Cornell University College of Engineering photographs, 1870-1990.
Collection Number: 16-2-2378

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell University College of Engineering photographs, 1870-1990.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
16-2-2378
Abstract:
College of Engineering photographic negatives, ca. 1945-1965, unidentified; seven lantern slides of field trips, 1870-1900, identified; photographs of Physics Dept. apparatus, 1870s-1880s, identified; five glass negatives and photographs of the construction of the Hydraulic Laboratory; glass slides depicting College of Engineering equipment and facilities (1870-1900); and photographs of John McMullen with a McMullen Scholarship brochure.
Creator:
Cornell University. College of Engineering
Colby, Victor
Quanitities:
2.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Cornell University College of Engineering photographs, #16-2-2378. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

College of Engineering photographic negatives, ca. 1945-1965, unidentified; seven lantern slides of field trips, 1870-1900, identified; photographs of Physics Dept. apparatus, 1870s-1880s, identified; five glass negatives and photographs of the construction of the Hydraulic Laboratory; glass slides depicting College of Engineering equipment and facilities (1870-1900); and photographs of John McMullen with a McMullen Scholarship brochure and electrical engineering photos of equipment, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and Professor Victor Colby with his "EE Sculpture" that was installed in Phillips Hall. Includes carte-de-visite photographs of engineering students, 1888, 1893, 1898, 1900, and 1901.

Related Materials

A number of the photographs from this collection have been digitized and can be seen here: http://rmc-images.library.cornell.edu/ .

SUBJECTS

Names:
McMullen, John, 1848-1921.
Cornell University -- : Description -- : Views.
Subjects:
Engineering -- Study and teaching.
Physical instruments.
Form and Genre Terms:
Negatives.
Lantern slides.
Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1
Faculty (multiple names in the folder(s) for each letter: A-P
Box 2
Faculty: Q/R-Z
Box 2
Faculty: Earlier photos, A-Z
Box 2
Faculty: Retired, A-Z
Box 3
Unidentified man (Portrait)
Box 3
W. L. Malcolm, Director of Civil Engineering
1939-1946
Box 3
John Rennie (old engraving)
Box 3
Faculty moved away (4 folders)
Box 3
Faculty deceased
Box 3
Scheele
Box 3
Streett
Box 3
Tang
Box 3
Wolga
Box 3
Unidentified students and faculty
Box 3
Cartes-de-visite
Scope and Contents
Classes of: 1882-1884, 1886-1892, 1895-1897, 1899, 1901, 1902
Box 3
Army engineers (Rolled Print)
1917
Box 3
35th National Convention of Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, University of Orono, Maine (Rolled Print)
1927
Departments
Box 4
Agricultural Engineering
Box 4
Applied Mathematics
Box 4
Applied Physics [Applied and Engineering Physics]
Box 4
Chemical Engineering
Box 4
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Box 4
Computer Science
Box 5
Electrical Engineering [Electrical and Computer Engineering]
Box 5
EE historical
Box 5
Geology/Geological Sciences
Box 5
Materials Science and Engineering
Box 5
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Box 6
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Box 6
Nuclear Engineering
Box 6
Operations Research [Industrial Engineering]
Box 6
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Centers, Labs, and Programs
Box 6
Arecibo
Box 6
CADIF
Box 6
Center for Environmental Research
Box 6
CHESS (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source)
Box 6
COMEPP (Cornell Manufacturing, Engineering, and Productivity Program)
Box 6
Computing/ Computing Graphics
Box 6
Computers and Computing History
Box 6
De Frees Hydraulics Lab
Box 6
De Frees dedication
Box 6
Earthquakes and National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
Box 6
Electronic Packaging Alliance
Box 7
Emerson Lab
Box 7
Engineering Communications
Box 7
Hamilton
Box 7
Joint Services and Electronics Program
Box 7
NNF (National Nanoscale Facility)/ Knight Lab
Box 7
NRRFSS (National Research and Resource Facility for Submicron Structures)
Box 7
Plasma Studies (LPS: Laboratory of Plasma Studies)
Box 7
Satellite
Box 7
SRC (Semiconductor Research Corporation Program in Microscience and Technology)
Box 7
Waste Management (CWMI and NYS SWCI)
Buildings
Box 7
Album: Photos of construction of Cornell Hydraulic Laboratory
1897-1898
Box 7
Engineering buildings--Former
Box 7
Buildings--Aerial views
Box 7
Bard Hall
Box 7
Between classes
Box 7
Biotechnology
Box 7
Buildings--Interiors
Box 7
Buildings--Others
Box 7
Campus: Engineering (2 folders)
Box 7
Carpenter Hall
Box 7
Clark Hall
Box 7
Grumman Hall
Box 7
Hollister Hall
Mapcase Folder 1
Hollister Hall-oversized photo
Box 7
ILR
Box 7
Kimball Hall
Box 7
Olin Hall--Interiors
Box 7
Phillips Hall
Box 7
Snee Hall
Box 7
Theory Center
Box 7
Thurston Hall
Box 7
Upson Hall
Box 7
Ward Lab
Box 7
Wilson Synchrotron
Box 7
Winter Laboratory
Alphabetical By Subjects (Folder Titles Supplied By Engineering College)
Box 8
Academic Rush Week
Box 8
Admissions
Box 8
Admissions
1986
Box 8
Admissions, Advising, and Counselling
Box 8
Advising and Counselling
Box 8
AID
Box 8
Alumni (2 folders)
Box 8
Alumni Affairs
Box 8
Alumni Benefits
Box 8
Alumni Convocation
Box 8
Arbor Day--Paper Recycling
Box 8
Basic Studies
Box 8
Benefactors
Box 8
Blackboards
Box 8
Career Services
Box 8
China
Box 8
Classroom scenes
Box 8
Commencement
Box 8
Committees: College
Box 8
Contests
Box 8
Contests--Fun-type
Box 8
Continuing Education
Box 8
Convocation
1971
Box 8
CO-OP Program (2 folders)
Box 8
Cornell Engineer
Box 8
COSEP mini-course
Box 9
Danby Telescope
Box 9
Design Project
Box 9
Dictation
Box 9
Dogs
Box 9
EE Centennial
Box 9
Energy
Box 9
Energy lectures
Box 9
Engineering (Miscellanous Photos)
Box 9
Engineering
1980
Box 9
Engineering Award
Box 9
Engineering College Council (2 folders)
Box 9
Engineering College Staff
Box 9
Engineering Education Coalition
Box 9
Engineering Conference
Box 9
Engineering "Historical"
Box 9
Engineering Quarterly
Box 9
Engineer's Day
Box 9
Freshman Center
Box 9
Freshman Center
1971
Box 9
Frosh Orientation
Box 9
Hatfield Fellow
1982
Box 9
Historical
Box 9
Historical: Portraits
Box 9
Laboratory scenes
Box 9
Law and Environmental Control
Box 9
Lecture
Box 9
Libraries
Box 9
Lunar Rover
Box 9
Master of Engineering
Box 9
Master of Engineering
1981
Box 9
Master of Engineering Design projects
Box 10
Master Plan
Box 10
Materials Learning Center
Box 10
McManus
1980
Box 10
McMullen Scholarship
Box 10
Mini courses
Box 10
Minority Programs
Box 10
Moods
Box 10
Photogrammetry
Box 10
Placement
Box 10
Pollution--traffic
Box 10
Rawlings
Box 10
Registration
Box 10
Research Reviews
Box 10
Reunion
Box 10
Reunion
1968
Box 10
Scholarships
Box 10
Schultz
Box 10
Science photos
Box 10
Social Implications of Technology
Box 10
Special events
Box 10
Student Awards
Box 10
Students
Box 10
Students 1970 - Identified (multiple photos: in class; in the lab; on campus; in the dorms)
Roger K. Berman, EE
1970
Carter
Gary Cokins, ORIE
1972
George E. Gull, MAE
1972
Robert E. Kingan, EE
1969
Otis W. Sprow, Mech.E
1970
Thomas M. Wozny, AEP
1973
Box 10
Students(3 more folders; to be processed)
1970
Box 10
Summer Jobs
Box 10
Superconductivity
Box 10
Tau Beta Pi
Box 10
Teaching Awards
1995
Box 10
Techniques of Engineering Education
Box 10
Telegraph
Box 10
Texture, Design, etc
Box 10
Transportation
Box 10
TV Classroom
Box 10
Twentieth Anniversary Program, [Applied & Engr. Physics]
June 1966
Box 10
Underground Research
Box 10
Urban
Box 10
VIP for General (notes)
April 1982
Box 10
Women in Engineering
General Cornell Views--Non-Engineering
Box 11
Athletics
Box 11
Between classes
Box 11
Book Store
Box 11
Campus
Box 11
Campus Field & Stream (2 folders)
Box 11
Collegetown
Box 11
Community--Rural
Box 11
Community--Urban
Box 11
Constituent Assembly
1969
Box 11
Distant Views
Box 11
Dormitories
Box 11
Housing and Dining
Box 11
McGraw Tower
Box 11
Performing Arts
Box 11
Recreation/ Sports
Box 11
Statler
Prints, Contact Sheets and Negatives (By Photographer or Photo Agency Name)
Box 12
Dede Hatch
Box 12
Doug Hicks
Box 12
C. Hadley Smith
Box 12
In-house photos
Box 12
University Photography, (Harrington) contact sheets
1987-1989
Box 12
University Photography, contact sheets
1990-1997
Box 12
Visual Services contact sheets
Box 12
Special negatives
Box 12
Others
Box 12
Box of unidentified old negatives
David Ruether contact sheets and negatives
Scope and Contents
[Note: Engineering College owns copyright to Ruether's images]
Box 13
Contact sheets
Box 13
Contact sheets
1973
Box 13
Contact sheets
1975
Box 13
Contact sheets
June 1975
Box 13
Contact sheets
November 1975
Box 13
Contact sheets
December 1975
Box 13
Contact sheets
1976
Box 13
Contact sheets
Spring 1976, Fall 1976
Box 13
Contact sheets
December 1976
Box 13
Contact sheets
May 1977
Box 13
Contact sheets
Spring 1977, 1983-1984
Box 13
Contact sheets
1985-1986
Box 13
Contact sheets
1987-1989
Box 13
Additional folders, undated
Box 13
Negatives: C-22, C-23, 25-36
Box 13
Negatives: 37-54
Box 14
Negatives: E73, E74, E77, E79, E81, Eng 109, Eng 114, Eng 117
Box 14
Cornell 11, C-12, C14, C-16, C-19, 2nd Run, Cornell 20
Box 14
Engineering buildings: contact sheets and negatives, July 1971
Box 14
83-E-1 through 85-E-43
Box 14
85-E-44 through 89-E-16
Box 14
90-E-1 through 91-E-15
Box 15
Bridges, construction, railroads, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, construction, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, construction, railroads, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, construction, distribution gates, railroads
Box 15
Bridges, construction
Box 15
Bridges, construction, piers, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, buildings, construction, railroads
Box 15
Bridges, buildings, canals, construction, dams, railroads, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, buildings, construction, dams, railroads, reservoirs, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, construction, railroads, tunnels, water systems
Box 15
Bridges, construction, power lines
Box 15
Bridges, rock tunneling machine
Box 15
Bridge, Africans, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, construction, tunnels
Box 15
Bridges, construction
Box 15
Bridges, construction, water works
Box 15
Bridges, construction, wireless towers
Box 15
Bridges, buildings, construction
Box 15
Bridges, buildings, construction, streets
Box 15
Bridges, buildings, construction, railroads
Box 15
Bridges, construction, railroads
Box 15
Concrete frame building, Portland, Maine
Box 15
Bridges, construction, dams, piers, railroads, reactors, unidentified machinery
Box 15
Bridges, buildings, coffer dams, construction, viaducts
Box 15
Bridges, construction, horses and wagons hauling materials, piers, railroads
Box 15
Buildings, construction, pier
Box 16
Blasting, bridges, canals, construction, dams, foundations, machinery and plumbing, piers, respirators and testing laboratories
Box 16
Aqueducts, bridges, buildings, construction, dams drainage ditches, laying pipeline, machinery, tunnels, worker standing on his head atop span under construction
Box 16
Blasting, buildings, construction, machinery, piers
Box 16
Bridges, construction, drawbridges, foundations, railroads, test train
Box 16
Bridge collapse, bridges, construction, drawbridges, piers, railroads, sewer outlets, subways, tunnels
Box 16
Bridge conveyers, bridges, construction
Box 16
Sewage works school (C.U.), Michigan Community Health Project, Civil Engineering faculty (1956), bridges, construction
Box 16
Bridges, buildings, construction, disposal plant, pouring concrete
Box 16
Bridges, buildings, construction, machinery, piers, portraits of three early engineers
Box 16
Prints and negatives taken by Professors Walker and Hollister, reprint by D. L Frizzell
Box 16
Prints and negatives of bridges, construction, Africans
Box 16
Prints and negatives of bridges, buildings, construction, test train
Box 16
Bridges, construction, machinery, miscellany
Box 16
Bridges, construction, survey camp, miscellany
Box 17
Bridges (over-size prints)
Box 18
Civil Engineering (over-size prints)
Scope and Contents
Annual banquet, bridges, canals, railroads
Box 19
Civil Engineering (over-size prints)
Scope and Contents
Faculty and students group portraits, portrait of unidentified woman,bridges, canals, piers, railroads
Box 20
Civil Engineering (over-size prints)
Scope and Contents
Bridges, construction
Box 21
Civil Engineering (over-size prints)
Scope and Contents
Construction, bridges, buildings
Box 22
Civil Engineering (over-size prints): map
Scope and Contents
"area covered by the first summer survey of the College of Engineering, Spring 1874" (in Canada; including partial views of the Canadian Pacific RR, the South Saskatchewan River, and several towns; not a field map, but drawn by a member of the class after the survey)
Box 22
Construction, bridges, buildings, railroads
Box 23
Civil Engineering (over-size prints)
Scope and Contents
Aerial photos, construction, bridges, buildings, railroads
Box 24
Civil Engineering: bridges, buildings, construction, dams, piers, railroads
Jon Reis contact sheets and negatives
Box 25
Negatives and contact sheets: Library Tower
Box 25
Contact sheets: Athletics
Box 25
Contact sheets: Museum and Library after 1966
Box 25
Contact sheets: "campuses"
Box 25
Contact sheets: Mechanical Engineering
Box 25
Contact sheets: Engineering Campuses
Box 25
Negative: Inside front cover,"The Surface of a high-density sample of magnesium," photo by Dr. P. Morgan
1966
Box 25
Contact sheets (3 more folders)
Box 25
McManus luncheon
May 1980
Box 25
Engineering Corp.
February 1980
Box 25
Ellie Moulton's retirement party
December 1980
Box 25
Contact sheet
1980-1986
Box 25
Everhart retirement
July 1984
Box 25
Contact sheet
1981
Box 25
Contact sheet
1982
Box 25
Contact sheet
1983
Box 25
Contact sheet
1987
Box 25
Contact sheet
1989-1990
Box 25
In map case: Bundle (oversize prints)
Scope and Contents
Unidentified portrait, College de Genie Civil, Batiment Principal
Manuscript Box 37 Folder m.16-2-2378
Additional material.