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- Description:
- University of Illinois graduate student Andrew Tenopir-Lundeen delivers a talk entitled "Tales From The Vault: The Special Collections Provenance Project". Tenopir-Lundeen worked on the Provenance Project while serving as an intern at Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections unit in 2013. He defines the word "provenance" in relation to special collections and talks about using bindings, bookplates, and margin notes to help determine rarity, age and ownership of the volumes. Lundeen answers questions from the audience and is introduced by Head of Special Collections Peter Berg. Part of the MSU Libraries' Brown Bag Series held in the Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Lewis Cass Webb sitting on a porch in a wicker chair reading a book. 229 State Street, Mason, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mead Family Collection
- Description:
- Lewis Cass Webb standing in front of the porch of a house reading a book. Likely the same house as in photograph 2010-06-001.008.026, -027, -028, and -030.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mead Family Collection
- Description:
- Albert Lawrence, with a typewriter and several large volumes on a desk in front of a United States wall map. The image is cloudy. Note on sleeve: "190. Albert L. Lawrence in his work room Dec. 1899?" This image is one of two in the collection numbered 190. Albert Lawrence's middle initial was E.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lawrence Family Collection
- Description:
- Carved table with painted vase and potted flowers in an entryway. Background shows another carved table with a vase and books.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mead Family Collection
- Description:
- Older woman reading while sitting in a rocking chair next to books in a cabinet with glass doors.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mead Family Collection
- Description:
- This is a small collection of materials concerning the Panshin family. Dr. Alexis J. Panshin escaped from Russia after the Czar's family was killed. He went on to be a professor of forestry at Michigan State College (later Michigan State University) from 1935 to 1967. The collection includes a booklet he authored entitled "Wood Identification for 4-H Clubs" in 1940. His wife Lucie P. Panshin was a native of Syracuse, New York, who was educated at Syracuse University and worked as a journalist. Her obituary and memorial service bulletins are included. They had two sons, Daniel, who served in the Navy as a submariner and earned a PhD in oceanography, and Alexei, an author. No material concerning Daniel is in the collection, but three of Alexei's paperback science fiction books are.
- Date Created:
- [1940 TO 1997]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Panshin Collection
- Description:
- This is a collection of digitized books, single magazine issues, booklets, scrapbooks, and other publications that are in the collection of the Forest Parke Library and Archives at the Capital Area District Libraries. Most items in this record group have to do with some aspect of, or general history of Lansing. School yearbooks are not included in this collection.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Publications
- Description:
- Helen Mead sitting on a lawn reading a book.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mead Family Collection
- Description:
- Lewis Cass Webb sitting on a porch in a wicker chair reading a book. 229 State Street, Mason, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mead Family Collection
