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University Archives. Purdue University Archives

 Record Group
Identifier: University Archives
The University Archives preserves materials created by or related to Purdue University, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and associated organizations.

Found in 1333 Collections and/or Records:

W. N. Wilson engineering notebook

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 66, Placement: 17, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 380
Scope and Contents

Includes one Civil Engineering notebook on the topic of stresses from 1914. The notebook includes drawings, graphs, and calculations.

Dates: 1914

Women in Engineering Program records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 7
Abstract

This collection contains papers, publications, photographs, and electronic media documenting the inception of the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue, as well as its activities and successes.  Also included is information on Lillian Gilbreth, an important figure in engineering at Purdue, and Martha Dicks Stevens, the first woman graduate in engineering at Purdue.

Dates: 1935-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-2000; Other: Date acquired: 11/06/2012

"Women of Purdue - Advancing the Spirit of Giving" videocassette

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 53
Identifier: 2023-021

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 63
Abstract

Material either produced by the Purdue University Women’s Studies program or donated to that program from other collectors. Types of material include administrative memos and meeting records, event records, pedagogical documents, newsletters and other publications, audio-visual recordings, and clippings.

Dates: 1950 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1979 - 2013

Woodrow Wilson letters

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 73, Placement: 3
Identifier: UA 49.1
Scope and Contents

Two letters from U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to Purdue President Winthrop Stone, 1899-1900.

Dates: 1899-1900

Woody Herrmann collection

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 38
Identifier: 20191003

World's Fair Purdue Alumni Registers collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: UA 161
Scope and Contents

The World's Fair Purdue Alumni Registers collection contains three registers from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Panama Pacific International Exposition, and Century of Progress World's Fair showcases. Alumni that visited the fairs were encouraged to sign the registers. Notable signatures include Eulora Miller, Purdue's first female graduate, in the Panama Pacific register and President Theodore Roosevelt in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition register.

Dates: April 30, 1904 - October 31, 1934

Lester Yoder papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 41, Placement: 08
Identifier: MSF 422
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one folder which contains an article, "Urethanes From Chlorine-Substituted Secondary and Teriary Alcohols," by Lester Yoder.

Dates: 1923