Abstract

The Adonijah S. Welch Hall collection includes building specifications, illustrations, documents, news clippings, fact sheets, building reports, and building rehabilitation documents. Welch hall was built in 1896 with renovations completed in 1900, 1909, 1974, and 1988. Documents in the collection from 1895 to 2010, with the bulk of materials dating from 1985-1989 during the last building rehabilitation.

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The Adonijah Strong Welch reference collection document the the first president of Michigan State Normal College who serving from 1851-1865. His papers include such materials as press clippings, biographies compiled by scholars, and materials regarding his administration at the Iowa Agricultural College. Folders have been arranged alphabetically. Most of the items in the collection were produced during Welch's educational career, 1851 through 1889.

Abstract The Centennial Negative collection contains glass plate negatives that were used in an exhibit in 1949 to celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of Michigan State Normal School. The images include several campus buildings, as well as portraits of Adonijah Strong Welch, the first Principal of the school and John D. Pierce. Most of the glass plate negatives are photostat images of original photographs or drawings. The collection is arranged alphabetically and...

Abstract The Principal and Presidential portrait and photograph collection contains the drawings and photographic portraits and other photographs of the administrators of the Michigan State Normal School (when they were known as Principals), Michigan State Normal College, Eastern Michigan College and Eastern Michigan University. The inclusive dates listed next to the administrators names are the dates of their tenure in office. The photographs of Charles McKenney have...

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The University Presidents slide collectioncontains a single slide of each former president listed in the collection. The slides are arranged in chronological order according to when each person served as president of the University.