Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Russel B. Nye Papers
UA.17.171
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
- Creator - Donor
- Nye, Russel B., (Russel Blaine), 1913-1993
- Title
- Russel B. Nye papers
- ID
- UA.17.171
- Date [bulk]
- Bulk, 1940-1984
- Date [inclusive]
- 1886-1984
- Extent
- 18.85 Cubic feet
- Language
- English
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan."
Biographical Note
Russel Blaine Nye (1913–1993) was a distinguished professor of English at Michigan State University from 1940 to 1979, and a leading authority on American culture. Early in his career, in 1945, he won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for his first work, George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel. A prolific author, Nye went on to write and edit over twenty books and scores of academic articles, book reviews and general audience pieces. Some of his books are Fettered Freedom: Civil Liberties and the Antislavery Controversy (1947), Midwestern Progressive Politics (1948), A History of the United States (1956), A Baker’s Dozen: American Historical Portraits (1957), Cultural Life of the New Nation (1960), The Unembarrassed Muse 1970, and Society and Culture in America 1830-69 (1974).
Nye was well known as a pioneer in the emerging field of popular culture studies. A cultural, literary, and political historian, he urged scholars to examine the origins, development, and significance of the popular arts in society. Nye was founder of the Popular Culture Association in 1971, and was the chief donor and advisor of Michigan State University Library’s Popular Culture Collection. Renamed the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection in 1978, this nationally recognized collection contains thousands of items from popular fiction genres, 19th century Sunday school books, the comic arts, popular information, and the popular performing arts.
Nye was born in Viola, Wisconsin on February 17, 1913. He received a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College in 1934. The University of Wisconsin awarded him a master’s degree in 1935 and a doctorate in 1939. Nye joined the faculty of Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) in 1940 and was head of the English Department from 1946 to 1959. He was named distinguished professor of English in 1962 and retired in 1979. Nye was the recipient of numerous honors, including a Knopf Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Newberry Library Fellowship, a Distinguished Service Award from the Michigan Council for the Humanities, and several honorary degrees. At the time of his death in 1993, friend and colleague, Victor Howard told the MSU State News, “He was very distinguished, but at the same time unassuming ... he was the model of a good professor and a good citizen. Anyone could talk to him about anything. Everyone respected him.”
Scope and Contents note
The papers have been arranged into three series: 1. General Academic Files. 2. Photography. 3. Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Michigan/Ferris Centennial (1984).
Series 1: General Academic Files
Russel Nye’s academic files are a mix of journal articles, handwritten notes, drafts of articles and lectures, teaching materials, research materials, professional and personal correspondence and various pieces that inspired him in his work. They are alphabetically organized, and include intellectual topics, historical subjects, geographical locations, and names of authors, public figures, private friends and colleagues. Academic journals which contain a number of Nye's published articles are included in box 4072. His academic files on the topic of photography have been separately organized under Series 2: Photography.
Also included is a twenty-six page paper entitled “The Thirties: the Framework of Belief” which was written by Russel B. Nye and delivered in April, 1974 at the 20th Century Conference in American Literature. In the paper, Nye discusses the framework of belief and the structure of ideas of the 1930s and identifies four major concepts that acquired their final form during the decade. The concepts were the rediscovery of sin, the acceptance of relativism, the promise of plenty, the discovery of culture.
Series 2: Photography
In later years, Russel Nye started a wide-ranging project on photography which he never completed. This series contains all the research and preliminary materials, much of which Nye organized. He also collected many photographs, including a large selection of portraits, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; their names are sometimes noted, but most remain anonymous.
Arrangement of the paper records are based on Nye’s topic list and numbering system. His handwritten guide is located in box 4070, folder 7; it covers the files titled "Technology" through "History Talk." The remaining paper files contain photography-related materials organized alphabetically by subject. Nye had created an organizational list similar to that above, but the files were not arranged or identified according to the list. Nye’s list can be found under “Nye, Russel – Organizational list.”
Boxes 4074 and 4075 contain Nye’s collection of photographs and a camera.
Series 3: Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Michigan/ Ferris Centennial (1984)
Russel Nye was a charter member of the Ferris Board of Control and served from 1950 to 1967. In honor of the school’s centennial in 1984, a project was proposed to Nye by Robert and Caryl Ferguson and the Ferris Inaugural Committee to write a history of the school’s transition from a local vocational school to a regional educational institute. Nye’s monograph entitled Ferris Comes of Age: The Years of Transition, 1946–1963 was published in 1983 by Ferris Institute. This series contains research, correspondence and drafts pertaining to the monograph, as well as other Nye papers closely related to Ferris Institute.
Arrangement
Arranged into three series: 1. General Academic Files. 2. Photography. 3. Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Michigan/Ferris Centennial (1984).
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections October 1983
Conrad Hall888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu
Revision Description
August 2012
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Legal Status note
Copyright: Unknown. Property Rights: Michigan State University.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- Ferris State University.
Genre(s)
- Course materials
- Letters (correspondence)
- Photographs
- Publications
- Sound recordings
Personal Name(s)
- Nye, Russel B., (Russel Blaine), 1913-1993
Subject(s)
- Photography -- History
- Popular culture -- Study and teaching
- Popular culture -- United States
Collection Inventory
General Academic Files |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Aesthetics. Academic articles, notes, drafts 1966-1981 |
4057 | 1 | ||
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Aesthetics – Janice Radway |
4057 | 2 | ||
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Agriculture and Human Values. Conference schedule, journal, letter 1984 |
4057 | 3 | ||
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Albion Library Talk 1976 |
4057 | 4 | ||
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Alger, Horatio 1970s |
4057 | 5 | ||
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Algren, Nelson |
4057 | 6 | ||
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American Art |
4057 | 7 | ||
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American Class Society |
4057 | 8 | ||
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American Cultural Regions |
4057 | 9 | ||
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American Culture |
4057 | 10 | ||
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American Culture – Paper: "The Abundant Life" (Author not recorded) Undated |
4057 | 11 | ||
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American Culture – Trends |
4057 | 12 | ||
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American Films |
4057 | 13 | ||
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American Films – Audience |
4057 | 14 | ||
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American Films – Bibliography |
4057 | 15 | ||
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American Films – Criticism |
4057 | 16 | ||
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American Films – Education |
4057 | 17 | ||
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American Films – The Talkies |
4057 | 18 | ||
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American Folklore – Bibliography |
4057 | 19 | ||
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American Folklore and Legends |
4057 | 20 | ||
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American Folklore in Popular Culture |
4057 | 21 | ||
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American Humor and Humorists [with audio cassette tape] |
4057 | 22 | ||
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American Literature – Definitions |
4057 | 23 | ||
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American Literature – Midwest |
4057 | 24 | ||
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American Minority Groups |
4057 | 25 | ||
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American Myth and Symbols |
4057 | 26 | ||
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American Public School Readers |
4057 | 27 | ||
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American Politics – Midwest Radicals |
4057 | 28 | ||
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American Regional Dialects |
4057 | 29 | ||
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American Revolution – Dime Novels (see also, Popular Literature) |
4057 | 30 | ||
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American Revolution – Juvenile Literature (see also, Juvenile Literature) |
4057 | 31 | ||
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American Revolution – Myth making |
4057 | 32 | ||
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American Revolution – Narratives |
4057 | 33 | ||
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American Revolution – Popular Literature |
4057 | 34 | ||
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American Revolution – Stories, Heroes, Villains |
4058 | 1 | ||
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American Rural Society |
4058 | 2 | ||
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American Social Reform |
4058 | 3 | ||
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American Traditions & Influences |
4058 | 4 | ||
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American West |
4058 | 5 | ||
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American West – "How the West Was Won" |
4058 | 6 | ||
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Amusement Parks |
4058 | 7 | ||
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Amusement Parks – History |
4058 | 8 | ||
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Anderson, Sherwood |
4058 | 9 | ||
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Architecture, Art and History |
4058 | 10 | ||
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Art, Theories of |
4058 | 11 | ||
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Artifacts, Study of |
4058 | 12-14 | ||
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Asimov, Isaac |
4058 | 15 | ||
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Atwood, Margaret |
4058 | 16 | ||
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Atwood, Margaret |
4059 | 1 | ||
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Audience and Performance |
4059 | 2 | ||
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Automobile |
4059 | 3 | ||
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Billy the Kid |
4059 | 4 | ||
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Biography – Definition |
4059 | 5 | ||
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Bradbury, Ray |
4059 | 6 | ||
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Buffalo Bill |
4059 | 7 | ||
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Byrne, Dan |
4059 | 8 | ||
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Camping |
4059 | 9 | ||
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Canada – History and Social Culture |
4059 | 10 | ||
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Cather, Willa |
4059 | 11 | ||
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Chandler, Raymond |
4059 | 12 | ||
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Chautauqua Reading Circles |
4059 | 13 | ||
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Chicago |
4059 | 14 | ||
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Chicago – Architecture |
4059 | 15 | ||
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Civil Liberties |
4059 | 16 | ||
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Clearwater Library |
4059 | 17 | ||
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Commencement Speech 1959 |
4059 | 18 | ||
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Commencement Speech 1968 |
4059 | 19 | ||
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Commencement Speech 1979 |
4059 | 20 | ||
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Communication Theory |
4059 | 21 | ||
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Communication Theory and Media |
4059 | 22 | ||
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Communication Theory – Semiology |
4059 | 23 | ||
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Cooper, James Fenimore |
4059 | 24-25 | ||
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Correspondence |
4059 | 26 | ||
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Correspondence – Ruth Prigozy |
4059 | 27 | ||
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Correspondence – Henry Yaple, Gene Gressley of the University of Wyoming |
4059 | 28 | ||
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Custer, George Armstrong |
4059 | 29 | ||
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Creative Process |
4059 | 30 | ||
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Culture – Definitions |
4059 | 31 | ||
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Dance Halls |
4059 | 32 | ||
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Dickinson, Emily |
4060 | 1-2 | ||
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Douglass, Frederick [with audio cassette tape] |
4060 | 3 | ||
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Early American Education |
4060 | 4 | ||
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Economics |
4060 | 5 | ||
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Education |
4060 | 6 | ||
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Eiseley, Loren [with cassette tape] |
4060 | 7 | ||
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Ellison, Ralph |
4060 | 8 | ||
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English syllabus and bibliography |
4060 | 9 | ||
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Ethnic Studies |
4060 | 10 | ||
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Folk Art |
4060 | 11 | ||
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Franklin, Benjamin |
4060 | 12-13 | ||
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French Canadian – Nationalism (see also, Literature – French Canadian) |
4060 | 14 | ||
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French Canadian – Society & Bibliography |
4060 | 15 | ||
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Friends of the Library (Merit Scholarship) |
4060 | 16 | ||
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Frost, Robert |
4060 | 17 | ||
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Great Lakes |
4060 | 18 | ||
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Heroes |
4060 | 19 | ||
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Heroes v. Villains |
4060 | 20 | ||
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Highway Design |
4060 | 21 | ||
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History and Everyday Life |
4060 | 22 | ||
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History and Literature |
4060 | 23-24 | ||
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
4061 | 23 | ||
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Hubbard, Kin |
4061 | 1 | ||
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Humanities – Definitions |
4061 | 2 | ||
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Humanities and Education – Curriculum |
4061 | 3 | ||
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Humanities and Technology |
4061 | 4-5 | ||
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Humanities in Wisconsin |
4061 | 6 | ||
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Iconics |
4061 | 7 | ||
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Improvisation |
4061 | 8 | ||
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Iron Brigade |
4061 | 9 | ||
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James, Henry |
4061 | 10 | ||
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James, Henry – Daisy Miller |
4061 | 11 | ||
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James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw |
4061 | 12 | ||
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Japanese Popular Culture |
4061 | 13 | ||
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Jazz Era – Charts (See also, Music – Jazz) |
4061 | 14 | ||
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Jowett, Garth – Culture in Communications: An Introduction to Mass Culture (2 drafts) 1979 |
4061 | 15-18 | ||
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Juvenile Fiction – Boys |
4061 | 19 | ||
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Juvenile Fiction – Collections |
4061 | 20 | ||
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Juvenile Fiction – Conference |
4061 | 21 | ||
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Juvenile Fiction – Girls |
4061 | 22 | ||
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Juvenile Fiction – Stratemeyer Syndicate |
4062 | 1 | ||
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Juvenile Fiction – Stratemeyer Syndicate: Dizer, John T., Tom Swift & Company |
4062 | 2 | ||
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"Boys' Books" by Stratemeyer and Others. (Draft ms.) |
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Letter to Nye from publisher requesting a review 1981 |
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Juvenile Fiction – Stratemeyer Syndicate: Dizer, John T., Tom Swift and His Friends or The Men Who Wrote for the Boys (ms.) May 1977 |
4062 | 3 | ||
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Juvenile Fiction – Tom Swift |
4062 | 4 | ||
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Lardner, Ring |
4062 | 5 | ||
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Lee, Robert E |
4062 | 6 | ||
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Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street article |
4062 | 7 | ||
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Lind, Jenny |
4062 | 8 | ||
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Literary Criticism |
4062 | 9 | ||
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Literature – French Canadian |
4062 | 10 | ||
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Literature – Heroes and Icons |
4062 | 11-12 | ||
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Literature – Racism in |
4062 | 13 | ||
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Literature – Science Fiction |
4062 | 14 | ||
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Local History |
4062 | 15 | ||
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MacDonald, Ross |
4062 | 16 | ||
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McCann, William |
4062 | 17 | ||
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McCarthyism |
4062 | 18 | ||
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Madden, David |
4062 | 19 | ||
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Malls |
4062 | 20 | ||
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Manfred, Frederick |
4062 | 21 | ||
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Masters, Edgar Lee |
4062 | 22 | ||
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Media Studies: Deming, Caren and Billie Wahlstrom, We Call It World: Culture, Media, and the Creation of the American Realities (typescript) 1980 |
4062 | 23 | ||
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Methodology -- Structuralism |
4062 | 24 | ||
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Michigan State University "The Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection – A Descriptive Guide" pamphlet 1978 |
4062 | 25 | ||
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Miscellaneous |
4062 | 26-27 | ||
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Mississippi River |
4063 | 1 | ||
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Mormons |
4063 | 2 | ||
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Musell, Kay |
4063 | 3 | ||
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Museum Speech |
4063 | 4 | ||
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Music |
4063 | 5 | ||
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Music – American March |
4063 | 6 | ||
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Music – Beatles |
4063 | 7 | ||
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Music – Bibliography |
4063 | 8 | ||
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Music – Big Band |
4063 | 9 | ||
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Music – Big Band in Decline |
4063 | 10 | ||
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Music – Business Industry |
4063 | 11 | ||
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Music – Country |
4063 | 12-14 | ||
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Music – Disco |
4063 | 15 | ||
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Music – Early American |
4063 | 16 | ||
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Music – Elvis & Bob Dylan |
4063 | 17 | ||
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Music – Essays |
4063 | 18 | ||
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Music – History |
4063 | 19 | ||
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Music – Instruments |
4063 | 20 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Bands |
4063 | 21 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Bix Biederbecke |
4063 | 22-23 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Definitions |
4063 | 24 | ||
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Music – Jazz – General |
4063 | 25 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Jean Goldkette Orchestra |
4063 | 26 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Jean Goldkette Orchestra |
4064 | 1 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Musical Arrangements |
4064 | 2 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Paul Whiteman |
4064 | 3 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Reactions to |
4064 | 4 | ||
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Music – Jazz – Swing |
4064 | 5 | ||
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Music – Popular |
4064 | 6-7 | ||
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Music – Rock |
4064 | 8 | ||
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Music – Shaw, Artie |
4064 | 9 | ||
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Music – Technology |
4064 | 10 | ||
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Music – Twenties Tradition – General |
4064 | 11-13 | ||
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Music – Twenties Tradition – Singers |
4064 | 14 | ||
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Music – Western |
4064 | 15 | ||
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Musicians |
4064 | 16-17 | ||
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Muzak |
4064 | 18 | ||
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National Endowment for the Humanities |
4064 | 19 | ||
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Native Americans |
4064 | 20 | ||
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Native Americans – Tecumseh |
4064 | 21 | ||
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"New Directions in Popular Culture" talk (notes, draft) Undated |
4065 | 1 | ||
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New World Records / National Public Radio American Music Project |
4065 | 2 | ||
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Newspaper Clippings |
4065 | 3 | ||
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New York State Doctoral Evaluation |
4065 | 4 | ||
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Niebuhr, Reinhold |
4065 | 5 | ||
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Northern Michigan College Speech 1959 |
4065 | 6 | ||
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Nostalgia |
4065 | 7 | ||
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Novel – Chicago |
4065 | 8 | ||
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Novel – Dime Novel |
4065 | 9 | ||
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Novel – Domestic |
4065 | 10 | ||
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Novel – Fantasy & Science Fiction |
4065 | 11 | ||
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Novel – Gothic |
4065 | 12 | ||
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Novel – Modern American |
4065 | 13 | ||
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Novel – Mystery & Detective – Criticism |
4065 | 14 | ||
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Novel – Mystery & Detective – "Hardboiled" |
4065 | 15 | ||
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Novel – Mystery & Detective – Hammet, Dashiell |
4065 | 16 | ||
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Novel – Mystery & Detective -- MacDonald, John |
4065 | 17 | ||
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Novel – Mystery & Detective -- Miscellaneous |
4065 | 18-19 | ||
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Novel – Mystery & Detective – Police Procedure |
4065 | 20 | ||
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Novel – Mystery & Detective -- Queen, Ellery and others |
4065 | 21 | ||
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Novel – Popular |
4065 | 22 | ||
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Novel – Popular/Best sellers |
4065 | 23 | ||
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Novel – Popular, Criticism of |
4065 | 24 | ||
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Novel – Romance |
4065 | 25 | ||
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Novel – Romance, Modern |
4065 | 26 | ||
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Novel – Western |
4065 | 27-28 | ||
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Novel – Western -- Correspondence |
4066 | 1 | ||
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Nye – Biographical materials (articles, photographs, CVs) |
4066 | 2 | ||
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Nye – Book Reviews by Nye |
4066 | 3 | ||
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Nye – Drafts of his talks and articles |
4066 | 4 | ||
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Nye – ISSQ articles/drafts/research |
4066 | 5-6 | ||
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Nye – Journal articles (Offprints) |
4066 | 7 | ||
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"American Literature and the Teaching of Religion," Journal of Bible and Religion February 1940 |
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"John Fiske and the Cosmic Philosophy," Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Vol. XXVIII 1943 |
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"Music in the Twenties: The Jean Goldkette Orchestra," Prospects 1976 |
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"Afterword," Journal of Popular Culture (on sports) Undated |
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"Eight Ways of Looking at an Amusement Park," Journal of Popular Culture Summer 1981 |
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"Wisconsin's Contribution to Humanitarianism and the Good Life," Wis. Acad. Trans Vol. 54 (Part A) 1965 |
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"Miroir de la Vie: The French Photoroman and its Audience," J ournal of Popular Culture Spring 1977 |
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"Literature: Populist, Progressives and Literature: A Record of Failure," Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters (Vol. XLVII) 1962 |
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"A Word About Whiteman," Popular Music and Society Summer 1972 |
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"Saturday Night at the Paradise Ballroom: or, Dance Halls in the Twenties," Journal of Popular Culture Undated |
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"Death of a Gaulois: Rene Goscinny and Asterix," Journal of Popular Culture FAll 1980 |
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"Across the River: or, How the West Was Made," Journal of Regional Cultures Spring/Summer 1983 |
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"The Thirties: The Framework of Belief," The Centennial Review Spring 1975 |
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"America's First Negro Poet," Long Island Forum June 1940 |
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"Le Citoyen Americain et Les Symboles de La Loi: La Police, Le Juge, Le Procureur de La Republique, Le Jury et L'Avocat," Universite D'Aix-Marseille Centre de Sciences Politiques de L'Institut d'Etudes Juridiques de Nice, VII La Justice 1961 |
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"Magic in the Twenties: The Jean Goldkette Orchestra," Prospects, An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 1975 |
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Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters |
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"The Literary Theory of Theodore Parker," (Vol. XXXII) 1946 |
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"George Bancroft and His Theory of History," (Vol. XXVIII) 1942 |
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The Unembarrassed Muse (manuscript) |
4066 | 8-13 | ||
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O'Brien, Tim |
4066 | 14 | ||
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Occult |
4066 | 15 | ||
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Pasternak, Boris |
4066 | 16 | ||
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Pearl Harbor |
4066 | 17 | ||
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Phonograph (with audio cassette tape) |
4067 | 1-2 | ||
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Photo-roman (in France) |
4067 | 3 | ||
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Pocahontas |
4067 | 4 | ||
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Poetry |
4067 | 5 | ||
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Poetry – German popular |
4067 | 6 | ||
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"Pop Style" Mythology |
4067 | 7 | ||
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Popular Culture – America |
4067 | 8 | ||
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Popular Culture – American Studies |
4067 | 9 | ||
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Popular Culture -- Approaches |
4067 | 10 | ||
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Popular Culture Association Louisville Conference 1985 |
4067 | 11 | ||
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Popular Culture – Criticism |
4067 | 12 | ||
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Popular Culture – Definitions |
4067 | 13 | ||
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Popular Culture – The Hoax and the Put-On |
4067 | 14 | ||
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Popular Culture – Libraries |
4067 | 15-16 | ||
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Popular Culture – Methodology |
4067 | 17-18 | ||
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Popular Culture – Methodology and Theory |
4067 | 19 | ||
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Popular Culture – Miscellaneous |
4067 | 20 | ||
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Popular Culture – Myth |
4067 | 21 | ||
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Popular Culture – Sociology |
4067 | 22 | ||
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Popular Culture – Study of |
4067 | 23 | ||
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Popular Culture – Theory and Criticism |
4067 | 24 | ||
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Popular Culture – Trends |
4067 | 25 | ||
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Popular Culture – Workshop |
4068 | 1 | ||
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Popular Culture – Writings of John Cawelti |
4068 | 2-3 | ||
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Popular Dance – History |
4068 | 4 | ||
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Popular History |
4068 | 5 | ||
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Popular Literature – Agent/Vigilante Novel |
4068 | 6 | ||
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Popular Literature – Categorization |
4068 | 7 | ||
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Popular Literature – Formula |
4068 | 8 | ||
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Popular Literature – Harlequin Romance Novels |
4068 | 9 | ||
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Popular Literature – Spy/Intrigue Novel |
4068 | 10 | ||
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Popular Literature – Swashbuckler |
4068 | 11 | ||
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Popular Literature – Western |
4068 | 12 | ||
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Popular Roots of Major American Novels |
4068 | 13 | ||
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Popular Poetry |
4068 | 14 | ||
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Popular Psychology |
4068 | 15 | ||
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Populism |
4068 | 16 | ||
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Powers, J.F. |
4068 | 17 | ||
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Progressive Movement |
4068 | 18 | ||
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Race |
4068 | 19 | ||
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Radio |
4068 | 20 | ||
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Realism/Naturalism |
4068 | 21 | ||
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Regional Poetry |
4068 | 22 | ||
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano [with 3 audio cassette tapes] |
4068 | 23 | ||
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Saroyan, William |
4068 | 24 | ||
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Schoeffer, Jack – "Shane" |
4068 | 25 | ||
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Science Fiction |
4068 | 26 | ||
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Science Fiction – Writers |
4069 | 1 | ||
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Sexuality |
4069 | 2 | ||
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Small Town (Study by Fred Schroeder) |
4069 | 3 | ||
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Sontag, Susan |
4069 | 4 | ||
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Sports |
4069 | 5-6 | ||
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Sports – Audience and Participants |
4069 | 7 | ||
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Sports – History |
4069 | 8 | ||
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Sports – Literature |
4069 | 9 | ||
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Sportsmanship |
4069 | 10 | ||
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State University of New York (SUNY) Address 1959 |
4069 | 11 | ||
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Steinbeck, John |
4069 | 12 | ||
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Technology in the Work Place |
4069 | 13 | ||
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Television – Criticism |
4069 | 14 | ||
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Television – Drama |
4069 | 15 | ||
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Television – Educational |
4069 | 16 | ||
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Television – Mary Tyler Moore Show |
4069 | 17 | ||
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Theater |
4069 | 18 | ||
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Thurber, James |
4069 | 19 | ||
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Turner, Frederick Jackson |
4069 | 20 | ||
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Twain, Mark |
4069 | 21-22 | ||
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United States – Geology and Ecology |
4069 | 23 | ||
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United States – History |
4069 | 24 | ||
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U.S.F. Faculty Seminar Winter 1983 |
4069 | 25 | ||
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U.S.F. Faculty Seminar Winter 1984 |
4069 | 26 | ||
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U.S.F. Medical Ethics Seminar 1984 |
4069 | 27 | ||
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University of Wyoming – Music Arts Festival 1984 |
4069 | 28 | ||
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Utopian Literature |
4069 | 29 | ||
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Vietnam [2 audio cassettes tapes] |
4070 | 1 | ||
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Wayne, John |
4070 | 2 | ||
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"Western" Genre |
4070 | 3 | ||
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Wilder, Thornton |
4070 | 4 | ||
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Ybor City Project 1983 |
4070 | 5 | ||
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Adams, Walter et al., Editors, The Michigan Yearbook (Nye article, "Face of the Land.") 1959 |
4070 | 6 | ||
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Journals (with articles authored by Nye) |
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Philological Quarterly, Univ. of Iowa ("Lowell and American Speech") July 1939 |
4072 | 2 | ||
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Long Island Forum ("Stonewall' Jackson on Long Island") October 1940 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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The Nassau County Historical Journal ("Bryant – A Note of Appreciation") Summer 1940 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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The Nassau County Historical Journal ("Theodore Roosevelt and History") Fall/Winter 1940 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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Friends Intelligencer: A Quaker Message ("The Quaker Strain in George Bancroft") December 1940 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly ("Judge Tourgee and Reconstruction") April-June 1941 |
4072 | 2 | ||
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Michigan History Magazine ("Emerson in Michigan and the Northwest") Spring 1942 |
4072 | 2 | ||
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The Freeman: A Monthly Critical Journal of Social and Economic Affairs |
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"William Dean Howells and Altruria" Part I October 1942 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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"William Dean Howells and Altruria" Part II November 1942 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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"Hamlin Garland and Henry George" May 1943 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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Journalism Quarterly ("Freedom of the Press and the Antislavery Controversy") March 1945 |
4072 | 2 | ||
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Science & Society ("Civil Liberties and the Anti-Slavery Controversy") Spring 1945 |
4072 | 3 | ||
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Michigan History ("The Lure of the West a Century Ago") April-June 1945 |
4072 | 3 | ||
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The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly ("Marius Robinson, a Forgotten Abolitionist Leader") April-June 1946 |
4072 | 3 | ||
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Science & Society ("The Slave Power Conspiracy, 1830 – 1860") Summer 1946 |
4072 | 3 | ||
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Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio ("Eliza Crossing the Ice – A Reappraisal of Sources") |
4072 | 4 | ||
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Mercurio ("Il marxismo non si addice all'America") April 1961 |
4072 | 4 | ||
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Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters (Vol. XLVII: "Populists, Progressives, and Literature: A Record of Failure") 1961 |
4072 | 4 | ||
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La Revue des Lettres Modernes ("Le Roman Americain Contemporain") Spring 1961 |
4072 | 4 | ||
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The Centennial Review ("The Search for the Individual: 1750-1850") Winter 1961 |
4072 | 5 | ||
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Informations & Documents ("Jazz d'Aujourd'Hui") March 1961 |
4072 | 1 | ||
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Midcontinent American Studies Journal, Univ. of Kansas ("Changes in Twentieth-Century Rural Society") Spring 1969 |
4072 | 5 | ||
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Historical Society of Michigan Chronicle ("The Scope of Local History") 1970 |
4072 | 5 | ||
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Indiana Social Studies Quarterly ("Literature, the Public and the Critic") Winter 1973-1974 |
4072 | 5 | ||
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The Centennial Review ("The Thirties: The Framework of Belief") Spring 1975 |
4072 | 6 | ||
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Historical Society of Michigan Chronicle ("The Novel as Dream and Weapon: Women's Popular Novels in the 19th Century"). 4th Quarter 1975 |
4072 | 6 | ||
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"Directions and Dimensions in American Culture Studies in the 1980's" 1979 |
4072 | 6 | ||
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Nye, Russel, This Almost Chosen People, Essays in The History of American Ideas (Chinese edition) 1970 |
4072 | 7 | ||
| Drawer | Folder | |||
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"The Thirties: the Framework of Belief" 1974 |
F.D. | 1 | ||
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Photography |
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Nye's Handwritten Guide (Topic List) |
4070 | 7 | ||
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Technology |
4070 | 8 | ||
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History |
4070 | 9 | ||
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Early Impressions |
4070 | 10 | ||
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Detail -- Completeness |
4070 | 11 | ||
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Memory, Time, Past, Souvenir, Moment |
4070 | 12 | ||
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Art, Painting |
4070 | 13 | ||
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The West, Landscape, Nature |
4070 | 14 | ||
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Socialization, Alienation, Family, Democratization |
4070 | 15 | ||
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"Truth," Actuality |
4070 | 16 | ||
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Travel, Broadening of Experience |
4070 | 17 | ||
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Document, Photo Essay, Journalism, FSA, Hine, Rhys, Smith, Agee, Evans |
4070 | 18 | ||
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Democracy, Middle Class |
4070 | 19 | ||
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Cultural Nationalism |
4070 | 20 | ||
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Photographer, Sitter, Viewer |
4070 | 21 | ||
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As Storytelling, Illustration |
4070 | 22 | ||
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Snapshot, Hand Camera |
4071 | 1 | ||
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Caption, Frame, etc. |
4071 | 2 | ||
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Literature |
4071 | 3 | ||
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Sexuality, Belloce |
4071 | 4 | ||
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Vision, Communication, Perception, Ivins – Jussim |
4071 | 5 | ||
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Street |
4071 | 6 | ||
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Stereographs |
4071 | 7 | ||
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Daguerreotype, Tintype, Etc. |
4071 | 8 | ||
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Analysis |
4071 | 9 | ||
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Portrait (includes "24A, Brady") |
4071 | 10 | ||
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Carte de Visite |
4071 | 11 | ||
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History and . . . |
4071 | 12 | ||
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Composition |
4071 | 13 | ||
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Cameras |
4071 | 14 | ||
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Album, See also Family Lecture |
4071 | 15 | ||
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Science, Advertising |
4071 | 16 | ||
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Women, Movies, Spirit, Sport, Crime, Photosculpture & Misc. |
4071 | 17 | ||
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Color |
4071 | 18 | ||
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Child, Weddings (See Portraits also) |
4071 | 19 | ||
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Postcards |
4071 | 20 | ||
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Wichita Project |
4073 | 1 | ||
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War |
4073 | 2 | ||
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"History Talk" |
4073 | 3 | ||
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Adams, Henry (letters) 1886-1891 |
4073 | 4 | ||
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Amateur photography |
4073 | 5 | ||
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Amateur photography – Michael Griffin articles |
4073 | 6 | ||
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Barthes, Roland (his article, reviews of his book, Camera Lucida) |
4073 | 7 | ||
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Bibliographies – photography |
4073 | 8 | ||
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Canadian photography |
4073 | 9 | ||
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Chalfen, Richard (correspondence, his articles, misc.) |
4073 | 10 | ||
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Collection guides, including Nye's "An Assessment of the General Electric Photographic Archives & Its Potential Value for American Culture Studies" May 1980 |
4073 | 11 | ||
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Course materials 1984 |
4073 | 12 | ||
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Course materials (AMS 301) Fall 1978 |
4073 | 13 | ||
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Course materials (misc. undated, includes timelines, quotations, technology chronology) Undated |
4073 | 14 | ||
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Essays, articles |
4073 | 15 | ||
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Lecture materials (notes, drafts, negatives) |
4073 | 16-17 | ||
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NEH Grant Application from UC Riverside |
4073 | 18 | ||
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Notes, handwritten, "to look up" |
4073 | 19 | ||
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Nye, David (correspondence, article) |
4073 | 20 | ||
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Nye, Russel –Drafts of his article, "Notes on Photography and American Culture, 1839-1890" |
4073 | 21 | ||
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Nye, Russel – Drafts of his article, "Society, Culture, and the Camera in the 1880's." |
4073 | 22 | ||
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Nye, Russel – Organizational list |
4073 | 23 | ||
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Ohrn, Karin Becker (articles) |
4073 | 24 | ||
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Slide collection from book, Say Cheese by Graham King |
4073 | 25 | ||
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Sontag, Susan |
4073 | 26 | ||
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Specific Photographs – Articles, notes |
4073 | 27 | ||
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Style – article |
4073 | 28 | ||
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Talbot, George. At Home: Domestic Life in the Postcentennial Era, 1876-1920 (Madison, WI) 1976 |
4073 | 29 | ||
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Travel |
4073 | 30 | ||
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Trends -- Excerpt from American Photography Since 1960 by John Szarkowski (1978), "Photography – Two Roads," by Janet Malcolm from the New Yorker magazine (Dec. 4, 1978) and Nye's notes, "20th C. Photography." 1978 |
4073 | 31 | ||
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Williams, Lawrence – correspondence on dissertation project |
4073 | 32 | ||
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Xerox copies of various book chapters/handwritten notes |
4073 | 33 | ||
Photographs |
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Collection A |
4074 | |||
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Stereographs |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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World War I and sightseeing themes |
4074 | 1 | ||
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WW I theme |
4074 | 2 | ||
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Comedy, sightseeing themes |
4074 | 3 | ||
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Postcards |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Portrait/outdoor snapshot early 20th century |
4074 | 4 | ||
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Portrait/outdoor snapshot early 20th century |
4074 | 5 | ||
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"View" cards early 20th century |
4074 | 6 | ||
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French nudes |
4074 | 7 | ||
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Commercial/humor/sentimental |
4074 | 8 | ||
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Reprints of famous/early photographs |
4074 | 9 | ||
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Glass plates |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Two plates |
4074 | 10 | ||
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Two plates |
4074 | 11 | ||
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Three plates |
4074 | 12 | ||
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Negative from Brady, NYC 1866-1868 |
4074 | |||
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Collection B |
4074 | |||
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Two photo albums 19th/early 20th century |
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Collection C: Photographs |
4074 | |||
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Portrait photographs (29) late 19th/early 20th century |
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"Memento mori" (2) Unknown |
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Cyanotype Circa 1880s |
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"Carte-de-visite" small (2.5" X 4" or smaller) portrait photographs (27) Circa 1850s-1880s |
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Glass slide photos (2) |
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Tintype portrait photos (21) |
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Daguerreotype 19th century |
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Large contemporary postcards (2) |
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Panoramic photograph "Co. I.32 Michigan" (troops) 1916 |
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Camera: No. 2A Brownie Model B Eastman Kodak Circa 1907-1924 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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"Tableau vivant"/burlesque actresses/French risqué postcards/cigaret cards (copies printed on paper) 1890s |
4075 | 1 | ||
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Family groups (11) late 19th/early 20th century |
4075 | 2 | ||
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Family groups (13) late 19th/early 20th century |
4075 | 3 | ||
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Family reunion (1 large photo) |
4075 | 4 | ||
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Native Americans (12) |
4075 | 5 | ||
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B&W street scene photos (9) |
4075 | 6 | ||
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Nye family photos, including one of Nye's grandfather C.H. Nye(3) |
4075 | 7 | ||
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Miscellaneous (5) |
4075 | 8 | ||
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Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Michigan/ Ferris Centennial 1984 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Deupree, J. A Century of Opportunity, A Centennial History of Ferris State College 1982 |
4076 | 1 | ||
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Manuscript and drafts of Ferris Comes of Age |
4076 | 2-8 | ||
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Nye, R. "The Gift of a College: Ferris Institute Joins the State," Michigan History May-June 1984 |
4076 | 9 | ||
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Draft of "The Gift of a College" and correspondence |
4076 | 9 | ||
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Nye, R. Ferris Comes of Age: The Years of Transition, 1946 – 1963 1983 |
4076 | 10 | ||
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Nye, R. Text of speech given at Ferris Institute 1984 |
4076 | 11 | ||
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Nye correspondence re. visit |
4076 | 11 | ||
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Nye. R. Text of speech given at the Ferris State Arts Banquet 1972 |
4076 | 12 | ||
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Nye's research, notes and correspondence re. Ferris Comes of Age |
4076 | 13-28 | ||
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