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Created1965 (year approximate)
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Steve Allen narrates this solicitation for support of the Arizona State University Alumni Association ca. 1965. The audio features Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Sun Devil Marching Band music, the ASU College Bowl team, the announcement of Miss America Vonda Kay Van Dyke, Spanish professor Irma Wilson, and President G. Homer

Steve Allen narrates this solicitation for support of the Arizona State University Alumni Association ca. 1965. The audio features Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Sun Devil Marching Band music, the ASU College Bowl team, the announcement of Miss America Vonda Kay Van Dyke, Spanish professor Irma Wilson, and President G. Homer Durham and the ASU Concert Choir.

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Created2005-05-07
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An amateur silent motion picture documenting the Arizona State College Homecoming in 1954. Parade floats and the Sun Devil Band are featured on Central Avenue in Phoenix near the hotel Westward Ho. ASC President Grady Gammage and his wife Kathryn drive by in an open car. Displays and house decorations

An amateur silent motion picture documenting the Arizona State College Homecoming in 1954. Parade floats and the Sun Devil Band are featured on Central Avenue in Phoenix near the hotel Westward Ho. ASC President Grady Gammage and his wife Kathryn drive by in an open car. Displays and house decorations on the Tempe campus are presented. Alumni and staff are depicted eating at the Homecoming banquet.

DescriptionTwo videos presenting overviews of ASU history. ASU Generations is a twelve minute comprehensive history of ASU with vintage band music, still photography, video clips and no narration. ASU Generations: Homecoming is a fifteen minute history of Homecoming at ASU with script and narration by University Archivist Robert Spindler.
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ContributorsCanyon Films (Phoenix, Ariz.) (Film producer)
Created2005-05-19
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Promotional film for the university originally on 16mm film. Color and sound with narration.

Created1958
DescriptionPhotos primarily depicting advocacy efforts associated with the epic 1958 election initiative that renamed Arizona State College to Arizona State University.
ContributorsRice, Roy (Videographer)
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ContributorsThomas, Alfred, 1916- (Compiler)
Created2005-05-13
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Section of Arizona State University: Documentary History of the First Seventy-Five Years containing citations justifying the honorary degrees awarded to specific recipients, 1940-1960.

ContributorsThomas, Alfred (Compiler) / Olive, Michael (Compiler) / Humbert, Raymie (Compiler)
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Three files presenting basic characteristics of campus buildings including date of construction, groundbreaking or dedication, architect, contractor, square footage and cost from 1886-2014. The Documentary History file compiled by founding University Archivist Alfred Thomas covers buildings completed from 1886-1960, the order of buildings described in this file is capricious. The

Three files presenting basic characteristics of campus buildings including date of construction, groundbreaking or dedication, architect, contractor, square footage and cost from 1886-2014. The Documentary History file compiled by founding University Archivist Alfred Thomas covers buildings completed from 1886-1960, the order of buildings described in this file is capricious. The Olive Survey compiled by ASU Barrett Honors College student Michael Olive covers buildings completed from 1961-2007, presented in alphabetical order by building name. The Survey for buildings at the Polytechnic, West and Downtown campuses was completed by Barrett Honors College student Raymie Humbert in 2014. This building data is presented by campus and then alphabetically by building name within each campus.
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Created2005-06-11
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An alphabetical list of known firsts and special events compiled by University Archives for the ASU Centennial in 1985. Some entries were added through 1989. This document was presented as a web page within the University Libraries website from ca. 1998-2018.

ContributorsManagement and Financial Analysis (Contributor)
Created1985
Description

Selected pages from the 1984-1985 Centennial Edition of the university Statistical Summary published by Office of Management and Financial Analysis. Most data in these selections are historical rather than statistical, offering lists of board and university presidents, endowed chairs, college and school names over time, etc.