Guide to the William Dunlap Sargent Falconry Papers,
1927-1965

Collection Number: 21-18-1314

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
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Compiled by:
R. Strassberg
Date completed:
April 1971
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, February 2002

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
William Dunlap Sargent Falconry papers, 1927-1965
Collection Number:
21-18-1314
Creator:
William Dunlap Sargent, 1908-1965.
Quantity:
1.7 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, photographs, drawings, and diagrams.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes correspondence concerning falconry, including letters to a young falconer (1947-1948) containing much information on the sport; photographs of hawks and falcons Sargent trained as hunters; drawings of hawks and falcons; and diagrams of furniture and fittings used in falconry.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

William Dunlap Sargent, an authority on falconry, studied ornithology at Cornell University under Arthur A. Allen, graduating in 1931, receiving an M.S. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1936. He taught limnology and ecology at Cornell, 1932-1936, and taught limnology, stream improvement, conservation, and ornithology at City College of New York. He also illustrated books on biology and was a bird artist.

CHRONOLOGY
1908 Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 15
1926 Graduated from the Lincoln School of Teacher's College
Summer Staff Entomologist in the museum maintained by AMAH at Kanokwakke Lakes Scout Camp
Entered Cornell University
1927 Summer Junior Nature Counselor, Camp Lincoln, Keeseville, N.Y.
1928 Entomology Museum at Kanokwakke Lakes Camp
1929 Summer Biological Survey of a trout stream for Tuscarora Club, Arena, N.Y.
1930 Summer member of West Virginia University Zoological Field Expedition under Dr. J.G. Needham
1931 B.S., Cornell
1930-1931 Biological Survey of Mashpee River for Mr. J.W. Farley, Boston, Mass.
1932 M.S., Cornell
Summer Survey of North Hudson drainage, fish food unit
1932-1936 Instructor of Ecology and Limnology at Cornell
1936 Ph.D., Cornell, in Limnology
1937-1948 Biology Instructor at City College of N.Y.
1948-1961 Assistant Professor, C.C.N.Y.
1961-1965 Associate Professor, C.C.N.Y.
1965 Died
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence from the 1930s and 1940s concerning falconry, including letters to a young falconer (1947-1948) containing much information on the sport; photographs of hawks and falcons Sargent trained as hunters; drawings of hawks and falcons; and diagrams of furniture and fittings used in falconry.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Sargent, William Dunlap, 1908-1965.
Cornell University--Faculty.

Subjects:
Falconry.
Falcons.
Hawks.
Ornithology.
College teachers.
Falconers.
Ornithologists.

Form and Genre Terms:
Drawings.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
William Dunlap Sargent Falconry Papers, #21-18-1314. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence on falconry Box 1
Series II. Student notes and thesis Box 1
Series III. Articles and speeches Box 1
Series IV. Subject files Boxes 2-4
Series V. Photographs Box 5
Series VI. Card files Boxes 6-8
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Series I. Correspondence on falconry
Correspondence, 1927, 1931, 1933-1936, 1938-Aug. 1941
Box 1 Folder 1
Dr. Walter R. Spofford, Minard Stevens, Louis J. Halle, Jr.
Correspondence, 1941-1943, 1945
Box 1 Folder 2
Thomas Ennenga, Louis Halle, Jr., William Russell, Jr., Walter Spofford, Robert Stabler
Correspondence, 1947-1948
Box 1 Folder 3
Bob Maull, Jr.
Correspondence, 1946-1950
Box 1 Folder 4
Richard Pough, Howard Richardson, William Russell, Jr., Williston Shor, Walter Spofford
Correspondence, 1933, 1941, 1952, 1953, 1963, 1965, and n.d.
Box 1 Folder 5
Edward Reid, Walter Spofford, Minard Stevens, includes response to card dated 11-6-33 from Eugene Smith that is in box 1 folder 1
Series II. Student notes and thesis
Ornithology lecture notes, 1929, 1933, 1934
Box 1 Folder 6
Lectures on definition, characteristics, origin and migration of birds, and falconry
Thesis: "The Training of a Red-Tailed Hawk" (2 copies), 1936
Box 1 Folder 7
Series III. Articles and speeches
Draft speeches and published and unpublished articles, 1934-1936, 1939, and n.d.
Box 1 Folder 8
"A Visit with the Falconer of the Falcon Field," "Hawks," "Nest Parasitism of Hawks," "The Prairie Falcons of Williams Canyon Colorado," "The Flying Dutchess," "The Training of a Red-Tailed Hawk," "The Internal Thoracic Skeleton of the Dragonflies"
Series IV. Subject files
Anatomy and osteology (drawings, reprints), 1927, 1941, and n.d.
Box 2 Folder 1
William L. Engels, E. Sunderville
Bibliographical notes
 Box 2 Folder 2
Bird-banding (bulletin)
 Box 2 Folder 3
"How to Band Nestling Hawks, Owls, and Eagles"
Care and management (articles, thesis), 1826, 1890, 1935, 1936
Box 2 Folder 4
John Downes, "Observations on Falconry"; Col. E. Delme Radcliff, "Falconry"; George G. Goodwin, "Winged Monarchs of the Air"
Drawings, sketches, and watercolors of falcons
 Box 2 Folder 5
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
 Box 2 Folder 6
Locations of nests of falcons, in the U.S. and abroad
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
 Box 2 Folder 7
Locations of falcon nests by state: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
 Box 2 Folder 8
Locations of falcon nests by state: Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
 Box 2 Folder 9
Locations of falcon nests by state: New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
 Box 2 Folder 10
Locations of falcon nests by state: Pennsylvania
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
 Box 2 Folder 11
Locations of falcon nests by state or territory: South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Panama Canal Zone and Puerto Rico
Falcon measurements and weights
 Box 2 Folder 12
Weight and measurements of several falcon species, including the peregrine, sparrow hawk, and pigeon hawk
Falcon notes
 Box 2 Folder 13
Vitamins, minerals, mews, medicine, hooding, scouring, imping, flying falcons, falcon sounds, caring for hawks, peregrine watching
Falcon records
 Box 2 Folder 14
Statistics and activities of three peregrines and one prairie falcon
Falcons, Keys and Taxonomy of (manuscripts)
 Box 2 Folder 15
Descriptions and characteristics of the families of falcons, article on taxonomy of the Palaearctic Goshawk
Falcons and hawks (bulletins, reprints, reports, advertising material, 2 photos), 1929-1943 and n.d.
Box 3 Folder 11
U.S. Dept. Agr. bulletins on parasites and diseases in poultry, mites and lice on poultry, movie ad with two photos, hawk reprints
Falcons, pictures (magazine clippings, lithographs)
 Box 3 Folder 13
Various pictures displaying hawks, falcons, vultures, and eagles
Falcon specimens, list of
 Box 3 Folder 8
Lists of collected American Falconiformes
Falconry articles, 1913-1914, 1920, 1930-1939
Box 3 Folder 8
Hawk and falcon articles, 1920 National Geographic article by Louis A. Fuertes
Falconry clippings, 1930-1948 and n.d.
Box 3 Folder 7
Art of falconry, early falconry, Sargent's work
Falconry articles, 1940-1943, 1946-1948
Box 3 Folder 9
Articles on eagles, hawks, falcons
Falconry articles, 1952, 1954-1955, 1960, 1964, and n.d.
Box 3 Folder 10
Articles on eagles, falcons, albatross
Falconry, bulletins and journals, 1940-1943, 1954
Box 3 Folder 8
List of falconers, Journals of American Falconers' Association, Journals of the Falconers' Association of North America, Bulletins of Westchester Hawking Club and American Amateur Falconers' Association
Furniture and fittings (articles, photos, mss. diagrams)
 Box 3 Folder 5
Trappings and gear used in falconry with diagrams
Hawks, field identification of, 1939
Box 3 Folder 4
Illustrations of characteristics of hawks for field identification, including wingspread dimensions
Hawk migration, 1939-1940
Box 4 Folder 1
Annual report of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association, Goshawk flight
Hawks, notes on living birds, 1938-1940
Box 4 Folder 2
Study skin notes on collected hawks
Hawks, owls, and other birds of prey, 1929-1939
Box 4 Folder 3
Articles on hawks and owls; birds of prey; food habits of Buteo hawks, eagles, hawks, and vultures; the bald eagle
Hawks--trapping, 1935 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 4
Articles on shooting hawks, methods of hawk trapping
Maps, nest sites marked
 Box 4 Folder 5
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico
Maps, nest sites marked
 Box 4 Folder 6
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia
Maps, 1916 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 7
North America, Canada, Newfoundland and Greenland, United States with nesting sites of the duck hawk (peregrine falcon)
"Observations on the Peregrine Falcon" by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (typescript--published article)
 Box 4 Folder 8
Parasitology and pathology (notes, articles, photos), 1925 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 9
Notes on two diseases of hawks, articles on blood parasites of birds, and external parasites of birds; list of the cestodes (worms) of the falcons; note on delousing hawks
Quarry (magazine articles and pictures), 1940
Box 4 Folder 10
Prey of the falcons
Quotations
 Box 4 Folder 11
Falconry quotations from Shakespeare, poems, a German quotation, and the Falconer's Song
Study skin notes
 Box 4 Folder 12
Peregrine falcon study skin statistics
Wings (diagrams, notes, magazine illustrations)
 Box 4 Folder 13
Wings of the falcon with drawings showing various movements and positions
Series V. Photographs
Photographs of falcons and climbing expeditions to eyries
 Box 5 Folder 1
Series VI. Card files, etc.
Card file (3"x5") on falconry
 Box 6
Books, articles and manuscripts by title and author, falconry topic references, locations of eyries by country and state
Card file (3"x5")
 Box 7
References on birds and falcons, address index, bibliography on thorax of odonata
Falcon drawing
 Box 8 Folder 1
"Falconry," Field, Aug. 5, 1871 (photocopy)
Box 8 Folder 2