© 2010 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cornell Cooperative
Extension Teaching and Information Dept. recordings,
[ca.
1937-1955]
Collection Number:
21-24-950
Creator:
Cornell University.Cooperative
Extension.Teaching and Information Dept.
Quantity:
183 phonograph
albums,
Forms of Material:
Audio Recordings
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
183 twelve and sixteen inch records of
speeches, interviews, and informal talks by such figures in the field of
agriculture and related professions.
Language:
Collection material in
English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
183 twelve and sixteen inch records of speeches, interviews, and
informal talks by such figures in the field of agriculture and related
professions as Bristow Adams, Howard E. Babcock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cornelius
Betton, Louis Bromfield, Thomas E. Dewey, Edward R. Eastman, Glen W. Herrick,
Carl Ladd, Clyde Moore, William I. Myers, Edward O'Neal, E. Lawrence Palmer,
James E. Rice, James B. Sumner, and Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.; recordings made by
well-known personalities in other fields such as Hans Bethe talking on atomic
energy (1945), Edward R. Murrow on V-J Day (1945), and Anthony Eden and Bidault
on V-E Day; recordings of important Cornell programs such as the Thurston
Memorial Celebration (1939), and the launching of the victory ship CORNELL
VICTORY (1945); recordings of other events of regional interest in New York
State such as the inaugural program radio station WENY (Elmira), and two
recorded programs of the New York State Historical Plays Series; recordings
concerning the Nature Study Program at Cornell; numerous agricultural and home
economics technical extension programs; and a number of recorded performances
of Cornell University choral and instrumental groups.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Cornell University.
Adams, Bristow,
1875-1957.
Babcock, Howard E.
Bethe, Hans Albrecht,
1906-
Betten, Cornelius.
Bidault, Georges.
Bromfield, Louis,
1896-1956.
Dewey, Thomas E.(Thomas Edmund),
1902-1971.
Eastman, Edward R.
Herrick, Glenn W.(Glenn
Washington), 1870-1965.
Ladd, C. E.(Carl Edwin), b.
1888.
Moore, Clyde.
Murrow, Edward R.
Myers, William Irving,
1891-1976.
O'Neal, Edward Asbury.
Palmer, Ephraim Lawrence,
1888-
Rice, James E.
Sumner, James B.
Van Wagenen, Jared,
Cornell
University--Faculty.
Cornell University--Songs and
music.
Cornell University.
Cornell University.Nature Study
Program.
Cornell Victory (ship)
New York State College of
Agriculture.
WENY (radio station : Elmira,
N.Y.)
Subjects:
Agriculture--New York
(State)
Agricultural extension work--New
York (State)
Home economics extension work--New
York (State)
Nature study.
Nuclear energy.