Michael L. and Catherine H. Whalen Collection of Cornelliana, 1865-1975.
Collection Number: 37-5-3784
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Michael L. and Catherine H. Whalen Collection of Cornelliana, 1865-1975.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
37-5-3784
Abstract:
Photographs, including carte-de-visite pictures, cabinet cards, stereo views, prints
and negatives. Also scrapbooks.
Creator:
Whalen, Michael L.
Platt, Roger Burchard.
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902.
Shaffer, Cicero.
Gallaher, Sarah McCune.
Moore, Frank Cook.
Davis, Henry Vernon.
Hawley, Lily.
Tilton, John Neal, Jr.
Roberts, Marion Ruthella.
Levengood, Helen.
Walton, Leon Wendell.
Rogers, Marion Helen.
McCormack, Dorothy.
Grady, Allan B., Jr.
Shinkel, John Newton Dexter.
Seely, Hart Irving.
Emory, George Meade.
Cushing, Nicholas Cooke.
Ives, Frederic Eugene, $d 1856-1937
Quanitities:
13.8 cubic feet.
4.18 gigabytes.
Language:
Collection material in English
Ephemera, manuscripts and other Cornelliana. Photographs, including carte-de-visite
pictures, cabinet cards, stereo views, prints and negatives. Subjects include individual
students and faculty, notably William Benjamin Bowler, a student from Haiti, ca. 1870
and architecture students, ca. 1914; campus buildings and scenes; David Woodbury King
and the Cornell Crew,1876; and waterfalls and other local scenes. Also a DVD containing
scans of many of the photographs as well as a catalog of the items.
Letters, including a set of from Roger Burchard Platt to his mother, 1907; materials
relating to the Winter Short Course taken by farmer George S. Allnatt in 1905; letter
from the Cornell Treasurer's Office to J. W. Williams about land grant transactions,
1875; TLS from Charles Kendall Adams, 1889.
Broadsides, handbills, programs (Cornell Masque, 1922-1923 and Cornell Dramatic Club,
1925); invitations, and menus relating to student activities, ca. 1889-1925; diploma
for Leroy Lynn Davis (Civil Engineering), 1896; "The Cornell Earache," Spring Day
parody issue, 1908; Registers and other university publications;Freshman Register,
1975; Interfraternity Council Rush Book, 1973; "Book of Views," 1925; various issues
of the Cornell Daily Sun and the Cornell Graphic.
Lecture notebooks in Chemistry (Cicero Shaffer, 1875); and American History with
Moses Coit Tyler (Sarah McCune Gallaher, 1893); and Mechanical Engineering drawings
by Frank Cook Moore, 1890; "
Scrapbooks of Henry Vernon Davis, 1911; Lily Hawley, 1915; John Neal Tilton, 1915;
Marion Ruthella Roberts, 1920; Helen Levengood, Summer School, 1921; Leon Wendell
Walton, 1922; and Marion Helen Rogers, 1923.
Correspondence written and received by Dorothy McCormack (Class of 1937) while she
was a student at Cornell, mostly to her future husband Allan B. Grady, Jr.
Letter, January 7, 1882, from John Newton Dexter Shinkel (Class of 1881) to Josiah
Dustin Wilson (Class of 1880), concerning a recent visit to Ithaca, NY and news from
Cornell.
Diaries kept by Hart Irving Seely (Class of 1909), who studied both law and agriculture
at Cornell, 1906-1907, 1912-1913; notebook kept by George Meade Emory, (LLB 1890);
scrapbook of Nicholas Cooke Cushing (Class of 1896), 1893.
Individual photographs include: photograph of Benjamin Harry Weisbrod (Class of 1914);
William Hazlitt Smith (Class of 1873); William Maddocks (Class of 1887); Robert Elmer
Rutherford (Class of 1887), Thomas Hall (ME 1893, MME 1894), and other 19th century
cabinet card photographs.
Group of cabinet card photographs, primarily of members of the Class of 1889, originally
collected by Albert Haywood '89.
Tintypes of early students including Simon Henry Gage.
Stock certificate for the New York State Agriculture College in Ovid, N.Y..
Cornell Music Festival programs.
Collection of wax seals of campus organizations.
Notebooks of law school student Robert Grantier Miller Class of 1940. Freshman registers.
Notebook used by Jefferson Mack Myers, Class of 1876, for his human physiology and
hygiene class. The Official Guide to the Schoellkopf Sweepstakes, Spring Day 1923.
Clarence Isaac Robinson Class of 1884 materials. Photos from the Vermont Academy.
Tintype of Taughannock Falls.
Poster for the 3rd Annual Ovation of the Citizens of Ithaca, to Cornell's Victors,
1877. Harold Carl Harding, Class of 1910 notebook for Course XII in mechanical engineering
in the Sibley College, Chemistry Department faculty photo, 1921, portrait of the Class
of 1895, letters to servicemen in World War Two from Marie Ann Tipula, Class of 1947,
Peck Shoe Store photo, photos relating to George W. Brownell and the Ithaca trolley
car company.
Many additional photos, scrapbooks, letters, notebooks, and ephemera.
See also New York State College of Agriculture Winter Short Course Scrapbooks, #21-34-4029.
See also the New York State College Of Agriculture Winter Short Course Photographs,
#21-34-2459.
See also Dairy Industry Winter Course Student Record Cards, #21-19-1190.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Michael L. and Catherine H. Whalen Collection of Cornelliana, #37-5-3784. Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Bowler, William Benjamin.
King, David Woodbury.
Allnatt, George S.
Davis, Leroy Lynn.
Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944
Ramsey, George Wallace.
Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.
Cornell University -- : Athletics.
Cornell University -- : Pictorial works.
Cornell University -- : Buildings.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell Crew (Rowing team)
Cornell University. Class of 1872
Cornell University. Class of 1876
Cornell University. Class of 1881
Cornell University. Class of 1884
Cornell University. Class of 1892
Cornell University. Class of 1895
Cornell University. Class of 1896
Cornell University. Class of 1889
Cornell University. Class of 1908
Cornell University. Class of 1909
Cornell University. Class of 1913
Cornell University. Class of 1914
Cornell University. Class of 1920
Cornell University. Class of 1921
Cornell University. Class of 1924
Cornell University. Class of 1927
Cornell University. Class of 1937
Cornell University. Class of 1940
Cornell University. Class of 1975
Cornell University. College of Architecture
Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Subjects:
Greek letter societies -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Students, Foreign -- Haiti.
Women college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Form and Genre Terms:
Lecture notes.
Stereoscopic photographs.
Cabinet photographs.
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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DVD-537 |
Index to the collection and digital images
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Scope and Contents
Includes high resolution copy of the PDF guide available above. Also JPG images of
items in the collection. High resolution TIF files are available from the donor.
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Box 1 |
Items 1-93
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Carte de visites and cabinet cards including images of alumni and faculty, William
Benjamin Bowler, crew, stereo view cards of campus, etc..
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Box 2 |
Items 94-172
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Cabinet cards and photographs of campus and Ithaca area, including Taughannock Falls,
gorges, Cayuga Lake, alumni, Spring Day, White Hall architecture studio, etc..
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Box 3 |
Items 173-191
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Photographs including Alpha Theta fraternity, letters from students, administrators,
and others, Freshman Banquet and other handbills, ad for the Kornell Krinkles, Globe
Hotel Syracuse menu, event programs including Ulysses of Ithaka by the Cornell Masque,
The Contrast by Cornell Dramatic Club, etc..
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Box 22 |
Item 192
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Felt banner and reunion buttons of Mary Lucetta Thompson Davis Class of 1896.
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Box 4 |
Item 193
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1896 diploma of Lynn Leroy Davis
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Box 5 |
Items 194-202
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Cornell registers, reports, The Cornell Earache, 1904 directory, chemistry class notebook
of Cicero Shaffer Class of 1878, American history class notebook of Sarah McCune Gallaher,
Class of 1895, 1975 freshman register, 1972 Interfraternity Council Rush Book, etc..
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Box 4 |
Item 203
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Three bound books of mechanical drawings created by Frank Cook Moore, Class of 1892,
for engineering classes
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Box 5 |
Item 204
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Fund-raising "position statement" issued by the Cornellian Council in 1925 entitled,
"The Solution"
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Box 4 |
Items 205-209
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Book of views, 1890s Cornell Daily Suns, 1906 Cornell Deadly Sin, 1866 Harper's Weekly
about Ezra Cornell, six issues of the 1924-1925 Cornell Graphic
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Box 6 |
Item 210
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Scrapbook assembled by Lily Hawley, Class of 1919
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Box 7 |
Item 211
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Scrapbook assembled by John Neal Tilton Jr., Class of 1913
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Box 4 |
Item 212
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Scrapbook assembled by Leon Wendell Walton, Class of 1926
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Box 8 |
Item 213
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Scrapbook assembled by Marion Helen Rogers, Class of 1927
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Box 2 |
Item 214
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1927 group portrait of the Sigma Kappa Sorority
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Box 8 |
Item 215
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Scrapbook assembled by Marion Ruthella Roberts, Class of 1924
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Box 2 |
Items 216, 217
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1922 and 1923 group portrait of the Kappa Delta Sorority
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Box 9 |
Items 218-222
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Scrapbook assembled by Henry Vernon Davis, Class of 1914 and other material owned
by him
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Box 1 |
Item 223
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Portrait of Henry Marx, Class of 1879
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Box 7 |
Item 224
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Scrapbook assembled by Helen Levengood during her attendance at a Summer School program
in music at Cornell University
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Box 4 |
Item 225
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Photo composite of students in the Winter Course of 1918-19 in the College of Agriculture.
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Box 10 |
Items 226
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Correspondence written and received by Dorothy McCormack, Class of 1937, while she
was a student
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Box 11 |
Items 227-229
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Letter from John Newton Dexter Shinkel, Class of 1881, to Josiah Dustin Wilson, Class
of 1882, four diaries kept by law and agriculture student Hart Irving Seely, Class
of 1909, Notebook used by George Meade Emory, Class of 1890, during his classes in
the Cornell Law School
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Box 12 |
Item 230
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Scrapbook compiled by Nicholas Cooke Cushing, Class of 1896,
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Box 13 |
Items 231-271
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Photographs of students and others, many owned by Albert Haywood, Class of 1889,
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Box 14 |
Item 272
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Scrapbook assembled by Alexander Glencairn Acheson, Class of 1917
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Box 15 |
Item 273
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Scrapbook assembled by Le Roy William Pritchard, Class of 1922
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Box 16 |
Item 274
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Correspondence of Marion Ruthella Roberts, Class of 1924
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Item 275A
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Laboratory notebooks and class project reports for a variety of courses created by
Frederick Edgar Stark, Class of 1912
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Box 17 |
Item 275A
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Box 18 |
Item 275B
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Box 19 |
Item 275C
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Box 20 |
Item 275D
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Box 21 |
Item 275E
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Box 25 |
Item 276
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Photograph of the Class of 1887
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Box 22 |
Items 277-372
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Various ephemera, stereo view photographs of campus, other campus and Ithaca photographs
including military, mud rush, student and faculty carte de visites and cabinet cards,
photo of Ezra Cornell Class of 1971,
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Box 25 |
Item 373
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1897 photo of Kappa Alpha Fraternity
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Box 11 |
Items 374-375
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Scrapbook assembled by Carl Frederick Meyer, Class of 1908, ten-inch Keuffel and Esser
mahogany slide rule and eight-inch leather case owned by Gustav Adolphus Marius Illmer,
Class of 1909
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Box 16 |
Items 376-391
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Various ephemera including shingles, letters, programs, state examination booklets,
1892 University Corps of Cadets roster, Telegram sent by George H. Conklin to William
Henry Peer Conklin, Class of 1895, concerning George's military service during the
Civil War, 1960 Freshman Register, 1960 description of Cornell's fraternities, postcards
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Box 10 |
Items 392-447
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Photographs including carte de visites and stereo view cards of students, faculty
(including Ezra Cornell), staff, campus buildings and the Ithaca area, 1875 course
book, letters, program for the Thirtieth Annual Contest for the '86 Memorial Prize
in Declamation
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Box 23 |
Items 448-453
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Scrapbook assembled by Edward John Burns Jr., Class of 1917, scrapbook assembled by
Henry Godley, Class of 1924, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity photos, photo of Thomas Frederick
Crane and others playing tennis on the arts quad
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Box 6 |
Item 454
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1941 diary belonging to Theodore Ryder
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Box 7 |
Item 455
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1913-1914 scrapbook assembled by Frank (?)
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Box 13 |
Item 456
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Program for Music Festival 1916 Cornell University April 27 28 29
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Box 1 |
Items 457-482
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Various ephemera including letters, certificates, telegrams, tintype of Simon Henry
Gage, stereo view cards of campus, cabinet cards of students, other photos and tintype
of students and campus and Ezra Cornell
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Box 13 |
Item 483
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Programs for Music Festival 1920 Cornell University
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Box 24 |
Item 484
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Collection of 16 brass wax seal stamps of student organization logos used for shingles
and certificates
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Box 14 |
Items 485-487
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Certificate of membership in the Cornell Chapter of Acacia Fraternity issued to David
William Cheney, Class of 1922, photograph of the special Lehigh Valley Railroad, Auburn
& Ithaca Branch crew spectator train, ca. 1920 photograph of the brothers of the Alpha
Tau Omega Fraternity
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Box 25 |
Items 488-494
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Diplomas and certificates relating to Vining Campbell Dunlap Class of 1916 and others,
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Box 26 |
Item 495
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Scrapbook assembled by James Aloysius Barrett, Class of 1912
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Box 27 |
Item 496
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Collection of letters and other documents belonging to Mary Ellen Gillett, Class of
1941
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Box 14 |
Item 497
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Certificate appointing of Edward Benedict Clark, Class of 1912, as a principal musician
in the Cornell University Corps of Cadets
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Box 22 |
Items 498-499
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Felt arm patch and brass pin belonging to Edward Benedict Clark, Class of 1912, as
a principal musician in the Cornell University Corps of Cadets and photograph of him
with clarinet
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Box 3 |
Items 500-515
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Various pamphlets, photographs, letters, and other ephemera
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Box 28 |
Items 516-598
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Stereo-view, cabinet cards, carte de visite photographs, tintyps of the Cornell campus,
Ithaca, McGraw-Fiske mansion, Ezra's tunnel, waterfalls, Cornell students and faculty,
many photos owned by James Duncan Upham, some related to Zeta Psi fraternity
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Box 29 |
Item 599
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Set of 11 notebooks used by Robert Grantier Miller, Law School Class of 1940, for
legal classes at Cornell University
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Box 25 |
Item 600
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Photograph of the twentieth anniversary reunion of the Class of 1894
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Box 30 |
Items 601-607
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1956, 1960-1964, 1975 Freshman registers, pig books
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Box 31 |
Item 608
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Menu card for the Cornell University Medical College Class of 1904 senior banquet
that was held at the Café Boulevard in New York City on 12 Feb 1904
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Box 34 |
Item 609
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Notebook used by Jefferson Mack Myers, Class of 1876, for his human physiology and
hygiene class at Cornell University and later by his son, Joel Myers Jr.
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Box 31 |
Items 610-622
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Various ephemera, programs, pamphlets
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Box 34 |
Item 623
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Multi-year diary maintained by Arthur Cornelius Lansing, Class of 1921
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Box 31 |
Items 624-666
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Ephemera, postcards, letters, photographs relating to Cornell and Ithaca. Includes
photo of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity when used as barracks for the S.A.T.C., Dwellers
Reunion program, Official Guide to the Schoellkopf Sweepstakes Spring Day 1923, items
relating to Clarence Isaac Robinson, Class of 1884,
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Box 37 |
Items 667-670, 672-676, 678, 680-685, 687-696, 699, 714
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Cabinet cards of Cornell students and a tintype of Taughannock Falls with people holding
an umbrella.
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Box 32 |
Items 671, 677, 686, 697-698, 700-713, 715-733
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Cabinet cards, stereo views and other photographs, several relating to the Vermont
Academy, Cornell students and dorm room images, Ithaca parade, Ithaca and Lucifer
Falls.
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Item 734
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Broadside from the Inter-Collegiate Contest of Greek, Latin, Mathematics & Essays
competition. 3rd Annual Ovation of the Citizens of Ithaca, to Cornell's Victors! Held
at Library Hall, William L. Bostwick with S. d. Halliday and interim President Russel,
January 20, 1877
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Box 34 |
Items 735-737
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Notes on Geodesy, prepared for the Senior Class in Civil Engineering by Charles Lee
Crandall Class of 1872, personal expenditure journal maintained by Arvin J. Dillenbeck,
Class of 1911, laboratory notebook maintained by Harold Carl Harding, Class of 1910,
for Course XII in mechanical engineering in the Sibley College, Department of Experimental
Engineering
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Box 25 |
Items 738-739
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1921 photo of the faculty and students of the Cornell University Chemistry Department,
group portrait of the Class of 1895
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Box 33 |
Item 740
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Large collection of letters—many professing love and admiration—sent by 17 different
service men during World War II to Marie Ann Tipula, Class of 1947, while she was
a student at Cornell University and later when she returned home to Hoboken, NJ to
work
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Box 25 |
Item 741
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Circa 1890 photograph of the Peck Shoe Store in Cortland, NY
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Box 32 |
Items 742-793
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Stereo view, cabinet cards, and other photographs of Cornell and the Ithaca area including
bridges, Taughannock Hotel and Falls, Cornell weather station, images relating to
Ithaca trolley cars and George W. Brownell. Ephemera, letters relating to Cornell
students,
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Item 794
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Broadside from the Class of 1919 Freshman Banquet. Held at the Armory March 1916
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Box 35 |
Items 795-896
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Cabinet cards of students and faculty mostly from the Class of 1873
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Box 36 |
Items 897-921
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Box 25 |
Items 922-924
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Box 36 |
Items 925-935
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Items relating to Clark Dillenbeck
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DVD-537a, 537b |
Whalen Cornellian
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Names index, see PDF guide above for location.
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