ASU Campus History: Tempe
Highlights from University Archives collections that tell the story of the Tempe campus. Materials in this collection include campus maps, land acquisition data, photographs, and audio recordings.
Program accompanying the convocation dedicating the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, September 16, 1964. UE EPH 221
Section of Arizona State University: Documentary History of the First Seventy-Five Years containing information about land acquisitions from 1885-1960.
Hand-drawn plat map with annotations specifying tracts of land by owner name and the date of ASU's acquisition ca. 1885-1935.
A color motion picture production with sound, complete audio recordings of the event and the event program documenting the dedication ceremony for Arizona State University's Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, November 22nd 1966.
Motion Picture: ASU President G. Homer Durham dedicates the building, and Senator Carl T. Hayden remembers his father, the namesake of the library. Library facilities and technologies are depicted. Narrated by Librarian Alan D. Covey.
Audio Recording:
Reel 1 Side A:
Norman H. Strouse Remarks
Reel 1 Side B:
President G. Homer Durham Concluding Remarks
ASU Symphonic Band
Reel 2 Side A:
Rev. Bert Johnson Invocation
President Durham Greetings and Introductions
Audio recording of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Memorial Union, October 25, 1954. Jim Creasman is master of ceremonies. Arizona State College cheer "With an A" is performed. Featuring speeches from Governor Howard Pyle, Senator Carl T. Hayden, student president Bill Coulson, head of the physical sciences department George M. Bateman, President Grady Gammage, members of the alumni association, and others.
An audio recording of the formal dedication of the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at Arizona State University. ASU President G. Homer Durham makes remarks and introduces several invited speakers. The recording is presented in three segments.