Benton Sullivan Monroe papers, 1795-1963.
Collection Number: 14-12-1356
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Benton Sullivan Monroe papers, 1795-1963.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-12-1356
Abstract:
Professional papers include correspondence, reprints, notes, student papers, a scrapbook
concerning a Cornell Smoking Contest in which Professor Monroe was the winner, and
other material related to Cornell University. Personal papers include Monroe family
material; correspondence; accounts; material on Ithaca High School, Cornell University,
Alpha Zeta, Town & Gown Club, and Rotary Club; certificates and diplomas; Cornell
broadsides; political broadsides and memorabilia; scrapbooks; and local history material
on Romulus, Varick, and Ithaca, New York.
Creator:
Monroe, Benton Sullivan, 1873-1968.
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of English, Cornell University.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Benton Sullivan Monroe papers, #14-12-1356. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Professional papers include correspondence, reprints, notes, student papers, a scrapbook
concerning a Cornell Smoking Contest in which Professor Monroe was the winner, and
other material related to Cornell University, including records of the Commission
on English, 1929-1931. Personal papers include Monroe family material; correspondence;
accounts; deeds (1818-1851), bonds, almanacs, and newspapers; material on Ithaca High
School, Cornell University, Alpha Zeta, Town & Gown Club, and Rotary Club; certificates
and diplomas; Cornell broadsides; political broadsides and memorabilia; scrapbooks;
and local history material on Romulus, Varick, and Ithaca, New York.
Names:
Monroe family.
Alpha Zeta
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University. Commission on English
Ithaca High School (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Rotary Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Town & Gown Club
Subjects:
College teachers.
English language -- Study and teaching.
Form and Genre Terms:
Almanacs.
Deeds.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Professional Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Flugel, Ewald
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April 29, 1902 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Flugel, Ewald
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October 26, 1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Emerson, O.F.
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January 22, 1907 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
McKnight, G.H., Ohio State U. English Dept.
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February 26, 1907 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Emerson, O.F.
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Mar. 3, 1907 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Bright, James William
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May 30, 1908 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Child, Clarence G.
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September 26, 1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Tatlock, John S.P.
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December 13, 1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Emerson, O.F.
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September 18, 1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Wells, John Edwin
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September 19, 1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Spingarn, J.E.
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September 19, 1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Edlund, R.C.
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October 11, 1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Emerson, O.F. (sig. cut out)
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November 5, 1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Flugel, Ewald
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November 20, 1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Steeves, H.R.
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November 29, 1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Andrews, Eugene P. re: his approaching marriage
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February 20, 1919 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Kennedy, Charles William
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July 8, 1919 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Gutstadt, M.M., manager, Lyceum Theatre, Ithaca
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November 29, 1920 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Gutstadt, M.M.
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December 29, 1920 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Montgomery, Lois E., Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.
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October 2, 1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Montgomery, Lois E.
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December 18, 1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Smith, Lou; Ruthschild, Jacob; and Hickey, Joseph F.- joint invitation
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Mar. 3, 1925 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Farrand, Livingston
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December 2, 1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Ogden, Robert M.
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December 5, 1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Hull, Charles H.
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May 4, 1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Dondare (?), Dorothy
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February 26, 1932 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Professional Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Coon, Arthur M.
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May 25, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Bald, R.C.
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June 19, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Monroe, B.S.
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October 4, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Burnham, Josephine M.
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September 2, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Brooks, Ruth Ann Louise
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September 11, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
McGuire, Ritchie
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November 17, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Monroe
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October 5, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Monroe
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October 5, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Betten, Cornelius
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November 26, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Monroe
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Eaton, Horace A.
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May 1, 1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Monroe
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May 3, 1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Lyon, George W.
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September 27, 1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Malott, Deane W.
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November 4, 1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Willcox, Walter F.
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October 2, 1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Willcox, Walter F.
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September 25, 1955 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Professional Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Timmerman, Lynn D.
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April 23 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Willcox, Walter, reprints
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1931, 1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Edith Harrison, poetry
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1934 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Walter French, draft
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Robert C. Fenner, talk
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Monroe - Reprints
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Alumni News Faculty Committee
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Hart on Phonology
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Gothic and Old English Philology
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Old English - Notes
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Old English Exams
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1905-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Students' Essays
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Student Notebook - Old English
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
American Dialect Society
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
College Entrance Examination Board - Meeting
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Gould Colman - Oral History
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Cornell - Art
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Award
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Cornell - Buildings
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Cornell - Class Activities
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Cornell - Class of 1896
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Cornell - Class of 1896 - Reunions
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Cornell - Class Day
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Cornell - Ezra Cornell
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Cornell Drama Clubs - programs
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Delicate Brown
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| Box 1 | Folder 26-27 |
Cornell - History
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Cornell - Inauguration
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1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Cornell - Invitations, programs
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Cornell - Lectures and forms
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Cornell - Library
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Cornell - Menu
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| Box 1 | Folder 33-34 |
Cornell - Miscellaneous
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Cornell - Miscellaneous correspondence, incl. letter from John Henry Comstock to Wm.
E. Sullivan,
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September 13, 1875 |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Cornell - Music clubs - programs
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Cornell - People
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Cornell Phi Beta Kappa
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Cornell Phi Beta Kappa - Reunions
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Cornell - Presidents
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Cornell - Sage College
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Cornell Statistics
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1873, 1880 |
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Cornell Scrapbook
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1910-1911 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Monroe Family - Family Papers
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Monroe Family - Romulus Post Office Record
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Certificates - Monroe Family
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1887-1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
May Lawrence - School Papers
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1887-1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Addie Snyder - School Papers
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1867-1877 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Sophronia Sullivan - School Papers
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1866-1868 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Ithaca High School Class of 1890 - correspondence and miscellaneous
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
High School Papers
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1890-1892 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Student Essays
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1891-1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Latin 7 Notebook
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1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
"Sicyon" Archeology Notebook
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Student Notebook
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1897-1898 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13-14 |
Exams
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Alpha Eta Pi Scrapbook
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Alpha Zeta - Mss.
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| Box 2 | Folder 17-18 |
Alpha Zeta
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| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Town & Gown Club - Organization
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Town & Gown Club - Events
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Ithaca Rotary Club - Notes
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| Box 2 | Folder 22-23 |
Ithaca Rotary Club
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| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Ithaca Rotary Club - "Ted" Monroe Day
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1963 |
| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Tape Recording
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| Box 2 | Folder 26-27 |
Personal Correspondence
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| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Personal Correspondence - Parmelee Family
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| Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Accounts
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1925 |
| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Accounts
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1926 |
| Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Accounts
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1927 |
| Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Accounts
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1928 |
| Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Accounts
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1929 |
| Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Accounts
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1930 |
| Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Accounts
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1931-1933 |
| Box 2 | Folder 36-37 |
Personal - Miscellaneous
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| Box 2 | Folder 38 |
World War II Ration Book
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| Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Ithaca - Business
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| Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Ithaca - City Government
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| Box 2 | Folder 41-42 |
Ithaca High School
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| Box 2 | Folder 43 |
Drawings - Dwight R. Collin - Ithaca High School
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1890 |
| Box 2 | Folder 44 |
Ithaca - Maps
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| Box 2 | Folder 45 |
Ithaca - Manuscripts
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| Box 2 | Folder 46-47 |
Ithaca - Organizations
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Lecture Notes
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| Box 3 | Folder 2-3 |
Children's Books
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Regents' Pass Cards - Benton S. Monroe
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Award Cards - Nina Elson
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Ithaca High School - Photographs
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| Box 3 | Folder 7-9 |
Town & Gown Club - Postcards
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Rotary Club Clippings
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Rotary Club Notes
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Membership Cards
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Miscellaneous invitations and calling cards
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
School Awards (blank)
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Seneca County checks
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Monroe Family - Geneva, Ithaca & Sayre Railroad tickets
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| Box 4 | Folder 5-6 |
Postcards
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| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Card Game Scorebooks
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Autograph Book - Mrs. David Monroe
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1876-1884 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Autograph Book - May Lawrence
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1868-1869 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10-11 |
Photographs
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Local History - Miscellaneous
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Lincoln Assassination - clipping
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| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Photographs - Ithaca scenes - people
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| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Photographs - Cornell
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| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Photographs - Ithaca organizations and people
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| Box 4 |
Ithaca High School diploma - Nina Lulu Elston
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1893 | |
| Box 4 |
NYU Academic diploma
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Ithaca - organizations
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Ithaca - police department
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| Box 5 | Folder 3-4 |
Clippings - Cornell and Ithaca history
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Clippings - local history
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Dryden School District 20
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| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Promissory notes and letter
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1795-1796 |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Romulus - Varick - Local history
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| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Romulus and Varick - local history - printed items
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Romulus and Seneca County - printed items
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| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Romulus and Varick - local history - Hunt Farm
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Diedrich Willers - documents
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| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Isaac Smith and contemporaries
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| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Dudgeon - receipts
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1869-1870 |
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Ovid miscellany
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| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Political memorabilia
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| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
World War I and II - Posters
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| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Currency
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| Box 5 | Folder 19 |
Commercial Portraits
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
First Baptist Church of Romulus
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Romulus (?) Notebooks
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Scrapbook - Poe
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Scrapbook - personal
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| Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Romulus Scrapbook
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| Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Romulus 2 Scrapbook
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| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Romulus 3 Scrapbook
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| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Romulus Anecdotes Scrapbook
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Certificates and Diplomas
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| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Cornell Broadsides, Photograph (unidentified), Political Broadsides
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| Mapcase Folder 3 |
Romulus Broadsides
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