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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:
Alexandra Lipsky
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Date completed:
October 9, 1990
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EAD encoding:
Julia Lonnberg and Peter Martinez, August 2001
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© 2001 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
| Series I. Letters | Box 1 |
| Series II. Scrapbooks | Boxes 1 and 2 |
| Series III. Portrait | Map Case V |
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Date
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Description
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Container
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Series I. Letters
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| Jan. 1917 |
Letters from Paul Gillette (C.U.'18) to his father, Edwin S. Gillette (C.U. 1873)
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
| Aug. 1917 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
| Sept. 1917 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
| Oct. 1917 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
| Nov. 1917 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
| Dec. 1917 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
| Jan. 1917 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
| Feb. 1918 |
Letters from Paul Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
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To Edwin S. ("Red", C.U.'14), Douglas Graves Gillette, (C.U.'12), and Maude Gillette. (Edwin S. "Red" and Douglas are Paul's
brothers; Maude is the wife of Douglas.)
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| Feb. 1918 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
| March-April, 1918 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
| April, 1918 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
| May-June, 1918 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
| July-August, 1918 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
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Series II. Scrapbooks
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| July, 1876-1887 |
Flora Spence Gillette's scrapbook
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
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Flowers, leaves and other types of vegetation collected from her travels. (Flora was the wife of Edwin S. and the mother of
Paul, Douglas and "Red.")
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| 1922 |
Scrapbook
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
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Consisting mainly of postcards, clippings, and other memorabilia of Edwin S. Gillette's Mediterranean and European tour.
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| Feb. 1906 |
Scrapbook
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
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Kept by Edwin S. Gillette re his trip to Jamaica. He traveled on the United Steamship Company's steamship "Admiral Schley"
with William Hazlitt Smith and A.J. Brown of Ithaca, and also many others from around the U.S. The scrapbook consists mainly
of photographs, postcards, and magazine clippings. Of particular interest are magazine photographs of George Rodney (Lord
Rodney) commander-in-chief at Jamaica from 1771-74; basket, sugar, rum and banana laborers; the hurricane disaster of 1903
and the earthquake of 1907, and various other island scenes.
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| July, 1905 |
Scrapbook
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
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Kept by Edwin S. Gillette containing postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs and an eight page typed travel journal re
his trip to Cuba. Most of the photographs were taken by William Hazlitt Smith dealing with scenes around Havana and Santiago,
Cuba. Included in the photos are views of the Cabana fortress, wreck of the battleship Maine, and monuments in honor of Jose
Marti, the Cuban patriot, 1853-1895.
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| 1917-1919 |
Scrapbook
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
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Postcards, clippings, telegrams, one page of photographs. The letters contained in this scrapbook are from Sergeant Paul Gillette
to his father, Edwin S., and his brothers, Edwin S. ("Red") and Douglas and to Art Dean (Arthur Hobson Dean, (C.U.'19.) Several
letters and telegrams were sent from Fort Slocum, N.Y., Camp Greenleaf of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, but the majority were
sent from France before November 18, 1918, probably at Souilly, Meuse, while Gillette was with the Quartermaster Corps, Medical
Department, American Expeditionary Force, Evacuation Hospital No.#6. The rest of the letters were sent from Coblenz (on the
Rhine River) Germany, while Gillette was with the Quartermaster Corps., Army of the Occupation, Third Army, Evacuation Hospital
#27.
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Series III. Portrait
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Portrait of Edwin S. Gillette, aged 73, by Professor I.P. Church. (Size 23" by 27".)
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Mapcase V-17 | ||