Scope and Contents The collection contains records documenting the 1964 consolidation of Milwaukee-Downer College with Lawrence College to form Lawrence University. Official and legal documents, correspondence between the two institutions regarding the logistics of transferring people and materials, financial records, and publications describing the consolidation, including newspaper articles, are included. The bulk of the records date from 1963 to 1965, but materials discussing the future of Milwaukee-Downer...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records regarding Lawrence University anniversaries. Records include invitations, memos, photographs, articles, guest lists, booklets, a cassette tape, and other correspondence. It also includes extensive information on the Sesquicentennial in 1997 including programs, photographs, directories, and reunion information.

Scope and Contents Includes newspaper articles, 1950-1982, and "More Light! Lawrence Collects: Artworks from the Collections of Lawrence University Alumni and Friends," 2011.

Scope and Contents The series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Samuel Plantz. Plantz numbered each of the letters and recorded the number in an index during his lifetime. There is no clear order of how the letters were numbered. Boxes with the numbered correspondence had a date on the front of February 12, 1972. It is unclear if this was the date the letters were received by the Archives from the president's office or the date they were placed in folders and arranged. Letters are arranged in...

Scope and Contents Portrait housed with oversized materials.

Scope and Contents Portrait photograph housed with oversized materials.

Scope and Contents Portrait housed with oversized materials.

Scope and Contents See also full-page color Post-Crescent newspaper articles, 1959-06-05, oversized.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of subject files documenting departments, ensembles, events, and general history of the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University, dating from 1868 to the present. Materials primarily include newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and brochures.

Scope and Contents See also full-page color Milwaukee Journal newspaper article, 1956-11-11, oversized.