Willard Winfield Rowlee papers, 1905-1923.
Collection Number: 14-29-234
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Willard Winfield Rowlee papers, 1905-1923.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-29-234
Abstract:
Correspondence, reports, photographs, and other miscellaneous printed material pertaining
to Rowlee's activities at Cornell University and elsewhere.
Creator:
Rowlee, Willard Winfield, 1861-1923.
Quanitities:
1.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Cornell University professor and botanist.
Cornell University Class of 1888, PhD. 1893.
Correspondence, reports, photographs, and other miscellaneous printed material pertaining
to Rowlee's activities at Cornell University and elsewhere, including photographs
of a botany trip to McLean, New York; a report on the improvement of Dryden Cemetery;
faculty communications; minutes of the Alumni Athletic Field Committee pertaining
to Alumni Field and Schoellkopf Field House; an athletics and student affairs file
concerning expenses and athletics at Cornell; and material relating to the Semi-Centennial
Celebration at Cornell. Correspondents include Daniel Alden Reed, Willard Beahan,
Franks S. Porter, Henry Schoellkopf, and others.
Also, correspondence, reports, and other material deriving from Rowlee's investigation
of balsa wood in the Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and
of the American Balsa Corporation and its evolution into the American International
Corporation and the American Balsa Company; also includes specifications for balsa
and its characteristics for such uses as life preservers, insulation, and airplane
construction
Also, papers relating to the collection and identification of plants, the administration
of the Department of Botany at Cornell, and Cornell alumni activities.
Includes collections #43-1-36 and #626.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Willard Winfield Rowlee papers, #14-29-234. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Reed, Daniel A. (Daniel Alden), 1875-1959.
Beahan, Willard.
Porter, Frank S.
Schoellkopf, Henry.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University. Department of Botany
Cornell University. Semi-Centennial Committee
Cornell University -- : Athletics.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University -- : Alumni and alumnae.
Cornell University -- : Buildings.
Cornell University. Alumni Athletic Field Committee
Cornell University. Schoellkopf Field House
Dryden Cemetery (Dryden, N.Y.)
American Balsa Corporation
American Balsa Company
American International Corporation
Subjects:
College teachers.
Botanists.
Wood -- Nicaragua.
Wood -- Honduras.
Wood -- Guatemala.
Wood -- Costa Rica.
Wood -- Canal Zone.
Education -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- Dryden.
Airplanes, wooden.
Airplanes -- Materials.
Balsa wood craft.
Balsa wood.
Botany -- Study and teaching.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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1905-1923 [formerly collection #43-1-36]
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
McLean Trip, Silence Rowlee
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Class Miscellany
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1917-1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Miscellaneous Cornell materials
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1922-1923 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous Cornell materials
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1917-1919, 1922 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Report on Improvement of Dryden Cemetary
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1910 |
Box 1 | Folder 6-7 |
Committee reports re erection of Schoelkopf Memorial building
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1905-1917 |
Correspondence; 1909, 1915-1920
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Davis corrrespondence re peat bogs
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1909 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1915-1916 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence: Jan.-Mar.
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence: Apr.-June
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence: July-Sept.
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence: Oct.
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence: Nov.
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence: Dec.
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence: Jan.
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Correspondence: Feb.
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence: Mar.
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence: Apr.
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence: May-June
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence: July-Oct.
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Correspondence: Nov.
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Correspondence: Dec.
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Correspondence: Jan.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Correspondence: Feb.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence: Mar.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence: Apr.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Correspondence: May
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Correspondence: June-Aug.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence: Sept.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Correspondence: Oct.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Correspondence: Nov.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Correspondence: Dec.
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Correspondence: Jan.-Feb.
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1922 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Correspondence: Mar.-Apr.
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1922 |
Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Correspondence: May
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1922 |
Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Correspondence: June-July
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1922 |
Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Correspondence: Sept.-Nov.
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1922 |
Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Correspondence: Dec. 1922-Jan. 1924 and n.d.
|
1922-1924 |
Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Class materials, laboratory handouts, bibliographies
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1909, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Miscellany
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1912-1922 |
American Balsa Company, Inc.
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Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Correspondence: Jan. 10, 1917-May 9, 1918
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1917-1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Correspondence: May 10-May 29
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Correspondence: June 1-June 14
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Correspondence: June 19-July 1
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Correspondence: July 1-Sept. 6
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Correspondence: Sept. 6-Sept. 26
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1928 |
Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Correspondence: Sept. 28-Oct. 30
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Correspondence: Nov. 1-Dec. 26
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Correspondence: Jan. 5-Mar. 7
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Correspondence: Mar. 8-Apr. 14
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Correspondence: Apr. 21-July 10
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Correspondence: July 11-Oct. 31
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Correspondence: Nov. 3-Dec. 29
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1919 |
Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Correspondence: Jan. 5-Apr. 15
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Correspondence: Apr. 17-June 7
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Correspondence: June 10-June 30
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 60 |
Correspondence: July 1-July 31
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Correspondence: Aug. 2-Sept. 30
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Correspondence: Oct. 2-Nov. 12
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 63 |
Correspondence: Nov. 15-Dec. 31
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1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 64 |
Correspondence: Jan. 4-Feb. 17
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 65 |
Correspondence: Mar. 1-May 5
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 66 |
Correspondence: May 6-Sept. 20
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 67 |
Correspondence: Sept. 23-Dec. 17
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1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 68 |
Correspondence: Jan. 3, 1922-Mar. 28, 1923
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1922-1923 |
Box 1 | Folder 69-71 |
Correspondence and miscellany
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1909, n.d. |