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LU-MS. Manuscripts

 Record Group
Identifier: LU-MS
Materials classified as Manuscripts consist of donations from faculty and alumni.

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Rufus Bagg Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-180
Scope and Contents This collection documents the tenure of Rufus Bragg as professor of geology at Lawrence University, 1911 to 1934. Materials include newspaper articles, publications, and an edited version of Bagg's manuscript, Pliocene and Plistocene Foraminifera from Southern California.

Ruth Birmingham Albert Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-030
Scope and Contents Ruth Birmingham Albert's scrapbook contains advertisements, bulletins from local Wisconsin towns, correspondence during her time at Lawrence College, dance cards, her freshman year arm band, menus, name cards, photographs, programs from musical and theatrical performances, ticket stubs, tuition papers from her time at Lawrence College, and ephemera such as dried flowers, ribbons from dinner parties and other events at Lawrence, napkins, pencils, and spoons. Additional correspondence, ephemera,...

Ruth Marion Nelson Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-211
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers created and collected by Ruth Marion Nelson dating from her years as a student at the Lawrence Conservatory of Music from 1917 to 1919. Materials include photographs, notes for courses in early childhood education, programs, receipts, and ephemera.

Samuel Newell Griffith Scrapbook

 Collection — Shared Box 6
Identifier: LU-MS-068
Scope and Contents Samuel Newell Griffith's scrapbook contains menus from events at Lawrence University, posters from events at Lawrence Univerity, and programs from Lawrence, the University of Chicago, Chicago Theological Seminary, Garrett Biblical Institute, Northwestern University, and Weslayan Seminary. The beginning of his scrapbook also contains pages from Liberetto of the Flower Queen or the Coronation of the Rose, words by Miss Frances Jane Crosby and the music composed by...

Severn Rinkob Photograph Album

 Collection — Shared Box 7
Identifier: LU-MS-212
Scope and Contents This album was created by Severn Rinkob, Lawrence University class of 1924. It contains photographs of Lawrence students, campus buildings, and scenes from the Fox River.

Sherwin Howard Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-181
Scope and Contents The collection contains materials documenting the tenure of Sherwin Howard as the assistant to the president of Lawrence University, 1971 to 1980, as well as materials used for his dissertation. Annual reports to President Smith, student surveys and personal calendars, as well as thesis materials are included.

Shirley Lamkins Scrapbook

 Collection — Shared Box 24
Identifier: LU-MS-043
Scope and Contents This scrapbook was created by Shirley Lamkins while she was a student at Lawrence College. It includes sorority handbook pages, newspaper clippings, theater and concert programs.

Sonia Kovitz Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-182
Scope and Contents This collection contains publications by Sonia Kovitz, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Lawrence University from 1971 to 1978. Kovitz was the first recipient of the Young Teacher Award in 1975.

Sophia Emeline Walker Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-183
Scope and Contents Sophia Emeline Walker attended Lawrence in 1858 but did not graduate. She became an editor and journalist in Wisconsin, Utah, California, and New York, writing under the name "Lisle Lester." Materials in this collection are primarily copies of articles she wrote, including a microfilm reel, and materials used in the research of her life by Ruth S. Worthing and Fay Kaynor.

Stansbury Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: LU-MS-088
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers documenting several generations of the Stansbury family, primarily from the 1850s through the 1950s. Papers include correspondence received by Mary A. Phinney Stansbury, class of 1859, documenting student life at Lawrence in the 1850s, the experiences of Mary's former classmates who were soldiers in the Civil War, and Mary's work with publishers of her poetry in the late 1880s. Articles and biographical information pertaining to various members of the...