Scope and Contents: Papers documenting the life and career of Purdue University President, Winthrop Stone. Types of materials include correspondence, travel diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, lab notebooks, speeches, manuscripts, printed material, and artifacts. Stone's speeches, papers, and notes cover a wide variety of topics, such as mountaineering, travels to Canada and New England, support for Warren G. Harding, the 1903 Purdue train wreck, Farmers Institutes, teaching and education, a tribute to Amos Heavilon, science, chemistry, agricultural education, industrial education, foods, World War I, football, home economics, the dedication of the Purdue Experiment Station (1909), the dedication of the Purdue Memorial Gymnasium, Stanley Coulter Hall, and related subjects.
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Winthrop E. Stone papers
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