obituaries and sports analysis from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dates:
1869 - 1909
Cecil F. Warner papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 498
Scope and Contents
The Cecil F. Warner papers document his teaching and research career dedicated to the areas of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, gas turbines, rocket propulsion and air pollution. The papers also reflect Warner's involvement within the community and countless volunteer hours committed to Boy Scouts, Habitat for Humanity, Kiwanis, First United Methodist Church and Home Hospital.Types of materials include: artifacts, audiovisual materials, booklets, books, CD-ROMs,...
Dates:
1921 - 2007; Other: Majority of material found within 1940 - 2010
Thomas S. Wilmeth papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 357
Scope and Contents
The Thomas S. Wilmeth papers documents Wilmeth’s time as a student during the early to mid-1930s. The types of materials include class and lab notebooks, publications created specifically for use in Purdue classes, photos, and a scrapbook of photos and clippings that Wilmeth maintained while a student at Purdue. Also included are textbooks that Wilmeth used as a student.
Dates:
1907 - 2015-01-09; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1939
Carlton A. Wilmore papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 293
Abstract
This collection contains photographs and ephemera collected by Carlton A. Wilmore during his time at Purdue, as well as some items from after he moved to Alabama.
Dates:
1902 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1906