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This collection consists of materials relating to Purdue alumni James W. Stockton and Ann Stockton, 1919-1947. Includes one postcard of Theta Xi house at Purdue University, one report card for James W. Stockton, and one newspaper clipping on Ann Stockton's injury in the Purdue bleachers collapse.

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Photographs taken at Purdue University during the 1923-1924 school year. Correspondence from Starkey's son, Mirwood A. Starkey, concerning the death of his mother, Lena Smith Starkey and the donation of the photographs.

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Correspondence from William Snyder describing the U.S.S. Lafayette, photograph of the Lafayette's launch, a U.S.S. Enterprise CVN-65 baseball cap, and a Trident tie clip.

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Roster of Class of 1926 Mechanical Engineering graduates, 25th, 60th, 65th, Class of 1926 anniversary testimonial certificates, and other items from the Class of 1926, post-graduation.

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The Collection on A. A. Sego documents the life and career of Sego, a 1917 Purdue alumnus and test pilot. The collection includes Sego's 1917 leather bound Gala Week program, one photograph of Sego in his aviator helmet, and several photocopied articles pertaining to his life and career.

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Materials relating to Purdue alumni James W. Stockton and Ann Stockton, 1919-1947. Includes one postcard of Theta Xi house at Purdue University, one report card for James W. Stockton, and one newspaper clipping on Ann Stockton's injury in the Purdue bleachers collapse. Part of the newspaper clipping is missing.

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"From Whence We Came," by Frances Gilchrist Gibson Satterfield, 1973 [family history]

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Booklet and article written by Albert Scheible.

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Daily diary of J. Edgar Scholl, January 1, 1901 to December 8, 1902. The diary provides a daily account of the life of a young man in Indiana as he begins farming and prepares to marry.

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The papers contain articles by Purdue alumnus, Lynn Scipio.

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Family photograph, 1896, which includes Fred and Charles Shafer, information from 1907 Debris and Purdue Students' Directory, 1907-1908, along with a manuscript (interview) with Fred Fletcher Shafer, 1957

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Membership card, Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Purdue University, circa 1904.

Program, Philalethean, Twenty-seventh Annual, Friday, April 28, 1905.

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The Douglass Shortridge collection contains artifacts from Shortridge's student years at Purdue, historical newspapers from the end of World War II, a newspaper obituary of Abram C. Shortridge, and other documents accumulated during Shortridge's career.

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"Thoughts At The Anvil," by E. E. Sickler.

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One photograph, with Ella B. Silance's named marked on the back, but a group of unidentified people in the photograph.

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Gala Week 1921 booklet; Pi Omicron National Sorority - program, 1933-1934; Pi Omicron National Sorority directory, April 1935, and small Alpha Chapter Pi Omicron scrapbook, 5" x 4" with thirty-six photographs in it, 1930-1931.

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The C. F. Smith papers consist of publications issued by the Bournonville Rotary Valve Motor Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, under the guidance of Smith as the company's chief engineer.

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Articles and bulletin by R. E. Stephenson.

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Scheible, Albert (1894). Small Arcs or Large Incandescents? Electrical Engineering, vol. XVIL, no. 312.

Lotz, Rudolph Wm.; Scheible, Albert (1916). Patent Rights of Employers and Employees in and to their Respective Inventions. Chicago, Illinois: Lotz, Scheible. [2 copies]

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Scipio, Lynn A. (1920). Robert College, Engineering School. S.P.E.E., September, 1920, pp. 32-36.

Scipio, L. A. (1921). Scipio, L. A. Chimneys For House Heating Boilers. Steam, December, 1921, pp. 155-157.

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Articles about Woody and Penny Strong's mission trips to Nepal.

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Stephenson, R. E. (1918). The Effect of Organic Matter on Soil Reaction. Reprinted from Soil Science, vol. VI, no. 6, December 1918, pp. 413-439.

Stephenson, R. E. (1918). Soil Acidity Methods. Reprinted from Soil Science, vol. VI, no. 1, July 1918, pp. 33-52.

Stephenson, R. E. (1920). Nitrification in Acid Soils, Research Bulletin No. 58. Ames, Iowa: Agricultural Experiment Station, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

Scope and Contents Card with sports figures and "May" on it.Excerpts from the book, My Maiden Effort, by Gelett Burgess, which includes some of the first writings of Booth Tarkington."Booth Tarkington's Death Widely Mourned; Beloved Writer Was Hoosier Born," May 20, 1946, p.1."Tarkington Rites Brief and Simple," Lafayette Journal and Courier," May, 1946. "Booth Tarkington," Lafayette Journal and Courier,"May, 1946."Booth Tarkington Once Purdue Man," no...

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Publication co-authored by Lena Sutton entitled, "The Efficiency of the Preparation of Ether from Alcohol and Sulfuric Acid." Reprinted from the Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. XXXV, no. 6, June, 1913, pp. 794-800.

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Excerpts from the book, My Maiden Effort, by Gelett Burgess, which includes some of Booth Tarkington's first writings. Obituaries and stories written upon Tarkington's death.