Bristow Adams papers, 1853-19701862-1957
Collection Number: 3205

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Bristow Adams papers, 1853-1970 1862-1957
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3205
Abstract:
Consists of papers of Bristow Adams, journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Various materials document his journalistic career, including early work with a paper in D.C.; his editorial responsibilities on Stanford University publications; and his work as publications program director for the College of Agriculture at Cornell. From his student years are sketches of fur seals; college memorabilia; and many letters to his mother. Also, photographs from work for the US Forest Service; photographs of the Cornell track team; Cornell student publications; and creative writings. Also, various materials chronicling his life, including his acting mayor of Ithaca. This collection also contains papers of Adams' father, primarily concerning his Civil War service.
Creator:
Adams, Bristow, 1875-1957.
Quanitities:
15.1 cubic feet.
2 mapcase folders.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Benjamin Bristow Adams was born to Crawford Cadwallader and Ada G. Harrison Adams in Washington, D.C., November 11, 1875. He, three younger sisters and one younger brother were left fatherless in 1885. From the age of ten he was forced to help support his family and was frequently boarded out to relatives on a Virginia farm with his younger brother. He attended Central High School in Washington from 1890-1892 and advanced in the school cadet corps. In 1892 he left school to become co-founder and editor of a weekly magazine, the "Pathfinder." The magazine began as a weekly news review for children but evolved into a paper for the benefit of "current events" teachers.
In 1896 Bristow left for the west to start college at the newly established university of Stanford. He paid his trip west with money earned during summers as a lifeguard at the Washington Public Bathing Beach, Big Basin. He intended to work for his room and board at college; tuition was free. He entered Stanford by exam, not application. Consequently he attended under the status of a special student. He concentrated in drawing and painting his first two years, and English in his last two. He was to have graduated in 1900 as an English major with a concentration in drawing, but because he was short one credit he was not given a diploma. In 1906 David Starr Jordan, professor and president of Stanford, awarded Bristow his belated diploma despite the lack of one credit.
During his college years Bristow pursued his interests in art and journalism. At the end of his freshman year, David Starr Jorden, chairman of the Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission, appointed Bristow artist for the commission. For five months, Bristow made observations and sketches of the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands. These sketches were later used to illustrate the commission's three volume report. Bristow had pursued his art training some years before at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia and the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. While at Stanford, he studied at the Barron Studios.
Following his journalistic bent to pay his room and board, Bristow did writing by correspondence for the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the Boston Transcript. Bristow also edited all of the Stanford publications, without monetary recompense, during his four years at that institution. He also founded and edited the "Stanford Chaparral," 1898-1900, the first college humor magazine in the west.
After completing four years of studies at Stanford Bristow returned to work on the "Pathfinder" in Washington, D.C. He continued to work as a free-lance writer and illustrator for magazines including "McClure's," "Everybody's," "Country Life in America," and the "Washington Star."
In 1902 he married Luella Farmer whom he had met in a freshman art class at Stanford. They had conducted their courtship through extensive correspondence since 1900. Soon after marrying they had four children: Eleanor, Gertrude, Everett and Benjamin Bristow II. The growth and development of the family is documented in the correspondence.
In 1904 Bristow became vice president of H. M. Suter Publishing Company where he designed a series of college athletic posters, edited "Forestry and Irrigation," forerunner "American Forests" and was managing editor of a weekly news review, "Washington Life" later called "American Spectator."
Bristow was asked to join the U.S. Forest Service in 1906, in their office of Information. There he edited bulletins and issued news reports. From the information he absorbed editing and writing articles on forestry, he was able to pass the civil service technical forestry examination. Subsequently he became a forestry assistant in the Choctawatchee National Forest in west Florida. There he was involved in introducing exotic tree species: eucalyptus, Australian wattle, cork oak and French maritime pine. As a result of his work and research in this area Stanford elected him to Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific organization.
While in the forestry service, Bristow became a member of the Society of American Foresters, and was elected to the post of secretary and representative. In this capacity he attended the dedication of Fernow Hall at Cornell in May 1914. He spent the summer of 1914 visiting many of the state and national forests in the Rockies and far west as a forest examiner.
November 1914, Bristow accepted a position at Cornell University as a full professor in the Agricultural School and department head in charge of publications and information. . As a professor he started courses in journalism, advertising and publicity, and forestry and conservation. Bristow, familiarly known as B.A. by generations of Cornellians, became an immediate favorite with the students. He encouraged their friendship through his weekly Monday night open house or "at homes" at 202 Fall Creek Drive. There students congregated in the second floor study listening to anecdotes of Bristow's travel, discussing current events, airing their problems and enjoying Mrs. Adams' delicious home-made hot chocolate and cookies.
Aside from professorial tasks, Bristow started the mimeograph news service and supervised the Extension Publications and the Experiment Station Bulletins. During the thirty years he taught and edited at Cornell, the University won more awards for excellence of the printed word than any other Land Grant College.
Combining his love of students with his love of journalism, Bristow became a member of the board of directors of the "Cornell Daily Sun" and unofficial advisor to the "Cornell Countryman" and the "Cornell Widow." Bristow pursued many other jobs and activities relating to his journalistic interests while a forester and professor. In 1909 he was a public director of the National Milk Show and Dairy Exposition in New York City; in 1923 he served in the same capacity for the World's Dairy Congress. During World War I in 1918, Bristow took a temporary leave from the University and joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture's campaign for stimulation of food production. From that work he progressed to the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff of the Army, where he was engaged in counter-espionage and counter-propaganda, as liaison officer with the Commission on Public Information, The Department of Justice, and the Military Morale Branch. In 1921 he wrote Fanner's bulletin 1202, "An Agricultural Almanac" for the U.S. Department of Agriculture For six months in 1930, he taught a conservation and natural resources course at the University of Hawaii. In the early thirties he was made regional director for the Federal Writer's Project (WPA) in New York. He retained this position until he was dismissed by Henry G. Alsberg, for unsuccessful completion of work. Actually he was dismissed for charging Wallace Miller, who posed as a Stanford graduate, with being a communist and recommending his removal from the project. This affair got wide publicity and brought Bristow into the national headlines. Finally, in 1939, Bristow was given an reward for appreciation of service by the New York Press Association.
Bristow pursued interests aside from journalism in his spare time. He had gone out for track while in college and retained an active interest in the sport while at Cornell. He was a referee for over 30 years, officiating evening games in full evening dress tails, white tie, white gloves, and top hat. In 1924 he visited England with the Cornell and Princeton track teams as they competed against Oxford and Cambridge. In 1926 Bristow visited continental Europe, studying farming and agricultural techniques.
Bristow's artistic and literary talents allowed him to earn enough money to pay for two trips around the world. In 1930 he traveled around the world north of the equator, in 1937-1938 he traveled around the world south of the equator. From the great variety of experiences of his travels, Bristow gave years of monthly talks over WGY in Schenectady, entitled "The World and Us." He also broadcast a weekly book review, "Let's Read a Book" over the Cornell Radio Station for over fifteen years.
Bristow retired in 1943 but was immediately reappointed by the Trustees for an additional year of service. He was made Professor Emeritus in 1944 and once again recalled to serve through 1945. In July 1945 he was asked to teach courses in the summer session. In 1938, 1939, and 1941 he also taught a summer session in Extension Methods conducted by Colorado State College at Fort Collins. There he taught editing, extension writings and publicity methods in extension.
Bristow had planned for years to spend his retirement doing oil painting and gardening. Although he did manage to do one art show, he was never able to pursue this interest as much as he liked. He became alderman for the Ithaca Town Council, then acting mayor of Ithaca for seven years, retiring the year before his death. He also founded and edited the "Cornell Plantations," a quarterly publication from 1942-1956. These activities plus his obligations in radio broadcasting, and numerous duties and organizations to which he belonged amply filled his time. Among the various honorary organizations and clubs which he belonged to during his life were: National Press Club; Society of American Foresters (Secretary, 1913); New York Press Association (life membership and Director-at-large); Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society (National Honorary President, 1920); American Association of Agricultural College Editors, (president, 1921); American Association of Teachers of Journalism; Sigma Xi; Alpha Gamma Rho; Epsilon Sigma Phi; Savage Club of Ithaca.
B.A. died, after a year of illness in a nursing home, in November 1956. He was survived by his wife, Luella, four children and four grandchildren.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Consists primarily of papers of Bristow Adams (1875-1957), journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Correspondence, published and unpublished articles, press releases, illustrations, newspapers, pamphlets, clippings, posters, and periodicals document his journalistic career beginning with his early work on The Pathfinder (1894-1895), a current affairs weekly published in Washington, D.C., of which he was a co-founder and associate editor, and including editorial responsibilities on Stanford University student publications, The Daily Palo Alto, The Stanford Sequoia, and a college humor magazine, The Stanford Chapparal, of which he was a founder; work on Washington, D.C. journals, Washington Life, American Spectator, and Forestry and Irrigation; his work as publications program director for the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University (1914-1945); and his editorship of Cornell Plantations (1944-1957). Also documenting his student years are sketches of fur seals and other drawings done in the Pribilof Islands while he was an artist for the Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission (1897); lecture notes, essays, and college memorabilia; and many letters to his mother, Ada G. Harrison Adams. Numerous photographs document his work for the United States Forest Service (1906-1914).
Other activities while Adams was at Cornell are evidenced by teaching materials from his courses in journalism and conservation of natural resources; photographs of the Cornell track team, for which he was faculty advisor for twenty-five years; student publications, The Delicate Brown and The Cornell Widow, for which he was faculty advisor; scripts for radio programs regularly broadcast on WGY, Schenectady, NY, or WHCU, Ithaca, NY; and many speeches and creative writings, poetry, jokes, plays and short stories. Also include many drawings, paintings, and scrapbooks of clippings (1908-1956) chronicling his life, including his brief tenure as director of the WPA writers' project in New York and his participation in municipal politics as an alderman and, on occasion, acting mayor of Ithaca, NY (1946-1954). His numerous correspondents include Henry G. Alsberg, Margaret Bourke-White, Sherwin Cody, Charles Collingwood, Edmund Ezra Day, A.W. Gibson, David B. Greenberg, Lester W. Herzog, David Starr Jordan, Russell Lord, Deane W. Malott, Albert R. Mann, Gifford Pinchot, Anastasia J. Romanoff, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., Jacob Gould Schurman, William Howard Taft, Robert E. Treman, Peter Vischer, E.B. White, and Lee A. White. His family life is reflected by extensive correspondence with his wife, Luella Farmer Adams, and many other family members (1880-1957) and family photoprints.
This collection also contains papers of Adams' father, Crawford Cadwallader Adams (1839-85), primarily concerning his Civil War service in the 14th Ohio Infantry, but also including his certificate of appointment as a Special Agent of the Treasury Department (1877) and a journal containing excerpts from his correspondence with his future wife, Ada G. Harrison; and papers of Elmer E. Farmer Creighton (1878-1928), electrical engineer, primarily letters from his mother, Eleanor Creighton Farmer, brothers, Fred B. Farmer and Clyde C. Farmer, sister, Luella Farmer Adams, friends, and professional colleagues written to him while he was studying and teaching at Stanford University (1891-1897, 1901), participating in the Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission expedition to the Pribilof Islands (1897), studying at the Sorbonne in Paris (1898-1900), and working for the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company, Pittsfield, MA (1901-1904) and for the General Electric Company and Union College, Schenectady, NY (1904-1927), after the Stanley Company became part of General Electric; also includes letters from others to his mother, who lived with him during the 1920's, technical notes, clippings, information concerning a gold mine he operated, and college memorabilia.
Includes correspondence of Bristow Adams while he was a member of the Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission.
Also, eighteen Ivy League athletic posters drawn by Adams.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Bristow Adams papers, #3205. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Alsberg, Henry G. (Henry Garfield), 1881-1970.
Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971.
Cody, Sherwin, 1868-1959.
Collingwood, Charles.
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
Gibson, A. W.
Greenberg, David B. (David Benjamin), 1892-1968.
Herzog, Lester W.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Lord, Russell, 1895-1964.
Malott, Deane W. (Deane Waldo), 1898-1996.
Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-1947.
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
Romanoff, Anastasia J., 1905-
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937.
Schmeck, Harold M.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Taft, William H. (William Howard.), 1857-1930.
Treman, Robert E. (Robert Elias), 1888-1953.
Vischer, Peter.
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
White, Lee A., 1886-
Adams, Luella Farmer.
Adams, Crawford Cadwallader.
Harrison, Ada G.
Creighton, Elmer E. Farmer.
Farmer, Eleanor Creighton.
Farmer, Fred B.
Farmer, Clyde C.
United States. Forest Service
Cornell University
New York State College of Agriculture
Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission
Federal Writers\' Project (N.Y.)
Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company (Pittsfield, Mass.)
General Electric Company (Schenectady, N.Y.)
Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.)
Ivy League (Athletic conference)
Places:
New York (State) -- Politics and government.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subjects:
Artists.
Foresters.
Journalists.
Athletics -- Pictorial works.
Forests and forestry.
Electrical engineers.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Paintings.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Elmer E. F. Creighton. Papers, 1886-1928
Scope and Contents
Correspondence includes letters from his mother, Eleanor Creighton Farmer, brothers, Fred B. Farmer and Clyde C. Farmer, sister, Luella Farmer Adams, friends, and professional colleagues written to him while he was studying and teaching at Stanford University (1891-1897, 1901), participating in the Bering Sea Fur Commission expedition to the Pribilof Islands (1897), studying at the Sorbonne in Paris (1898-1900), and working for the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company, Pittsfield, Mass. (1901-1904) and for the General Electric Company and Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. (1904-1927) , after the Stanley Company became part of General Electric; and letters from others to his mother, who lived with him during the 1920's. Other series contain technical notes, clippings, information concerning a gold mine he operated, and college memorabilia.
Subseries A. Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
May 5, 1886 - Dec. 26,
1886, 1891
Box 1 Folder 2
Jan. 24, 1892 - Dec. 28,
1892, 1892
Box 1 Folder 3
Jan. 11, 1893 - Apr. 30,
1893, 1893
Box 1 Folder 4
May 4, 1893 - Oct. 19,
1893, 1893
Box 1 Folder 5
Nov. 3, 1893 - Dec. 26,
1893, 1893
Box 1 Folder 6
Jan. 25, 1894 - Dec. 22,
1894, 1894
Box 1 Folder 7
Jan. 11, 1895 - June 19,
1895, 1895
Box 1 Folder 8
July 1, 1895 - Dec. 27,
1895, 1895
Box 1 Folder 9
Jan. 15, 1896 - July 22,
1896, 1896
Box 1 Folder 10
Aug. 6, 1896 - Dec. 10,
1896, 1896
Box 2 Folder 1
Jan. 1, 1897 - May 28,
1897, 1897
Box 2 Folder 2
June 8, 1897 - Aug. 25,
1897, 1897
Box 2 Folder 3
Sept. 1, 1897 - Dec. 29,
1897, 1897
Box 2 Folder 4
Jan. 5, 1898 - Apr. 28,
1898, 1898
Box 2 Folder 5
May 6, 1898 - Aug. 17,
1898, 1898
Box 2 Folder 6
Sept. 4, 1898 - Dec. 20,
1898, 1898
Box 2 Folder 7
Jan. 1, 1899 - May 17,
1899, 1899
Box 2 Folder 8
June 6, 1899 - Aug. 30,
1899, 1899
Box 2 Folder 9
Sept. 3, 1899 - Dec. 28,
1899, 1899
Box 2 Folder 10
Jan. 1, 1900 - Aug. 31,
1900, 1900
Box 3 Folder 1
Sept. 22, 1900 - Dec. 22,
1900, 1900
Box 3 Folder 2
Jan. 8, 1901 - Mar. 28,
1901, 1901
Box 3 Folder 3
Apr. 9, 1901 - June 12,
1901, 1901
Box 3 Folder 4
July 4, 1901 - Sept. 16,
1901, 1901
Box 3 Folder 5
Oct. 6, 1901 - Dec. 28,
1901, 1901
Box 3 Folder 6
Jan. 2, 1902 - Apr. 26,
1902, 1902
Box 3 Folder 7
May 9, 1902 - June 23,
1902, 1902
Box 3 Folder 8
July 3, 1902 - Dec. 19,
1902, 1902
Box 3 Folder 9
Jan. 27, 1903 - Dec. 23,
1903, 1903
Scope and Contents
Note: On June 3, 1903 the Probate Court of Berkshire Cty., MA. changed the name of Elmer F. Farmer to Elmer E. F. Creighton in accordance with the wishes of his late maternal grandfather, David Creighton.
Box 3 Folder 10
Jan. 11, 1904 - Dec. 21,
1904, 1904
Box 4 Folder 1
Jan. 1905 - Dec. 31,
1905, 1905
Box 4 Folder 2
Jan. 1, 1906 - Nov. 9,
1906, 1906
Box 4 Folder 3
Jan. 3, 1907 - Nov. 15,
1907, 1909
Box 4 Folder 4
Jan. 2, 1910 - Dec. 17,
1910, 1911
Box 4 Folder 5
Jan. 3, 1912 - Dec. 25,
1912, 1912
Box 4 Folder 6
Jan. 8, 1913 - Sept. 29,
1913, 1913
Box 4 Folder 7
Oct. 5, 1913 - Dec. 26,
1913, 1913
Box 4 Folder 8
Jan. 4, 1914 - May 28,
1914, 1914
Box 4 Folder 9
June 4, 1914 - Dec. 26,
1914, 1914
Box 4 Folder 10
Jan. 3, 1915 - Dec. 27,
1915, 1915
Box 5 Folder 1
Jan. 10, 1916 - June 19,
1916, 1916
Box 5 Folder 2
July 18, 1916 - Dec. 27,
1916, 1916
Box 5 Folder 3
Jan. 1, 1917 - Dec. 6,
1917, 1917
Box 5 Folder 4
Jan. 11, 1918 - Dec. 16,
1918, 1918
Box 5 Folder 5
Jan. 7, 1919 - Aug. 28,
1919, 1919
Box 5 Folder 6
Sept. 4, 1919 - Oct. 31,
1919, 1919
Box 5 Folder 7
Nov. 4, 1919 - Dec. 31,
1919, 1919
Box 5 Folder 8
Jan. 5, 1920 - Feb. 26,
1920, 1920
Box 5 Folder 9
Mar. 6, 1920 - June 19,
1920, 1920
Box 5 Folder 10
July 8, 1920 - Dec. 22,
1920, 1920
Box 6 Folder 1
Jan. 15, 1921 - May 3,
1921, 1921
Box 6 Folder 2
June 16, 1921 - Dec. 27,
1921, 1921
Box 6 Folder 3
Jan. 8, 1922 - Dec. 25,
1922, 1922
Box 6 Folder 4
Feb. 20, 1923 - Sept. 30,
1923, 1923
Box 6 Folder 5
Oct. 3, 1923 - Dec. 25,
1923, 1923
Box 6 Folder 6
Jan. 2, 1924 - Apr. 26,
1924, 1924
Box 6 Folder 7
June 1, 1924 - Dec. 26,
1924, 1924
Box 6 Folder 8
Jan. 7, 1925 - Nov. 3,
1925, 1925
Box 6 Folder 9
Feb. 6, 1926 - Dec. 30,
1926, 1926
Box 6 Folder 10
Jan. 2, 1927 - May 5,
1927, 1927
Box 6 Folder 11
June 6, 1927 - Oct. 26,
1927, 1927
Box 6 Folder 12
Nov. 1, 1927 - Oct. 28,
1927, 1928
Box 7 Folder 1
n.d.
Box 7 Folder 2
n.d.
Box 7 Folder 3
n.d.
Box 7 Folder 4
n.d.
Box 7 Folder 5
n.d.
Box 7 Folder 6
n.d.
Box 7 Folder 7
n.d.
Subseries B. Business and Financial Papers
Box 7 Folder 8
Horsehead Mine Papers. 1922-
1922, 1923
Box 7 Folder 9
Receipts
Subseries C. Creative Writings
Box 7 Folder 10
Poems, essays
Box 7 Folder 11
Poems, prose
Box 7 Folder 12
Poems, prose
Subseries D. Technical Notes
Box 8 Folder 1
Seal Trip notes. Aug. 7 - Sept. 9,
1897
Box 8 Folder 2
Technical notes
Box 8 Folder 3
Technical notes
Subseries E. Memorabilia
Box 8 Folder 4
Photographs. 1902. Mining property and relatives
1902
Box 8 Folder 5
Misc. and Stanford memorabilia
Box 8 Folder 6
Misc. and Stanford memorabilia
Box 8 Folder 7
Misc. and Stanford memorabilia
Series II. Bristow Adams
Subseries A. Correspondence, 1880-1970
Scope and Contents
Primarily personal in nature, this correspondence consists largely during the early years, of letters exchanged between Bristow and his wife, Luella Farmer Adams during their courtship and marriage, and other correspondence with family members and friends. The volume of correspondence increases after 1896 when Bristow left Washington, D. C. to attend Stanford University.
Among the major correspondents are:
Mrs. Ada Gertrude Adams, Ardis Adams, Bristow Benjamin "Tote" Adams II, Edith Adams, Eleanor Adams, Everett Adams, Luella Farmer Adams, Wallace Adams, Walter "Wallie" Adams, Josephine Albrecht, Henry G. Alsberg, "Bebe", Margaret Bourke-White, H. D. Brandyce, Eric Branham, George C. Calvert, Sherwin Cody, Charles Collingwood, Clement V. Conole, Helen C. "Connie" Conrad, Elmer Farmer Creighton, Edmund E. Day, Wallace Duncan, John English, Mrs. Nettie Farmer, B. T. Galloway, A. W. Gibson, David Greenberg, Reed Harris, Charles Heffernan, Lester W. Herzog, E. B. Jansen, David Starr Jordan, Russell Lord, Deane W. Malott, Albert R. Mann, Constance Adams Means, Tom Means, Wallace Miller, Florence Morton, Everett Opie, Gifford Pinchot, "Queenie", Mrs. Alexis Romanoff, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Elihu Root, Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., Jacob Gould Schurman, Everett Smith, Ada Adams Stone, Walter King Stone, Tom Storey, William Howard Taft, Charles S. Thompson, Robert E. Treman, Gertrude Adams Turner, Henry Brown "Tony" Turner IV, Peter Vischer, E. B. "Andy" White, Lee A. White
Box 9 Folder 1
1880 - Dec.
1880, 1895
Box 9 Folder 2
Jan. - Dec.
1896
Box 9 Folder 3
Jan. - Mar.
1897
Box 9 Folder 4
Apr. - May
1897
Box 9 Folder 5
June
1897
Box 9 Folder 6
July - Sept.
1897
Box 9 Folder 7
Oct.
1897
Box 9 Folder 8
Nov. - Dec. 1897 and ca.
1897, 1897
Box 9 Folder 9
Jan.
1898
Box 10 Folder 1
Feb.
1898
Box 10 Folder 2
Mar.
1898
Box 10 Folder 3
Apr.
1898
Box 10 Folder 4
May
1898
Box 10 Folder 5
June 1-15,
1898
Box 10 Folder 6
June 20-31,
1898
Box 10 Folder 7
July
1898
Box 10 Folder 8
Aug.
1898
Box 10 Folder 9
Sept.
1898
Box 10 Folder 10
Oct.
1898
Box 10 Folder 11
Nov.
1898
Box 10 Folder 12
Scrapbook of letters from Bristow Adams to his family, Aug. 1896 - Apr.
1896, 1897
Box 11 Folder 1
Dec. 1898 and ca.
1898, 1898
Box 11 Folder 2
Jan.
1899
Box 11 Folder 3
Feb.
1899
Box 11 Folder 4
Mar. - Apr.
1899
Box 11 Folder 5
May
1899
Box 11 Folder 6
June
1899
Box 11 Folder 7
July
1899
Box 11 Folder 8
Aug. - Sept.
1899
Box 11 Folder 9
Oct. - Nov.
1899
Box 11 Folder 10
Dec. 1-15,
1899
Box 12 Folder 1
Dec. 19-31,
1899
Box 12 Folder 2
ca.
1899
Box 12 Folder 3
Jan.
1900
Box 12 Folder 4
Feb. - Apr.
1900
Box 12 Folder 5
May - June 18,
1900
Box 12 Folder 6
June 25-31,
1900
Box 12 Folder 7
July 1-10,
1900
Box 12 Folder 8
July 11-14,
1900
Box 12 Folder 9
July 15-20,
1900
Box 12 Folder 10
July 21-31,
1900
Box 12 Folder 11
Aug. 1-7,
1900
Box 13 Folder 1
Aug. 16-31,
1900
Box 13 Folder 2
Sept. - Dec. 1900 and ca.
1900, 1900
Box 13 Folder 3
Jan. - May
1901
Box 13 Folder 4
June 1-12,
1901
Box 13 Folder 5
June 13-30,
1901
Box 13 Folder 6
July 1-4,
1901
Box 13 Folder 7
July 5-10,
1901
Box 13 Folder 8
July 11-16,
1901
Box 13 Folder 9
July 17-21,
1901
Box 13 Folder 10
July 22-25,
1901
Box 13 Folder 11
July 26-27,
1901
Box 13 Folder 12
July 28-30,
1901
Box 13 Folder 13
Aug. 1-4,
1901
Box 13 Folder 14
Aug. 5-10,
1901
Box 13 Folder 15
Aug. 11-22,
1901
Box 14 Folder 1
Aug. 23-31,
1901
Box 14 Folder 2
Sept. 1-14,
1901
Box 14 Folder 3
Sept. 15-22,
1901
Box 14 Folder 4
Sept. 23-30,
1901
Box 14 Folder 5
Oct. 1-7,
1901
Box 14 Folder 6
Oct. 8-14,
1901
Box 14 Folder 7
Oct. 17-29,
1901
Box 14 Folder 8
Nov. 1-12,
1901
Box 14 Folder 9
Nov. 13-26,
1901
Box 14 Folder 10
Dec. 1-13,
1901
Box 14 Folder 11
Dec. 15-22,
1901
Box 14 Folder 12
Dec. 29-30, 1901 and ca.
1901, 1901
Box 14 Folder 13
Jan. 1-9,
1902
Box 14 Folder 14
Jan. 12-20,
1902
Box 14 Folder 15
Jan. 23-30,
1902
Box 15 Folder 1
Feb. 1-7,
1902
Box 15 Folder 2
Feb. 8-23,
1902
Box 15 Folder 3
Mar. 2-3,
1902
Box 15 Folder 4
Mar. 4-6,
1902
Box 15 Folder 5
Mar. 7-16,
1902
Box 15 Folder 6
Mar. 17-24,
1902
Box 15 Folder 7
Mar. 28-31,
1902
Box 15 Folder 8
Apr. 2-7,
1902
Box 15 Folder 9
Apr. 8-29,
1902
Box 15 Folder 10
May - Dec. 1902 and ca.
1902, 1902
Box 15 Folder 11
Jan. - June
1903
Box 15 Folder 12
July - Aug.
1903
Box 15 Folder 13
Sept. - Dec. 1903 and ca.
1903, 1903
Box 16 Folder 1
Jan. - July 10,
1904
Box 16 Folder 2
July 11-21,
1904
Box 16 Folder 3
July 22-27,
1904
Box 16 Folder 4
Aug. 1-14,
1904
Box 16 Folder 5
Aug. 16-29,
1904
Box 16 Folder 6
Sept. - Dec. 1904 and ca.
1904, 1904
Box 16 Folder 7
Jan. - Feb.
1905
Box 16 Folder 8
Mar. - June
1905
Box 16 Folder 9
Jul-05
Box 16 Folder 10
Aug. - Dec. 1905 and ca.
1905, 1905
Box 16 Folder 11
Jan. - Apr.
1906
Box 16 Folder 12
Jul-05
Box 16 Folder 13
Aug. - Dec. 1905 and ca.
1905, 1905
Box 16 Folder 14
Jan. - Apr.
1906
Box 16 Folder 15
May - Dec. 1906 and ca.
1906, 1906
Box 17 Folder 1
1907
Box 17 Folder 2
Jan. - Apr.
1908
Box 17 Folder 3
May - Dec.
1908
Box 17 Folder 4
1909
Box 17 Folder 5
Jan. - June
1910
Box 17 Folder 6
July - Dec.
1910
Box 17 Folder 7
Jan.
1911
Box 17 Folder 8
Feb. 1-9,
1911
Box 17 Folder 9
Feb. 10-26,
1911
Box 17 Folder 10
Mar. 1-8,
1911
Box 17 Folder 11
Mar. 12-28,
1911
Box 18 Folder 1
Apr. 1-11,
1911
Box 18 Folder 2
Apr. 13-17,
1911
Box 18 Folder 3
Apr. 18-30,
1911
Box 18 Folder 4
May
1911
Box 18 Folder 5
June
1911
Box 18 Folder 6
July
1911
Box 18 Folder 7
Aug. - Dec.
1911
Box 18 Folder 8
ca.
1911
Box 18 Folder 9
Jan. - Aug.
1912
Box 18 Folder 10
Sept.
1912
Box 18 Folder 11
Oct. - Nov.
1912
Box 18 Folder 12
Dec. 1912 and ca.
1912, 1912
Box 18 Folder 13
Jan. - Sept.
1913
Box 19 Folder 1
Oct. - Dec. 1913 and ca.
1913, 1913
Box 19 Folder 2
Jan. - Apr.
1913
Box 19 Folder 3
May - June
1914
Box 19 Folder 4
July
1914
Box 19 Folder 5
Aug. - Sept.
1914
Box 19 Folder 6
Oct.
1914
Box 19 Folder 7
Nov. 1914 - Dec. 22,
1914, 1914
Box 19 Folder 8
Dec. 24, 1914 and ca.
1914, 1914
Box 19 Folder 9
Jan. - Feb.
1915
Box 19 Folder 10
Mar.
1915
Box 19 Folder 11
Apr. - June
1915
Box 19 Folder 12
July - Dec. 1915 and ca.
1915, 1915
Box 19 Folder 13
Jan. - July
1916
Box 20 Folder 1
Aug. - Sept.
1916
Box 20 Folder 2
Oct. - Dec. 1916 and ca.
1916, 1916
Box 20 Folder 3
Jan. - May
1917
Box 20 Folder 4
June - July
1917
Box 20 Folder 5
Aug.
1917
Box 20 Folder 6
Sept. - Oct. 7,
1917
Box 20 Folder 7
Oct. 9 - Dec.
1917
Box 20 Folder 8
ca.
1917
Box 20 Folder 9
Jan. 1918 - June
1918, 1918
Box 20 Folder 10
July 1918 - Aug.
1918, 1918
Box 20 Folder 11
Sept. - Nov. 11,
1918
Box 21 Folder 1
Nov. 12 - Dec. 1918 and ca.
1918, 1918
Box 21 Folder 2
1919
Box 21 Folder 3
Jan. - June
1920
Box 21 Folder 4
July - Dec. 1920 and ca.
1920, 1920
Box 21 Folder 5
Jan. - Apr.
1921
Box 21 Folder 6
May - Dec. 1921 and ca.
1921, 1921
Box 21 Folder 7
Jan. - June
1922
Box 21 Folder 8
Jul-22
Box 21 Folder 9
Aug.
1922
Box 21 Folder 10
Sept. - Dec. 1922 and ca.
1922, 1922
Box 22 Folder 1
Jan. - June
1923
Box 22 Folder 2
July - Dec. 1923 and ca.
1923, 1923
Box 22 Folder 3
Jan. - Aug.
1924
Box 22 Folder 4
Sept. - Dec. 1924 and ca.
1924, 1924
Box 22 Folder 5
Jan. - Mar.
1925
Box 22 Folder 6
Apr. - June
1925
Box 22 Folder 7
July - Dec. 1925 and ca.
1925, 1925
Box 22 Folder 8
Jan. - June
1926
Box 22 Folder 9
July - Dec. 1926 and ca.
1926, 1926
Box 22 Folder 10
Jan. - May
1927
Box 22 Folder 11
June - Dec. 1927 and ca.
1927, 1927
Box 23 Folder 1
1928
Box 23 Folder 2
1929
Box 23 Folder 3
Jan. - Feb.
1930
Box 23 Folder 4
Mar.
1930
Box 23 Folder 5
Apr. - May
1930
Box 23 Folder 6
June - Aug.
1930
Box 23 Folder 7
Oct. - Dec. 1930 and ca.
1930, 1930
Box 23 Folder 8
1931
Box 23 Folder 9
1932
Box 23 Folder 10
1933
Box 23 Folder 11
1934
Box 23 Folder 12
1935
Box 23 Folder 13
Jan. - Feb.
1936
Box 23 Folder 14
Mar.
1936
Box 24 Folder 1
Apr.
1936
Box 24 Folder 2
May 1-8,
1936
Box 24 Folder 3
May 9-30,
1936
Box 24 Folder 4
Jun-36
Box 24 Folder 5
July - Dec. 1936 and ca.
1936, 1936
Box 24 Folder 6
Jan. - Aug. 18,
1936
Box 24 Folder 7
Aug. 26, 1937 - Dec. 1937 and ca.
1937, 1937, 1937
Box 24 Folder 8
Jan. - Sept.
1938
Box 24 Folder 9
Oct. - Dec. 1938 and ca.
1938, 1938
Box 24 Folder 10
1939
Box 24 Folder 11
ca.
1939
Box 24 Folder 12
1940
Box 25 Folder 1
1941
Box 25 Folder 2
1942
Box 25 Folder 3
Jan. - June
1943
Box 25 Folder 4
July - Dec. 1943 and ca.
1943, 1943
Box 25 Folder 5
Jan. - July
1944
Box 25 Folder 6
Aug. - Dec. 1944 and ca.
1944, 1944
Box 25 Folder 7
1945
Box 25 Folder 8
1946
Box 25 Folder 7
Jan. - Apr.
1947
Box 25 Folder 8
May - Dec. 1947 and ca.
1947, 1947
Box 25 Folder 9
Jan. - Mar.
1948
Box 25 Folder 10
Apr. - July
1948
Box 26 Folder 1
Aug. - Dec. 1948 and ca.
1948, 1948
Box 26 Folder 2
Jan. - June
1949
Box 26 Folder 3
July - Dec. 1949 and ca.
1949, 1949
Box 26 Folder 4
Jan. - June 7,
1950
Box 26 Folder 5
June 9 - Oct.
1950
Box 26 Folder 6
Nov. 1-22,
1950
Box 26 Folder 7
Nov. 24-30,
1950
Box 26 Folder 8
Dec. 1-9,
1950
Box 26 Folder 9
Dec. 10-20,
1950
Box 26 Folder 10
Dec. 21-29, 1950 and ca.
1950, 1950
Box 26 Folder 11
ca.
1950
Box 26 Folder 12
ca.
1950
Box 27 Folder 1
Jan. - Feb.
1951
Box 27 Folder 2
Mar. - June
1951
Box 27 Folder 3
July - Nov.
1951
Box 27 Folder 4
Dec. 1951 and ca.
1951, 1951
Box 27 Folder 5
Jan. - Feb. 9,
1952
Box 27 Folder 6
Feb. 18, 1952 - Apr. 30,
1952, 1952
Box 27 Folder 7
May - Aug.
1952
Box 27 Folder 8
Sept. - Nov.
1952
Box 27 Folder 9
Dec. 1952 and ca.
1952, 1952
Box 27 Folder 10
Jan. - June
1953
Box 27 Folder 11
July - Nov.
1953
Box 27 Folder 12
Dec. 1953 and ca.
1953, 1953
Box 28 Folder 1
Jan. - Mar.
1954
Box 28 Folder 2
Apr. - May
1954
Box 28 Folder 3
June - July
1954
Box 28 Folder 4
Aug. - Dec. 1954 and ca.
1954, 1954
Box 28 Folder 5
Jan. - May
1954
Box 28 Folder 6
June - Aug.
1955
Box 28 Folder 7
Sept. - Nov.
1955
Box 28 Folder 8
Dec.
1955
Box 28 Folder 9
ca.
1955
Box 28 Folder 10
ca.
1955
Box 28 Folder 11
Jan. - May
1956
Box 28 Folder 12
June - July
1956
Box 29 Folder 1
Aug. - Nov.
1956
Box 29 Folder 2
Dec. 1956 and ca.
1956, 1956
Box 29 Folder 3
Jan.
1957
Box 29 Folder 4
Feb.
1957
Box 29 Folder 5
Mar.
1957
Box 29 Folder 6
Apr. - June
1957
Box 29 Folder 7
July - Oct.
1957
Box 29 Folder 8
Nov. 1-20,
1957
Box 29 Folder 9
Nov. 21-30,
1957
Box 29 Folder 10
Dec. 1-18,
1957
Box 29 Folder 11
Dec. 19-30, and ca.
1957
Box 29 Folder 12
Jan.
1958
Box 29 Folder 13
Feb. - Aug.
1958
Box 30 Folder 1
Sept. - Dec. 1958 and ca.
1958, 1958
Box 30 Folder 2
1960, 1961
Box 30 Folder 3
1962-
1962, 1965
Box 30 Folder 4
1966-
1966, 1970
Box 30 Folder 5
n.d.
Box 30 Folder 6
n.d.
Box 30 Folder 7
n.d.
Box 30 Folder 8
n.d.
Box 30 Folder 9
n.d.
Box 30 Folder 10
n.d.
Box 30 Folder 11
n.d.
Box 31 Folder 1
n.d.
Box 31 Folder 2
n.d.
Box 31 Folder 3
n.d.
Box 31 Folder 4
n.d.
Box 31 Folder 5
n.d.
Box 31 Folder 6
n.d.
Subseries B. Radio Talks
Scope and Contents
Between 1940 and 1956 Bristow gave many, talks, usually about 10 minutes in length, over radio station WGY in Schenectady. These included: "Farm Paper of the Air," part of the Cornell Agricultural Extension program; "Let's Read a Book," a monthly series; "The World and Us," based upon his experiences on two trips around the world in 1930 and 1930-39; and a series of recollections and anecdotes of his experiences as a child growing up in Washington, D.C. and VA aired during the last programs.
1. Miscellaneous
Box 32 Folder 1
"Farm Paper of the Air," ca. 1940-1949, and "Farm Forum"
1940, 1949
Box 32 Folder 2
Book Review, ca. 1950-
1950, 1956
2. "The World and Us"
Box 32 Folder 3
1936, Jan.
1936, 1946
Box 32 Folder 4
May - Oct.
1946
Box 32 Folder 5
Nov. 1946 - May
1946, 1947
Box 32 Folder 6
June 1947 - Dec.
1947, 1947
Box 32 Folder 7
Jan. - July
1948
Box 32 Folder 8
Aug. 1948 - Apr.
1948, 1949
Box 32 Folder 9
May - Oct.
1949
Box 32 Folder 10
Nov. 1949 - Apr.
1949, 1950
Box 33 Folder 1
May 1950 - Oct.
1950, 1950
Box 33 Folder 2
Nov. 1950 - Nov.
1950, 1951
Box 33 Folder 3
Dec. 1951 - July
1951, 1952
Box 33 Folder 4
Aug. 1952 - Apr.
1952, 1953
Box 33 Folder 5
May 1953 - Oct.
1953, 1953
Box 33 Folder 6
Nov. 1953 - Apr.
1953, 1954
Box 33 Folder 7
May 1954 - Sept.
1954, 1954
Box 33 Folder 8
Oct. 1954 - Jan.
1954, 1955
Box 33 Folder 9
Feb. 1955 - May
1955, 1955
Sub-series C. "Recollections"
Box 33 Folder 10
June - Nov.
1955
Box 33 Folder 11
Nov. 1955 - May
1955, 1956
Box 33 Folder 12
June 1956 - Oct.
1956, 1956
Box 33 Folder 13
Nov. - Dec. 1956 and May
1956, 1954
Subseries C. Articles, published and unpublished
Scope and Contents
Adams wrote on many subjects from homemaking, forestry, journalism and sports to education. Many were published in various newspapers and magazines.
Box 34 Folder 1
Homemaking and Food
Box 34 Folder 2
Sports and Art
Box 34 Folder 3
National Forests, Farms and Gardens
Box 34 Folder 4
Forestry
Box 34 Folder 5
Forestry
Box 34 Folder 6
Forestry
Box 34 Folder 7
Wildlife and "Personal Attitude Toward Life"
Box 34 Folder 8
Publicity
Box 34 Folder 9
W.P.A.
Box 34 Folder 10
Savage Club, Press Club, Sigma Delta Chi
Box 34 Folder 11
Cornell
Box 35 Folder 1
W.W. I and Peace
Box 35 Folder 2
Town problems: traffic and government
Box 35 Folder 3
Publicity
Box 35 Folder 4
Publicity
Box 35 Folder 5
Miscellaneous
Subseries D. Speeches
Scope and Contents
Bristow gave speeches in his professional capacities as professor, journalist, and forester on topics similar to those he wrote about.
Box 35 Folder 6
W.W. II
Box 35 Folder 7
Education and Cornell
Box 35 Folder 8
Conservation
Box 35 Folder 9
Publicity
Box 35 Folder 10
Athletics
Box 35 Folder 11
Journalism
Box 35 Folder 12
Journalism
Box 35 Folder 13
Miscellaneous
Box 35 Folder 14
Miscellaneous
Subseries E. Creative Writing
Scope and Contents
Contains poems, short stories, plays and jokes.
Box 35 Folder 15
Poetry and jokes
Box 36 Folder 1-7
Poetry and jokes
Box 36 Folder 8-11
Plays, including "Driven Back to Egypt"
Box 36 Folder 12-13
Short Stories
Box 37 Folder 1-4
Short Stories
Subseries F. Biographical Material
Scope and Contents
Contains several papers lauding the achievement of Bristow Adams, clippings from "Who's Who" and attempts at an autobiography.
Box 37 Folder 5
Eulogies, tributes, genealogy
Box 37 Folder 6
Biographical material
Box 37 Folder 7
Resume of Stanford experience
Box 37 Folder 8
Biographical material
Subseries G. College Material
Scope and Contents
Includes illustrated class notes and early papers form Stanford, exams and lecture notes for his Cornell courses in journalism and conservation, and memorabilia
Box 37 Folder 9-13
Stanford class notes and papers
Box 38 Folder 1-6
Stanford class notes, papers and diploma
Box 38 Folder 7-14
Cornell course material
Box 39 Folder 1-4
Cornell course material
Box 39 Folder 5-7
Memorabilia: Medals, name badges, Quill and Dagger Invitations, letter opener
Subseries H. Financial Records
Scope and Contents
Contains miscellaneous financial records from the Adams household.
Box 40 Folder 1
Cash book (1911), C. R. Morrison account book check stubs (1902-1906)
1911, 1902, 1906
Box 40 Folder 2
Expense book (1924)
1924
Box 40 Folder 3
Cash Book (1916) and check stubs (1947-1949)
1916, 1947, 1949
Box 40 Folder 4
Check books (1951-1953, 1953-1955)
1951, 1953, 1955
Subseries I. Publications
Scope and Contents
Bristow Adams was either founder editor or faculty advisor for most of these publication. In college he was co-founder and editor of the "Pathfinder" in 1892; editor-in-chief of the "Stanford Sequoia"; associate editor of the daily newspaper; and founder and editor of the Stanford humor magazine, "The Chaparral." From 1902-4 he edited "Forestry and Irrigation," forerunner of "American Forests," and was co-founder and managing editor of a weekly news review, "Washington Life" from 1903-5. "Washington Life" was later renamed the "American Spectator," and Adams remained editor until 1906. Bristow did illustrations for "Country Life in America;." "Everybody's," "World's Work," "Overland," and "Pacific Monthly." He gained experience in forestry as an assistant in charge of technical and literary revision of publications of the U.S. Forest Service. In 1921 he wrote "An Agricultural Almanac," Farmer's bulletin 1202 for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
At Cornell Bristow directed and edited the Cornell Agricultural Extension Publications. He was also a member of the board of directors of "The Cornell Daily Sun," unofficial advisor to "The Cornell Countryman," and faculty advisor to "The Delicate Brown" and "The Cornell Widow." He also founded, in 1952, "The Cornell Plantations," and remained its editor until his death in 1956.
Box 40
Cornell Forester, 1920-
1920, 1921
Box 40
Cornell Alumni News, 1917-
1917, 1957
Box 40
Forestry and Irrigation,
1903
Box 40
The Delicate Brown, 1920-
1920, 1950
Box 41
The American Spectator,
1906
Box 41
American Forests, 1934-
1934, 1935, 1958
Box 41
American Forestry, 1914, 1917-
1914, 1917, 1918
Box 41
The Pathfinder, 1913, 17 and 41
1913
Box 42
The Cornell Countryman, 1916-
1916, 1919
Box 42
The Cornell Plantations, 1944-
1944, 1962
Box 42
The Cornell Widow
Box 42
The Chaparral,
1956
Box 42
The Stanford Sequoia, 1898-
1898, 1899
Box 42
The Ace,
1920, 1946
Box 42
Cornell Era, 1919-
1919, 1920
Box 42
The Cornell calendar (1917)
1917
Box 42
Miscellaneous publications
Box 43
Miscellaneous publications
Box 44
Miscellaneous publications
Box 45
Miscellaneous publications
Box 46
Miscellaneous publications (see also Box 58)
Subseries J. Art Work
Scope and Contents
Includes early sketches and water colors, magazine covers from the early 1900's,and seal drawings
Mapcase Folder 1
Eighteen Ivy League athletic posters drawn by Adams
1902
Box 47
"Twenty Crayolas by Bristow Adams, France 1924" Prints, watercolors, lettering
1924
Box 48
Seal drawings, notebooks, broadsides, bookplate watercolors, magazine covers
Box 49 Folder 1
Sketches from pre-high school and high school years and a portrait of Bristow by Dorothy Witt Thomas
Box 49 Folder 2
[Crawford Cadawallader Adams, Correspondence and Military Papers:] Receipts and Expenses from Masonic Temple, n.d.; Certificate of Ada Gertrude Adams as wife of C. C. Adams 32nd degree, Master of the Royal Secret of the Scottish Rite of Freemasons, Southern Jurisdiction (see also Series III, Subseries A)
Subseries K. Photographs
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs taken during Bristow's work in the forest service, various forest service and of friends and family
Box 50
Album of track team in England in
1924
Mapcase Folder 2
Congress of Country Editors photograph
1916
Box 50 Folder 1
Trips around the world - 1930. Track meet in England, ca. 1926, forestry
1930, 1926
Box 50 Folder 2-8
Forestry
Box 51 Folder 1-3
Forestry
Box 51 Folder 4-9
Friends, family, misc. 1878-
1878, 1955
Box 52 Folder 1
Friends, family, misc., 1878-
1878, 1955
Box 52 Folder 2-8
World trips, ca.
1930
Box 53 Folder 1-6
World trips ca. 1930, 2 portraits of Bristow
1930
Box 53 Folder 7
Negatives, 2 printing blocks, boxes of slides
Series L. Scrapbooks and clippings
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks contain clippings of articles by Bristow or on subjects of interest to him, including one on "The Milkshow Publicity," 1909
Box 54
Clippings by or of interest to Bristow, 1932-
1932, 1939
Box 55
1908-1917, 1917-1922, 1922-
1908, 1917, 1917, 1922, 1922, 1926
Box 56
1919-1931, 1906-
1919, 1931, 1906, 1956
Box 57
1923-
1923, 1924
Box 58
[See Subseries I. Publications] The Pathfinder, Bound Vols. I and II
Box 59
Clippings, 1917-1941, 1941-
1917, 1941, 1941, 1955
Box 60
Milkshow publicity Apr. 1919 (see also Box 65)
1919
Subseries M. Miscellany
Box 61 Folder 1
21st Anniversary Booklet of Farm Broadcasting at WGY
Box 61 Folder 2
3 Phonograph records of Bristow Adams on Farm Forum, 2/22/52
Box 61 Folder 3
Address book n.d.
Box 61 Folder 4
"World's tour journal" n.d.
Box 61 Folder 5
Forest service notebook Sept. 3, 1912-Oct. 3,
1912, 1912
Box 61 Folder 6
Subscriptions for the Cornell Plantations n.d.
Box 61 Folder 7
Date book for 1915 with expenses noted
1915
Box 61 Folder 8
Copy of "On the Choice of a Profession by Robert Louis Stevenson, given to Adams by his friend Fred W. Dewart
Box 61 Folder 9
"Rude Rural Rhymes" by Bob Adams
Box 61 Folder 10
The Society of American Foresters certificate of Bristow Adams becoming a senior member. Jan.
1915
Series III. Crawford Cadwallader Adams
Subseries A. Correspondence and Military Papers
Scope and Contents
Consists primarily of business correspondence exchanged between C. C. Adams and various officials during the Civil War. Also included is a scrapbook containing excerpts from personal letters. (See also Box 49, Folder 2, p. 29)
Box 62 Folder 1
1853 - Mar.
1853, 1862
Box 62 Folder 2
Apr. - Nov.
1862
Box 62 Folder 3
1863
Box 62 Folder 4
Jan. - Feb.
1864
Box 62 Folder 5
Mar. - May 4,
1864
Box 62 Folder 6
May 5-30,
1864
Box 62 Folder 7
June
1864
Box 62 Folder 8
July-Nov. 1864 and ca.
1864, 1864
Box 62 Folder 9
1866 -
1866, 1869
Box 62 Folder 10
1870 -
1870, 1875
Box 62 Folder 11
1876 -
1876, 1881
Box 63 Folder 1
1882 - 1897 and n.d.
1882, 1897
Box 63 Folder 2
Correspondence n.d. Autobiographical material Civil War medal Map of Washington, D.C.
Box 64
Scrapbook of excerpts of letters exchanged between C. C. Adams and Ada G. Harrison Adams 1871-
1871, 1885
Box 65
[See II. Bristow Adams, Subseries L. Scrapbooks and clippings, p. 30] Clippings, 1921-1946.
1921, 1946
Series IV. Miscellaneous
Mapcase Folder 1
College athletic posters
1900's
Scope and Contents
Includes Cornell crew.
Mapcase Folder 2
Sketches and artwork
Undated