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Dance cards

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards listing, in order, the names of the partners with whom a woman has agreed to dance at a formal ball or party.

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

1954 Purdue University Military Ball dance card

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 33
Identifier: 20160412
Dates: November 5, 1954
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Adam Rice collection

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20201015
Dates: 1933 - 2019
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

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
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Ferd Christen scrapbook

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 326
Scope and Contents The Ferd Christen scrapbook documents Ferd Christen’s student life at Purdue University during the 1920s. The leather-bound scrapbook has a Purdue crest on the cover. Though Christen attended Purdue from 1922-1926, the scrapbook focuses mostly on the years 1924-1926. Christen collected mostly materials related to student events and organizations, especially those for/by Agriculture majors and the university-wide Junior Prom. Types of materials include photographs, booklets, clippings,...
Dates: 1918 - 1926
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Collection of Purdue University dance cards

 Collection
Identifier: MSP 118
Scope and Contents

Collection of dance cards for events at Purdue University.

Dates: undated
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Collection of Purdue University dance cards, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Communal collections box 16
Identifier: 20120918.1
Dates: undated
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Collection of Purdue University dance cards, addition 03

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 67
Identifier: 2024-011
Dates: June 10, 1913
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Purdue University Customs and Traditions collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 151
Scope and Contents The Purdue University Customs and Traditions collection features, among other memorabilia, a tank scrap chain and padlock from 1913, a label from the first bottle of beer served to a Purdue student after the repeal of prohibition, numerous buttons and pins, including a hatpin with the Purdue seal from 1895 on it (third design), a Reamer's Club "R" from the early 1990s, a Purdue Murad cigarette silk, a 1902-1903 matriculation ticket signed by Purdue President Winthrop E. Stone, along with...
Dates: 1877 - 2014; Other: Majority of material found within 1880 - 1940
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Edward A. Goodbout papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 72
Identifier: 2025-025
Dates: 1940 - 1942
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Evelyn Schuber dance card collection

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20080815
Dates: 1937 - 1942
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Purdue University Fraternities and Sororities collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 159
Scope and Contents The Purdue University Fraternities and Sororities collection documents the history and activities of the fraternities and sororities at Purdue. Contained in the collection are numerous fraternity and sorority newsletters and magazines. There are some records provided by the Dean of Students Office in 1995 and include correspondence and financial information sheets. Among the other material in the collection are petitions for membership, constitutions and by-laws, membership directories and...
Dates: 1885 - 2008; Other: Majority of material found within 1995 - 2005
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Gilbert family papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20210615
Dates: 1909 - 1912; 1944 - 1950
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Helen Gould collection of Purdue dance cards and theater programs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 294
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 41 dance cards, four theater programs and seven Purdue related ephemera and miscellaneous memorabilia from Helen Gould's tenure are a Purdue student, 1922-1926.

Dates: 1922 - 1926; Other: Majority of material found within 1923 - 1924
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Purdue Graduate Dames Club records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 146
Scope and Contents The Purdue Graduate Dames Club records documents the membership and activities of the Dames, as well as the activities of the National Association of University Dames.  The collection primarily reflects the general activities of the club and its board, with less information on the individual special interest groups.  It also documents changes in the club’s relationship with the university and in the club’s scope.  Unfortunately, there is no information from 1955-1960, and some years are more...
Dates: 1931 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1955
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

L. Murray Grant and Bernice Nelson Grant papers

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 330
Scope and Contents

The L. Murray Grant and Bernice Nelson Grant papers document the Grants' student life and post-graduation ties to Purdue. The papers include dance cards, programs, articles, and correspondence with Purdue President Winthrop Stone and Trustee David Ross.

Dates: 1903 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1903 - 1905
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Emery D. Middleton papers

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 300
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Phyllis Holt Steinmetz collection

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 59
Identifier: 2023-098
Dates: 1919 - 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Roberta Bitzer dance cards

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20080114
Dates: 1940 - 1942
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Martha Bemis Rogers dance cards

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 256
Scope and Contents

The Martha Bemis Rogers dance cards document the dances Martha Bemis attended from 1953-1957, while a student at Purdue University. There are 32 cards in the collection.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

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
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

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
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Donna N. Stahl papers

 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
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Stockton family collection, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-024
Dates: 1919 - 1949
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Susan Patton collection of dance card holders

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20150330
Dates: 1948
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

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
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections