Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.
Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:
Hines, Adam. Winners announced at banquet. The Exponent, p. 2, June 27, 2005
Item — Box 2: Series UA 54, Series 4; Series UA 54, Series 5; Series UA 54, Series 6; Series UA 54, Series 7, Folder: 6, Item: 10
Identifier: UA 54, Series 7, File 1, Item 10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains clippings about the Purdue teams and Purdue serving as hosts for the Air Race Classic. Also included are race updates provided by Mary Ann Eiff, advisor to the teams.
Dates:
June 27, 2005
Ross W. Hippensteel papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 34
Scope and Contents
The Ross W. Hippensteel papers (1912-1960; 13.5 cubic feet) document the college and military career of Ross W. Hippensteel. The collection contains many artifacts, papers, handbooks, manuals, certificates, class notes, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, a pencil sketch, clothing and other miscellaneous items. Some of the items belonged to his wife, Jean Rankin Hippensteel. The class notes are from many of his Purdue University, mechanical engineering and physics courses from 1929-1934, along...
Dates:
1912 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1950
Abram Hoffer correspondence
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 88
Abstract
This collection contains one letter from Abram Hoffer to Ralph Metzner, in which Hoffer gives Metzner permission to use his Berkely LSD paper.
Dates:
January 9, 1967
Albert Hofmann correspondence and other materials
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 89
Abstract
The Albert Hofmann correspondence and other materials contains correspondence with Ralph Metzner and Rolf von Eckartsberg, a photocopy of Hofmann's patent for LSD, photographs of Hofmann, a brochure for U.C. Santa Cruz Symposium (1982), and clippings on Hofmann.
Dates:
1948 - 2006
Frederick L. Hovde papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 51
Scope and Contents
The Frederick L. Hovde Papers (1908-1983; 63.5 Cubic ft.) document the life and career of engineer and educator Frederick Hovde.
The vast majority of the papers document Hovde's business career, particularly his tenure as President of Purdue University (1946-1971), but also his work for the U.S. government and other agencies on nuclear and atomic energy, weapons research, national defense, and rocket ordnance research. A group of personal papers is included, documenting Hovde's academic...
Dates:
1908 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1982
Aldous Huxley papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 83
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three letters. Two letters concern Huxley’s novel Island, and are addressed to L. Rust Hills, who was the fiction editor at Esquire magazine from 1956 until 1963. One letter concerns the clinical availability of LSD and references the pharmaceutical companies that were manufacturing LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin in 1961.
Dates:
1961
Indiana Athletic Trainers Association records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 184
Scope and Contents
The Indiana Athletic Trainers’ Association records (1980-2014; 15 cubic feet) documents the business and professional activities of the IATA from its inception in 1980 to 2014. Collection contains records including board of directors meeting agendas and minutes, membership directories, financial reports, and correspondence. The collection also includes public relations materials, photographs, memorabilia and historical material. The records are broken up into seventeen series.
Dates:
1980-2014; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/2015
Indiana Authors Letter collection
Collection — Box 5 items
Identifier: indial0
Scope and Contents
The Indiana Authors Letter Collection contains letters from some of the state's most successful authors. The collection encompasses the "Golden Age of Indiana Literature," a time period in which Hoosier authors achieved both national prominence and popular acclaim. Indiana writers in the late 19th and early 20th century catered to readers who preferred writing that idealized traditional values or offered escape from an ever-changing world. A 1947 study found that Hoosier authors ranked second...
Dates:
ca. 1833-1930
Indiana Engineering Society records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 16
Scope and Contents
The Indiana Engineering Society Records (1913-1937, 0.5 cubic feet) document the correspondence, activities and conferences of the Indiana Engineering Society. Highlighting individual members and other regional engineering societies, the collection shows the Indiana Engineering Society's involvement with the community. Although the records span the years of 1913 to 1937, the majority of the records cover from 1927 to 1937. Types of materials include: correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws,...
Dates:
1913 - 1937
Indiana Poetry Society papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 51
Scope and Contents
The Indiana Poetry Society papers is a collection of manuscript poems and letters by members of the Indiana Poetry Society, as gathered by the society president and founder, Eletha Mae Taylor, along with some of her personal papers. Among the personal papers is a composition book containing notations on the study of poetry and literature and spelling/vocabulary lists, music scores, poetry, newspaper clippings and correspondence.
Dates:
1897 - 1947
College of Agriculture, International Programs in Agriculture, records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 69
Abstract
Correspondence, meeting minutes, research proposals, reports, memorandums, mailing lists, requisition forms, event programs, financial records, and newsletters documenting the history, administration, and activities of the College of Agriculture’s International Programs in Agriculture.
Dates:
1943 - 1975; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/2009
James H. Smart papers, addition 01
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 39
Identifier: 20200220.1
Dates:
1884 - 1887
Janice Voss papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 9
Scope and Contents
The Janice Voss papers (1962-2004) document the early years and career highlights of astronaut Janice Voss. The collection includes materials from Voss’ childhood, including elementary school class pictures and report cards as well as materials from her time as an astronaut. Items pertaining to her professional career consist primarily of materials created and collected by her parents to celebrate her participation in space shuttle missions during the period of 1993-2000, and also includes...
Dates:
1962-2007; Other: Majority of material found in 1990-1997; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/2008
Jean Millay papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 63
Scope and Contents
The Jean Millay papers (1964-2001; 0.2 cubic feet) contains a DVD of the 2001 film The Psychedelic Experience by Millay and Allen Willis and an article by Millay. The collection also documents Millay's friendship with Timothy Leary and contains photocopies of pictures, correspondence, and an article on Leary.
Dates:
1964-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1964-1980; Other: Date acquired: 03/12/2009
Glenn L. Jenkins papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 195
Scope and Contents
The Glenn L. Jenkins Papers (1892-1992; 3 Cubic ft.) document the life and career of Glenn Jenkins, Dean of the School of Pharmacy at Purdue University from 1941 to 1966. Types of materials include correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, artifacts, patents, certificates, degrees, printed material and an interview transcript.
Dates:
1892 - 1992
John Stein correspondence regarding Board of Trustees business
Unprocessed — Box 1
Identifier: 20130530.1
Dates:
1873 - 1881; Majority of material found within 1872 - 1875
Horton B. Knoll papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 521
Scope and Contents
The Horton B. Knoll papers document Knoll's research, working papers, notes and typescripts for his books, A record of a university in the war years, 1941-1945, published in 1947, and The Story of Purdue Engineering, published in 1963. Also included among the papers is research material, working papers, notes and information related to Purdue presidents Owen, Smart, Stone, Elliott, and Hovde. There is also information Knoll compiled for his intended biography of John Purdue, and historical...
Dates:
1865 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1963
LGBTQ Center records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 162
Abstract
Clippings, brochures, correspondence documenting activities and events organized, sponsored, and attended by the LGBTQ Center and the LGBTQ community.
Dates:
1973 - 2018; Majority of material found within 2012 - 2016
Howard Lotsof correspondence and other materials
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 91
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence between Howard Lotsof and David Soloman. It documents Lotsof's work
with ibogaine as well as other psychotropic drugs. The collection also contains and article on ibogaine that was suggested to Lotsof by Ralph Metzner along with an ibogaine bibliography from CIBA Pharmaceutical Company and a clipping concerning Lotsof's research.
Dates:
1957-2010; Majority of material found within 1964
Marlene Dobkin de Rios papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 72
Abstract
The Marlene Dobkin de Rios papers documents De Rios' anthropological research on hallucinogens and contains correspondence, biographical clippings, papers, conference materials, and article reprint request cards.
Dates:
1967 - 2008
Martha Bolt Graham Papers on the Class of 1935
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 319
Abstract
Photographs, letters, correspondence, memoir relatiing to the Purdue Class of 1935, their anniversary celebrations (Gala Week), and contributions to the Library Scholars Grant Program.
Dates:
1934-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-2005; Other: Date acquired: 04/02/2013
John McCammon family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 5
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, land deeds, receipts and ephemera documenting the business dealings of John Purdue and his associates, as well as correspondence, land deeds and ephemera documenting the efforts of John McCammon on behalf of the heirs of John Purdue to settle his estate.
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Dates:
1839 - 1890
Paulina T. Merritt papers on the Indiana Women's Suffrage Movement
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 108
Overview
This collection includes correspondence and other materials documenting Paulina T. Merritt’s involvement in the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Dates:
1860 - 1906; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1895