Eastern Michigan University Negative collection
Scope and Contents
The Eastern Michigan University Negative collection is arranged in three series: Campus Life, Classroom Instruction, and University Buildings. The Campus Life series includes athletics, Aurora staff, band and theater, banquets and teas, bowling alley, class games, field services, freshman events, graduation, high school music, homecoming, Normal News, poetry recital, registration, ROTC Field Events, school dance, staff, faculty and alumni, student government, and theater, concerts and performances. The Classroom Instruction series includes art gallery, printing & art duplication, audio visual, business education, human skeleton, industrial arts, music department, and workshop at Willow Run Junior High. The third series, University Buildings contains arts building, campus shots, dedications and groundbreakings, greenhouse and Hover Building, Health Center, housing, Ford Hall, Lincoln School, McKenny Union, open houses, Pease Auditorium, Pierce Hall, Rackham, Roosevelt School, science building, Starkweather Hall, and Welch Hall. The collection is arranged alphabetically. Records date from 1949-1959.
Dates
- Creation: 1949 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access
Researchers are asked to request materials 24 hours prior to visiting the the University Archives.
Extent
0.8 Linear Feet (2 negative boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Eastern Michigan University Negative collection documents the activities, happenings, and events on campus while the school transitioned from Michigan State Normal College to Eastern Michigan College, and finally to Eastern Michigan University. The collection contains three series: Campus Life, Classroom Instruction, and University Buildings. The collection is arranged alphabetically. Records date from 1949-1959.
- Title
- Eastern Michigan University Negative collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Robert A. Kett, Elizabeth Searls
- Date
- 2014 March 18
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Eastern Michigan University Archives Repository
Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 310
955 West Circle Drive
Ypsilanti Michigan 48197
734-487-2673
lib_archives@emich.edu