Purdue University -- Students -- Social life and customs -- 20th Century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
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
Purdue University Archives photograph collection, addition 28
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 52
Identifier: 2023-007
Dates:
March 24, 1964
Purdue University Libraries records, addition 43
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20181212.1
Dates:
2018
Purdue University Outing Club slides and slide box
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20190508
Dates:
undated
Purdue University Thai Student Assocation records
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 53
Identifier: 2023-022
Dates:
April 3, 1999
Quaker students at Purdue booklet
Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 8
Identifier: 20181130.1
Dates:
circa 1960s
Robert Lee Matthews collection, addition 04
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-052
Dates:
circa 1866 - 2021
Helen B. Schleman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334
Scope and Contents
The Helen Schleman papers document the life of Helen B. Schleman from her time as a student at Northwestern University in the 1920s up until her death in 1992. Much of the collection documents Schleman’s tenure at Purdue University as Head of the Women’s Residence Halls, Dean of Women, and Dean Emeritus, as well as her military service in the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (SPARs) during World War II. Additionally, the collection contains Schleman’s collection of newspaper clippings pertaining...
Dates:
1920 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1980
Sigma Chi Fraternity Student photographs
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 59
Identifier: 2023-095
Dates:
1878 - 1880
Speeches and Written Material, 1923 - 1979
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 3
Abstract
Series 3 contains notes and drafts of speeches, articles, pamphlets, and books that were written by or delivered by Helen Schleman over the course of her career. Most of the speeches and articles relate to women's liberation and women in higher education.
Dates:
1923 - 1979
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
Tank Scrap postcard
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 51
Identifier: 2022-097
Dates:
1908
The Limp Rivet magazine
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 51
Identifier: 2022-129
Dates:
February 1947
William A. Delmer collection
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-054
Dates:
circa 1937 - 2011
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