Guide to the Henry Phelps Gage Papers,
1886-1955

Collection Number: 1874

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:
Staff
Date completed:
May 1992
August 2001
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, May 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Henry Phelps Gage papers, 1886-1955.
Collection Number:
1874
Creator:
Henry Phelps Gage
Quantity:
26 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, diaries, notes, notebooks, slides, photogrpahs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, notes on the life of Simon Henry Gage.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Henry Phelps Gage was a physicist and inventor, and son of Cornell University Professor Simon Henry Gage and Susanna Phelps Gage, also a scientist.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, diaries, notes on the life of Simon Henry Gage; notebooks on lectures at Ithaca High School and Cornell University; printed matter on physics and related subjects; slides, photos, photographic plates, and miscellaneous papers. Includes correspondence and other papers pertaining to Henry Phelps Gage's work as head of the Optical Laboratory of Corning Glass Works (1911-1947) and to his membership in various scientific societies; also personal and family correspondence, including papers of Susanna Phelps Gage.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Gage, Henry Phelps.
Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944.
Gage, Susanna Phelps.
Cornell University.
Corning Glass Works.
Ithaca High School, (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Subjects:
Optics.
Women scientists.
Physics.

Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Notebooks.
Color slides.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Henry Phelps Gage papers, #1874. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Miscellaneous
Technical Bulletins and Papers
 Box 1
Coal Company Reports, 1880's
Box 2
Coal Company Reports, 1880's
Box 3
Technical Bulletins and Papers
 Box 4
Technical Pamphlets, Text Books, Lecture Notes
 Box 5
Travel Literature, Maps
 Box 6
Optics, Glass Manufacturing
 Box 7
Technical Papers by Susanna and Simon Gage - Lecture notes, technical pamphlets
 Box 8
HPG Block in Morrisville
 Box 9
Copy of letters to and from J.G. Schurman from Prof. Gage re dedicating his book on Optic Projection, 1914?
Box 9
Death of Mary Gag-Day, auto accident
 Box 9
Carter R. Kingsley
 Box 9
Cornell - Gifts to Greater Council Fund, etc.
 Box 9
Illuminating Engineering Society (Nomenclature Committee)
 Box 9
Birth Certificate (HPG)
 Box 9
HPG's Letters - His Philosophy re prejudice, religion
 Box 9
Mrs. Theobald Smith
 Box 9
Harley Howe
 Box 9
Amory Houghton
 Box 9
Microscopy in America, attempts at getting it published
 Box 9
Spencer Lens Company
 Box 9
Correspondence
Phelps - invented day-light glass, co-author of "Optic Projection," colors of signal lights, Cornell AB - 1908, Ph. D. - 1911, born 1888
Box 10
Cowan - in charge of optical lab at Corning G.W. retired July 1, 1947
Box 10
Mrs. Theobald Smith
 Box 10
S.H.G.; 1917, 1916, 12-4, re SPG Fdn., 1943
Box 10
Herbert Lehman re McCarthy, Stanford 1905-1906, Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Optical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science
 Box 10
Dr. Mary Gage-Day, 1934
Box 10
Clara Starrett Gage (Mrs. S.H.G.)
 Box 10
Nina W. McCabe
 Box 10
William Whitney Gage
 Box 10
Copies of Letters to Irving M. Ives, Robert F. Wagner (?)
 Box 10
Typewritten account of accident which blinded HPG in one eye, 1935
Box 10
I.M. Ives, 1952
Box 10
From HPG to father, 1900
Box 10
E.L. Mark
 Box 10
From Clare Boothe Luce to 1945 re control and development of atomic energy
Box 10
Susanna P. Gage
 Box 10
Edward L. Nichols
 Box 11
Copies of letters about death of SHG
 Box 11
Charles G. Sibley
 Box 11
W. Sterling Cole, June 4, 1952
Box 11
F.D. Roosevelt, Asst. Sec. of Navy, Dec. 15, 1917
Box 11
Albert C. Durand
 Box 11
Mary Gage-Day
 Box 11
SHG
 Box 11
B.F. Kingsbury
 Box 11
2 copies of resolutions adopted re death of Prof. Edward Leamington Nichols
 Box 11
Henry F. Gage
 Box 11
George F. Rogalsky
 Box 11
W.N. Barnard
 Box 12
Phelps to Luella
 Box 12
Simon to Susanna
 Box 12
Herbert G. Dorsey
 Box 12
Albert C. Durand
 Box 12
Gage Genealogy
 Box 12
Biographical Sketch of Henry Batten, Trustee, 1915
Box 12
Biographical Sketch of Elizabeth Carse
 Box 12
Jared Newman
 Box 13
Phelps re Houghton for Congress, May 21, 1918, to Jared Newman
 Box 13
Joseph F. Putman
 Box 13
F.K. Richtmyer
 Box 13
Albert W. Smith
 Box 13
Wildeer D. Bancroft
 Box 13
A.C. Durand
 Box 13
Death of SPH, 1915
Box 13
Anna Comstock
 Box 13
Orchards - Washington (Orondo)
 Box 13
Mr. and Mrs. SHG
 Box 13
Photostatic copy of "Abstract of Title" for lands of SPG in Morrisville, 1854
Box 13
Albert H. Gage
 Box 13
Edward L. Nichols
 Box 13
Tiffany and Company
 Box 13
Charles H. Truck
 Box 13
Priscilla (to and from)
 Box 14
George Washington University
 Box 14
Corning Science Club
 Box 14
re SHG's "History of Microscopy in America"
 Box 14
SHG "Fellowship in Animal Biology"
 Box 14
Luzerne Coville
 Box 14
Gardner Family Genealogy
 Box 14
Settlement of Estate of SHG, Letters of Sympathy
 Box 14
D.L. Gamble
 Box 14
Copy of letter, Nov. 30, 1955, sending reprints of his Cornell research and thesis to Cornell for the new research library
 Box 14
Ruth Sawyer Durand
 Box 14
To Lucille Cowan from Beaus'
 Box 14
Family financial papers and miscellany
Letters from Clyde and Edna Gage
 Box 15
Estate of Susanna Phelps Gage
 Box 15
Letters from Jared Newman
 Box 15
Correspondence re William Cowen Estate
 Box 15
Printed: "Mary Gage-Day - A Memorial Tribute"
 Box 15
Notes on stock quotations, dividends
 Box 16
Bills, receipts
 Box 16
Sketchbook
 Box 16
Bankbooks
 Box 16
Check Books
 Box 16
Miscellaneous
 Box 16
Pamphlets on Medicine and Physiology
 Box 17
Tax Returns, Ms, Miscellany
 Box 18
Class of 1908 - Cornell Material - Given to Archives
 Box 18
Copy of Will of SHG
 Box 18
Ms. of "Life of SHG" by HPG, 1949
Box 18
Ms. of "The Spirit of Science," 1904
Box 18
"Affairs in Cube," John M. Thurston
 Box 18
Newspaper Clippings and Magazines
 Box 19
Papers and Pamphlets on Physics/Franklin Institute Journals
 Box 20
Microscopy, papers on light transmission, Stanford University, Washington Mem.
 Box 21
Technical Bulletins and Papers
 Box 22
Technical Bulletins and Papers
 Box 23
Technical Material on Radio, Sound and Light
 Box 24
Technical Papers and Pamphlets
 Box 25
Pamphlets on Glass Manufacturing
 Box 26
Newspaper Clippings
 Box 27
Invitations, programs, family papers and notes
Diary, 1951 - HPG; 1949; 1941-1945, etc.; notes 1955
Box 28
Postcards, 1910-1911
Box 28
Scrapbook: "History of Henry Phelps Gage, Vol. I," c. 1886-1902
Box 28
Notebooks
 Box 28
Notes on Life of Simon Henry Gage
 Box 28
Miscellaneous Papers
 Box 28
Photogrpahs, Negatives
 Box 29
Family Photoraphs
 Box 30
Photographs
 Box 31
Photographs/Books ( Optic Projection)
Box 32
Photographs, Family Diaries and Accounts
 Box 33
Photographs
 Box 34
Photographic Plates, Hardware
 Box 35
In Manuscript file: Copy of a typescript entitled "Information on the VenTessel Family as related to the Gage Family"
 Box 49