Ephemera, manuscripts and other Cornelliana. Photographs, including carte-de-visite pictures, cabinet cards, stereo views, prints and negatives. Subjects include individual students and faculty, notably William Benjamin Bowler, a student from Haiti, ca. 1870 and architecture students, ca. 1914; campus buildings and scenes; David Woodbury King and the Cornell Crew,1876; and waterfalls and other local scenes. Also a DVD containing scans of many of the photographs as well as a catalog of the items.
Letters, including a set of from Roger Burchard Platt to his mother, 1907; materials relating to the Winter Short Course taken by farmer George S. Allnatt in 1905; letter from the Cornell Treasurer's Office to J. W. Williams about land grant transactions, 1875; TLS from Charles Kendall Adams, 1889.
Broadsides, handbills, programs (Cornell Masque, 1922-1923 and Cornell Dramatic Club, 1925); invitations, and menus relating to student activities, ca. 1889-1925; diploma for Leroy Lynn Davis (Civil Engineering), 1896; "The Cornell Earache," Spring Day parody issue, 1908; Registers and other university publications;Freshman Register, 1975; Interfraternity Council Rush Book, 1973; "Book of Views," 1925; various issues of the Cornell Daily Sun and the Cornell Graphic.
Lecture notebooks in Chemistry (Cicero Shaffer, 1875); and American History with Moses Coit Tyler (Sarah McCune Gallaher, 1893); and Mechanical Engineering drawings by Frank Cook Moore, 1890; "
Scrapbooks of Henry Vernon Davis, 1911; Lily Hawley, 1915; John Neal Tilton, 1915; Marion Ruthella Roberts, 1920; Helen Levengood, Summer School, 1921; Leon Wendell Walton, 1922; and Marion Helen Rogers, 1923.
Correspondence written and received by Dorothy McCormack (Class of 1937) while she was a student at Cornell, mostly to her future husband Allan B. Grady, Jr.
Letter, January 7, 1882, from John Newton Dexter Shinkel (Class of 1881) to Josiah Dustin Wilson (Class of 1880), concerning a recent visit to Ithaca, NY and news from Cornell.
Diaries kept by Hart Irving Seely (Class of 1909), who studied both law and agriculture at Cornell, 1906-1907, 1912-1913; notebook kept by George Meade Emory, (LLB 1890); scrapbook of Nicholas Cooke Cushing (Class of 1896), 1893.
Individual photographs include: photograph of Benjamin Harry Weisbrod (Class of 1914); William Hazlitt Smith (Class of 1873); William Maddocks (Class of 1887); Robert Elmer Rutherford (Class of 1887), Thomas Hall (ME 1893, MME 1894), and other 19th century cabinet card photographs.
Group of cabinet card photographs, primarily of members of the Class of 1889, originally collected by Albert Haywood '89.
Tintypes of early students including Simon Henry Gage.
Stock certificate for the New York State Agriculture College in Ovid, N.Y..
Cornell Music Festival programs.
Collection of wax seals of campus organizations.
Notebooks of law school student Robert Grantier Miller Class of 1940. Freshman registers. Notebook used by Jefferson Mack Myers, Class of 1876, for his human physiology and hygiene class. The Official Guide to the Schoellkopf Sweepstakes, Spring Day 1923. Clarence Isaac Robinson Class of 1884 materials. Photos from the Vermont Academy. Tintype of Taughannock Falls.
Poster for the 3rd Annual Ovation of the Citizens of Ithaca, to Cornell’s Victors, 1877. Harold Carl Harding, Class of 1910 notebook for Course XII in mechanical engineering in the Sibley College, Chemistry Department faculty photo, 1921, portrait of the Class of 1895, letters to servicemen in World War Two from Marie Ann Tipula, Class of 1947, Peck Shoe Store photo, photos relating to George W. Brownell and the Ithaca trolley car company.
Many additional photos, scrapbooks, letters, notebooks, and ephemera.
Michael L. and Catherine H. Whalen Collection of Cornelliana, #37-5-3784. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Note that items next to each other in boxes do not necessarily come from the same person or have the same provenance. See the PDF guide to determine groupings.
See the catalog linked below for a complete inventory of the collection, the box listing below does not cover all the items.
See also New York State College of Agriculture Winter Short Course Scrapbooks, #21-34-4029.
See also the New York State College Of Agriculture Winter Short Course Photographs, #21-34-2459.
See also Dairy Industry Winter Course Student Record Cards, #21-19-1190.
Includes high resolution copy of the PDF guide available above. Also JPG images of items in the collection. High resolution TIF files are available from the donor.
Carte de visites and cabinet cards including images of alumni and faculty, William Benjamin Bowler, crew, stereo view cards of campus, etc..
Cabinet cards and photographs of campus and Ithaca area, including Taughannock Falls, gorges, Cayuga Lake, alumni, Spring Day, White Hall architecture studio, etc..
Photographs including Alpha Theta fraternity, letters from students, administrators, and others, Freshman Banquet and other handbills, ad for the Kornell Krinkles, Globe Hotel Syracuse menu, event programs including Ulysses of Ithaka by the Cornell Masque, The Contrast by Cornell Dramatic Club, etc..
Felt banner and reunion buttons of Mary Lucetta Thompson Davis Class of 1896.
1896 diploma of Lynn Leroy Davis
Cornell registers, reports, The Cornell Earache, 1904 directory, chemistry class notebook of Cicero Shaffer Class of 1878, American history class notebook of Sarah McCune Gallaher, Class of 1895, 1975 freshman register, 1972 Interfraternity Council Rush Book, etc..
Three bound books of mechanical drawings created by Frank Cook Moore, Class of 1892, for engineering classes
Fund-raising “position statement” issued by the Cornellian Council in 1925 entitled, “The Solution”
Book of views, 1890s Cornell Daily Suns, 1906 Cornell Deadly Sin, 1866 Harper's Weekly about Ezra Cornell, six issues of the 1924-1925 Cornell Graphic
Scrapbook assembled by Lily Hawley, Class of 1919
Scrapbook assembled by John Neal Tilton Jr., Class of 1913
Scrapbook assembled by Leon Wendell Walton, Class of 1926
Scrapbook assembled by Marion Helen Rogers, Class of 1927
1927 group portrait of the Sigma Kappa Sorority
Scrapbook assembled by Marion Ruthella Roberts, Class of 1924
1922 and 1923 group portrait of the Kappa Delta Sorority
Scrapbook assembled by Henry Vernon Davis, Class of 1914 and other material owned by him
Portrait of Henry Marx, Class of 1879
Scrapbook assembled by Helen Levengood during her attendance at a Summer School program in music at Cornell University
Photo composite of students in the Winter Course of 1918-19 in the College of Agriculture.
Correspondence written and received by Dorothy McCormack, Class of 1937, while she was a student
Letter from John Newton Dexter Shinkel, Class of 1881, to Josiah Dustin Wilson, Class of 1882, four diaries kept by law and agriculture student Hart Irving Seely, Class of 1909, Notebook used by George Meade Emory, Class of 1890, during his classes in the Cornell Law School
Scrapbook compiled by Nicholas Cooke Cushing, Class of 1896,
Photographs of students and others, many owned by Albert Haywood, Class of 1889,
Scrapbook assembled by Alexander Glencairn Acheson, Class of 1917
Scrapbook assembled by Le Roy William Pritchard, Class of 1922
Correspondence of Marion Ruthella Roberts, Class of 1924
Laboratory notebooks and class project reports for a variety of courses created by Frederick Edgar Stark, Class of 1912
Photograph of the Class of 1887
Various ephemera, stereo view photographs of campus, other campus and Ithaca photographs including military, mud rush, student and faculty carte de visites and cabinet cards, photo of Ezra Cornell Class of 1971,
1897 photo of Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Scrapbook assembled by Carl Frederick Meyer, Class of 1908, ten-inch Keuffel and Esser mahogany slide rule and eight-inch leather case owned by Gustav Adolphus Marius Illmer, Class of 1909
Various ephemera including shingles, letters, programs, state examination booklets, 1892 University Corps of Cadets roster, Telegram sent by George H. Conklin to William Henry Peer Conklin, Class of 1895, concerning George’s military service during the Civil War, 1960 Freshman Register, 1960 description of Cornell’s fraternities, postcards
Photographs including carte de visites and stereo view cards of students, faculty (including Ezra Cornell), staff, campus buildings and the Ithaca area, 1875 course book, letters, program for the Thirtieth Annual Contest for the ’86 Memorial Prize in Declamation
Scrapbook assembled by Edward John Burns Jr., Class of 1917, scrapbook assembled by Henry Godley, Class of 1924, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity photos, photo of Thomas Frederick Crane and others playing tennis on the arts quad
1941 diary belonging to Theodore Ryder
1913-1914 scrapbook assembled by Frank (?)
Program for Music Festival 1916 Cornell University April 27 28 29
Various ephemera including letters, certificates, telegrams, tintype of Simon Henry Gage, stereo view cards of campus, cabinet cards of students, other photos and tintype of students and campus and Ezra Cornell
Programs for Music Festival 1920 Cornell University
Collection of 16 brass wax seal stamps of student organization logos used for shingles and certificates
Certificate of membership in the Cornell Chapter of Acacia Fraternity issued to David William Cheney, Class of 1922, photograph of the special Lehigh Valley Railroad, Auburn & Ithaca Branch crew spectator train, ca. 1920 photograph of the brothers of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity
Diplomas and certificates relating to Vining Campbell Dunlap Class of 1916 and others,
Scrapbook assembled by James Aloysius Barrett, Class of 1912
Collection of letters and other documents belonging to Mary Ellen Gillett, Class of 1941
Certificate appointing of Edward Benedict Clark, Class of 1912, as a principal musician in the Cornell University Corps of Cadets
Felt arm patch and brass pin belonging to Edward Benedict Clark, Class of 1912, as a principal musician in the Cornell University Corps of Cadets and photograph of him with clarinet
Various pamphlets, photographs, letters, and other ephemera
Stereo-view, cabinet cards, carte de visite photographs, tintyps of the Cornell campus, Ithaca, McGraw-Fiske mansion, Ezra's tunnel, waterfalls, Cornell students and faculty, many photos owned by James Duncan Upham, some related to Zeta Psi fraternity
Set of 11 notebooks used by Robert Grantier Miller, Law School Class of 1940, for legal classes at Cornell University
Photograph of the twentieth anniversary reunion of the Class of 1894
1956, 1960-1964, 1975 Freshman registers, pig books
Menu card for the Cornell University Medical College Class of 1904 senior banquet that was held at the Café Boulevard in New York City on 12 Feb 1904
Notebook used by Jefferson Mack Myers, Class of 1876, for his human physiology and hygiene class at Cornell University and later by his son, Joel Myers Jr.
Various ephemera, programs, pamphlets
Multi-year diary maintained by Arthur Cornelius Lansing, Class of 1921
Ephemera, postcards, letters, photographs relating to Cornell and Ithaca. Includes photo of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity when used as barracks for the S.A.T.C., Dwellers Reunion program, Official Guide to the Schoellkopf Sweepstakes Spring Day 1923, items relating to Clarence Isaac Robinson, Class of 1884,
Cabinet cards, stereo views and other photographs, several relating to the Vermont Academy, Cornell students and dorm room images, Ithaca parade, tintype of Taughannock Falls with people holding an umbrella, Ithaca and Lucifer Falls
Broadside from the Inter-Collegiate Contest of Greek, Latin, Mathematics & Essays competition. 3rd Annual Ovation of the Citizens of Ithaca, to Cornell's Victors! Held at Library Hall, William L. Bostwick with S. d. Halliday and interim President Russel, January 20, 1877
Notes on Geodesy, prepared for the Senior Class in Civil Engineering by Charles Lee Crandall Class of 1872, personal expenditure journal maintained by Arvin J. Dillenbeck, Class of 1911, laboratory notebook maintained by Harold Carl Harding, Class of 1910, for Course XII in mechanical engineering in the Sibley College, Department of Experimental Engineering
1921 photo of the faculty and students of the Cornell University Chemistry Department, group portrait of the Class of 1895
Large collection of letters—many professing love and admiration—sent by 17 different service men during World War II to Marie Ann Tipula, Class of 1947, while she was a student at Cornell University and later when she returned home to Hoboken, NJ to work
Circa 1890 photograph of the Peck Shoe Store in Cortland, NY
Stereo view, cabinet cards, and other photographs of Cornell and the Ithaca area including bridges, Taughannock Hotel and Falls, Cornell weather station, images relating to Ithaca trolley cars and George W. Brownell. Ephemera, letters relating to Cornell students,
Broadside from the Class of 1919 Freshman Banquet. Held at the Armory March 1916
Cabinet cards of students and faculty mostly from the Class of 1873
Items relating to Clark Dillenbeck