State Board of Agriculture
USBA: An inventory is available in the archives.
The State Board of Agriculture (now the Board of Governors) was established by Colorado Governor John Routt in 1877. Records from the governing body of CSU include correspondence, financial documents, minutes, photographs, and reports related to a broad range of departments and programs.
Board of Governors
UBOG Inventory
The Board of Governors for the Colorado State University System (formerly the State Board of Agriculture) was established by Colorado Governor John Routt in 1877. Records from the governing body of CSU include correspondence, financial documents, minutes, photographs, and reports related to a broad range of departments and programs.
President, Office of the
UPRE: An inventory is available in the archives.
Records of the Office of the President include materials from most departments and programs at Colorado State University. The collection includes committee materials, correspondence, financial documents, speeches, reports, and videos.
Provost, Office of the
UAVP: An inventory is available in the archives.
The Office of the Provost oversees the most offices at Colorado State University. The collection includes accreditation materials, administrative calendars, committee materials, department self studies, and minutes.
Vice President for Administrative Services
UVAD: An inventory is available in the archives.
The Vice President for Administrative Services office oversees the administrative units on campus. The collection includes administrative calendars, artifacts, budgets, committee materials, correspondence, films, minutes, publications, and reports.
Applied Human Sciences, College of (1997-2004) 1.5 lin. ft.
UCAH Finding Aid
The College of Applied Human Sciences was created in 1986 to promote the well-being of people and the environment in which they live, through education, research, and community service. In 2001, the Department of Design and Merchandising from the College of Applied Human Sciences held a fashion show in honor of Mr. Blackwell, one of the most important American designers to come from the West Coast. This fashion show was an opportunity for students to design pieces inspired by Mr. Blackwell’s designs and construction. The Colorado State University Historic Costume and Textile Museum owns more than eighty of Mr. Blackwell’s labels, scrapbooks, and master patterns. This collection contains primarily VHS tapes that document the college’s activities, including many tapes of the Blackwell fashion show.
Records of the Business College (1922-1964) 0.5 lin. ft.
UBUS Finding Aid
The College of Business first began with initial business courses in 1944, followed by a formal business program in 1950. Due to increasing student enrollment, the Department of Business was established in 1957. In 1965, Colorado State University officially created the College of Business. This collection consists of faculty meetings and reports, enrollment data, faculty and summer institute information, and other miscellaneous papers.
The Records of the Libraries collection show the growth and vision of the University Libraries over many decades. Material types include accession records, budgets, committee materials, correspondence, message stone materials, minutes, and reports.
Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Study Project (1907-1997; bulk 1976-1978) 11.25+ lin. ft.
Germans from Russia Finding Aid
History professor Sidney Heitman established the Colorado State University Germans from Russia in Colorado Study Project in 1975. The study project focused on northern Colorado and conducted extensive interviews with Germans from Russia. The four-year project focused on the influence Germans from Russia had on Colorado, since they constituted the state’s second largest ethnic group. The development of a comprehensive collection of material on Volga Germans in Colorado was a high priority of the project. The collection includes project files, oral history tapes and transcripts, conference papers, undergraduate student research, clippings, slides, and sound recordings. Personnel files and some oral histories are restricted.
Athletics, Department of (1933-1936) 0.25 lin. ft.
UATH Finding Aid
The athletic department was founded in March 1892 as the Athletic Association, for the purpose of organizing and encouraging the formation of a football team and other field sports. During the fall of 1899, the athletic association was reorganized. During the early 1900s, the Athletic Association sponsored the annual contests between the freshman and sophomore classes. This collection contains press releases from 1933 to 1936 during which time Colorado State University was ranked at the top of their conference in several sports.
Armed Forces Science Division (1896-1961; bulk 1914-1943) 0.5 lin. ft.
UAFS Finding Aid
The Armed Forces Science Division was created because the 1862 Morrill Act provided funding for institutions that provided military tactics as a prominent course of instruction. In 1881, a group of students organized into a drill team, and a formal company of 36 cadets organized at Colorado State University. The 1920s were a prominent decade for the Armed Forces Science Division; enrollment in ROTC increased drastically and in 1927, the first Ca-Dettes were introduced. In 1946, an Air Force ROTC unit was activated at Colorado State University. Military training was required of all freshman male college students until 1962, when the mandatory status of ROTC was dropped. The collection contains primarily armed services related publications and souvenir postcards. Some of the postcards were collected by Dan Schultz, a member of CSU’s Battery A, which served in Europe during World War I.
Blueprint Negatives of University Buildings (1881-1985) 6.25 lin. ft.
UBLU Finding Aid
In the 1990s, the Facilities Management Department created eight-by-ten inch negatives from the original building blueprints. The department still maintains the original blueprints in their storage facility. The blueprint negatives were transferred to the University Archive in 2006. This collection consists of modern negatives of University building blueprints and tracings. Note that the dates refer to the date of original creation; copies of materials were made in the 1990s.
University Historic Photograph Collection (c.1880-2001) 361.5 lin. ft.
UHPC Details
The University Historic Photograph Collection documents the history of Colorado State University and preserves its institutional memory. Approximately 500,000 images detail Colorado State University’s history with particular attention to academics, students and faculty, and the physical campus landscape. The University’s rich Extension Service history is also well represented, pointing to the importance of CSU not only to its students, alumni, and the Fort Collins community, but people throughout Colorado.
Papers of Margaret Predergast McLean (c. 1895-1918) 1.5 lin. ft.
UMPM Finding Aid
Margaret Prendergast McLean (1878-1961) graduated from Colorado State University in 1899 with a Bachelor of Science degree. She went on to become a well-known author on the subject of speech and taught at many prestigious drama schools across the United States. In 1945, Colorado State University named her an Honor Alumnus and bestowed an honorary doctorate on her. Photographs of her college classmates comprise the bulk of the collection. Photographs of other individuals, one postcard, and a notebook of recipes are also in the collection.
Papers of James R. Miller (1846-1993; bulk 1877-1883) 3 lin. ft.
UJRM Finding Aid
James R. Miller (1891-1978) was appointed Secretary to the State Board of Agriculture in 1939 and served Colorado State University in that capacity for eighteen years. During his more than twenty year affiliation with the school, Miller became an amateur historian of the University. Materials in the collection predate and postdate Miller due to his research activities and legacy inventories of the collection. This collection includes some of the oldest known documents of Colorado State University. The collection consists of reports, financial papers, correspondence, manuscripts, diary typescripts, notes, clippings, cassette tapes, photographs, negatives, slides, and legacy inventories.
Papers of Theodosia G. Ammons (c. 1870-1914) 2.5 lin. ft.
UAMM Finding Aid
Theodosia G. Ammons (c. 1862-1907) co-established Colorado State University’s Department of Domestic Economy in 1895. She was the first faculty member of the department and first female dean at the school. Routine correspondence related to her department responsibilities comprises the bulk of the collection. Her activities as a suffragette are represented as well. The collection includes advertisements, announcements, correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs.
Papers of Laura I. Makepeace (1910-1969) 0.25 lin. ft.
ULIM Finding Aid
Laura I. Makepeace contributed to several publications, including the “Makepeace Faculty List” during her thirty-eight years as a Colorado State University Morgan Library Technical Librarian, a self-assumed title. Her career at Colorado State University began in 1918; she retired in 1956. This collection contains information gathered during her research on the history of the University and includes correspondence, biographies, notes, and the Colorado State University Emiriti constitution and by-laws.
Papers of Elijah E. Edwards (1846-1881) 0.5 lin. ft.
UEEE Finding Aid
Elijah Evan Edwards (1831-1915) was the first president of Colorado State University from 1879 through 1882. Journals from several years he spent as a student at Asbury University (now DePauw University) comprise the bulk of the collection. His work at Colorado State University is represented by two journals and a few documents. The collection includes bound journals, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, and a report.
Men’s Science Club (1923-1984) 0.5 lin. ft.
UMSC Finding Aid
Formed in the summer of 1923, the Men’s Science Club dedicated itself to a climate conducive to scientific thought. The club was organized as a science club for male faculty with a selective membership and was initially known as the Aristotle Club. The organization adopted its current name in 1926. Membership was first limited to twenty members but was later expanded to thirty in 1960. This collection contains ledgers of minutes and financial records, correspondence, and other pertinent documents to the club.
Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference (1909-1923) 0.25 lin. ft.
URAC Finding Aid
The Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference was organized on January 30, 1909, as the Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference. The conference originally was founded with three members: the University of Colorado, Colorado College, and Colorado State University. Seven other institutions later joined. The collection contains conference meeting minutes dating from 1909 to 1923.