Guide to the Shackleton Family Collection,
1914-1921

Collection Number: 37-05-3133

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
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu

Compiled by:

Laura Finkel and Kerry Gilfillan

Date completed:

July 2004

EAD encoding:

Laura Finkel and Kerry Gilfillan, 2004

© 2008 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Shackleton Family Collection, 1914-1921

Scrapbooks, photographs, film, classnotes.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Scrapbooks, photos and films from Mary E. Moore Shackleton and Horace Shackleton. Most material relates to their experiences as students at Cornell University but there is also material related to the Shackleton/Moore families

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Mary Eastman Moore (Cornell University Class of 1920) was the daughter of Veranus A. Moore, dean of the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine. She graduated from Cornell in 1920 and married Horace E. Shackleton who graduated from Cornell in 1919. Horace Shackleton was an employee of the Grange League Federation and Mary Shackleton worked in Statler Hall.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Two scrapbooks of Mary E. Moore from Ithaca High School and Cornell University including photographs, programs, memorabilia, and clippings. Several notebooks from Mary E. Moore's classwork at Cornell, many from classes at the New York State College of Home Economics. Two Cornell University scrapbooks of Horace E. Shackleton and his photograph album of Cornell scenes. Also 35 reels of 8 mm. movie film, primarily of Cornell athletic events, but also some family home movies and one copy of an "Our Gang" film.

PROVENANCE

The scrapbooks and film were given to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections by the DeWitt Historical Society in 2001. Mary Moore's class notes were separated from the Veranus Moore papers in 2004.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Shackleton, Mary Moore.

Shackleton, Horace E.

Cornell University. Class of 1919.

Cornell University. Class of 1920.

Cornell University--Pictorial works.

New York State College of Home Economics.

Subjects:

Women college students--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Form and Genre Terms:

Scrapbooks.

Photographs.

Motion pictures (visual works)

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Shackleton Family Collection, #37-05-3133. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIAL

RMC Collection #51-01-1368. Norman Moore papers, 1919-1994.

RMC Collection #24-01-119. Veranus A. Moore papers, 1836-1958.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Photographs

Series II. Scrapbooks

Series III. Mary Moore's Class Notes

Series IV. Films and Ephemera

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Photographs
	Horace Shackleton photo album	Box 1
	Photos of New York City, including Bellevue Hospital	Box 1
	Long landscape picture, including Veranus Moore, of the "American Veterinary Association at Panama Pacific International Expedition, San Francisco, Cal, Sept 3, 1915"	Box 3
	Series II. Scrapbooks
1915-1917	Horace Shackleton's Stunt Book # 11	Box 2
1917-1919	Horace Shackleton's Stunt Book # 12	Box 2
	Mary Moore's "High School and College Days" Scrapbook	Box 4
	Mary Moore's Cornell Stunt Book	Box 4
	Series III. Mary Moore's Class Notes
1917	Bacteriology	Box 5	Folder 1
1918	Biochemistry	Box 5	Folder 2
ca. 1918	Chemistry 92?	Box 5	Folder 3
1918	Chemistry 93	Box 5	Folder 4
1918 - 1919	Design	Box 6	Folder 1
1915 - 1916	Dressmaking and Millinary	Box 6	Folder 2
n.d.	English History	Box 6	Folder 3
1916	First Term	Box 6	Folder 4
1917	H.E. 2	Box 6	Folder 5
1920	H.E. 9	Box 6	Folder 6
1915	H.E. 15	Box 6	Folder 7
1919 - 1920	H.E. 70	Box 6	Folder 8
1920	Health in the Home	Box 6	Folder 9
1915	History	Box 6	Folder 10
n.d.	History	Box 6	Folder 11
1918 - 1919	House Planning	Box 6	Folder 12
1919	Household Management	Box 6	Folder 13
1916	Household Bacteriology	Box 6	Folder 14
1917	Human Physiology VI	Box 6	Folder 15
1917 - 1918	Human Physiology VII	Box 6	Folder 16
1912 - 1914	Inorganic Chemistry	Box 6	Folder 17
1918	Political Science	Box 6	Folder 18
ca. 1920	Qualitative Analysis	Box 6	Folder 19
n.d.	Recipes	Box 6	Folder 20
1920	Rural Organization	Box 6	Folder 21
1920	Rural Organization	Box 6	Folder 22
1906 - 1908	Sixth Grade Sewing	Box 6	Folder 23
1918	Textiles	Box 6	Folder 24
1917 - 1918	Zoology	Box 6	Folder 25
1918	Zoology	Box 6	Folder 26
	Miscellaneous	Box 6	Folder 27
1917	Chemistry Exam Books	Box 6	Folder 28
	Series IV. Films and Ephemera
	Films	Box 3
	2 copies of The Cornell Era from 1919	Box 1
	Clipping picturing Veranus Moore, Norman Moore, and Erwin Moore	Box 1
	Clipping of 1925 Rotarians	Box 1

Guide to the Shackleton Family Collection, 1914-1921

Collection Number: 37-05-3133

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2008 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the Shackleton Family Collection,
1914-1921

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library