College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Agricultural Experiment Station oral histories   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 13-6-944
Tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews by Gould P. Colman with Paul J. Chapman, Arthur C. Dahlberg, Robert E. Doran, Arthur J. Heinicke, George J. Hucker, James D. Luckett, Carl S. Pederson, Charles B. Sayre, Jessie E. Sperry, Donald K. Tressler, and Richard Wellington.

Allee, David papers,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-43-3276
Includes correspondence, memoranda, subject files and reports concerning Allee's work with Resource Economics, Public Policy, and Water Quality related concerns, and the New York State Main Street Alliance, the Adirondack Research Consortium, Cornell's Water Resources and Marine Sciences Center, and Community and Rural Development Institute, and other economic development programs.

Allen, Elsa Guerdrum papers, 1885-1976   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-18-1362
Papers consist of correspondence with family members and professional colleagues; diaries; photographs and research notes on early ornithologists; a bibliography of her Ph.D. thesis; travel literature; copies of grant applications (1960-1965); unpublished manuscripts. Family papers also include a genealogy of her Scandinavian ancestors. Papers are in English, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Atkinson, George F. papers, 1880-1918.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-29-103
Correspondence relating to the collection, classification, and study of plant specimens; recommendations for graduate students; notes on the development of botanical investigation at Cornell; and diary of a trip to Europe. Material relating to Atkinson's work at the University of North Carolina and the Agricultural Experiment Station in Auburn, Alabama.

Audubon, John James artwork, 1835-2002.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6721
Collection includes loose prints from Audubon books, The birds of America (double elephant folio of 1827-1838 and a subsequent octavo edition) and The viviparous quadrupeds of North America (1846-1854), as well as later reproductions of Audubon prints.

Bailey, Liberty Hyde papers, 1845-2004   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-3342
Material relating to the life and work of Liberty Hyde Bailey.

Bates, Erl papers, [ca. 1920-1960].   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-24-790
Papers include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the background and passage of a state bill (1920) appropriating $10,000 to the College of Agriculture for Indian extension work and to the early progress of this work; correspondence and printed, mimeographed, and typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets pertaining to the Cornell Indian Boards, Six Nations' Agricultural Society, Indian Farmers' Schools.

Becker, Robert papers, ca. 1970-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-25-2945
Correspondence, articles, and research notes concerning horticulture; also seed catalogs, and other material relating to fairs and all aspects of gardening.

Betten, Cornelius papers, 1931-1932   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-141
Subject files of the Dean.

Blanford, Charles Jessie papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2411
Papers include correspondence, reports, pamphlets on various aspects of milk marketing and the dairy industry in general, milk production, price control, supply, and utilization and other material.

Bond, Maurice Chester papers, 1912-1980   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-24-248
Reports; mimeographed and printed material from Agricultural Economics Extension files on subjects such as cooperatives, farm management, and marketing; articles and speeches on extension work; notes, journals, photograph album, mimeographed material, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of various conferences, workshops, and committees; reports of the Los Baños Project in the Philippines (1963); office calendars, desk and field notes, travel accounts, and diaries; logs of trips to Germany, England, and Mexico; papers relating to Epsilon Sigma Phi, an honorary extension fraternity; and correspondence, notes, and other records pertaining to local organizations including the Ithaca Cooperative Consumers' Society Inc. and First Congregational Church of Ithaca (New York).

Boyle, James E. papers, 1894-1938   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-10-210
Correspondence, pamphlets, articles, clippings and other material mostly concerning agricultural marketing.

Bradley, James C. papers, 1905-1962   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-1717
Includes Bradley's A Manual of the Genera of Beetles, North of Mexico; manuscripts for papers; lecture notes and teaching materials; field notebooks, drawings, and typed and handwritten notes; personal and professional correspondence; bibliographies; glass slides and mounted photographs of entomological subjects and expeditions, including the First Cornell University Biological Expedition to the Okefenoke Swamp in Georgia and a later expedition through Arizona and California, as well as a few Ithaca area scenes; photograph albums; includes much material on wasps. Also, correspondence with J. Henry Comstock and others.

Breed, Robert Stanley papers, [ca. 1901-1943]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 22-2-662
Correspondence with other bacteriologists, farmers, and public health officials.

Bruckner, Jacob Herbert papers, 1938-1968.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-31-1326
Includes material on animal and poultry societies.

Burritt, Maurice C., Director of Extension papers, 1919-1924   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-24-101
Correspondence and other records of the Director of Extension at the New York State College of Agriculture.

Call, David L. papers, 1977-1995   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-1620
Records of Dean David L. Call include materials pertaining to various departments of the college; other colleges at Cornell University; the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York; the Cornell Board of Trustees and administration; Cornell Plantations; SUNY; CALS Alumni Association; Isles of Shoals; the Sea Grant Institute; Boyce Thompson Institute; New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets; New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives; the Council of Agricultural Organizations; Agway, Inc., Agricultural Resources Commission; and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Chapman, Paul Jones papers, 1940-1983   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 22-1-2102
Includes correspondence concerning the graduate program of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, 1940-1983; selection of a head for the Entomology Department at Cornell University, 1965; and Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, 1962-1963. Also, research material concerning SILENT SPRING.

Comstock, John Henry and Anna Botsford papers,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-25
Includes personal correspondence of Anna Botsford and Henry John professional correspondence; publications by or about the Comstocks; lecture and field notes; certificates and awards; typescript draft of an autobiography by Anna Comstock, published posthumously as The Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock; Botsford and Comstock family photographs; Anna Botsford diaries and poem; a scrapbook relating to the Botsford family, Phebe Irish Botsford, and Anna Botsford Comstock; materials concerning wood engraving; photographs and sketches (pen and ink and pencil).

Conklin, Howard papers, 1949-1982.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-10-2878
Correspondence, course material and class lecture notes, professional writings, extension surveys and followups, subject files, project statements, material relating to Cornell University, and subject files relating to the New York State Land Use Committee and the New York State Agricultural Resource Commission. Also, charts, graphs, and other materials from the "Decade of the Sixties," study about changes in commercial farms in New York State.

Conn, H.J. papers, 1911-1959.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 22-2-661
Correspondence with other bacteriologists, public health officials, publishers, commercial laboratories, and Cornell administrators, as well as reports, financial records, notes, and printed material, concerning his participation in the work of the Biological Stain Commission, National Research Council, American Public Health Association, and Society of American Bacteriologists, his scientific writings, and research projects.

Cornell University Department of Natural Resources records, 1909-1995.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-18-991
Includes annual reports, monthly reports, bulletins, plans of work, field notes, slides of Cornell campus and activities, radio talks, publications, photographs, committee records, drawings, subject files, and other materials of the Cornell University Department of Natural Resources, formerly the Conservation Department.

Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology artwork.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 17-2-3522
Artwork on deposit from the Lab of Ornithology. Includes works by George Miksch Sutton, Anna Botsford Comstock, Mark Catesby and others.

Cornell University Media Services Photo Section records, 1943-1989.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-37-2227
Extension Bulletins with photographs annotated to give Media Services negative numbers. Also photographs of New York State Fair and Farm and Home Week exhibits. File cabinets with negative files and card files by subject.

Cornell University School for Missionaries Records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-34-1476
Includes correspondence and memoranda; letters of inquiry about the school; registration lists; completed student registration and information blanks; pamphlets; letters from past students; information about the Iowa School for Missionaries; newsletters, GREEN PASTURES DAILY; student directories; "Thumb-Nail Sketch Books" of student biographies; class schedules; and issues of AGRICULTURAL MISSION NOTES, a quarterly.

Dairy marketing publications   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-43-3920
Various publications concerning dairy marketing.

Dept. of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-25-1911
Includes correspondence, papers, journals, photographs, and other records of the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, at Cornell University.

Dept. of Floriculture records, 1905-1940   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-25-137
Correspondence, 1907-1914, of the Dept. of Rural Art, largely that of E. Gorton Davis; correspondence, 1915-1917, of the Dept. of Landscape Art; also correspondence relating to extension, the development and growth of plants, landscaping and city planning, departmental budgets, allotments, and University regulations; departmental photographs and photographs of orchid studies; correspondence of E.A. White (personal and orchid studies); personal and lecture materials of L.H. MacDaniels; and departmental files, mostly relating to pomology.

Dept. of Rural Sociology records, 1920-2010   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-33-1085
Includes minutes of the New York State Interdepartmental Committee on Farm and Food Processing Labor (1948, 1950-1955); descriptions and reports concerning migrant labor in New York State and various funded projects; requests for information; and other records of Olaf F. Larson at the New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. Also, reports and bulletins (1920-1955), dept. newsletters (1961-1967), mimeographed proposals, notices, and position papers relating to challenges to governance at Cornell, collected by Harold Capener, 1965-1977 and Capener's correspondence (1963-1977).

Director of Research files,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-12-1074
Collection of correspondence, reports, research studies and committee reports for the Directors of Research, Department of Agriculture, primarily focused on the late 1950s to late 1960s with a small amount of documents from 1905 and the mid-1930s.

Epsilon Sigma Phi records, 1927-2001.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-24-1979.
Records of the Lambda Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi. Also, six volumes of the "Book of Annals," biographical sketches and photographs of Cornell extension and county extension staff.

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program records 1969-2002   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-24-3292
Includes reports, correspondence, in-service projects, subject files, photographs, videotapes, slides, and curriculum material pertaining to this federal nutrition program (EFNEP). Sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension, including records on WIC.

Farm Bureau scrapbooks, New York State, 1912-1934   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-24-461
Scrapbooks documenting farm bureau activities county by county, 1912-1917; also two scrapbooks on farm bureau activity statewide, 1928-1934.

Glass, Edward papers, 1940-1999.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 22-1-3343
Includes correspondence, reports, lecture notes, subject files, biographical material, and photographs, relating to Glass' career in the Dept. of Entomology and the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell University, his work in the Phillipines, and with the firm Rhodia.

Guthrie, Edward Sewall papers, [ca. 1907-1962]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-20-800
Correspondence with the American Dairy Association, other agricultural organizations, manufacturers of dairy machinery, commercial laboratories, and other professors of dairy science concerning experiments, studies of cultured cream, butter making, stock judging at Cornell, and the naming of the dairy building after William A. Stocking.

Gyrisco, George G. papers, [ca. 1940]-1984.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-2228
Files on graduate students and undergraduate advisees; general correspondence and subject files relating to entomology; research and conference notes and reports, files on insect control research and recommendations, and extension newsletters. Includes photographs of people and projects in Gyrisco's career.

Herrick, Glenn Washington papers, 1972-1963.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-844
Scientific addresses; lecture notes on spiders; articles and bulletins; page proofs and original drawings and illustrations for Insect Enemies of Shade Trees; bibliographies; lists of students and alumni; scientific drawings and photographs; diaries; correspondence concerning the Cornell Department of Entomology; travel papers; personal accounts; newspaper clippings; outline talks and short manuscript writings on politics, education, the Cornell campus, and the Cornell Entomology Department; an oral history; photograph of Jugatae members; personal letters written to Glenn and Nannie Herrick; and genealogical material and family correspondence.

Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-50-4038
Includes reports, publications, correspondence and proposals concerning research on Superfunds, the toxicology training program, the Cornell University Program in Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (CUPCET), the outreach/educational branch of ICET, and the corporate associates program.

Interviews by Kathryn M. Moore, 1975-1976   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-32-2360
Interviews with fifteen Cornell emeritus women professors and notable women conducted by Kathryn M. Moore. Interviewees include Cornell professors Alice Bryant, Helen Dudley Bull, Ruth Comstock, Alice Cook, Louise Daniel, Eleanor Emerson, Eleanor Gibson, Isabel Peard, Mabel Rollins, Laura Lee Smith, Evelyn Stout, and Ethel Vatter. Other notable women interviewed are Constance Cook, Katherine Palmer, and Bernice Sandler.

Johnson, Willis Grant papers, 1901-1904   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-471
Correspondence, printed matter, and photographs concerning efforts to obtain funds from the state legislature for the construction of agricultural college buildings at Cornell University. The principal correspondents are Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Craig, George Malby, Isaac Phillips Roberts, Jacob Gould Schurman, John Spencer, Edwin Stewart, John Lemuel Stone, Henry Hiram Wing, and Daniel Parrish Witter.

Kellogg, Peter Paul papers, 1934-1964   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-18-893
Correspondence, reports, manuscripts of articles, photographs, clippings, notes, memoranda, and printed material relating to Kellogg's career in the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University; the history of the Laboratory; the Albert R. Brand Bird Song Foundation; ornithological expeditions to central Africa, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and bird clubs.

Kennedy, W. Keith papers, 1971-1978.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-2764
Administrative correspondence, reports, proposals, financial records, and other material documenting the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University and Kennedy's deanship from 1972to 1978.

Knudson, Lewis papers, 1938-1946.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-17-1778
Articles and notes concerning plants as a source of rubber, including guayule and kok-saghyz; papers pertaining to the Ninth Annual Chemurgie Conference. Also, photocopy of bound manuscript containing "A Brief History of the Department of Botany" by Lewis Knudson, October 15, 1938, and menu and guest list from Botany Department dinner, 1938.

Ladd, Carl E. papers, 1932-1943   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-87
Includes curricula, budgets, printed material, clippings, and memoranda and correspondence with Cornell faculty and administrators, students, county extension agents, agricultural club leaders, farmers, publishers, state and federal agricultural agencies, credit associations, and state and national politicians. Subjects include administration of the College of Agriculture; appointments, promotions, and resignations of faculty and administrators; Farm and Home Week at Cornell; construction of the Arboretum; the Bailey Hortorium; the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities; the Farm Credit Administration; GLF; USDA Extension Service; Dartington Hall and the South Devon cattle; the Emergency Food Commission; farm labor during World War II, wartime agricultural production, and wartime student enrollment; the "Farm Forum" broadcast on WGY; rural electrification, Dutch elm disease, and rural education. Major correspondents include Charles Poletti, Herbert H. Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Howard E. Babcock, Henry A. Wallace, Flora Rose, Edward Eastman, Leonard K. Elmhirst, and the Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York.

Ladd, Carl E., Director of Extension papers, 1924-1930   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-24-97
Correspondence, reports, and other records of Carl E. Ladd as Director of Extension at the New York State College of Agriculture.

Lambert, Jack papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-1-4172
Collection contains artwork and items relating to his Cornell work as well as personal drawings.

Larson, Olaf papers, 1918-2001.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-33-1791
Papers of Dr. Olaf Frederick Larson, professor of rural sociology.

Liberty Hyde Bailey, New York State College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-84
Director's files including correspondence, committee reports, and files concerning construction projects and the general administration of the college.

Love, Harry H. papers, 1907-1964.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-28-890
Papers include correspondence, reports, photographs, plans, statistical data, notes, and scientific papers pertaining mainly to the work done in China and Thailand and at Cornell by Professor Love, a specialist in cereal breeding and the application of statistical methods to agricultural research; papers concerning China relate mainly to agricultural research, extension work, and reconstruction at the University of Nanking, the needs and problems of that university, particularly during the Japanese occupation, the studies of Nanking graduate students at Cornell, the field work and studies of Chinese trainees at Cornell and in American industry, and assistance Love gave to Chinese agronomists; also, speeches, radio talks, articles, and various papers, including the manuscript of "The Cornell-Nanking Story" by Love and John H. Reisner.

Mai, W.F. papers, 1955-1993.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-29-3304
Includes correspondence, meeting minutes, bibliographic information, and photographs relating to Dr. Mai's forty-four years in Plant Pathology at Cornell University and his work on the Archives Committee of the Society of Nematologists.

Mann, Albert R. papers, 1916-1931.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-14
Correspondence, reports, and other materials relating to the administration of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, and its departments, units, and enterprises. Papers consist chiefly of correspondence and working papers between the dean and directors and department heads, and pertain to the routine administration and bureaucratic operation of the College; other topics include the Agricultural Experiment Station, relations with the Federal and New York State governments, finance, law and legislation, instruction, faculty benefits, and the Country Life Association. Includes correspondence with Liberty Hyde Bailey.

McCay, Clive papers,1920-1967.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-14-1087
Includes notes, reprints, reports, clippings, photographs, and correspondence documenting McCay's research concerning the effects of nutrition on the aging process, dietary habits of naval personnel and the development of nutritionally-sound rations during World War II, canine nutrition, fluoride and its use in water treatment, parabiosis, and the development of a high-protein, low-carbohydrate bread ("Cornell Bread"). Also included are materials from his course on the History of Nutrition; printed reports from a U.S. Army research project on the effects of radiation on food; articles on medicine, nutrition, and animal science; slides used to illustrate lectures on nutrition and parabiosis; and an annotated bibliography of articles pertaining to the History of Nutrition. Also, letters and notes about the naming and designation of the McCay Reading Room in Mann Library.

Media and Technology Services records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-36-3152
Correspondence, reports, policies, slides, photographs, videotapes, and other material of the office of Media and Technology Services; including the files of the first director Christopher Whittle and information on the New York State Fair, Empire Farm Days and the Educational Television Center.

Miller, John Ivan papers, 1918-1977   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-14-1915
Pamphlets, printed matter, and photographs related to Miller's research on animal nutrition and beef cattle production.

Morrison, F. B. papers, 1900-1962.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-14-1014
Papers of Frank B. Morrison, who was Director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station and the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York in 1927, and in 1928 became Professor of Animal Husbandry and Animal Nutrition at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University.

Morse, Roger papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-4122
Includes material related to beekeeping, his membership in the Empire State Honey Producers' Association, and Morse's career in the Dept. of Entomology.

Needham, James G. papers, 1884-1957   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-479
Correspondence and documents describing the career of James G. Needham.

New York agricultural leaders oral history project   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 13-6-428
Includes interviews with farmers, officials of the State Grange, New York State and American Farm Bureau Federations, the Dairymen's League, GLF, and other agricultural businesses, county agents, extension specialists, faculty and staff members of the New York State College of Agriculture, and others involved in agriculture in New York State.

New York State 4-H Foundation records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 8663
Minutes of the Board of Directors and various other committee meetings, memos, financials, scholarship and trustee files.

New York State College of Agriculture 4-H club records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-24-692
Mainly annual reports of the various New York State county 4-H Club agents.

New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Records of the Administrative Services Office   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-2-2142
Records include correspondence and memoranda on facilities and projects, program notes, and equipment lists. Also building and construction records.

New York State College of Agriculture Dept. of Vegetable Crops records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-35-1582
Survey and research data, subject files, and other records deriving from the Department, and pertaining to vegetable science and industry in New York State.

New York State College of Agriculture Finance and Business Office records, 1943-1959.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-4-784
General files of the Financial office

New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Economics records, 1892-1988   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-10-694
Correspondence and other records concerning the Department of Agricultural Economics.

New York State College of Agriculture. Dept. of Rural Sociology surveys, 1938-1966.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-33-1485
Collection includes schedules, interviewers' notes, correspondence, and other records containing information on individuals, households, farms, neighborhoods, and organizations gathered during the following projects in New York and elsewhere.

Office of the Director of Research department files, 1948-1967.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-12-1225
Department subject files and correspondence.

Pearson, Frank A. papers, 1923-1965   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-10-453
Professional correspondence, manuscripts by Pearson and Warren; notes; speeches and publications; lecture notes on prices; research material on cream; statistics; notes and drafts and related correspondence on world hunger, the price of gold, and foodstuffs. Also, photographs and slides of Cornell and other scenes and subjects.

Phillips, Elmer S. papers, [ca. 1943-1994]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-42-3218
Correspondence, lecture notes, publications, photographs, slides, and other papers of a Communications professor. Includes photographs of the 1937 Ithaca flood, aerial views of Cornell (1937) and movie films taken by Phillips, including Cornell University scenes, faculty members, academic activities, sports, campus events and agrciultural activities at Cornell. Includes silent black and white film, silent color film, and sound color film and copies of the American Wine Society Journal and the Tompkins County Hospital newsletter, Hospital Highlights.

Phillips, Everett Franklin papers, 1868-1950.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-768
Correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to bees and beekeeping.

Pimentel, David papers, 1949-2014.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-1453
Includes drafts, notes, reports, minutes, surveys, correspondence, and other papers of the President's Committee on the College of Agriculture; records of committees, commissions, and conferences in which Pimentel was active; correspondence; research proposal evaluations; papers; theses; manuscript reviews; experiment record book; experiment data notebooks of Pimentel and of students; reports; studies; articles written or co-written by Pimentel; National Science Foundation materials; computer data and cards; and other papers relating to Pimentel's work in entomology.

Randolph, Lowell Fitz papers, 1936-1979.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-17-1876
Manuscripts, correspondence, reports, publications, notes, and other papers concerning corn and iris breeding.

Rawlins, William Arthur papers, 1930-1972.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-23-1775
Papers include general correspondence, and correspondence and reports from Rawlins' work with the Food and Agricultural Organization's Mission to Poland and with the Ford Foundation in India.

Salpeter, Miriam papers, 1952-2003   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-45-3315
Includes correspondence, publications, course material, grant applications and audiocassette tapes related to Salpeter's career in the Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior.

Sanderson, Dwight papers, 1894-1960   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-33-73
Includes 43 annual diaries of appointments; bibliographies; student papers; correspondence; papers on the family, marriage, and other topics; lecture outlines for classes on rural sociology, social psychology, and sociology; publications by Sanderson; scrapbook of articles following his retirement; post retirement letters; a photocopied excerpt from A Brief History of Entomology at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas concerning Sanderson and Glenn W. Herrick (1960); five albums of photographs and postcards from European travels, 1925/1926 and 1935; and other materials pertaining to Sanderson's work in rural sociology and related fields. Also, letter from Pearl Buck, written from Nanking, China, July 6, 1930.

Sargent, William Dunlap Falconry papers, 1927-1965   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-18-1314
Includes correspondence concerning falconry, including letters to a young falconer (1947-1948) containing much information on the sport; photographs of hawks and falcons Sargent trained as hunters; drawings of hawks and falcons; and diagrams of furniture and fittings used in falconry.

Scheetz, Virginia deMorat Smith papers, 1941-1968, 1947-1968 (bulk)   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-18-1108
Includes notes from classes in ornithology, floriculture, and conservation; Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology newsletter, printed and promotional material, newspaper clippings, photographs, two tapes of bird calls by Myles North, and correspondence, minutes, and balance sheets of the Advisory Council; notes and correspondence regarding Scheetz' speeches; correspondence, minutes, newsletter, and yearbook of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; material on the Garden Club of America and the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania; and other correspondence, printed material, and miscellaneous papers of Virginia Scheetz.

Searle, Shayle papers, 1963-1994.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-40-3200
Course material on Statistics and Matrix Algebra courses taught by Professor Searle.

Simons, Lloyd R., Director of Extension papers, 1932-1935.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-24-108
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photoprints, publications, and other records of the Director of Extension of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University.

Sperling, Gladys A. papers, 1929-1987   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-14-3324
Correspondence files, subject files, talks and papers, reprints (both those in which Sperling is a co-author and ones by Clive McCay), and clippings. Also student notebooks, particularly in bacteriology.

Spofford, Sally Hoyt papers, 1923-1982   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-18-2374
Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and memoranda pertaining to the administration of the Laboratory of Ornithology and her other interests in ornithology; rough drafts of Arthur A. Allen correspondence and writings; Edna Lane's Bird and Flying Squirrel field notes; Christmas newsletters with photographs from Peter Paul Kellogg; and J. Southgate Hoyt field notes, manuscripts, drawings, a draft of his Ph.D. thesis, and photographs, primarily relating to the pileated woodpecker. Also, Arthur Allen slides that match Bird Song records and files relating to the Federation of New York State Bird Clubs.

Srb, Adrian M. papers, [ca. 1947-1997]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-28-3159.
Professional papers of Adrian M. Srb, geneticist and professor of plant breeding at Cornell.

Stycos, J. Mayone papers, 1955-2004.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 21-33-3171
Personal and professional papers and biographical information about Professor Stycos, sociologist, photographer and professor of sociology.

Thomas, Mason B. papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 37-5-62
Correspondence compiled by Herbert H. Whetzel, Head of the Department of Agricultural Botany at Cornell University, in preparation for biography of Mason Blanchard Thomas following his death.

Tomek, William papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-43-3918
Includes publications, presentations and course material.

Turk, Kenneth L. papers, 1951-1985.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-14-2116
Lecture notes, reports, and consultation and advisory papers prepared by Kenneth L. Turk. Includes material pertaining to the Rockefeller Foundation and several food and agricultural organizations, and agricultural programs in England, Asia, Hawaii, Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, India, Guatemala, Columbia, Chile, and the West Indies. Also, "Flashbacks: Selected Travel Experiences of Bernice and Kenneth Turk."

Turner, Clesson Nathan papers, [ca. 1926]-1987.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-11-810
Materials relating to Turner's career as professor and agricultural engineer.

Warren, George F. papers, 1892-1938   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-10-77
Materials pertaining to Warren's work in agricultural economics, both as a professor at Cornell and as a public policy advisor.


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