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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 449 Collections and/or Records:

A. B. Segur and Company Motion and Time Analysis collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 299
Scope and Contents

This collection contains instructional booklets on Motion Time Analysis published by A. B. Segur and Co. It also contains company bulletins, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, a photo album of factory machinery, and company ephemera.

Dates: 1912 - 1975

A. B. Segur papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 371
Scope and Contents Certificates, diplomas, photographs, scrapbooks, artifacts, films and other audio-visual materials on motion and time analysis, industrial management, and engineering. Includes a scrapbook of clippings on the City of Chicago: Bureau of Streets, Civil Service Commission and Police Personnel, assembled by Segur for the Efficiency Division of the Chicago Civil Service Commission, 1912-1913. The papers also include numerous articles and other papers by Segur on motion time analysis and...
Dates: 1900 - 1970

Fred F. and Charles W. Shafer collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, 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

James B. Shaw papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 384
Scope and Contents

The James B. Shaw papers include Shaw's work on the science of algorithms as part requirement for the Doctor's Degree and various published articles on mathematics.

Dates: 1895 - 1922

Jim Shearer collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 08
Identifier: MSA 212
Scope and Contents

Membership card, Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Purdue University, circa 1904.

Program, Philalethean, Twenty-seventh Annual, Friday, April 28, 1905.

Dates: undated

Stanton S. Shirk papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 376
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to the Agriculture class of 1938, including class lists, commencement letters, newspapers, fliers, programs, postcards, alumni materials, and directories.

Dates: 1934 - 1969

Douglass Shortridge collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 213
Scope and Contents

The Douglass Shortridge collection contains artifacts from Shortridge's student years at Purdue, historical newspapers from the end of World War II, a newspaper obituary of Abram C. Shortridge, and other documents accumulated during Shortridge's career.

Dates: 1919 - 2003

E. E. Sickler papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 10
Identifier: MSA 214
Scope and Contents

"Thoughts At The Anvil," by E. E. Sickler.

Dates: circa 1882

Ella B. Silance collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, 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

John R. Simmons student papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 313
Scope and Contents The John R. Simmons student papers document some of the coursework Simmons completed while an Aeronautical Engineering student at Purdue from 1950-1954. Included are "AE-90 Class Div. A" assignments/tests, and various English essays. Also included among the papers is a report titled, "Aircraft Powerplant Testing," by the instructional staff of the Powerplant Division of the School of Aeronautics, Purdue University, September 1951, and several type-written sheets of Civil Air regulations....
Dates: 1943 - 1951

Vern N. Smiley collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 12
Identifier: MSA 216
Scope and Contents

Gala Week 1921 booklet; Pi Omicron National Sorority - program, 1933-1934; Pi Omicron National Sorority directory, April 1935, and small Alpha Chapter Pi Omicron scrapbook, 5" x 4" with thirty-six photographs in it, 1930-1931.

Dates: 1921 - 1934

C. F. Smith collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 13
Identifier: MSA 217
Scope and Contents

The C. F. Smith papers consist of publications issued by the Bournonville Rotary Valve Motor Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, under the guidance of Smith as the company's chief engineer.

Dates: 1921 - 1922

Howard E. Smith class ring

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 30, Placement: 12
Identifier: MSA 356
Scope and Contents

Howard E. Smith's gold 1906 class ring is embellished with College of Science and Purdue University insignias.

Dates: 1906

William M. Snyder collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 218
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from William Snyder describing the U.S.S. Lafayette, photograph of the Lafayette's launch, a U.S.S. Enterprise CVN-65 baseball cap, and a Trident tie clip.

Dates: 1989 - 1991

Bernard Sobel papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSF 354
Scope and Contents

The Bernard Sobel papers include published articles and typescript research notes on topics related to theater, love, and Sobel's time at Purdue.

Dates: 1916 - 1953

Allan C. Soderberg papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 247
Scope and Contents

The Allan C. Soderberg papers (1976; 0.4 cubic feet) documents the research and planning Allan C. Soderberg conducted when working for Arthur G. McKee and Company in Warsaw, Poland to build an antibiotics plant. Materials include descriptive material, an equipment list, and project drawings. The descriptive materials include the following information: project scope, process descriptions, utilities and services, cost estimate, and engineering schedule. Each book is bound together.

Dates: 1976

Harry E. Spring papers

 Collection — Box 1: Series MSA 400, Series 1
Identifier: MSA 400
Scope and Contents

The Harry E. Spring papers collection consists of his thesis and several lab report assignments from when he was an Electrical Engineering student at Purdue University.

Dates: 1909-1911, 1914

Joseph A. Starkey collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, 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

R. E. Stephenson papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 16
Identifier: MSA 220
Scope and Contents

Articles and bulletin by R. E. Stephenson.

Dates: 1918 - 1920

Stockton family collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 17
Identifier: MSA 22
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of materials relating to Purdue alumni James W. Stockton and Ann Stockton, 1919-1947. Includes one postcard of Theta Xi house at Purdue University, one report card for James W. Stockton, and one newspaper clipping on Ann Stockton's injury in the Purdue bleachers collapse.

Dates: 1919 - 1947

Woody Strong collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 18
Identifier: MSA 221
Scope and Contents

Articles about Woody and Penny Strong's mission trips to Nepal.

Dates: 1988 - 1995

Lena A. Sutton papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 19
Identifier: MSA 222
Scope and Contents

Publication co-authored by Lena Sutton entitled, "The Efficiency of the Preparation of Ether from Alcohol and Sulfuric Acid." Reprinted from the Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. XXXV, no. 6, June, 1913, pp. 794-800.

Dates: 1913

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

Tamara Morse papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20160209

Booth Tarkington collection

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 20
Identifier: MSA 223
Scope and Contents

Excerpts from the book, My Maiden Effort, by Gelett Burgess, which includes some of Booth Tarkington's first writings. Obituaries and stories written upon Tarkington's death.

Dates: 1921 - 1946