Guide to the Elfriede Abbe Papers,
1939-1989

Collection Number: 13-7-1102

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Date	Description	Container
1939	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 1
1940-1949	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 2
1950-1951	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 3
1952-1954	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 4
1955-1957	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 5
1958-1959	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 6
1960-1962	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 7
1963	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 8
1964-1965	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 9
1966-1967	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 10
1968-1969	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 11
1970-1976	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 12
1977-1979	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 13
1980	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 14
1981	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 15
1982	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 16
1983	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 17
1984	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 18
1985-1987	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 19
1988-1990	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 20
1960-1965	The Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library	Box 2	Folder 1
1921-1924	Harriet Allen correspondence	Box 2	Folder 2
n.d.	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 3-5
1960	Diary of trip to Europe	Box 2	Folder 6
1961	Diary of trip to Europe	Box 2	Folder 7
	"An Artist Looks at the Georgics" - summary, drafts of purpose of essay	Box 2	Folder 8
1964-1965	Talks by Elfriede Abbe	Box 2	Folder 9
1965	"Walter Conrad Muensche" - reprint	Box 2	Folder 10
	Receipts and bills	Box 2	Folder 11
1957, 1965, 1987	Certificates	Box 2	Folder 12
	Miscellaneous: newsletters, announcements, articles, releases, exhibit catalogs, invitations	Box 2	Folder 13-16
	Newspaper clippings	Box 2	Folder 17-18
	Photographs - Elfriede Abbe at sculpting work	Box 2	Folder 19
	Photograph - Abbe at printing work	Box 2	Folder 20
	Portraits of Elfriede Abbe	Box 2	Folder 21-22
1989	60th Anniversary - Festival of the Arts, Manchester, Vermont	Box 2	Folder 23
1840-1850	George Waldo Abbe and Charlotte Colgate Abbe correspondence	Box 3	Folder 1
1851-1855	George Waldo Abbe and Charlotte Colgate Abbe correspondence	Box 3	Folder 2
1857-1903	George Waldo Abbe and Charlotte Colgate Abbe correspondence	Box 3	Folder 3
1916-1917, 1963	Cleveland Abbe biographical material	Box 3	Folder 4
1895-1900, 1931, 1935	Cleveland Abbe, Jr. account books; biographical material	Box 3	Folder 5
1902	Journal of European trip - geological notes and sketches, and expense account of Cleveland Abbe, Jr.	Box 3	Folder 6
	Abbe biographical information	Box 3	Folder 7
1988	National Geographic Society Centennial	Box 3	Folder 8
ca. 1909-1914	Tata, Hungary - Count Tege von Konkoly	Box 3	Folder 9
1969	Two portfolio covers for Abbe letters given to Cleveland Abbe, Jr. by Harriet Colgate Abbe	Box 3	Folder 10
	Abbe miscellany	Box 3	Folder 11
1917	Albrecht Penck	Box 3	Folder 12
1969	Correspondence re: Letters of George Waldo Abbe and Charlotte Colgate Abbe	Box 4	Folder 1
1968	Volume - Letters of George Waldo Abbe and Charlotte Colgate Abbe	Box 4	Folder 2
1852-1867	William Colgate Abbe correspondence	Box 4	Folder 3
1870-1879	William Colgate Abbe correspondence	Box 4	Folder 4
1856, 1875	Talitha Abbe correspondence	Box 4	Folder 5
	Photograph of Cleveland Abbe, Jr.	Box 4	Folder 6
1898	Photograph of Cleveland Abbe, Jr.	Box 4	Folder 7
1905	Photographs (2) of Mrs. Cleveland Abbe, Jr.	Box 4	Folder 8
ca. 1921	Photograph of Mrs. Cleveland Abbe, Jr. and Elfriede Abbe	Box 4	Folder 9
1907	Photograph of Ernst Cleveland Abbe and parents	Box 4	Folder 10
	Photograph of Dog Hill Road (Moses Cleveland Abbe's farm estate was called Dog Hill)	Box 4	Folder 11
	Photograph of Mt. Abbe, Johns Hopkins Fiord, Glacier Bay, Alaska, named for Cleveland Abbe, Jr.	Box 4	Folder 12
1905	Photograph of decorations of the U.S. Geological Survey for Roosevelt inauguration	Box 4	Folder 13
	Photograph of Prof. and Mrs. Cleveland Abbe	Box 5	Folder 1-2
ca. 1860s	Daguerreotype of William Colgate Abbe	Box 5	Folder 3
	Daguerreotype of Talitha Waldo Abbe	Box 5	Folder 4
	Daguerreotype of Moses Cleveland Abbe	Box 5	Folder 5
ca. 1903-1908	Photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Cleveland Abbe, Jr., "Aunt Harriet"	Box 5	Folder 6
	Hand-colored lantern slide of Charlotte Colgate Abbe	Box 5	Folder 7
	Photograph of George Waldo Abbe	Box 5	Folder 8
	Photograph of Ernst C. Abbe	Box 5	Folder 9
	Photograph and news clipping of Mary "Aunt Mollie" O'Toole, godmother of Elfriede Abbe	Box 5	Folder 10
	Photographs re: Elfriede Abbe	Box 5	Folder 11
	Photograph of Walter Conrad Muenscher plaque	Box 5	Folder 12
	Original wood engravings which were reproduced as illustrations for Plants of Virgil's Georgics (3 matted prints in map case)	Box 6	Folder 1
	The Georgics of Virgin - English translation	Box 6	Folder 2
	The Plants of Virgil's Georgics - page proofs, notes, etc.	Box 6	Folder 3
	The Plants of Virgil's Georgics - draft	Box 6	Folder 4
	Christmas Card 1954 - wood engraving	Box 6	Folder 5
	3 matted prints	Box 7
	3 original prints	Box 7
1939	1 blueprint of location and pedestal for sculpture by Elfriede Abbe	Box 7
	1 printing block: Seal of Gardner, Maine	Box 7
1901	Photographs taken in Europe by Cleveland Abbe, Jr.	Box 8
1955	Volume - Garden Spice and Wild Pot-Herbs	Box 9
	Miscellaneous catalogs and publications	Box 10
1978-1988	Elfriede Abbe engagement books (11)	Box 11
	6 wood printing blocks	Box 12
	3 framed prints	Box 12
	Folder of material in MSS file	Box 26

Guide to the Elfriede Abbe Papers,1939-1989

Collection Number: 13-7-1102

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

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Guide to the Elfriede Abbe Papers,
1939-1989

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library