Scope and Contents The Athletic Negative collection is composed of negatives of Michigan State Normal College athletic teams as well as images from the Physical Education department who was responsible for organizing women's athletics on campus and tightly integrated with the Athletic department in the 1950s when these images were taken. The collection has been divided by sport and includes 8 series: Football, Cross Country, Track, Basketball, Baseball, Golf, and Physical...

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The Athletic Video collection is composed of 21 VHS cassettes that include Eastern Michigan University men's basketball and football games, 1 women's basketball game, and press clips about EMU teams.

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The Athletics collection dates from the years 1890-2014, with a gap between 1980-2000 in the men's and women's articles and statistics. The collection includes administrative files, such as correspondence, minutes, agendas, and reports. Also included are athletic handbooks, photos, media guides, sports programs, clippings, ticket stubs, pamphlets, rosters, schedules and flyers. The collection documents both men's and women's organized sports at EMU.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Subject Index Cards series contains the individual broadcasts from each reel or cassette. There are several broadcasts on each reel or cassette, and the index card system was devised to easily parse out the contents from each reel or cassette without having to dig through the physical tapes. The index cards are catalogued by subect. Westerman's original subject headings were lost during a change of residence, and additional subject headings were added by the Eastern Michigan University...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Geraldine K. Barnes papers consist of textual paper documents and paper-back books. The Personal Papers series comprises Box 1 of the collection, and contains biographical information, faculty reports, correspondence, and Division of Girls and Women's Sports (DGWS) administrative materials. The series, "Division of Girls and Women's Sports," comprising five boxes of the collection, contains paperback rule books...

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The Divisions of Communications collection contains materials related to the marketing and promotion of Eastern Michigan University. This includes athletics, academics, university programming, and government relations. The majority of the collection is audio/visual materials pertianing to athletics, programming, and other campus events.

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The Geraldine K. Barnes papers contain resumes, biographical information, annual faculty evaluations, correspondence, Division of Girls' and Women's Sports administrative documents (agendas and meeting minutes), and sports rulebooks published in the early to mid-19th Century. The collection serves as a cross section of Barnes' tenure at Eastern Michigan University and is a more completely a picture of girls and womens sports in the early 1900s.

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The John Rice memorabilia collection contains university related items collected by the EMU videographer John Rice between 1986 and 2009. The collection is made up of primarily T-shirts and photographs from university events and these make up two of the three series in the collection

Abstract The William Henry VanFleet collection includes personal items collected by William H. VanFleet (class of 1930) and donated to the Univeristy Archives by his son, William E. VanFleet (class of 1965). VanFleet was a member of the Kappa Phi Alpha Fraternity, the 1927-29 basketball teams and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education, going on to teach Physical Education and serving as the department head at Hutchins Junior High School in Detroit,...