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MDC-MS. Milwaukee-Downer College Manuscripts

 Record Group
Identifier: MDC-MS
Materials classified as Milwaukee-Downer College Manuscripts consist of donations from Milwaukee-Downer faculty and alumni or artificial/topical collections created by the University Archives.

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Elizabeth Homrighausen Beals Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MDC-MS-021
Scope and Contents This scrapbook was created by Elizabeth Homrighausen Beals when she was a student at Milwaukee-Downer College, 1949-1953. It includes newspaper clippings, photographs, college publications, letters, various programs, song lyric sheets, and paper crafts.

Elizabeth Richardson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MDC-MS-063
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of Elizabeth Richardson, Milwaukee-Downer College graduate of 1940, dating from 1918 to 2019. The collection documents her childhood, years in college and afterward in Milwaukee, service in England and France with the American Red Cross, and memorialization following her death in 1945. Materials include primarily correspondence, journals, photographs, scrapbooks, sketch books, and artifacts.

Elizabeth Sharpe Steinhilber Scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MDC-MS-015
Scope and Contents These two scrapbooks were created by Elizabeth Sharpe Steinhilber when she was a student at Milwaukee-Downer College, 1952-1956. They include photographs, letters, playbills, paper crafts, streamers, a balloon, and prom decorations.

Ellen C. Sabin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MDC-MS-001
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a selection of papers from Ellen C. Sabin, president of Downer College from 1890 to 1895 and Milwaukee-Downer College from 1895 to 1921. Materials primarily include articles about Sabin, photographs, and correspondence to and from friends and acquaintances.

Elsa Puelicher Kruyne Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MDC-MS-019
Scope and Contents This scrapbook was created by Elsa Puelicher Kruyne when she was a student at Milwaukee-Downer College, 1919-1923. It includes newspaper clippings, various programs, playbills, letters, paper crafts, ribbons, signatures and messages, and a telegram.

Emily Frances Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MDC-MS-003
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is comprised of the scripts and programs from the plays that Emily Frances Brown produced and directed as an English professor at Milwaukee Downer College from 1900 to 1945. The collection also contains newspaper articles describing her role in bringing the now famous Christmas song “Twelve Days of Christmas” from England to the United States, as well as photographs and teaching materials.

Evelyn Roberts Scrapbook

 Collection — Shared Box 15
Identifier: MDC-MS-033
Scope and Contents This scrapbook was created by Evelyn Roberts when she was a student at Milwaukee-Downer College, 1911-1913. It contains photographs of campus locations and people.

Ferol Bosl Wenzel Scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MDC-MS-038
Scope and Contents These scrapbooks were created by Ferol Bosl Wenzel when she was a student at Milwaukee-Downer College, 1939-1943. The first scrapbook documents her freshman and her sophomore years and the second documents her junior and senior years. The scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, various programs, letters, registration cards, college publications, song lyric sheets, post cards, a map of Purdue University, a candy wrapper, and artificial facial hair.

Gretchen Janowski Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MDC-MS-026
Scope and Contents This scrapbook was created by Gretchen Janowski when she was a student at Milwaukee-Downer College, 1914-1917. It includes photographs, newspaper clippings, various programs, dried leaves, and dried pine needles.

Henriette Scheele Kneevers Henning Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MDC-MS-029
Scope and Contents This collection consists of coursework and scrapbooks created by Henriette Scheele Kneevers Henning when she was a student at Milwaukee-Downer College, 1930-1934. Her coursework includes notes and essays from classes in English and Art History, among others. Her three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, college publications, paper crafts, class schedules, and dried corsages.