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Special Collections. Purdue University Special Collections

 Collecting Area
Identifier: Special Collections
Special Collections includes materials related to the history of Indiana as well as rare or unique items that support the research and teaching needs of the Purdue University. This designation applies to all materials that do not fall under any other classification.

Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:

Etchings of Famous Engineers album

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 333
Scope and Contents

The Etchings of Famous Engineers album, measuring 20 x 24 inches, contains print portraits of notable engineers alongside brief typewritten biographies of each. A typed table of contents lists fifty names in both chronological and alphabetical order, though fifty-nine men appear in the album. It is likely that the initial fifty names were in the album at the time of its donation to Purdue University and the additional entries added later.

Dates: circa 19th century - 1960

Collection of Robert Dale Owen notebooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 324
Scope and Contents

The Collection of Robert Dale Owen notebooks contains three notebooks kept by Owen as a young man. Owen organized his notes by topic, with volumes related to science, engineering, Galileo, and a daily journal of his activities in spring 1824.

Dates: 1824 - 1835

Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association (GLATA) records, addition 02

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20170621

Lafayette Kiwanis Club records

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20170720.1
Dates: circa 1926 - 2017

Lafayette Kiwanis Club records, addition 02

 Unprocessed Material — Box 01
Identifier: 20180215.1

Art League of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette records

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20180409

History of the West Lafayette Fire Department

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 20170911.1

Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association (GLATA) records, addition 03

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 1
Identifier: 20180521

Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference records, addition 06

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20180906.1
Dates: April 14, 2018 - April 18, 2018

Thomas J. Sego papers

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 13
Identifier: 20181001.1

Lafayette Kiwanis Club records, addition 03

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20181015
Dates: circa 2009 - 2018

City of West Lafayette records, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Item 3 Volumes
Identifier: 20201112
Dates: August 19, 1926 - May 15, 1963

New Harmony collection, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 48
Identifier: 20201217.1

Indiana history collection, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 48
Identifier: 20201217.2

Road trip narrative

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 48
Identifier: 20201217.4

Log of Test Data on Lynn Pumping Engine recorder by George Jepson, 1873

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 44
Identifier: 2022-060

Lafayette Branch of the Royal Over-Seas League records

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 28
Identifier: 20131231.1

Tippecanoe County scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20121023.7

Indiana Water Resources Research Center technical reports

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20121210

Drew Young collection of World War posters

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20190314
Dates: Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Lafayette Kiwanis Club records, addition 04

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 32
Identifier: 20190115.2
Dates: circa 2017 - 2018

Lafayette Rotary Club records

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 32
Identifier: 20181206.1

Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association (GLATA) records, addition 04

 Unprocessed Material — Box 01
Identifier: 20190728

Indiana Oratorical Association program

 Unprocessed Material — Communal collections box 16
Identifier: 20120816.1
Dates: March 12, 1875

Lafayette Kiwanis Club records, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20170815