Purdue University -- Alumni and alumnae
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 444 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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. Types...
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 Communal Collections 37, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSF 354
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one folder which contains articles and publications by Bernard Sobel.
Dates:
1916 - 1953; 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 occurred...
Dates:
1943 - 2002; Other: Majority of material found within 1949 - 1953
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
Ted Townsend letter on bleachers collapse
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 28
Identifier: 20170321.3
Dates:
February 25, 1947
Oliver P. Terry papers
Collection — Box Communal Collections 38, Placement: 10
Identifier: MSF 375
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two folders which contain articles by Oliver P. Terry.
Dates:
1905 - 1929
Paul M. Thayer papers
Collection — Box Communal Collections 12: Series MSA 213, Series 1, Placement: 22
Identifier: MSA 225
Scope and Contents
"The Book Nobody Will Read," by Paul M. Thayer, 1983. [2 copies]
Dates:
undated