Cornell University Department of Chemistry records, 1865-1977
Collection Number: 14-8-2535

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell University Department of Chemistry records, 1865-1977
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-8-2535
Abstract:
Historical material relating to the Chemistry Department includes photographs (including prints, and glass and film slides), articles, lecture notes, memorabilia, correspondence, tape recordings, programs, material on professorial exchanges, and announcements.
Creator:
Cornell University. Department of Chemistry
Chamot, Emile Monnin, 1868-1950.
Rhodes, Fred H. (Fred Hoffman), 1889-
Quanitities:
5.1 cubic feet.
2 folders.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Historical material relating to the Chemistry Department includes photographs (including prints, and glass and film slides), articles, lecture notes, memorabilia, correspondence, tape recordings, programs, material on professorial exchanges, and announcements; also, photographs documenting the construction of Baker Laboratory; and a history of the department by Emile Chamot and Fred H. Rhodes.
NOTES

Consists of collections #14-8-2535, #14-8-m611, #14-8-m942, #14-8-49, #14-8-668, and #14-8-489.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
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Cornell University Department of Chemistry Records, #14-8-2535. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Chemistry -- Study and teaching.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Link to a partial finding aid.
Scope and Contents
Not all the material in the collection is covered by this guide.
Ananth Group webcrawl
Digital
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Series I. Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 1
Brauner, Bohuslav to Dennis, Louis M.
 May 17, 1899
Scope and Contents
Prague; Brauner (1855-1935) was a Czech chemist; one original plus one photostat
Box 2 Folder 1
Hempel, Walther to Dennis, Louis M.
 May 25, 1913
Scope and Contents
Dresden
Box 2 Folder 1
Chamot, Emile Monnin to his mother
 February 20, 1916
Scope and Contents
Ithaca; includes references to the fire in Morse Hall that had just occurred
Box 2 Folder 1
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent to Debye, Peter
 November 30, 1948
Box 2 Folder 1
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent to Debye, Peter
 November 20, 1949
Box 2 Folder 1
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent to Debye, Peter
 February 9, 1950
Box 2 Folder 1
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent to Johnson, John R.
 November 20, 1949
Box 2 Folder 1
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent to Johnson, John R.
 March 22, 1950
Box 2 Folder 1
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent to Laubengayer, Albert W.
 1931-08-19
Box 2 Folder 1
Willstaetter, Richard to Dennis, Louis M.
 January 9, 1929
Scope and Contents
Munich
Box 2 Folder 1
Crafts, James Mason to Fessenden, J. P., MD
 February 3, 1874
Scope and Contents
Boston; Crafts was the first Professor of Chemistry at Cornell; concerns Crafts family genealogy
Box 2 Folder 1
Fessenden, Elizabeth, Cornell class of 1936 (Mrs. Newell W. Washburn) to Laubengayer, Albert W.
 July 17, 1972
Scope and Contents
concerning Crafts family genealogy
Box 2 Folder 1
Debye, Peter to Hildebrand, Joel
 July 27, 1966
Scope and Contents
with Hildebrand to Widom letter
Box 2 Folder 1
Hildebrand, Joel to Widom, Benjamin
 1978
Scope and Contents
Berkeley
Box 2 Folder 1
Dennis, Louis M. to Bostwick, Charles D.
 January 12, 1916
Scope and Contents
notarized; Dennis was Chemistry department chair, 1903-1931; Bostwick was University Treasurer; concerns lab accident to Louise Margaret Hamburger, BS Ag, 1919
Box 2 Folder 2
Bunsen, Robert W. to or about Desaga, Peter
 1923
Scope and Contents
Typed transcript of original May 12, 1855 letter in which Bunsen credits Peter Desaga (Mechanician at the University of Heidelberg) with the actual design of the Bunsen burner
Box 2 Folder 2
Dennis, Louis M. and Schoermer & Teichmann, dealer in Hamburg, Germany
 1923
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re purchase of original Bunsen letter; plus exhibit cards describing the original letter, when it was on display in Baker Lab; location of original letter remains unknown as of November 2021
Series II. Printed material; other documents
Box 2 Folder 3
"Temperature of maximum density of water"
 1925
Scope and Contents
Mss., possibly by Wilder D. Bancroft; research project assigned by Bancroft, and sent by his student, Frederick Adler, B. Chem., 1926
Box 2 Folder 4
Salaries of Chemistry Department professors, instructors, and assistants
 May 12, 1914
Scope and Contents
from Charles D. Bostwick, University Treasurer
Box 2 Folder 5
American Chemical Society (ACS), Cornell Section charter
 December 9, 1902
Box 2 Folder 5
American Chemical Society (ACS), Cornell Section; meeting at Cornell program book
 September 13, 1924
Scope and Contents
several copies; includes history
Box 2 Folder 5
American Chemical Society (ACS), Cornell Section; correspondence and documents
 1924-1953
Box 2 Folder 6
"Support for a New Research Wing for the Cornell Chemistry Department"
 May 15, 1962
Scope and Contents
by Harold A. Scheraga, J. W. Hastie, and Deane W. Malott; application for NSF grad-level research facilities development grant
Box 2 Folder 7
Program statement for space needs
 January 1, 1963
Scope and Contents
red notebook
Box 2 Folder 8
Department of Chemistry Course of Instruction
 1895-1896
Box 2 Folder 8
Department of Chemistry Announcements (two separate years)
 1915-1922
Scope and Contents
Official Publications of Cornell University, Vol. VI, No. 11 and Vol. XII, No. 11
Box 2 Folder 9
Floor plan of Baker Laboratory of Chemistry
 1920
Scope and Contents
5 pp., rolled up; in great detail
Box 2 Folder 10
"The George Fisher Baker Laboratory of Chemistry, Cornell University"
 1924
Scope and Contents
tan guest book
Box 7
Plans of Baker Laboratory
 1920
Scope and Contents
one folder
Box 7
George Fisher Baker Non-resident Lectureship in Chemistry
 1923-1956
Scope and Contents
one folder of correspondence and documents
Box 7
George Fisher Baker Non-resident Lectureship in Chemistry: General Addresses of Baker Lecturers
 1926-1935
Scope and Contents
General title for the following thirteen entries; some years lacking
Box 7
"Ancient and Modern Alchemy," Fritz Paneth
 1926
Box 7
"What Can the Modern Chemist Learn from the Old Alchemy?," Paul Walden
 1927
Box 7
"Problems and Methods in Enzyme Research," Richard Willstaetter
 1927
Scope and Contents
Funded from the Baker Lectureship, but he was not a Baker Lecturer
Box 7
"International Relations in Science," George Barger
 1928
Box 7
"Twenty-five Years of Biochemistry," Hans Pringsheim
 1928
Box 7
"The Present and Future State of our Natural Resources," F. M. Jaeger
 1929
Box 7
"Waves and Particles," G. P. Thomson
 1929
Box 7
"The Development of Views Regarding the Nature of Chemical Forces," Kasimir Fajans
 1930
Box 7
"The Age of the Earth," Georg von Hevesy
 1930
Box 7
"The Relation of Physics to Chemistry," Nevil Vincent Sidgwick
 1931
Box 7
"Pure and Applied Science," Cecil H. Desch
 1931
Box 7
"From the Ponderable to the Imponderable," Otto Hahn
 1933
Box 7
"The Physical Sciences," W. L. Bragg
 1934
Box 3
Minutes of the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry
 March 1911-September 1915
Scope and Contents
bound
Box 3
Minutes of the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry
 1915-1964
Scope and Contents
in folders; lacking 1917/18; 1921/22; 1923/24
Series III. Photographs
Box 2
Chemistry faculty
 1901-1902
Scope and Contents
in album; these and other group photos in album are primarily cyanotypes
Box 2
Department of Chemistry
 1912-1913
Scope and Contents
in album
Box 2
Department of Chemistry
 1919
Scope and Contents
in album
Box 2
Department of Chemistry, seniors
 1913
Scope and Contents
in album
Box 2
Department of Chemistry, seniors
 1920-1931
Scope and Contents
in album
Box 2
"Nitrogen evolution"
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
2 graphs; in album with photos above
Box 2 Folder 12
American Chemical Society meeting at Cornell: group portrait of attendees in front of Baker Lab
 September 8-13, 1924
Scope and Contents
by John P. Troy; very long and rolled up
Box 2
Peter Debye
 Date unknown
Box 2
Cornell scenes; Cornell faculty
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
small slides
Box 2
Morse Hall; faculty; Cornell
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
large glass-plate negatives
Box 7
"Progress of Construction of the Baker Laboratory"
 January 14, 1921-1923
Scope and Contents
photograph album
Box 7
George Fisher Baker; with faded autograph
 Date unknown
Box 7
Kasimir Fajans, Baker Lecturer
 Date unknown
Box 7
Ross Aiken Gortner, Baker Lecturer
 Date unknown
Box 7
A. V. (Archibald Vivian) Hill, Baker Lecturer
 Date unknown
Box 7
Fritz Paneth, Baker Lecturer
 Date unknown
Box 7
Hans Pringsheim, Baker Lecturer
 Date unknown
Box 7
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (Baker Lecturer)
 1950
Scope and Contents
by Arnold H. Fainberg
Box 7
Franklin Long and Nevil Vincent Sidgwick
 1950
Scope and Contents
by Arnold H. Fainberg
Box 7
C. K. (Sir Christopher Kelk) Ingold, Baker Lecturer
 1950
Scope and Contents
by Arnold H. Fainberg
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1911
Scope and Contents
title for this and eleven succeeding entries
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1912
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1913
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 October 1916
Scope and Contents
oversize
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 November 1917
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 May 1919
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 May 1920
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 May 1921
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1923
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1925
Scope and Contents
duplicate in Box 1b
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1926
Scope and Contents
duplicate in Box 1b
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1930
Scope and Contents
2 cc.
Box 1a
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1932
Scope and Contents
2 cc.
Box 1a
Prof. George Chapman Caldwell
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
oversize
Box 1b
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1923
Scope and Contents
oversize, mounted; title for this and six succeeding entries
Box 1b
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1924
Box 1b
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1925
Scope and Contents
duplicate in Box 1a
Box 1b
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1926
Scope and Contents
duplicate in Box 1a
Box 1b
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1927
Box 1b
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1928
Box 1b
Department of Chemistry (Faculty, Staff, and Students) group portraits
 1929
Box 1c
American Chemical Society, Cornell section, luncheon, Gov. Clinton Hotel
 1935
Box 1c
Senior Chemists (graduating seniors)
 1911
Scope and Contents
2 cc. (or one original, one surrogate)
Box 1c
Senior Chemists
 1912
Box 1c
Senior Chemists
 1919
Scope and Contents
with letter dated September 19, 1972 from Harry H. Davidson, '19, East Hampton, NY to Albert W. Laubengayer
Box 1c
Senior Chemists
 1925
Box 1c
Senior Chemists
 1928
Scope and Contents
with letter dated October 14, 1969 from Anthony M. Schwartz, '28, Rockville, MD to William D. Gurowitz
Box 1c
Vincent du Vigneaud and two associates
 1927
Box 1c
Peter Debye
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
by the Cornellian studio
Box 1c
A. Strecker, G. Nichols, and unidentified (Laubengayer group members)
 Date unknown
Box 1c
R. Keith Osterheld
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
Secretary of Cornell section, American Chemical Society; photo by Arnold H. Fainberg
Box 1c
Bob Hughes and Fred Kerdell
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
by Arnold H. Fainberg
Box 1c
Bert Lemon (Carl Robert Lemon, ME 1931)
 1916
Scope and Contents
with note dated June 20, 1977 from Catherine ("Bobby") Gallagher Witherell, '30, Bristol, VT to Albert W. Laubengayer
Box 1c
"Doc" Mason (Prof. Clyde W. Mason) on Beebe Lake
 1928
Box 1c
Chemistry Department crew (athletics champions)
 1928
Scope and Contents
"Les" Baum, Newt Jones, Herb Kathe, ? Peckham, M. F. "Spike" Witherell, Charlton Bascom, Rog Sutton; Cox: M. E. Gardner (sub.), Ted Rochow (reg.)
Box 1c
Emile Monnin Chamot
 Date unknown
Box 1c
Frederick Mason Brewer (1903-1963)
 1925
Scope and Contents
Commonwealth Fund Fellow at Cornell, 1925-1927
Box 1c
Dept. of Sanitary Chemistry water lab
 1928
Box 1c
Department of Chemistry
 Fall 1916
Scope and Contents
oversize; with key
Box 1c
Chemistry students at formal banquet
 1913
Scope and Contents
oversize; with key
Box 1c
John Gamble Kirkwood
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
oversize
Box 1c
Emile Monnin Chamot
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
oversize
Box 1c
Peter Debye
 Date unknown
Box 4
Group portrait of Chemistry department faculty, staff, and students
 Approximate
Scope and Contents
J. E. Trevor; Edward L. Nichols (Physics), H. R. Carveth (Ph.D.'98), Charles G. L. Wolf; Grads '99-'00: Morris R. Ebersole, Ira H. Derby, A. T. Lincoln, and Arthur M. Saunders; Benton Dales (Ph.D. 1901); James H. Pettit ('96-'01, Ph.B '00)
Box 4
Group portrait of Chemistry department faculty and staff
 June 1901
Scope and Contents
2 cc., one with key; Professors George C. Caldwell, Louis M. Dennis, Willam R. Orndorff, Joseph E. Trevor; Assistant Professor Wilder D. Bancroft; Instructors Hector R. Carveth, Emile M. Chamot (Microchemical and Sanitary Chemistry, Toxicology), Blinn S. Cushman, Henry R. Jessel, Theodore Whittelsey; Assistants George H. Burrows, Robert Fischer, Arthur R. Middleton, George A. Smith, John E. Teeple, and Benjamin B. Turner; Stockroom keeper, Henry Feehan; plus guest: Prof. J. (Jacobus) H. Van't Hoff, first person to receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1901)
Box 4
Group portrait of Chemistry department faculty, staff, and students
 May 1902
Scope and Contents
Professors Bancroft, Caldwell, Chamot, Dennis, Orndorff, and Trevor; Instructors Carveth, Jessel, and Whittelsey; Grad students Bizzell, Burrows, Cushman, Dales, Fowler, Gottschalk, Harris, Middleton, Teeple, and Todd; Seniors Geer, Jennings, Lauder, and Sheperd; Junior Hawley; Freshman Wheeler
Box 4
Group portrait of Chemistry department faculty, staff, and students
 1906
Scope and Contents
2 prints (nearly identical poses from one sitting); James E. Trevor, F. G. Wheeler, E. W. Todd, U. G. Gottschalk, George H. Burrows, '03, C. D. Harris, '03, A. G. Lauder, '03, Henry R. Jessel, '89, F. H. Jennings, '06, Hector R. Carveth, '99, Arthur R. Middleton, '03, '04, Blinn S. Cushman, '98, '01, W. C. Geer, '98, '05, Theodore Whittelsey, E. S. Sheperd, '02, '04, J. A. Bizzell, William R. Orndorff, Louis M. Dennis, George C. Caldwell, Joseph E. Trevor, Wilder D. Bancroft
Box 4
Chemistry Class of 1918, in front of Morse Hall
 October 1917
Scope and Contents
plus glass plate negative of same group, but different pose
Box 4
Group portrait of Chemistry department faculty, staff, and students in front of Baker Lab
 1923
Box 4
Charlie Morse (Charles Walter Morse, B. Chemistry, '21)
 1921
Box 4
Class of 1918 in front of Morse Hall
 October 1917
Box 4
Unidentified professor, with colleague or student
 1958
Box 4
Hans H. Muxfeldt, at blackboard with molecular structure of antibiotic Terramycin, which he was the first to chemically synthesize
 1968-09-28
Scope and Contents
photo by C. Hadley Smith
Box 4
Robert A. Plane in laboratory; playing trumpet
 1972-11-1974-06
Box 4
Franklin A. Long with George W. Rathjens (Physics, MIT)
 November 1969
Box 4
Franklin A. Long with Raymond Bowers, (Physics, Cornell)
 November 1971
Box 4
John R. Wiesenfeld in laboratory with student or colleague
 November 1986
Box 4
Laboratories (unidentified)
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
2 small negatives
Box 4
Small portraits of students and/or faculty, identified
 1920-1945
Scope and Contents
Carr; George F. Condike, Pittsburgh, 1943; Elliott; Harvey R. Engle, Boston, 1932; Gordon Finlay; Gilly Gilliam; Kirkwood (?); Jim Magoffin (2); Art Newkirk; James A. Robertson, Spanish Fork, Utah; Arthur Saum, Hiram College, Cleveland; Frank Schirmer; Scotty Sears; Sears and "Nick"; Charles Smith, Portland, OR, Sept. 1944; Taube; Bob Weisz; Weisz and James L. Hoard; John Whitney, August 1944
Box 4
Small portraits of students and/or faculty, unidentified
 1945
Scope and Contents
plus some photos of Chemistry department picnic, n.d., etc.
Box 4
Boron crystals; Chemistry department picnic
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
small snapshots
Box 4
Unidentified man at laboratory bench; unidentified man at desk; headshots of ten unidentified men (students and/or faculty)
 1940
Box 4
Colyer standing in front of Morse Hall
 1918
Scope and Contents
first name unknown
Box 4 Folder 3
Chemistry lecture room in Franklin Hall
 May 18, 1889
Scope and Contents
with note: taken at 1:05 p.m. after a Newbury lecture on organic chemistry
Box 4
Chemistry lecture rooms in Franklin and Morse Halls
 1883-1890
Box 4 Folder 1
Advanced inorganic chemistry lab, Morse Hall, Room 68
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 1
Assaying lab, Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 1
Electrochemistry lab, Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 1
Elementary inorganic chemistry lab , Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
two o/s prints (one with, one without people)
Box 4 Folder 1
Gas analysis lab, Morse
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 6
Gas analysis lab, Baker
 1923
Box 4 Folder 3
Introductory inorganic chemistry and assaying lab; (lab for organic chemistry through the doorway) in Franklin Hall Annex
 March 8, 1890
Box 4 Folder 6
Introductory inorganic chemistry lab, Baker
 1923
Box 4 Folder 1
Introductory inorganic chemistry lab, Baker, with people
 1923
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 1
Microchemical analysis lab, Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 1
Organic chemistry lab, Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 1
Organic chemistry lab (different room from above), Franklin or Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 1
Physical chemistry lab, Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 3
Qualitative analysis lab, Franklin Hall
 1888
Box 4 Folder 2
Quantitative analysis lab, Franklin Hall
 1888
Scope and Contents
three views, including one with female student (original sepia print plus surrogate print); four prints total
Box 4 Folder 1
Quantitative analysis lab, Morse Hall
 1910
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 4
Quantitative analysis lab, Morse Hall
 1910
Scope and Contents
with people; four different views in five prints (one cyanotype, two sepia, and 2 cc. from a glass negative)
Box 4 Folder 5
Sanitary chemistry lab , Morse Hall (or Laboratory of agricultural analysis)
 1890
Scope and Contents
two identical images but with two different captions; correct one not yet determined
Box 4 Folder 1
Spectroscopic chemical analysis lab, Morse Hall
Scope and Contents
o/s print
Box 4 Folder 4
unidentified lab, Morse Hall
 1890-1916
Scope and Contents
one cyanotype
Box 4 Folder 4
Experimental hood designed by Prof. Louis M. Dennis and used to test for those finally installed in Baker Lab
 1919
Scope and Contents
probably in Morse Hall
Box 4 Folder 4
Jacob Papish in Dennis's lab, Morse Hall, recovering Ge Cl4 (germanium chloride) from smelter residues
 1920
Box 4 Folder 6
Chemistry Library in Baker
 1923
Box 4 Folder 6
Louis M. Dennis with students and colleagues in one of the graduate laboratories, Baker
 May 16, 1927
Scope and Contents
by John Troy; 2 images (2 cc. of one)
Box 4 Folder 6
Emile M. Chamot's laboratory for chemical microscopy, Baker
 1923
Scope and Contents
3 very similar images; one from glass plate neg.
Box 4 Folder 6
Students in laboratory, possibly analyzing milk, Baker
 1925
Scope and Contents
mostly men; two women at far right
Box 4 Folder 6
Man with unidentified apparatus in laboratory, Baker
 Date unknown
Box 4 Folder 6
Five men and two women at tea/coffee break in laboratory, Baker
 May 17, 1927
Scope and Contents
John Troy
Box 4 Folder 6
Large laboratory full of male students; three women in foreground
 1935
Box 4 Folder 6
Eight students (seven men, one woman) in laboratory, Baker
 1940
Box 4 Folder 6
Four men in unidentified lab in Baker
 1925
Box 4 Folder 6
Albert W. Laubengayer's lab (formerly Dennis's ), with mercury vapor pump and brass meter stick, Baker
 1950
Box 4 Folder 6
Vacuum line in unidentified lab, Baker
 1923
Scope and Contents
caption reads: "the first vacuum line in the U.S."; (= Schlenk line)
Box 4 Folder 6
Yvonne Meinwald in laboratory, Baker
 January 1987
Scope and Contents
3 photos by Charles Harrington (Visual Services job 870103, R1-Frames 12, 15, 24)
Box 4
Franklin A. Long
 1961
Scope and Contents
Barrett Gallagher Job 100, Frames 15, 19, and 26
Box 4
Grad student and sophomore in lab
 1961
Scope and Contents
Barrett Gallagher Job 97, Frames 7, 9, and 14
Box 4 Folder 7
Morse Hall after the February 1916 fire, roofed over
 1917
Scope and Contents
glass plate negative, donated by Harry E. Mattin
Box 4 Folder 7
unidentified labs: one without people, two with
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
glass plate negatives
Box 4 Folder 7
group sitting on Morse Hall steps
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
glass plate negative; may be same as one of the prints
Box 4
Mearl Ossening
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
glass plate negative
Box 5
Glass slides: prominent historical figures in chemistry
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
wooden box
Box 6
Glass slides, various scenes, including laying cornerstone of Baker Lab, etc.
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
wooden box; prints from some of these are in Boxes 1c and 4
Series IV. Artifacts and Audiovisual
Box 2 Folder 11
Pen, with holder, used to sign plans of the new chemistry building (Baker Laboratory)
 April 29, 1921
Box 2 Folder 11
Original keys to Baker Laboratory
 December 22, 1923
Scope and Contents
handed to Pres. Livingston Farrand by George Fisher Baker at the dedication exercises
Box 2
Metal plate: Periodic Table through Element 98 (Californium)
 1950
Box 2
Louis M. Dennis's menu card with signatures
 June 23, 1922
Box 2
"Non-resident lectures" (Baker Lectures)
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
reel of film
Box 2
Interview with Peter Debye
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
audiotape
Box 2
Peter Debye's remarks at symposium banquet
 April 15, 1965
Scope and Contents
audiotape