Clarence L. Houghton papers, 1883-1923.
Collection Number: 899
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Clarence L. Houghton papers, 1883-1923.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
899
Abstract:
Papers of Clarence L. Houghton, an Ithaca newspaperman, pertaining to local events
and organizations.
Creator:
Houghton, Clarence L.
Quanitities:
.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Newspaperman.
Programs, articles, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials pertaining to
local events and organizations, including material relating to the Ithaca Cycle Club
(1896-1903), the Thomas School of Aviation, the League of American Wheelmen and its
good road movement (1897-1901), the temperance movement, public schools, Masons Hobasco
Lodge, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, Cornell University, and local churches; also,
photographs of Ithaca including Rogues Harbor Inn Lansing, Cayuga Hose Company, Ithaca
High School Band, Cornell University, and a murder case in Tompkins County; a letter
regarding the sale of The Weekly Ithacan (1917), another describing St. Nazaire and the water-supply problems of the American
Army (1919); and one from William H. Jessup, Poughkeepsie, to Houghton, telling of
Edgar Apgar's role in recognizing the political potentialities of Grover Cleveland;
and a diary fragment (1865), Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Clarence L. Houghton papers, #899. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Jessup, William H.
Apgar, Edgar.
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
Cornell University -- : Description -- : Views.
Ithaca Conservatory of Music -- : Description -- : Views.
Ithaca Cycle Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Thomas School of Aviation (Ithaca, N.Y.)
League of American Wheelmen
Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Societies, etc.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Description -- Views.
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Sanitary affairs.
Subjects:
Temperance.
Murder -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Churches -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Cycling.
Schools -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1901-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Reception of Admiral Dewey
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1899 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Churches
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Cornelliana
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1902-1919 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Ithaca Conservatory of Music
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1912, 1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Ithaca Cycle Club
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1896-1903 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Ithaca Cycle Club newsclippings
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1896-1897 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Ithaca Daily Journal Annual Greeting of the Carrier Boys
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1889-1899 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Ithaca High School programs
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1887-1898 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Ithaca; Ithaca organizations
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1914-1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Ithaca Public Schools
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1912-1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Ithaca Savings Bank (list of trustees)
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1916 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Knights of Pythias
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1883-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Memorabilia
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Methodist Episcopal Church
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1911 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Miscellany
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1897-1916 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Newsclippings
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Rotary Club
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1918 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Thomas School of Aviation
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Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Thomas Aviation, a brochure for the aviation school, and photos
of Thomas Morse aircraft.
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Judge Sweetland (article draft)
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Temperance
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1911-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Transportation
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1916-1919 |
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Photographs
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| Box 2 |
Ithacans (for newspaper articles)
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| Box 2 |
Cornell
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Murder case
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| Box 2 |
"Alpha Sigma Phi lodge, Rockledge, on the cliffs above Fall Creek Gorge, where Fether
was arrested"
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| Box 2 |
"View of Rockledge"
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| Box 2 |
"Home of Crance family"
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| Box 2 |
"View of Tompkins County jail"
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| Box 2 |
"Another view, Tompkins County jail"
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| Box 2 |
"District Attorney Arthur G. Adams (with straw hat) discussing case with Edward Crance,
father of dead girl"
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| Box 2 |
"Office of Sheriff"
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| Box 2 |
"Sheriff Charles Green"
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Printed material
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| Box 2 |
American Education
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1912 | |
| Box 2 |
List of Registered Voters of Tompkins County
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1912 | |
| Box 2 |
The Cornell Countryman
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1914 | |
| Box 2 |
The New Success
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1919 | |
| Box 2 |
Current History
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1928 | |
| Box 2 |
Fifty Games of Cards
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1931 | |
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Miscellany
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| Box 2 |
Badge: 47th Annual Reunion, 15th and 50th Regiments, Engineer Brigade Army of Potomac
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| Box 2 |
Plaque: "5 1900 Sidepath Tompkins County"
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