Content Description This collection, consisting of various land deeds, tax receipts, and other legal documentation, illustrates the expansion of Slippery Rock University’s property between 1888 and the mid-1990s. Including an original agreement for Slippery Rock State Normal School in 1888, a collection of land transaction records for 249 Maltby Avenue (present day Robert A. Lowry Center), and a certificate of title for the land that is now occupied by Kraus Hall, these records provide an insight into Slippery...

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This collection includes programs, news releases, and other records for special university events such as ground-breaking ceremonies, retirement receptions, memorial services, dances, May Week/Festival, Alumni Weekend, Earth Day, and other university activities spanning from 1918 to 2003.

Scope and Contents The Robert and Karen Watson Collection documents the professional career, scholarly interests, institutional involvement of Robert Watson as well as the Watson family with Slippery Rock University. The collection includes material spanning from approximately 1877 to 2025. Contents include paper and printed material including correspondence, speeches, research files, administrative records, and other collected histories. A large portion of the collection consists of memorabilia and ephemera...

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The contents of this collection include a Slippery Rock University news release (1995), and various issues of Writing and Learning: a publication of the Writing Across the Curriculum Association of the State System of Higher Education (1991-1995).