Guide to the Bertha Stoneman Papers,
1894-1945.

Collection Number: 4230

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
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Compiled by:
E. Engst
Date completed:
October 1986
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, March 2004

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Bertha Stoneman papers, 1894-1945.
Collection Number:
4230
Creator:
Bertha Stoneman, 1866-1943.
Quantity:
.4 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, speeches, student notebooks, thesis, photographs, and poetry.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, speeches, student notebooks, thesis, photographs, and poetry of Bertha Stoneman. Also, Huguenot College yearbooks, University of Toronto centenary programs (with a reference to Livingston Farrand), and pamphlets about South Africa.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Educator.
Bertha Stoneman graduated from Cornell, Class of 1894, and received a Doctor of Science degree in botany in 1896. She joined the faculty of Huguenot College in Wellington, Cape Colony (South Africa), a women's college. From 1928 until her retirement in 1933, she served as president of the college.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, speeches, student notebooks, thesis, photographs, and poetry of Bertha Stoneman. Also, Huguenot College yearbooks, University of Toronto centenary programs (with a reference to Livingston Farrand), and pamphlets about South Africa.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Stoneman, Bertha, 1866-1943.
Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939.
Cornell University--Students.
Huguenot College (Wellington, South Africa).

Subjects:
Women college teachers--South Africa.

Places:
South Africa--Description and travel.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Bertha Stoneman papers, #4230. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Correspondence, speeches, chronolgy, student poem (from 37/5/m. 426)
 Box 1
Huguenot College yearbooks
 Box 1
Publications including student notebooks, thesis, and poetry
 Box 1
South Africian pamphlets
 Box 1
University of Toronto centenary programs, 1927
Box 1
Photographs (latgely unidentified) of Bertha Stoneman, friends, and students at Huguenot College (?)
 Box 2