RMA01165 Guide to the Daniel Willard Fiske papers, 1847-1927, 1847-1904 (bulk) Fiske, Daniel Willard papers, 1847-1927, 1847-1904 (bulk) Compiled by Mary E. Morrison, K. Jacklin Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library August 2003

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Finding aid encoded by Ann HubertAugust 2003 2007-05-29 converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002 Guide to the Daniel Willard Fiske papers,1847-1927, 1847-1904 (bulk) Collection Number: 13-1-1165 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library 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 Mary E. Morrison, K. Jacklin May 1972, 1984 Ann Hubert, August 2003 Evan Fay Earle, July 2007 Fredrika Loew, May 2019 Amanda Kiesl, May 2019 © 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Daniel Willard Fiske papers, 1847-1927, 1847-1903 (bulk) 13-1-1165 Willard Fiske, 1831-1904. 23.2 cubic ft. Correspondence, scrapbooks, account books, pamphlets, photographs. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Correspondence, scrapbooks, and account books pertaining chiefly to Fiske's activities as a book collector, although there are extensive family correspondence and other letters pertaining to his education, his career as a journalist, his activities as a professor and librarian at Cornell University, his interest in chess, and his cultural studies of Iceland and Egypt; included is correspondence of George Lincoln Burr, Wendell Phillips Garrison, George W. Harris, Samuel May, Charles Warner, and others. Collection material in English BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE CHRONOLOGY Nov. 11, 1831 Daniel Willard Fiske born at Ellisburg, New York 1845-1847 Student at Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, New York 1847-1848 Student at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 1850-1852 Scandinavia. Studied at the University of Upsala. In Copenhagen (1850, 1851), Fiske was connected with the United States Legation. Correspondent for American newspapers 1852-1861 Returned to America where he continued as newspaper correspondent. From 1852-1859, he held a position in the Astor Library (NYC). From 1857-1860, he edited the American Chess Monthly 1861-1863 Attache to the United States legation in Vienna 1863-1865 Editorial Staff of the Syracuse Daily Journal 1865-1867 Book dealer 1867-1868 Staff of the Hartford Courant 1868-1883 While traveling abroad he was offered the position of Professor of North-European Languages and Librarian of Cornell University. On July 13, 1880 he was married to Jennie McGraw who died in Ithaca on Sept. 30, 1881. During 1882-1883 Fiske made trips to Egypt and Europe and it was in the latter year that the Petrarch Collection was begun. There were more European travels until 1883 when Fiske severed all connections with Cornell University 1883-1892 Lived in Florence in a rented villa (Villa Forini) until 1888. During these years in Italy he made several trips to the United States, Egypt, Scandinavia, and other European countries. 1892-1904 In 1892 Fiske purchased and proceeded to remodel the Villa Landor near Florence where he entertained many guests and pursued his book collecting and many other interests. The Dante Collection was begun in 1893. In 1891 the Rhaeto-Romantic Collection was started. Sept. 17, 1904 Daniel Willard Fiske died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. Buried next to Jennie McGraw Fiske in the Crypt of Sage Chapel at Cornell University. Trips to United States were made in 1889, 1890, 1891-1892, 1893, 1895-1896, 1897; to Egypt in 1888-1889, 1898; to Scandinavia periodically (according to HSW in Chronological Outline, Willard Fiske, Life and Correspondence) COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, scrapbooks, and account books pertaining chiefly to Fiske's activities as a book collector, although there are extensive family correspondence and other letters pertaining to his education, his career as a journalist, his activities as a professor and librarian at Cornell University, his interest in chess, and his cultural studies of Iceland and Egypt; included is correspondence of George Lincoln Burr, Wendell Phillips Garrison, George W. Harris, Samuel May, Charles Warner, and others.

Additional correspondence includes instructions to Willard Austin for filing this collection in preparation for Horatio Stevens White's biography of Fiske; letters to him from acquaintances and close friends in the United States; from Italy where he spent the remainder of his years following his resignation from Cornell in 1883; from Egypt and Iceland; and from many other countries. Letters range in subject from social plans to those relating to his library and book collecting. Also, mss., fragments, notes, biographical correspondence, and post-1904 correspondence relating to the Dante and Petrarch Collections at Cornell; Egyptian manuscripts, printed material relating to the Egyptian alphabet, and photographs of Egypt; family photographs; Fiske genealogy; printed material and miscellany. Miscellaneous items include Fiske's notebooks pertaining to the Arabic language and statements of account for the the Fiske Library Fund and the Fiske Estate Library Fund; a whip, presumed to have been used by Fiske in Iceland in 1874, and an archaic lettered stone.

Also, audiocassettes of lectures on Willard Fiske given by Stephen Weissman, P.M. Mitchell, Elmer H. Antonsen, Louis Pitschmann, and Gould Colman as part of a commemoration of Fiske at Cornell University Library in 1989. These audiocassettes are cataloged individually.

Also included is a bound manuscript index of photographs (photos not included by referred to by number), annotated in French. When first received by the Cornell Library (ca. 1906?), the photographs indexed were originally assigned Harris call numbers 7851 T13-16: T13 covered Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia; T14, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany; T15, France; and T16, Italy. Also, a suitcase owned by Willard Fiske as well as a chair from his library in Florence, Italy.

 INDEX TO CORRESPONDENCE Selected correspondents, early 1870's Adams, Charles Kendall (misfiled in 1872 folder) Bacon, Richard Behringer, George Frederick Blair, Charles H., Zanesville Boyesen, H.H., folder 11 - not interfiled C[rane], T.F. Curtis, George William D'autremont, Jr., C. Fitch, Charles E., Roch. Dem. and Chr. Folwell, William Watts Hart, James Morgan Hartford Hotel, letterhead Hartt, Ch. F., Peabody Inst. Hewett, Waterman Thomas [?] Law, James McKoon, Bela P. Rooker, Thomas N. Russel, Wm. Channing Sanford, L[yman] G., Syracuse Smith, Goldwin Sparks, Mary C. [Mrs. Jared] White, A.D. Selected correspondents, mid-1880's Blair, Charles H. Botta, Vincenzo Burr, George Lincoln Evans, Edward Payson and Elizabeth E. Francis, John Morgan Fuertes, Estevan Antonio Garrison, Wendell Phillips Johnson, Eastman - 1 letter Sage, Sarah Manning, Menands, Albany Schuyler, Eugene - 12 letters Schuyler, Eugene - 4 letters Schuyler, Eugene - 13 letters Stanton, Theodore - 12 letters Stanton, Theodore - 1 letter Villari, Pasquale Wilbour, Charles E., post card from Egypt and other correspondence SUBJECTS Names: Fiske, Willard, 1831-1904. Austin, Willard, 1860-1934. Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. Harris, George William, 1849-1917. May, Samuel, 1810-1899. Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900. White, Horatio Stevens, 1852-1934. Cornell University--Libraries. Cornell University--Faculty. Cornell University. Libraries. Dept. of Rare Books. Cornell University. Libraries. Icelandic Collection. Subjects: Book collecting. Chess. Arabic language. Book collectors. Journalists. Librarians. Places: Iceland--Description and travel. Egypt--Description and travel. Egypt--Description and travel--Views. Egypt--Languages. Form and Genre Terms: Photographs. Audiocassettes. INFORMATION FOR USERS Cite As:

Daniel Willard Fiske papers, #13-1-1165. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Includes collections #13-1-348, #13-1-1165, #13-1-1600, #13-1-28, #13-1-m896.

 RELATED MATERIALS

Cf. Fiske Icelandic Collection (manuscript material, correspondence, and graphic material) Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press. (Islandica 48.)

Scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine articles on virtually every subject relating to the poet Dante Alighieri and his works, 1827-1915, and correspondence dealing with Fiske's own publications and with catalogues of the Dante Collection at Cornell are housed in the Rare Book Department at Cornell.

See also the Psi Upsilon Fraternity Chi Chapter Records, #37-4-2060, for several additional letterbooks filled with Fiske correspondence mostly related to the fraternity.

 SERIES LIST CONTAINER LIST Series I. Correspondence 13-1-1165: 1 1 Directions for Filing Fiske Material; H.S. White to Willard Austin 1922, 1927 13-1-1165: 1 2 Letters to Parents and Brothers, and to Joe 1850-1868 13-1-1165: 1 3 Fiske to Ettore Sordi 1882-1904 13-1-1165: 1 4 Fiske to Ettore Sordi n.d. 13-1-1165: 1 5 Letters from Fiske, miscellaneous n.d. 13-1-1165: 1 6-7 May Collection - correspondence and notes 1870-1874 13-1-1165: 1 8 May Collection - correspondence and notes 1875-1880, n.d. 13-1-1165: 1 9 Letters from Fiske to J.M. Hart, etc. 1871-1895 13-1-1165: 1 10-12 1871-1873 Correspondence 13-1-1165: 1 12 December, 1874 Letters to FJ Garrison 13-1-1165: 1 13 Boyesen, H.H. 1873-1892 13-1-1165: 1 14-17 1874-1877 Correspondence 13-1-1165: 1 18-19 Correspondence A-Z 1878 13-1-1165: 2 1-4 Correspondence A-Z 1879 13-1-1165: 2 5-8 Correspondence A-W, unknown 1880 13-1-1165: 2 9-15 Correspondence A-Z 1881 13-1-1165: 3 1-7 Correspondence A-Y 1882 13-1-1165: 3 8-12 Correspondence A-W 1883 13-1-1165: 4 1-5 Correspondence A-W, unknown 1884 13-1-1165: 4 6-9 Correspondence A-W, unknown 1885 13-1-1165: 4 10-12 Correspondence A-Z 1886 13-1-1165: 5 1-3 Correspondence A-W, unknown 1887 13-1-1165: 5 4-6 Correspondence A-W 1888 13-1-1165: 5 7-10 Correspondence A-W 1889 13-1-1165: 6 1-5 Correspondence A-W 1890 13-1-1165: 6 6-10 Correspondence A-Z 1891 13-1-1165: 7 1-5 Correspondence A-W, unknown 1892 13-1-1165: 7 6-11 Correspondence A-Z 1893 13-1-1165: 8 1 Miscellaneous Fiske 1893-1901, n.d. 13-1-1165: 8 2-8 Correspondence A-Z 1894 13-1-1165: 9 1-6 Correspondence A-W 1895 13-1-1165: 9 7-11 Correspondence A-Z 1896 13-1-1165: 10 1-5 Correspondence A-Z 1897 13-1-1165: 10 6-10 Correspondence A-Z 1898 13-1-1165: 11 1-4 Correspondence A-W 1899 13-1-1165: 11 5-9 Correspondence A-W, unknown 1900 13-1-1165: 11 10-13 Correspondence A-Z 1901 13-1-1165: 12 1-4 Correspondence A-W 1902 13-1-1165: 12 5-8 Correspondence A-S 1903 13-1-1165: 12 9 Stockwell 1903 13-1-1165: 12 10 Correspondence T-W 1903 13-1-1165: 13 1-4 Correspondence A-Z 1904 13-1-1165: 13 5-13 Correspondence A-M n.d. 13-1-1165: 14 1-8 Correspondence N-Z n.d. 13-1-1165: 14 9 Correspondence, unknown 13-1-1165: 14 10 Correspondence, "Half-sheet updated" 13-1-1165: 14 11 News-clippings, Psi Upsilon announcements, invitations, etc. 13-1-1165: 15 5 Bibliographical correspondence, English 13-1-1165: 15 6 Bibliographical correspondence, Danish, Russian, German, etc. 13-1-1165: 15 7 Bibliographical correspondence, Italian 13-1-1165: 15 8 Bibliographical correspondence. Notes: French Provencal, etc. 13-1-1165: 15 9 Bibliographical correspondence - De Remediis 13-1-1165: 16 20 Correspondence regarding the Fiske Collections 1908-1918 13-1-348: 1 1 Correspondence 1847-1848 13-1-348: 1 2 Correspondence 1849 13-1-348: 1 3 Correspondence 1850-1852 13-1-348: 1 4 Correspondence 1853-1855 13-1-348: 1 5 Correspondence 1856-1865 13-1-348: 1 6 Correspondence 1866-1870 13-1-348: 1 7 Correspondence 1871 13-1-348: 1 8 Correspondence 1872-1873 13-1-348: 1 9 Correspondence 1874-1877 13-1-1165: 25 12 1876-1878 Postcards between Fiske and Psi Upsilon 13-1-348: 1 10-11 Correspondence 1878 13-1-348: 1 12-14 Correspondence 1879 13-1-348: 1 15-25 Correspondence 1880 13-1-348: 1 26-34 Correspondence 1881 13-1-348: 2 1-9 Correspondence 1881 13-1-348: 2 10-25 Correspondence 1882 13-1-348: 2 26-36 Correspondence 1883 13-1-348: 3 1-20 Correspondence 1884 13-1-348: 3 21-38 Correspondence 1885 13-1-348: 4 1-15 Correspondence 1886 13-1-348: 4 16-28 Correspondence 1887 13-1-348: 4 29-40 Correspondence 1888 13-1-348: 4 41-47 Correspondence 1889 13-1-348: 5 1-14 Correspondence 1890 13-1-348: 5 15-23 Correspondence 1891 13-1-348: 6 1-4 Correspondence 1891 13-1-348: 6 5-16 Correspondence 1892 13-1-348: 7 Correspondence 1893 13-1-348: 8 Correspondence 1894 13-1-348: 9 1-21 Correspondence 1895 13-1-348: 9 22-29 Correspondence 1896 13-1-348: 10 1-17 Correspondence 1896 13-1-348: 10 18-28 Correspondence 1897 13-1-348: 11 1-6 Correspondence 1897 13-1-348: 11 7-26 Correspondence 1898 13-1-348: 12 1-22 Correspondence 1899 13-1-348: 12 23-30 Correspondence 1900 13-1-348: 13 1-12 Correspondence 1900 13-1-348: 13 13-24 Correspondence 1901 13-1-348: 14 1-13 Correspondence 1901 13-1-348: 14 14-24 Correspondence 1902 13-1-348: 15 1-9 Correspondence 1902 13-1-348: 15 10-20 Correspondence 1903 13-1-348: 16 1-6 Correspondence 1903 13-1-348: 16 7-20 Correspondence 1904 13-1-348: 17 1-2 Fiske letters to his mother n.d.

Includes letter about buying villa in Italy.

 13-1-348: 17 3 Correspondence: Westberg, C.F. n.d. 13-1-348: 17 5-12 Correspondence n.d. 13-1-348: 17 13 Letters from Mrs. CW Fiske to Willard Fiske n.d. 13-1-348: 19 42 January 25, 1886 Correspondence with George W. Burr 13-1-348: 19 43 February 13, 1886 Correspondence from EP Evans 13-1-348: 19 44 1893 Letters regarding the Order of the Italian Crown 13-1-348: 19 45 June 5, 1899 Correspondence from M. Nijhoff 13-1-348: 19 46 August 18, 1899 Correspondence to HH Tyndale 13-1-348: 19 47 August 14, 1890 Harris letters 13-1-348: 25 1-5 Correspondence regarding deaths and birthdays 1890-1910 13-1-m.896 Copied letter from Villa Landor 1893-1901 37-4-2060: 1 Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1875 1875

"The correspondence in the this volume has chiefly to do with the early months of the Chi - then called the Pi - and with the efforts made to secure the legality of its existence. It supplements another volume relating to the same period of the Chi's history."

 37-4-2060: 1 Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1876 Volume 1 January - June 1876

"The correspondence relates principally to the efforts to establish the Chi, to the Convention of 1876, and closes with the formal institution of the Chi in June 1876."

 37-4-2060: 1 Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1876 Volume 2 July - December 1876

"The correspondence in this volume is quite miscellaneous. Some of it relates to the catalogue of 1878 and the song book of 1877."

 37-4-2060: 1 Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1877 Volume 1 January - April 1877

"The correspondence in this volume is largely concerned with the catalogue of 1878 and the preparations for the Convention of 1877 at the Xi."

 37-4-2060: 1 Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1877 Volume 2 May - August 1877

"The letters in this volume relate chiefly to the Convention of 1877 at the Xi, the midsummer reunion at Auburn, N.Y. in July, and the catalogue of 1878."

 Series II. Manuscripts and notes 13-1-1165: 15 1-2 Manuscript fragments and notes on Arabic transliterations 13-1-1165: 15 3 Notes on Chaucer in Italy, etc. 13-1-1165: 15 4 Miscellaneous Notes 13-1-1165: 15 10 Part I "Chess"- correspondence, notes, articles, etc. 13-1-1165: 15 11 Part II "Chess" correspondence , notes, articles, etc. 13-1-1165: 19 Notebook - "Fall Trimester 1871-1872" 1871-1872 13-1-348: 18, 26 Notebooks and Journals 13-1-1165: 19 Notebook - Icelandic 13-1-1165 Bd. Ms. 1 Manuscript index of photographs (photos not included by referred to by number), annotated in French. When first received by the Cornell Library (ca. 1906?), the photographs indexed were originally assigned Harris call numbers 7851 T13-16: T13 covered Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia; T14, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany; T15, France; and T16, Italy. 13-1-348: 19 38 1851-1852 Fiske lectures given in Upsala, Sweden 13-1-348: 19 52 Fiske's notebook, bibliographic notes in German Series III. Petrarch Collection Materials 13-1-1165: 16 1 Correspondence regarding the Dante and Petrarch Collections 1900-1920 13-1-1165: 16 2 Correspondence and miscellaneous material regarding Dante, Petrarch, etc. 1883-1904 13-1-1165: 16 3-7 Letters and bills 1878, 1881-11903 13-1-1165: 16 8 Letters and bills n.d. 13-1-1165: 16 9 Sunderland Sale receipts 13-1-1165: 16 10 Letter from White, H.S. (to Mary Fowler, Cornell University) regarding Petrarch and Dante Collections 1911-1918 13-1-1165: 16 11 I Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection - acknowledgements of gifts 13-1-1165: 16 12 II Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection - acknowledgements of gifts 13-1-1165: 16 13 Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection, MSS 13-1-1165: 16 14 1914-1917 Correspondence with Clarendon Press regarding the Petrarch catalogue 13-1-1165: 16 15 Miscellaneous autographs and contents of Petrarch Rarities 13-1-348: 19 48 GW Burr's notes on Petrarch 13-1-348: 19 53 Bibliographic notebook with references on Petrarch 13-1-348: 24 18 Petrarch and Icelandic autographs Series IV. Dante Collection Materials 13-1-1165: 16 16 Dante catalogue correspondence 1894-1904 13-1-1165: 16 17 History of Dante notes, MSS 13-1-1165: 16 18 Cards and bills 13-1-1165: 16 19 Correspondence of Richard C. Jackson regarding Dante 13-1-348: 27 Notebook on Dante 13-1-348: 19 40 ca. 1894 Dante bibliography I. Newspaper and magazine articles and illustrations, broadsides, some corres. 1846, 1865-1899 II. Same as I., also Poems 1827, 1831, 1839, 1850, 1861-1903 III. Articles concerning the collection of Willard Fiske presented to Cornell University, and about Fiske; corres. concerning Dante Catalogue 1893-1904 IV. Corres. to Kroch, Harris and others from Fiske 1893-1897, 1899 V. Book Reviews; Book announcements; Societies, Conferences, Lectures, etc.; Dramas and Dramatic Presentations 1880-1915 Series V. Arabic Material 13-1-1165: 17 Bundle of Arabic notes 13-1-1165: 17 Bundle of printed materials 13-1-1165: 17 Address book English and Arabic 13-1-1165: 17 Notebooks 13-1-1165: 17 Record book- Exchanges to Libraries 13-1-1165: 17 "Note on the Italian Words in the Modern Spoken Arabic of Egypt" by Socrates Spiro Bey 13-1-1165: 17 Notes regarding offer of Egyptian Arabic publications 13-1-1165: 17 Letters in envelope - "Letters with D..." from Egypt, including Spiro. Some in Arabiv 13-1-1165: 17 2 copies - "Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung" April 26, 1898 13-1-1165: 17 Article by E.P. Evans on the Arabic Egyptian Alphabet 13-1-348: 19 58 Arabic publications Series VI. Miscellaneous Documents and Memorabilia 13-1-1165: 19 Pamphlet - Desiderata (2 copies) 1885 13-1-1165: 19 v.b. - De Sanctis Francesco, Esposizione critica della Divina Commedia 1921 13-1-1165: 19 Address book 13-1-1165: 19 Fiske's "Remarks Introductory to Dante Catalogue, published by Cornell University" 13-1-1165: 19 Fiske's "On the Death of Lincoln" unbound 13-1-1165: 19 Envelope containing copies of photographs of Fiske and frontispiece of "Chess in Iceland" 13-1-1165: 19 Cover of small booklet with page inscribed "Amelia Southworth, Jan. 12, 1841, Earlville" 1841 13-1-1165: 19 Workbook, "Abstracts of History, Pelham Priory, Feb. 13, 1857, Jeannie McGraw" (note spelling) 1857 13-1-1165: 19 Memorial to JMF of poems by Fiske. 1 of 15 copies printed with correspondence enclosed. 13-1-1165: 19 Pamphlet - "J. McG." - 68 copies of memorial poem 13-1-1165: 19 "The Cornell Magazine" with article on Jennie McGraw Fiske 1899 13-1-1165: 19 "The Florence Gazette", in English 1890 13-1-1165: 21 MU-845 Silver Wreath on Black Pillow

A memorial to Fiske from the Reading Society of the Latin School in Reykjavik (Iceland) called "Ithaka" 1904 (with letter and inscription translation); A small box of Runic coins (22), ca. 1047-1076, and explanatory folder

 13-1-1165 MU-2129 Chair from Willard Fiske's library in Florence, Italy 13-1-1165 MU-2130 Willard Fiske's suitcase 13-1-348: 17 4 Certain Regulations proposed for Cornell University pamphlets 13-1-348: 19 36-37 Fiske calling cards and admission cards 13-1-348: 19 39 September 4, 1852 DW Fiske draft statement, Lund, Sweden 13-1-348: 19 41 1877 Printed poem eulogizing John McGraw 13-1-348: 19 49 Fiske's request for information form, printed 13-1-348: 19 50 Notebook on table games in Arabic and other languages 13-1-348: 19 51 Fiske's address book, mostly Scandinavian 13-1-348: 19 54 1880 Bibliographic notes and addresses, German 13-1-348: 19 55 Envelopes used for correspondence 13-1-348: 19 56 Coat of arms 13-1-348: 19 57 Fiske's will and obituary 13-1-348: 19 59 Library Journal obituary 13-1-348: 19 60 English obituaries 13-1-348: 19 61 Italian obituaries 13-1-348: 20 Scrapbook 13-1-348: 20 1895 CW Fiske's notebook 13-1-348: 20 Bibliography notebook 13-1-348: 21-23 McGraw and Fiske Estates books 13-1-1165: 25 13 Fiske/McGraw marriage certificate July 13, 1880 13-1-348: 24 10 Newspaper articles on Fiske Date unknown 13-1-348: 27 Archaic lettered stone 13-1-28: 1 Fiske Library Fund papers 1911-1917 Series VII. Photographs Subseries VIIa. Photographs from Egypt

These are commercial photographs, some from Abdullah Freres, JP Sebah, A. Beato, and Bonfils among others.

13-1-1165: 18 1 1889-06-30 Willard Fiske's "Passport to visit the Egyptian Antiquities," Photochroms, 8x10 in 13-1-1165: 18 7 Pyramids and Menahouse Hotel 13-1-1165: 18 7 The Pyramid at Sakkara 13-1-1165: 18 7 Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo 13-1-1165: 18 7 Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo 13-1-1165: 18 7 The Pavilion at Medinet-Abou, Thebes 13-1-1165: 18 7 The Port, Port Said Albumen prints, 8x10 in 13-1-1165: 18 8 Human Interest: Arab shops in old Cairo, woman and children on donkey, women with stone jars, camels, camels with drivers, donkeys with driver, buffalo, ostriches, date palms, old fort and palms, street procession and crowd scene. 13-1-1165: 18 9 Pyramids and the Sphinx: Sphinx, ascending the pyramid, general view of the pyramids 13-1-1165: 18 Al-Azhar (Arab University): entrance, doorway, courtyard, minarets, cloisters with students, students in courtyard 13-1-1165: 18 11 Temple at Luxor: Columns, statue of woman, exterior view with date palm 13-1-1165: 18 10 Buildings in or near Cairo: Arab village, L'Esbekieh (Square with horse-drawn cabs), general view of a dam, Verandah at Shepherd's Hotel Sanctuary of a Mosque, Interior dome of a Mosque, Building partly in ruins, Riverside with fort and date palms, Place de l'Opera, Cairo, Street in Cairo, Palace Hotel, Cairo, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Minarets, Gizah Bridge, Mosque and tomb of Kait-Bey, Tomb of the Califes and Cairo Citadel, Arab cemetery Unidentified building, New Hotel, Cairo, miscellaneous buildings 13-1-1165: 18 12 Colossus: Rameses, two colossus of Memnon 13-1-1165: 18 13 Friezes, statues, mummies, etc.: Giza mummies, monoliths and ships, seated figures, wooden statue, inscriptions, statues, statue of Chefron, tomb inscriptions 13-1-1165: 18 14 Temples, tombs, etc.: Temple of Isis Philae, columns, Denderah temple, Temple of Rameses, Colon at Abydos, heads of columns, Obelisk, doorway and columns at Thebes, inscribed columns, Medinet-abou hypostyle of temple, ruins of temple 13-1-1165: 18 15 Ruins of Karnak: general view, obelisks, interior doorway, wall with inscriptions, triumphal archway of Rameses IV, columns 13-1-1165: 18 16 River scenes with boats: banks of the Nile, Nile with temple in the background, Nile with cruisers and sailboats river bank with Arabs working a type of derrick, dam across river, 13-1-1165: 18 17 Gardens and roads: Djezireh road, Schoubra road, garden of Ezbekieh, grotto, Antoniadwa III garden in Alexandria, Tree of St. Vierge, zoological garden. 13-1-1165: 18 18 Miscellaneous: Palace of Gihezireh, window of mosque El Refai, courtyard of Arab house, view of Arab town Albumen prints, 4x6 in 13-1-1165: 18 18 Miscellaneous: road to Giza, lake, Arab town with minarets, doorway with colossus, bust of Cleopatra at Denderah, tomb of a caliph, Arab woman Subseries VIIb. Family, Friends and Travel 13-1-1165: 18 6 Photographs "Fiske's Studio, 3A, Via Lungo et Mugnone, Florence..." 13-1-1165: 18 3-4 Cabinet card photographs of Villa Landor 13-1-1165: 18 2 Portrait of Willard Fiske 13-1-1165: 20 1-41 Card photographs - Friends, relatives, Villa Landor, travel views 13-1-348: 19 1 ca. 1880 Portraits of Jennie McGraw Fiske 13-1-348: 19 2 Bust of John McGraw cabinet cards 13-1-348: 19 3 1879-1904 Portraits of Daniel Willard Fiske 13-1-1165: ms box 1 Portrait of Daniel Willard Fiske

Formerly on display in the A.D. White library

 13-1-348: 19 4 1880-1904 Portraits of Daniel Willard Fiske 13-1-348: 19 5 Cabinet card photographs of Daniel Willard Fiske, some with Michele Monzecchi 13-1-348: 19 6 ca. 1888-1889 Portraits of Fiske in Egypt 13-1-348: 19 7 ca. 1890 Fiske on board steamer, early Kodak prints 13-1-348: 19 8 Fiske and the Stellas on board ship 13-1-348: 19 9 Unmounted collodion prints of the Villa Landor and Fiske 13-1-348: 19 10 ca. 1850 Portraits of DH and CW Fiske, daguerreotypes 13-1-348: 19 11 Three portraits by Schemboche of Florence 13-1-348: 19 12 Cabinet card portraits of CW Fiske 13-1-348: 19 13 Assorted family photos 13-1-348: 19 14-15 Hand painted frames with portraits of Fiske 13-1-348: 19 16 Metal frame with portrait of CW Fiske 13-1-348: 19 17-18 Michele Monzecchi portraits, with 'lessons' 13-1-348: 19 19 1902 Photographs from CF Westbury, with letter 13-1-348: 19 20 Dr. and Mrs. Aksel Anderson, Upsala in his study 13-1-348: 19 21 Bjarni Jonsson 13-1-348: 19 22 Dr. Konrad Von Maurer 13-1-348: 19 23 Cabinet cards of the Villa Landor 13-1-348: 19 24 Fiske's Studio 13-1-348: 19 25 DW Fiske chess games 13-1-348: 19 26 1897 Cabinet card portraits from Egypt 13-1-348: 19 27 ca. 1857 Printed reproduction of artwork, Players at the first American chess congress 13-1-348: 19 28 Campus scenes at Cornell University 13-1-348: 19 28a Torre de Gallo portraits, Florence by Fratelli Alinari 13-1-348: 19 29 Cabinet card photographs of Lund, Sweden by Lina Jonn 13-1-348: 19 30 Cabinet card photographs of Upsala, Chateau de Chillon 13-1-348: 19 31 Printed scenes of Upsala, Sweden 13-1-348: 19 32 Photographic postcard of the Vatican library in Rome 13-1-348: 19 33 Unidentified sports team 13-1-348: 19 34 Photograph of Fiske memorial pillow 13-1-348: 19 35 1832, 1877 Photograph reproductions of correspondence 13-1-348: 20 The villa Landor 13-1-348: 20 Portraits of Jennie McGraw Fiske 13-1-348: 20 Scenes from Sweden, Norway 13-1-348: 24 1 Undated Unidentified interiors 13-1-348: 24 2 Undated Unidentidied portraits 13-1-348: 24 3 Undated Kaiser Wilhelm II saloon and ladies room 13-1-348: 24 4 Undated Hand colored photographs of Italy 13-1-348: 24 5 Undated Fontaine de Vaucluse 13-1-348: 24 6 Undated Unidentified landscapes 13-1-348: 24 7-8 Undated Montpelier, Avignon, and unidentified 13-1-348: 24 9 1900 Vestmanlands Dala Nation in Upsala 13-1-348: 24 11 Undated McGraw-Fiske mansion, exterior photographs 13-1-348: 24 12 1875 Tintype of men at Taughannock Falls

George Hartt, Emmons Lee Williams, Josiah Williams, Daniel Willard Fiske

 13-1-348: 24 13 Undated Mrs. Fiske 13-1-348: 24 14 1880 Jennie McGraw Fiske and Daniel Willard Fiske on boat in Egypt during their honeymoon 13-1-348: 24 15 Undated Iceland 13-1-348: 24 16 Undated Jennie McGraw Fiske medallion 13-1-348: 24 16 Undated Jennie McGraw Fiske tomb in Sage Chapel 13-1-348: 24 17 Undated Building interiors and exteriors 13-1-348: 28 Five carte-de-visite photograph albums originally belonging to Jennie McGraw Fiske 13-1-1165: 25 1 Undated Fiske's library at Villa Forini 13-1-1165: 25 2 Undated Trento 13-1-1165: 25 3 Undated Landscapes and people

Includes photographs by Somner.

 13-1-1165: 25 4 Undated Portraits, mostly unidentified 13-1-1165: 25 5 Undated Stockholm and Trollhatten 13-1-1165: 25 6 Undated Portraits, mostly unidentified 13-1-1165: 25 7 Undated Roman sites and art travel photographs 13-1-1165: 25 8 Undated Le Rigi Kulm, by Charnaux Freres 13-1-1165: 25 9 Undated Montpelier 13-1-1165: 25 10 Undated Snapshots of Fiske 13-1-1165: 25 11 Undated Firenze, Napoli 13-1-1165: 25 Undated Jennie McGraw Fiske, in ornate frame Series VIII. Card files 13-1-1165: 22-23 Visiting cards (of Fiske's callers) Series IX. Audio Material 13-1-1165: 24 TR-8042a "Willard Fiske and Chess", Stephen Weissman 13-1-1165: 24 TR-8043a "Willard Fiske Runic Collection", Elmer H. Antonsen 13-1-1165: 24 TR-8044a "Willard Fiske and Chess", Stephen Weissman 13-1-1165: 24 TR-8044a "Willard Fiske Icelandic Collection", Phillip Marshal Mitchell 13-1-1165: 24 TR-8045a "Willard Fiske and Cornell University", Gould Patchin Colman 13-1-1165: 24 TR-8046a "Willard Fiske Rhaeto-Romanic Collection", Louis Pitschmann