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Collection of Purdue Train Wreck materials
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 117
Abstract
Newspaper articles, eye witness interviews, an oral history, and memorabilia relating to the 1903 Purdue Train Wreck.
Dates:
1903 - 2006
Simeon V. B. Miller scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSA 21
Scope and Contents
The Simeon V. B. Miller scrapbook contains memorabilia from Simeon Van Buren Miller's college career at Purdue University. Since he had been involved in the train wreck of 1903, there are numerous newspaper clippings from the wreck. Simeon Miller followed in the footsteps of his father and two brothers, as a member of Phi Delta Theta, so there is also a concentration of ephemera from the fraternity. He had been president of the class of 1905 during his sophomore year, so the scrapbook also...
Dates:
1900 - 1906