Oscar Diedrich von Engeln papers, 1866-1965.
Collection Number: 14-15-856
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Oscar Diedrich von Engeln papers, 1866-1965.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-15-856
Abstract:
Correspondence pertaining to von Engeln's years at Cornell as a student and professor
and to his writings on geology and Cornell history.
Creator:
Engeln, O. D. von (Oscar Diedrich), 1880-1965.
Quanitities:
6.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of geology, Cornell University.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Oscar Diedrich von Engeln papers, #14-15-856. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Correspondence pertaining to von Engeln's years at Cornell as a student and professor
and to his writings on geology and Cornell history; student notebooks and exams; manuscripts
of published and unpublished works; ice experiment notes by John L. Rich, 1911, later
published by von Engeln, 1914; ice surface rubbings; "Records of Physiographical Experiments,"
1915-1917; photographs and lantern slides of family, friends, colleagues and students,
geological subjects, and world travels, including oversized glass plates and negatives
of New York State Relief Maps; von Engeln's camera; photographs of natural features
in Turkestan taken by W. Rickmer Rickmers, with related correspondence; clippings;
scrapbooks, diaries; certificates and diplomas; and a family genealogy. Material pertaining
to Ralph S. Tarr, Professor of Geology, and reminiscences of other Geology Department
members. Also, letters (including one from T. C. Chamberlin), unpublished articles,
notes, two diaries, and photograph album (with identification) concerning Alaskan
trips in 1906 and 1907.
Names:
Chamberlin, Thomas C. (Thomas Chrowder), 1843-1928
Rickmers, Willi Rickmer, 1873-1965.
Cornell University. Department of Geology
Cornell University -- : Students.
Places:
Alaska -- Description and travel.
Ithaca (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Geology.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
William Dean Howell's letter
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1898 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1901-1913 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1914 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1915-1920 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1921-1929 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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1931-1949 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1952-1961 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1962-1963 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence and notes on Cayuga Rock Salt Company
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1919-1929 | ||
| Box 9 | Folder 2 |
Letter from T. C. Chamberlin to Oscar von Engeln
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June 24, 1914 | ||
| Box 9 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence regarding glacial lake history of the Cayuga Valley
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1933-1934 | ||
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Series II. Ralph S. Tarr Memorial
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Ralph S. Tarr Correspondence
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1905-1910 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Items pertaining to the death of Ralph S. Tarr
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1912 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Ralph S. Tarr Memorial: correspondence
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1913-1918 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Ralph S. Tarr Memorial: lists, letters, financial records
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1912-1919 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Ralph S. Tarr Memorial: suggestions re inscriptions
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1913 | ||
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Series III. Cornell and miscellaneous
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Genealogy and related items
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1866-1934 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Miscellany
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1891-1948 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Cornell items
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1904-1910 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Expenses of the Deaprtment of Physical Geography and Summer School Instruction
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Pamphlets for Geology I
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1912 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
"Cornell University Summer Session Geography and Geology" (draft)
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1914 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Sigma Gamma Epsilon miscellany
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1948-1949 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Clippings
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1902-1965 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Syllabus
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1905 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Ice experiments typescripts, rubbings, notebook
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1911 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Ice experiments typescripts, rubbings, notebook
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1911 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
"Before Ithaca" Articles
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| Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Broadside
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1919 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 7 |
History pf Cornell University Department of Geology
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1919-1938 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Cornell calendar
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1912 | ||
| Box 8 |
Miscellany, Cornelliana
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| Box 8 |
Book of Letters to von Engeln
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1948 | |||
| Box 8 |
Diary, Mrs. von Engeln (formerly Maude Graham Hewitt)
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1930 | |||
| Box 8 |
Records of physiographical experiments
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1913-1917 | |||
| Box 10 | MU-761 |
Gold stick pin, belonged to Prof. O.D. Von Engeln, oval outline with 2 narrow bars
across the center, Sigma Xi
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n.d. | ||
| Box 10 | MU-762 |
Oval shaped pin with an open book and the words "The Cornell Lion", gold inscription
on back: "D. Von Engeln 1908", Sigma Xi
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n.d. | ||
| Box 10 | MU-763 |
Gold Sigma Xi key with "O.D. Von Engeln" on back
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n.d. | ||
| Box 10 | MU-1402 |
Camera used by O. D. Von Engeln in Alaska
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1909, 1911 | ||
| Box 16 | Folder 2 |
Lewis B. Kelsey: term paper in Special Problems Geol. 208
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| Box 16 | Folder 3 |
Miscellany
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| Box 16 | Folder 4 |
Glacial Pebbles
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| Box 16 | Folder 5 |
Glaciers
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| Box 16 | Folder 6 |
Glaciers and Glaciation
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| Box 16 | Folder 8 |
Field notes
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1920-1930 | ||
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Series IV. Writings
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Reports, Essays and Drafts
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Reports, Essays and Drafts
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1919-1934 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Mss. by von Engeln
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1891-1936 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 26-28 |
Finger Lakes Region - Mss.
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Finger Lakes Region - Printed
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1960 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Finger Lakes Region - Galleys
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1960 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Principles of Geology, mss. foreword through chapter 3
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 4-8
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 9-11
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 12-13
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 14-16
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 17-18
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 19-21
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 22-24
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 25-26
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 27-29
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 30-32
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 33-36
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Principles of Geology, chapters 37-39
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Reminiscences, mss. pp 1-109
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Reminiscences, mss. pp 110-214
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| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Clippings, Reviews
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1934, 1961-1964 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 47-48 |
Reviews and Advertisements
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1961-1962 | ||
| Box 16 | Folder 7 |
Interglacial deposit in Central New York, manuscript handed to the Secretary of the
Geological Society
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1928 | ||
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Series V. Photographs
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Subseries I. Family, friends, other
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| Box 2 |
Photograph Albums
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| Box 3 |
Photograph Albums
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| Box 4 | Folder 1-4 |
Family
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Family and Other
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1906-1950 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Family and Other
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1906-1950 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 7-8 |
Family and Other
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1910-1963 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Family, students, and colleagues
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Family
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1903-1963 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 11-13 |
Friends and Colleagues
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1908-1963 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 14-15 |
Students, Cornell field excursions
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1907-1952 | ||
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Taughannock Falls (N.Y. : Waterfall).
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Enfield (N.Y.)
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Watkins Glen (N.Y.).
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| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Willard Straight Hall Party
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1947 | ||
| Box 11 |
New York State photograph album
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1920 | |||
| Box 5 |
Ithaca area geological photographs
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| Box 14 |
Autochrome of von Engeln and "Buzzie" with Helen Ogden
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ca. 1915 | |||
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Autochromes.
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Subseries II. Greenland expedition
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| Box 2 |
Photograph Albums
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1896 | |||
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Scope and Contents
Also includes photographs of travel to the Grand Canyon, Mexico, Venezuela, Barbados,
Martinique, and Italy.
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| Box 3 |
Photograph Albums
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1896 | |||
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Subseries III. Others expeditions
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| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Alaska expedition and Cornell Enfield excursion
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1906-1931 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Cornell and Alaska expeditions
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1896-1909 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Geological Expeditions
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1904-1950 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Glaciers
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1904 | ||
| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Ters-Agar
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| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
At Duwana
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| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Above Jailgan looking towards Tupchek
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| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Kalta-Karamk (just before Kizil-sn enters western gorge)
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| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Kalta-Karamk (eastern end of this broad section of Kisil-sn)
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| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
1 map
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| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Kem-Kuban
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| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Darant-Kurgan Panorama E-S-W, Trans-Alai Range
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| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Obi-niob
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| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Approaching the Garmo Glacier
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| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
View from Farna-Kub above Pashimgan to Darvaz
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| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Panorama of Tupchek; the Gildi
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| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Glacier and its Moraines
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| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Peter the Great and Zerin-Zamin from Range of Little Tupchek
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| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Around Little Tupchek
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| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Top-Kurgan
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| Box 14 |
Malloryville esker and Malloryville kames glass slides
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1928 | |||
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Subseries IV. Negatives
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| Box 16 | Folder 1 |
Index for 3"x4" slides
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Glass negatives
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| Box 13 |
Topographic sections of New York State on o/s glass negatives, two photocopies of
prints of maps [unidentified]
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19-- | |||
| Box 14 |
Cornell University glass negatives
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Scope and Contents
Include Senior Singing, Agricultural College, freshman year posters, Cornell invitations.
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| Box 14 |
Richford from Morainic Knoll looking west diagonal slide up Truncated Slope
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1922 | |||
| Box 14 |
Wattems
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| Box 14 |
Truncated Spur and slightly modified Valley on east side of Horesheads Elmira, trough
at Horseheads
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1925 | |||
| Box 14 |
Cortland, NY - South of glacially scoured divide notch - see maps, also note - Virgical
continuation of this valley
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1922 | |||
| Box 14 |
Labrador Hollow - West end from summit of hill west of village
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1922 | |||
| Box 14 |
Rock City, Olean-blocks of Olean conglomerate tilting down hill due to weathering
Alleghany Plateau level to south and west
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1925 | |||
| Box 14 |
Rock City, Olean - look NE surface of conglomerate and joints
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1925 | |||
| Box 14 |
Moraine - Cross section Six Mile
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| Box 14 |
Fall Creek
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| Box 14 |
Newark Valley
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1925 | |||
| Box 14 |
Near Headwaters of Chenango Creek, NY - view from road ro right leading up to 1761'
elevation. This is on Taylor Valley region, south of Fulton
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1922 | |||
| Box 14 |
Danby - looking down State Road toward East Notch and toward north wall of Danby Trough
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1922 | |||
| Box 14 |
Six Mile Creek - Entrance bridge in park
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1917 | |||
| Box 14 |
Dunde Region - Pony Hollow and Jackson Hollow Saddle - SW of Newfield
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| Box 17 |
Local area glass negatives
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Scope and Contents
Includes images of Keuka, Conesus, Honeoye and Canadice lakes. See Box 5 for prints
of some negatives.
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Film negatives
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Access to film negatives restricted to the permission of the curator.
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| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Moraine look at Reynoldsville-Bennettsburg - one from Cayuta Valley from hill on Nicklesburg
Road film negative
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1931 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Divide Area - obsequent and consequent streamheads near Candor - on Southside of Candor
- Van Ecttem Valley - First road west of Candor film negative
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1938 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Negatives of Oct. trip with Wold
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| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Jonet Face Univ. Quarty - Jonet Face of recok bing quarried for Taylor Hall University
Quarry - bottom of east side of road
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1931 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Shows glacier sculpture
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| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Tully Falls - Lower Taughanic
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1933 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Crowbar Point
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1933 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Truncated Spur - west side of Six Mile Valley from Coddington Road
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1934 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Tributary Valley north of Bold Hill on east side of Six Mile Valley
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1934 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Up Valley at Sweden Valley, PA - looks NE to NE - no ice glacial
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Excursion to Divide area around Cayuta, also Moraine Channel near Newfield, Oct.
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| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Whitstone Gulf Butresses - This gorge is so large because eroded just glacially in
very weak shales
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1935 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Overflow southward into Unadilla Creek Headwaters of high level lake founded in slope
of esearpment
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1935 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Terrace along east side of outlet - highway crossing near junction with Pony Hollow
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Downstream toward Cayuta Outlet (south) Terrance on west side of lower end (from highway
toward Pony Hollow)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Doubtful bedrock near divide, upheaved or transported? (lower gorge, near divide)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Place of divide, near position of photo above, looking downstream (lower gorge, divide)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Swamp at divide point looking south (lower gorge)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Ledge rock fall in tributary valley, NE side of gorge (above divides, lower gorge)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
View of north end of lower gorge toward SE
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
View of lower gorge valley from north end southward, hill in distance, flat area,
winding, local waste
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Cayuta Gorge (middle) outlet - junction with lower gorge. (middle gorge outwashed
at mouth, junction)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Upper Cayuta Gorge outlet north of junction with middle gorge (south of road bridge)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Fall hill east of which flows out outlet channel, head of middle gorge, west of which
lies present outlet channel (along road about one mile north of Alpine)
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1932 | ||
| Box 15 |
Ithaca area and Cornell film negatives
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| Box 15 | Folder 17 |
Mexico
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1936 | ||
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Subseries V. Postcard albums
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| Box 6 |
Post Card Albums
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1900-1930 | |||
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Scope and Contents
Includes travel postcards from Hawaii, Death Valley, Japan, China, Philippines, Singapore,
Penang, Malaya, Egypt, France, Monaco, Italy, and Germany.
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Series VI. Scrapbook
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| Box 7 |
Student Scrapbook
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Series VII. Certificates and diplomas
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| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
American Geographical Society Fellow
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1914 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
American Geographical Society Life Fellow
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1914 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Corporal, New York, State 4th Infantry, Company D
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1918 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Mrs. von Engeln, preparation of Red Cross surgical dressings instructor
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1918 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Mrs. von Engeln, Woman's Committee for Fifth Liberty Loan
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1919 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Acknowledgement of Mrs. von Engeln's service with the Fifth Liberty Loan
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1919 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Red Cross Membership
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1920 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
von Engeln elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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1928 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
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1929 | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Recognition of Mrs. von Engeln's services with the Red Cross
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n.d. | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Encyclopedia Britannica contributor
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n.d. | ||
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Cornell Geological Society membership
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n.d. | ||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Maude Graham Hewitt, academic diploma from Margaretville, N.Y., High School
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1904 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Maude Graham Hewitt, high school diploma, Margaretville, N.Y., High School
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1904 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Maude Graham Hewitt, advanced academic diploma, Margaretville, N.Y., High School
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March-June 1905 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Oscar von Engeln, B.A. from Cornell University
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1908 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Maude Graham Hewitt, B.A. from Cornell University
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1909 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Marriage certificate of von Engeln and Maude Graham Hewitt
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1910 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Oscar von Engeln, Ph.D. from Cornell Unievrsity
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1911 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Maude Graham Hewitt, initiation certificate from Delta Zeta Sorority
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1919 | |||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Association of American Geographers membership
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Paper designating von Engeln United States delegate to the international Geographical
Congress, held in Warsaw beginning Aug. 23, 1934
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1934 | |||
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Series VIII. Alaskan trips; 1906, 1909
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| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Cornell and Alaska Expeditions
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1896-1909 | ||
| Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Cornell exploring party
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1906, 1909 | ||
| Box 9 |
Unpublished articles, notes, two diaries, and a photo album concerning Alaskan expeditions
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1906, 1909 | |||