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Collection — Communal Collections Box: 15, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSF 37
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This collection contains one folder with two articles written by Guy Richard Bisby.
Dates:
1916 - 1920
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 531
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The Arvill W. Bitting Collection on World Expositions and Fairs includes promotional materials, newspaper articles, publications, photographs, and exhibit planning materials pertaining to World Fairs held in the United States. The majority of the material is on the 1933-1934 Century of Progress International Exposition held in Chicago, where Bitting worked as director of food exhibits.Materials of note include newspaper articles and photographs from the Golden Gate International...
Dates:
circa 1876-1948
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 38
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This collection consists primarily of U.S. patents for glass products and glass making procedures, collected by Arvill Bitting for his work in glass making. Also included are publications written by Arvill Bitting, as well as material compiled by Librarian Emeritus William Hepburn on Arvill Bitting, including a bibliography of Arvill’s publications, bibliographic notecards, a summary of Arvill’s career, and Arvill’s obituary.
Dates:
1839 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1921
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 16, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSF 39
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This collection consists primarily of articles written by Katherine Golden Bitting from the 1890s to the 1900s. Also included are articles and correspondence about Katherine Bitting which appeared in the Phoenix Flame, as well as material compiled by Librarian Emeritus William Hepburn on Katherine Bitting, including a bibliography of Katherine’s publications, bibliographic notecards, and a summary of Katherine’s career.
Dates:
1890 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1909
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 3, Placement: 16
Identifier: MSA 54
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Two back and white photographs of John R. Bittner, circa 1997
"Faculty Footnotes - John Bittner," The UNC Journalist, Wintter 1997, p.5.
The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England - entry, Bittner, John Robert, circa 1997.
Curriculum Vitae, John R. Bittner, 2002.
Dates:
1997 - 2002
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 3, Placement: 17
Identifier: MSA 259
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The Arthur and Roberta Bitzer photographs, schedule card and buttons are from the Bitzer's time as students at Purdue University. Types of materials include: black and white photographs of campus scenes and student life, a schedule card and buttons.
Dates:
1937 - 1942
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 176
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The materials in this collection document the programs, activities, and community created by and surrounding the Purdue University Black Cultural Center (BCC) from its inception in 1969 up until the present day. It includes publications about the African American community; newspaper clippings and marketing material created by or with the subject of the BCC; photographs of the BCC, its events, students, and staff; speeches delivered by or about the BCC; correspondence between members of the...
Dates:
1969 - 2023; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 16, Placement: 02
Identifier: MSF 40
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This collection contains a March 1949 article written by Edwin Blake, as well as a letter from Blake addressed to the "Librarian of Purdue University," offering the article to the library.
Dates:
March-July, 1949
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 28
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The James Blakesley Collection on the Class of 1950 contains memorabilia from the Class of 1950's days at Purdue. Types of material include dance cards, newspaper clippings, event programs and playbills, along with photographs, record albums, and artifacts.
Dates:
1946 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1950
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 1, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSA 358
Abstract
Materials documenting James Blakesley's tenure as VP and president of the University Club.
Dates:
1965 - 1971
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSF 5
This collection contains twelve compact disks of music scores, memorabilia, and other documents and performances by Channing Blickenstaff, Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Purdue University.
Dates:
1990 - 2008
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 54
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The David Blood collection of slides of Purdue University (1959; 0.25 cubic feet) documents David Blood’s trip to Purdue University in 1959. He and his high school class took a train from New Jersey to Lafayette, Indiana. The slides document the trip to Purdue, campus buildings and scenes, the artwork displayed at the convocation, and his trip back to New Jersey. The slides have been kept in their original order. Blood arranged the slides chronologically into four categories: On the way to...
Dates:
1959
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 314
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The Donald A. Bloodgood papers (1946-1949; 1 cubic foot) documents the student life and fraternal pledging of former Purdue student Donald A. Bloodgood. The collection consists primarily of artifacts, with limited documentation concerning their use and function by the alumnus. These objects may be useful for researchers interested in the material culture of Purdue’s ROTC and fraternity organizations during the late 1940s. Types of materials include: pledge sashes, pledge boards, letters, and...
Dates:
1946 - 1949; Other: Date acquired: 09/06/2011
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 41
Abstract
Publications, reports, correspondence, clippings, photos, and daily planners documenting the professional career of Purdue Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Donald E. Bloodgood.
Dates:
1926 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1979
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 16, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSF 42
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This collection contains one folder with an article written by Abraham Blum.
Dates:
March 1957
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 66, Placement: 02, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 285
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The collection consists of one callout card for Purdue Musical Organizations in the format of the Glee Club Pete from 1962. The ephemera belonged to Richard Blunk who also played the trumpet in Purdue's All-American Marching Band during the semester he attended Purdue.
Dates:
1962
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 315
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The Charles C. Bock, Jr. papers document the vast career of a test pilot. Within the collection, there is material about the Bell X-2, the X-15 (Rocket aircraft), the SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance plane), the Rockwell B-1 (Bomber), and many other types of experimental aircraft. Included are photographs of fellow Purdue University alumni and "America's No. 1 Spaceman" Iven C. Kincheloe, Jr. In addition to the thirty-one photographs, the collection consists of nine 16mm films, one of...
Dates:
1956 - 2014
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSF 48
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The Llewellyn Boelter collection contains materials primarily concerning the Purdue Library dedication in his honor in 1971. Booklets listing Boelter's works and contributions to the field of engineering are contained within the collection as well.
Dates:
1971
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 3, Placement: 18
Identifier: MSA 55
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Receipt - Purdue Alumni Association Life Membership, 1920 (Initialed "Paid HGL," by Harry G. Leslie, '04, who was executive director of the Association at that time, and who later was elected Governor of Indiana.)
Dates:
1920
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: MSA 279
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The Charles J. Bohrer thesis (1876; 0.20 cubic feet) titled "Beer and Its Physiological Effects" was the capstone document of Bohrer’s undergraduate career. This forty page thesis is all hand written on one side of lined paper. It is organized into one series entitled the Charles J. Bohrer thesis. The thesis is housed in nine acid free folders. This thesis would be important to any researcher studying the history of Purdue University. It would also be valuable to any researcher studying...
Dates:
1876
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSF 44
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The collection consists of publications by Henry L. Bolley.
Dates:
1889 - 1913
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 16, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSF 45
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This collection consists of one folder containing articles written by Beverly W. Bond, Jr.
Dates:
December 1910 - March 1920
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 240
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Bond registers, ledgers, vouchers, information on funds, Purdue University. Includes income tax information, Agricultural Experiment Station fund, land and building register, faculty ledgers.
Dates:
undated
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 3, Placement: 19
Identifier: MSA 56
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Greenwalt, Charles E. (1906). A Few Inside Glimpses of Student Life at "Perdoo" from the Sketchbook of Greenawalt. (No other publication information available.)
Dates:
1906
Collection — Communal Collections Box: 3, Placement: 20
Identifier: MSA 57
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Recollections by Esther Boonstra of the years she spent at Purdue from 1941 to 1945. Transcription The Way It Was at Purdue 1941-1945, by Esther Conelley BoonstraI came to Purdue as a freshman in September 1941. There were four male students for every female student. The Music Hall (now Elliott Hall of Music) was new and in it we freshmen had an orientation talk and an initial assessment of each one's capabilities for the...
Dates:
1941 - 1945
