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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 217 Collections and/or Records:

Lawrence Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LU-MS-007
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials pertaining to various members of the Lawrence family and their relationships with Lawrence University, dating from 1926 to 1998. Materials include articles, biographical information, photographs, and correspondence with Lawrence University presidents.

Lawrence Longley Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: LU-MS-165
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials documenting Lawrence Longley's tenure as professor of Government at Lawrence University, 1965 to 2002. Materials include publications, speeches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and information regarding Longley's memorial services. Longley's "Working Papers on Comparative Legislative Studies" volumes I-IV are also included.

Leda A. Clark Notebook

 Collection — Shared Box 2
Identifier: LU-MS-016
Scope and Contents This notebook contains notes from a course in Political Economy taken by Leda A. (Ballard) Clark, Lawrence University Class of 1878. At this time, Political Economy was a required course for students in the first term of their senior year under both the classical and scientific courses of study.

Letters received by Professor Hiram A. Jones

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-025
Scope and Contents This bound volume contains almost one hundred letters written to Hiram A. Jones by his former students to celebrate his fortieth year of teaching at Lawrence University in 1894. Jones was a professor of Latin from 1854 until his death in 1898.

Lewis M. Alexander Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-166
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials documenting Lewis M. Alexander's service on the Lawrence University Board of Trustees, 1894 to 1931. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence with President Wriston regarding the building of the Alexander Gymnasium. Other materials document the building of Peabody Hall (the Conservatory of Music) and the Schneller-Whiting Gate. The collection also includes newspaper clippings regarding Alexander's death and the October 1934 issue of ...

Louise Boardwin Scrapbook

 Collection — Shared Box 11
Identifier: LU-MS-033
Scope and Contents Louise Boardwin's scrapbook contains primarily photographs from her time spent at Lawrence College. She includes correspondence, ephemera from activites held by her sorority Alpha Delta Pi, invitations to various events on campus and in the greater Appleton community, Lawrence College calendars, menus, name tags, newspaper articles, postcards, programs, tickets, and a collection of written memories paired with photographs authored by Boardwin and her friends. Boardwin attended Lawrence College...

Lucille Meusel Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-070
Scope and Contents Lucille Meusel's scrapbook contains photographs from her time spent at Lawrence University and in Wisconsin during the early 1920s.This scrapbook contains a photograph of people in blackface.

Lydia Gardenier Butts Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-031
Scope and Contents Lydia Gardenier Butts's scrapbook contains dance cards, her freshman arm band from Lawrence College, the Lawrence College Handbook from 1917-1918, menus, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, programs for musical and theatrical performances at Lawrence and performances in New York, song lyrics, telegrams, and ticket stubs. Additional objects can be found in a brown envelope attached to the interior of the scrapbook's backing. Lydia Gardenier Butts attended Lawrence as a freshman and...

Lyman Junius Nash Papers

 Collection
Identifier: LU-MS-018
Scope and Contents This collection contains the papers of Lyman Junius Nash, Lawrence University class of 1870. It includes orations given at the Junior Exhibition in 1869, at the Phoenix literary society banquet in 1871, and for Nash's master's degree in 1873. It also includes a scrapbook containing newspaper articles and programs from events at Lawrence University.

Mandell Morton Bober Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: LU-MS-167
Scope and Contents This collection documents the tenure of Mandell Morton Bober, professor of economics at Lawrence University from 1927 to 1961. Materials include Bober's correspondence with former students, Lawrence faculty, and Lawrence administrative staff; newspaper clippings; publications; and photographs. The collection also contains a pocket edition of the Communist Manifesto published in the late 1880s/ early 1890s.