Guide to the Elfriede Abbe Papers,
1840-2010

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
1952-1954	Dard Hunter watermark on sheet of paper and envelope	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
	Abbe family - Cleveland Abbe	Box 3	Folder 13
	Includes Cleveland Abbe's 1901 US Passport for trip to Pulkova Observatory
ca. 1898-1922	Cleveland Abbe photos and 1922 passport	Box 3	Folder 14
1903-1981	Frieda Dauer Abbe	Box 3	Folder 15
ca. 1903	Abbe family	Box 3	Folder 16
1884-1944	Misc. programs, certificates, articles	Box 3	Folder 17
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
	Photographs of family and friends	Box 5	Folder 13
	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 "The Hunter" by Elfriede Abbe	Box 7
	Wood engraving titled “Stronghold”, pictures from “The Revelation of St. John the Divine” panels, pencil sketch of mother and self-portrait	Box 7
1939-1985	Certificates and awards	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
	Printing block: Seal of Gardner, Maine	Box 12
1970-2008	pictures of art work with correspondence	Box 13	Folder 1
	Abbe Museum	Box 13	Folder 2
	Letters, student project	Box 13	Folder 3
	Art	Box 13	Folder 4
	Publications with art	Box 13	Folder 5
	Exhibitions	Box 13	Folder 6
	Programs, etc.	Box 13	Folder 7
	Magazines	Box 13	Folder 8
	Swann Galleries	Box 13	Folder 9
	City of Carcassonne	Box 13	Folder 10
	Clippings	Box 13	Folder 11
1972-1997	Biographical information and clippings	Box 14	Folder 1
1978-1994	Invitations, programs, etc	Box 14	Folder 2
1980-2001	Abbe Museum	Box 14	Folder 3
1940-1960	Professional correspondence	Box 14	Folder 4
1970	Professional correspondence	Box 14	Folder 5
1980's	Professional correspondence	Box 14	Folder 6
1990's	Professional correspondence	Box 14	Folder 7
2000's	Professional correspondence	Box 14	Folder 8
n.d.	Professional correspondence	Box 14	Folder 9
1968	Letter regarding Mary Bovier	Box 14	Folder 10
1961-1987	Pignatti, Erika and Sandro	Box 14	Folder 11
1947	Sumner letter	Box 14	Folder 12
1968-1985	"Valley Forge" loss	Box 14	Folder 13
	"The Sculpture of Elfriede Abbe" (annotated)	Box 14	Folder 14
	Folder of Ivan Mestrovic letters in MSS file	Box 26
1989	Broadside of Geoffry Chaucer's prologue to "Tales of Canterbury", printed by J. Tyler for Elfriede Abbe's 70'th birthday, in MSS file	Box 46
	Mahogany sculpture of Ptolemy, by Elfriede Abbe, displayed in Reference Room of Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (MU-1313)
	Wood panel carving "Edge of the Pond", by Elfriede Abbe (MU-1314)	Mapcase

Guide to the Elfriede Abbe Papers,1840-2010

Collection Number: 13-7-1102

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

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Guide to the Elfriede Abbe Papers,
1840-2010

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library