Guide to the Wilder Bancroft Papers,
1896-1953

Collection Number: 14-8-135

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Date completed:
May 1974
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, September 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Wilder Bancroft papers, 1896-1953.
Collection Number:
14-8-135
Creator:
Wilder D. (Wilder Dwight) Bancroft, 1867-1953.
Quantity:
10.9 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, student reports, and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Personal correspondence; professional correspondence relating to electrochemistry, physical chemistry, pandemic chemistry, cloud dispersal and rainmaking, and other chemical studies; student reports; materials relating to professional societies; records relating to the John Bancroft Estate; and other miscellaneous professional papers.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Wilder D. Bancroft was professor of chemistry at Cornell University.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Personal correspondence; professional correspondence relating to electrochemistry, physical chemistry, pandemic chemistry, cloud dispersal and rainmaking, and other chemical studies; student reports; materials relating to professional societies; records relating to the John Bancroft Estate; and other miscellaneous professional papers.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Bancroft, Wilder D. (Wilder Dwight), 1867-1953.
Bancroft, John.
Cornell University--Faculty.

Subjects:
Chemistry--Study and teaching.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Wilder Bancroft papers, #14-8-135. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Biographical material
 Box 1
Misc. personal material
 Box 1
Biographies of other scientists
 Box 1
Professional societies
 Box 1
Degrees and honorary memberships
 Box 1
Photographs
 Box 2
Financial and legal papers
Patents
 Box 3
Contracts and power of attorney
 Box 3
Personal and domestic bills for the year 1916
Box 3
John Bancroft estate
Management and settlement of the estate
 Box 4
"Japanese goods" material
 Box 4
Journal of Physical Chemistry
1897
W.D. Bancroft, editor and co-founder
 Box 5
1921-1925
Financial records
 Box 5
Pandemic Chemistry: research and lecture material arranged according to outline of Pandemic Chemistry course
General information and lectures
 Box 6
Lectures
 Box 7
Lectures
 Box 8
Swarthmore lectures
 Box 8
Westbrook lectures
 Box 8
Marshall Field lectures
 Box 8
Lecture books
1911-1931
Colloid chemistry
 Box 9
1896-1900
Mass law
 Box 9
Lectures and notebooks
1895-1930
Electrochemistry
 Box 10
1905-1935
Physical chemistry
 Box 10
Graduate and research work
Abrasives
 Box 11
Quicksand
 Box 11
Misc. reports
 Box 11
Misc. research reports
 Box 12
Industrial research reports and professional opinions
 Box 13
1912-1913
Student's lab research reports
 Box 14
Misc. notebooks and catalogues
 Box 14
Research in charcoal
 Box 15
Copy
 Box 15
Pamphlets on anthocyanins
 Box 15
Book: "Luther Burbank" by W.D.B.
 Box 15
Cloud dispersal and rain making: correspondence and research materials
 Box 16
Copy for pamphles, "Heredity and Environment" by W.D.B.
 Box 17
Misc. physical chemistry (papers, notes, graphs)
 Box 18
Misc. colloid and electro chemistry (notes, papers, graphs)
 Box 19
Pamphlets and magazines
 Box 20
Record of the work done in the laboratory of applied physiology
 Box 21
Correspondence
pre-1900, 1902-1904
Box 22
1905-1906
Box 23
1907-1909 , A-C
Box 24
1909 , D-H
Box 25
1910 , A-W
Box 26
1911-1913 , A-M
Box 27
1913 , N-Z
Box 28
1914-1915
Box 29
1916
Box 30
1917-1920
Box 31
1921-1922
Box 32
1923-1925
Box 33
1926-1930
Box 34
1931-1932
Box 35
1933-1953 and undated
Box 36
Accounts
 Box 37
Other material
 Box 38