Purdue University -- Students -- Social life and customs -- 20th Century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
1954 Purdue University Military Ball dance card
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 33
Identifier: 20160412
Dates:
November 5, 1954
Carlyle Literary Society records
Collection — Box 1: Series MSP 141, Series 1; Series MSP 141, Series 2; Series MSP 141, Series 3
Identifier: MSP 141
Abstract
The collection includes record books documenting the meetings, finances, and constitution of the society, as well as programs from society-sponsored events and surveys for prospective new members.
Dates:
1881 - 1922
Carrier Family photo album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 365
Scope and Contents
This album contains photographs of the Carrier family, Smith family, Galeener family, and the Everhart family. These are possibly extended family of the Carriers or married names. Pictures depict individuals as well as houses and landscape in Urbana, Illinois, and Pasadena, California. There are several photos of the 1913 Lafayette flood and one of the Purdue tank painted after a scrap.
Dates:
circa 1913 - 1924
Kassandra Agee Chandler papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 363
Overview
The collection includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials related to Kassandra Agee Chandler's time as a student at Purdue, her career, and her reign as the first African American homecoming queen at Purdue.
Dates:
1971 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1977 - 1982
Class of 1909 collection
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 17
Identifier: 20130426.4
Dates:
1909
Collection of 1967 Rose Bowl Materials
Collection — Box Communal Collections 1, Placement: 02
Identifier: MSP 189
Abstract
Miscellaneous publications and publicity materials relating to the Purdue football team’s participation in the 1967 Rose Bowl.
Dates:
1966 - 1967
Collection of literary society constitutions
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 143
Overview
This collection includes a ledger book with the transcribed constitutions of Purdue literary societies, as well as a folder containing previously removed loose pages.
Dates:
1882
Emersonian Literary Society records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 142
Overview
The collection includes records books documenting the activities of the society, membership, and finances, as well as event programs and tickets, correspondence, and a society diploma.
Dates:
1887 - 1924
Eta Kappa Nu Beta Chapter records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 152
Abstract
Reports, minutes, photographs, composites, correspondence, certificates, slides, digital media documenting activities, student life, and faculty in the honor society of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Dates:
1894 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1999; Other: Records transferred: 3/29/2016
Gala Week booklet and Liberal Science for Women at Purdue booklet
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 33
Identifier: 20190419.1
Dates:
1926
John M. Gano photo album
Collection — Box Communal Collections 36, Placement: 16
Identifier: MSA 354
Scope and Contents
The John M. Gano photo album contains photos of Gano's family members and other acquaintances and campus scenes of the greater Lafayette area and Battleground.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
Purdue Graduate Dames Club records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 146
Overview
The records contain membership information as well as a variety of notes and ephemera documenting the activities of the Purdue University Graduate Dames. Also included are correspondence and programs for the National University Dames society.
Dates:
1931 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1955
Clifford T. N. Harwood scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 364
Scope and Contents
The Clifford T.N. Harwood scrapbook includes news of note from the Lafayette area and nationally, women's concerns, W9XG Purdue TV station, the debate team, Delta Alpha Pi, The Boy's Club, student life, and articles about gender non-conformity.
Dates:
circa 1928 - 1937
Irving Literary Society records
Collection — Box 1: Series MSP 34, Series 1; Series MSP 34, Series 2
Identifier: MSP 34
Overview
The collection includes records ledgers documenting meetings of the society, event programs, handbooks, and other clippings relating to the activities of the Irving Literary Society.
Dates:
1875 - 1925
John Norberg collection
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-018
Dates:
Issued: 1899 - 2019
Mary Elizabeth Anderson papers
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20210303
Dates:
1930 - 1985
"Men of Purdue" TUNE-DEX card
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 51
Identifier: 2022-109
Dates:
Circa 1950 - 1963
Glennard Miller photo album
Collection — Box Communal Collections 56, Placement: 08
Identifier: MSA 348
Scope and Contents
The Glennard Miller scrapbook contains 24 pages of photographs affixed to black paper documenting student life at Purdue in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Images include campus scenes, student activities, sporting events, military band, and steam engine lab, as well as photographs documenting the incident of Harry Weinshank being run off campus by his classmates for repeatedly impersonating a military officer.
Dates:
1914 - 1921
Robert A. Moller scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 329
Scope and Contents
The Robert A. Moller scrapbook documents the student and military life of Purdue Chemical Engineering student Robert Moller. Most content is related to Moller’s personal acquaintances, though the scrapbook includes several photographs of Purdue campus and scenes around the Greater Lafayette area. Because Moller withdrew from Purdue during his second year (February 1920), materials cover mostly first-year student experiences. The scrapbook includes clippings (information artifacts),...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919 - 1920
Panhellenic Association records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 163
Scope and Contents
The Panhellenic Association records includes materials documenting the activities of both the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association, particularly as it relates to their membership. Records include scrapbooks, awards, minutes, correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, news articles, RUSH and Fraternity Life guides, and more. Topics of particular interest include alcohol policies, racial issues, community involvement, housing, and black fraternities.
Dates:
1956 - 2002
Horace W. Payne collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 186
Scope and Contents
Photograph, Delta Upsilon Fraternity receipt, Delta Upsilon Fraternity paddle, freshman belt buckle, and items from memorial service, belonging to Horace W. Payne.
Dates:
1939 - 1943
Philalethean Literary Society records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 101
Overview
This collection contains records ledgers, photos, and event programs documenting the activities of the Philalethean Literary Society, as well as their published constitution.
Dates:
1877 - 1924
Purdue Circus photographs
Collection — Box Communal Collections 47: Series Box 1; Series MSA 18, Series 5; Series Series 2; Series UA 110, Series 1; Series UA 111, Series 5; Series MSF 508, Series 1; Series MSF 508, Series 2; Series UA 182, Series 3; Series UA 176, Series 1; Series MSA 18, Series 6, Placement: 17
Identifier: MSP 226
Scope and Contents
The Purdue Circus photographs (May 5, 1916) documents the 1916 Purdue Circus festivities. Though circus-related events ran throughout the day and into the evening, the sixteen (16) photographs included on the two scrapbook pages in this collection -- taken by Purdue Pharmacy student Merritt Tam -- only document the parade through downtown Lafayette on the morning of May 5, 1916. The photographs depict mostly clowns and student groups, both walking and riding in floats or carriages. Also...
Dates:
May 5, 1916
Purdue Memorial Union records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 111
Scope and Contents
The Purdue Memorial Union records contain information regarding the construction of the building, its uses, and promotional materials throughout its existence, including the student petition to raise funds and encourage the Board of Trustees to finish the building when construction was delayed due to World War I. Several pamphlets contain floor plans of the Union and show how the building has changed over the years with new additions.
Dates:
1920 - 1999