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More Than a Memory: Exploring Purdue University's History Through Objects extends a 2014 undergraduate effort, which resulted in the publication Little Else Than a Memory: Purdue Students Search for the Class of 1904. Purdue students in 2016-2017 academic year sought to understand the history of Purdue University and to recover the student experience more than 100 years prior, at the turn of the twentieth century. This research, conducted primarily within Purdue Archives and Special Collections, includes choosing, investigating, and analyzing the material objects those students left behind.
ISBN
978-1-62671-078-8
Publication Date
Spring 4-25-2017
Publisher
The Honors College, Purdue University
City
West Lafayette
Keywords
Purdue University, Honors College, archives, archival collections, undergraduate research, object catalog
Disciplines
Archival Science | Information Literacy | Scholarly Communication | Scholarly Publishing
Recommended Citation
Bross, Kristina, "More Than a Memory: Exploring Purdue University's History Through Objects" (2017). Scholarly Publishing Services e-Books. Book 9. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/sps_ebooks/9
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Archival Science Commons, Information Literacy Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, Scholarly Publishing Commons
Comments
To read the research-in-progress essays that led up to this collection, visit ascblogs.lib.purdue.edu/spring2016-honors19903.