Guide to the Gladys A. Sperling Papers,
1929-1987.

Collection Number: 21-14-3324

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:

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Compiled by:

Julia Parker

Date completed:

Jan. 19, 2004

EAD encoding:

Julia Parker
Peter Martinez

© 2004 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Gladys A. Sperling papers, 1929-1987.

Collection Number:

21-14-3324

Creator:

Gladys Athena Sperling, 1903-

Quantity:

2 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

Correspondence, subject files, clippings, notebooks, photographs.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Correspondence files, subject files, talks and papers, reprints (both those in which Sperling is a co-author and ones by Clive McCay), and clippings. Also student notebooks, particularly in bacteriology.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Research assistant in nutrition.

After receiving an M.S. degree in bacteriology from Cornell in 1936, Miss Sperling was hired by Professor Clive McCay to assist him in nutritional studies. She was responsible for rats and other laboratory animals, supervised graduate students and other technicians, mixed animal feed, answered correspondence, created exhibits, helped take blood samples, and arranged for photography. She is credited as a co-author on many scientific papers on foods, nutrition, health, and longevity. Gladys Sperling died on January 17, 2003.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Included is a subject file on Professor Loren Petry and photographs relating to the Nobel Prize award to James Sumner.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Sperling, Gladys Athena,1903-

McCay, Clive Maine, 1898-1967.

Petry, Loren Clifford, 1887-

Sumner, James B.(James Batcheller), 1887-1955.

Subjects:

Aging--Nutritional aspects.

Animal nutrition.

Animals--Research.

Nutrition--Research.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Gladys A. Sperling papers, #21-14-3324. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence

Series II. Subject Files

Series III. Articles, Papers, Talks

Series IV. Photographs

Series V. Reprints

Series VI. Coursework

Series VII. Experiments

Series VIII. Miscellany

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Correspondence
1937-1939	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 1
1940-1941	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 2
1942	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 3
1943-1944	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 4
1943	Correspondence re Christmas newsletter	Box 1	Folder 5
1943	Correspondence - Vitamin A	Box 1	Folder 6
1944-1945	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 7
1945	Correspondence - Vitamin D	Box 1	Folder 8
1946	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 9
1947	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 10
1948	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 11
1949	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 12
1949	Correspondence - Christmas newsletter and Easter	Box 1	Folder 13
1949	Correspondence pertaining to hamsters	Box 1	Folder 14
1949	Correspondence pertaining to hamsters (o/s)	Box 1	Folder 15
1949	Correspondence - Madison County Health Council	Box 1	Folder 16
1949-1956	Correspondence - Dr. Fred Miller	Box 1	Folder 17
1950-1951	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 18
1952	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 19
1953-1955	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 20
1956-1957	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 21
1958-1959	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 22
1960-1961	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 23
1961	Correspondence - Dr. Smith - teeth	Box 1	Folder 24
1962-1963	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 25
1964-1969	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 26
1970-1979	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 27
1980-1987	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 28
19--	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 29
	Series II. Subject Files
1942	Notes on A.M.A. meeting	Box 1	Folder 30
1937-1938	Animal nutrition	Box 1	Folder 31
1957-1960	Arthritis	Box 1	Folder 32
1942	Atlantic City	Box 1	Folder 33
1947-1962	[New] Building	Box 1	Folder 34
1938-1973	Clippings	Box 1	Folder 35-36
19	Coffee experiment	Box 1	Folder 37
19	Conferences	Box 1	Folder 38
1948	Equipment	Box 1	Folder 39
19	Holiday newsletters - Animal Nutrition	Box 1	Folder 40
19	Humor	Box 1	Folder 41
19	Lab schedules, etc.	Box 1	Folder 42
19	Schedule notes	Box 1	Folder 43
19	Lifetime living	Box 1	Folder 44
19	Nutritional requirements conference	Box 1	Folder 45
19	Personal	Box 1	Folder 46
19	Petry, Loren	Box 1	Folder 47
19	Dr. Pope, Brown, Blaustein	Box 1	Folder 48
	Series III. Articles, Papers, Talks
19	Publications	Box 1	Folder 49
19	Dr. Pope's paper	Box 1	Folder 50
19	Popular Science	Box 1	Folder 51
19	Sex steroids on rats	Box 1	Folder 52
19	Papers	Box 1	Folder 53
19	Talks	Box 1	Folder 54
	Series IV. Photographs
1951-1967	Photos	Box 1	Folder 55
1927-1954	Photos - conferences	Box 1	Folder 56
1939-1942	Photos - rats	Box 1	Folder 57
1946	Photos - Sumner Nobel Prize	Box 1	Folder 58
	Series V. Reprints
1939-1949	Sperling reprints	Box 1	Folder 59
1952-1958	Sperling reprints	Box 1	Folder 60
1960-1978	Sperling reprints	Box 1	Folder 61
1927-1929	McCay reprints	Box 2	Folder 1
1931-1939	McCay reprints	Box 2	Folder 2
1940-1949	McCay reprints	Box 2	Folder 3
1950-1955	McCay reprints	Box 2	Folder 4
1955-1959	McCay reprints	Box 2	Folder 5
1960-1963197319--	McCay reprints	Box 2	Folder 6
1946-1967	McCay biographical material and miscellany	Box 2	Folder 7
	Series VI. Coursework
193319--	Student notes	Box 2	Folder 8
1935-1936	Bacteriology	Box 2	Folder 9
19311935	Biochemistry, histology	Box 2	Folder 10
1935-1936	Notebooks	Box 2	Folder 11
19--	Geology - summer session	Box 2	Folder 12
193-	Bacteriology 105	Box 2	Folder 13
1935-1936	Bacteriology 211	Box 2	Folder 14-15
1935-1936	Bacteriology 213	Box 2	Folder 16
1936	Bacteriology	Box 2	Folder 17
1936	Bacteriology lab manual	Box 2	Folder 18
19--	Dairy bacteriology	Box 2	Folder 19
1937	Lab notes	Box 2	Folder 20
	Series VII. Experiments
1938	Animal nutrition	Box 2	Folder 21
1938-1940	Manganese experiment	Box 2	Folder 22
1939	Longevity - retarded growth	Box 2	Folder 23
1943	Animal nutrition - dairy	Box 2	Folder 24
1947	Dry matter balance	Box 2	Folder 25
1953	Egg experiments	Box 2	Folder 26
1953	Retardation - exercise	Box 2	Folder 27
1965	Rats on mink diets	Box 2	Folder 28
	Series VIII. Miscellany
1941-1958	Small Animal Lab guest book	Box 2	Folder 29
19361946	Account books	Box 2	Folder 30
1943	Collier's article re Clive McCay	Box 2	Folder 31
19441983-1984	Certificates	Box 2	Folder 32

Guide to the Gladys A. Sperling Papers,1929-1987.

Collection Number: 21-14-3324

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2004 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the Gladys A. Sperling Papers,
1929-1987.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library