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• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Watermargin records, 1947-2012.
Collection Number: 37-4-446

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	Watermargin Papers: Printed Material	n.d.
Box 1	Folder 2	Watermargin Papers: Newsletters	1951-1952
Box 1	Folder 3	Watermargin Papers: In the Margin	1948-1950
Box 1	Folder 4	Watermargin Papers: Newspaper Clippings	1948-1953
Box 1	Folder 5	Watermargin Papers	1947-1952
Box 1	Folder 6	Brochure and newsletter "The Marginal"	Spring 2006
Box 1	Folder 7	Group Photos - 2004 and 2006; CD of photos from Iron Chef Competition	2004, 2006
Box 1	Folder 8	Group Photos [transferred from box 7, folder 1]	1949-1950
Box 1	Folder 8	Miscellaneous Papers	2001
Box 1	DVD-2671	103 McGraw Place	2009
		Scope and Contents "Sixty years after Watermargin's founding, Wei (Cornell '02) tracked down the surviving founders and several first generation alumni in order to document their stories and accomplishments of the beloved house located on Ithaca's 103 McGraw Place."
Box 2	Folder 1	Watermargin - Origins - Incorporation	1947
Box 2	Folder 2	Certificate of Incorporation
Box 2	Folder 3	Origins - Constitution, meaning of the name	1948
Box 2	Folder 4	Correspondence, Eleanor Roosevelt's visit, memoranda	1947-1957
Box 2	Folder 5	Foundation/Fundraising	1949-1952
Box 2	Folder 6	Early House Operations	1949-1952
Box 2	Folder 7	Correspondence	1948
Box 2	Folder 8	Brochures
Box 2	Folder 9	Brochures
Box 2	Folder 10	Conference committee information	1953
Box 2	Folder 11	Conference - publicity, information	1949-1950
Box 2	Folder 12	Conference - "Inter-Group Living and the College Campus"	1950
Box 2	Folder 13	Conference - personal correspondence
Box 2	Folder 14	Applications for those attending the Watermargin Conference and Correspondence	1948-1950
Box 2	Folder 15	Conference material
Box 2	Folder 16	Conference - correspondence	1949-1950
Box 2	Folder 17	Conference - Sourcebook, Session Minutes, Publicity	February 18-20, 1950
Box 2	Folder 18	Conference Correspondence - from other universities	1952-1953
Box 2	Folder 19	College Exchange Weekend Committee	1952-1953
Box 2	Folder 20	Farm Weekend	1968
Box 2	Folder 21	Education Committee Correspondence	1940's-1960's
Box 2	Folder 22	Speaker Series	1950's-1960
Box 2	Folder 23	Langston Hughes - Programs, signed book The Dream Keeper
Box 2	Folder 24	Scott Hamilton's correspondence	1950's
Box 2	Folder 25	Field Trips - Arkansas and NYC and bound copy of "Watermargin Arkansas Study Trip"	1950-1951
Box 2	Folder 26	Education Committee Correspondence	1951-1963, 1980's-1990's
Box 2	Folder 27	Social Activities	1950's-1980's
Box 2	Folder 28	Intergroup Relations in Ithaca
Box 2	Folder 29	House Activities - Blood Bank	1950's-1960's
Box 2	Folder 30	Publications Committee Reports	1940's
Box 2	Folder 31	Special Projects Committee
Box 2	Folder 32	Committees - Nominating, Dedication, Communications, Secretarial, etc.	1950's
Box 2	Folder 33	"In the Margin" - publication	1948-1953
Box 2	Folder 34	"In the Margin"	1954-1956
Box 2	Folder 35	"In the Margin"; books of quotes and programs; "Watermelon, Inc"	1950's-1987
Box 3	Folder 1	Newspaper clippings	1940's-1950's
Box 3	Folder 2	Photographs - Eleanor Roosevelt
Box 3	Folder 3	Photographs - group picture of the Founders and others
Box 3	Folder 4	Photographs - speakers
Box 3	Folder 5	Photographs - unidentified
Box 3	Folder 6	Photographs - unidentified
Box 3	Folder 7	Photographs
Box 3	Folder 8	Negatives
Box 3	Folder 9	Photographs - Campus Scenes
Box 3	Folder 10	Songs and Certificates
Box 3	Folder 11	Watermargin Activities and posters	1948-1990's
Box 3	Folder 12	Watermargin cookbook	1988-1989
Box 3	Folder 13	Correspondence - miscellaneous
Box 3	Folder 14	Annual Reports	1965-1975
Box 3	Folder 15	Annual Reports	1976-1982
Box 3	Folder 16	Annual Reports	1983-1993
Box 3	Folder 17	Cooperatives at Cornell
Box 3	Folder 18	Proposal that a National Association for Intercultural Living be formed
Box 3	Folder 19	Cooperatives elsewhere - N. American Student Cooperative League (NASCL)
Box 3	Folder 20	Education Committee
Box 3	Folder 21	Education Committee	1950's
Box 3	Folder 22	Board of Directors	1950's-1960's
Box 3	Folder 23	Foreign Students Fund - Alumni Association	1960's
Box 3	Folder 24	Newsletter - Alumni	1970-1994
Box 3	Folder 25	Newsletters - Alumni	1948-1969
Box 3	Folder 26	Letters to Alumni
Box 3	Folder 27	Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings	1947-1950
Box 3	Folder 28	Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings	1951-1955
Box 3	Folder 29	Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings	1956-1960
Box 3	Folder 30	Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings	1961-1968
Box 3	Folder 31	Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings	1969-1981
Box 3	Folder 32	Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings	1982-1990's
Box 3	Folder 33	Watermargin - Executive Committee Minutes	1950-1959
Box 3	Folder 34	Watermargin - Executive Committee Minutes	1960-1970's
Box 3	Folder 35	Watermargin - Board of Directors Material	1989-1991
Box 3	Folder 36	Watermargin - Board of Directors Meeting Minutes	1949-1990's
Box 3	Folder 37	Watermargin - Education Committee Minutes
Box 3	Folder 38	Watermargin - Social Committee Minutes
Box 4	Folder 1	Correspondence	1940's-1950's
Box 4	Folder 2	Correspondence	1950's
Box 4	Folder 3	Correspondence	1958
Box 4	Folder 4	Correspondence	1959
Box 4	Folder 5	Correspondence	1960's
Box 4	Folder 6	Correspondence	1960
Box 4	Folder 7	Correspondence	1961
Box 4	Folder 8	Correspondence	1963
Box 4	Folder 9	Correspondence	1963
Box 4	Folder 10	Correspondence	1970's
Box 4	Folder 11	Correspondence	1980's
Box 4	Folder 12	Correspondence - Co-op Crisis	1987
Box 4	Folder 13	45th Reunion	1993
Box 4	Folder 14	Membership Lists
Box 4	Folder 15	Membership Lists
Box 4	Folder 16	Membership Lists
Box 4	Folder 17	Membership Lists
Box 4	Folder 18	Articles about Alumni
Box 4	Folder 19	Special Housing - Annex	1960's
Box 4	Folder 20	House Expenditures	1979-1980
Box 4	Folder 21	House Maintenance Records	1950's-1990's
Box 4	Folder 22	Policies - Insurance	1970's-1980's
Box 4	Folder 23	Residential Life Material	1970's-1990's
Box 4	Folder 24	Insurance Offered	1961
Box 4	Folder 25	Slides - M. Anderson Concert, Farm and Work Party, others	1953
Box 4	Folder 26	Photos of Members
Box 4		Cassette tapes: 45th Reunion Conference - ACTWV Hall-NYC (Dec. 1993) - Death Penalty in the 1990's - John Blume - Tom Levanduski - His experience in the Persian Gulf (April 1992)
Box 4		16mm Film: Norman Thomas, Eleanor Roosevelt, One unidentified
Box 4		Reel to Reel Film - Education Committee - Speaker Series
Box 4		Tin Photo Block
Box 4		Watermargin due cards
Box 5	Folder 1	Not for Profit - Financial Information
Box 5	Folder 2	Watermargin - Education Programs
Box 5	Folder 3	Watermargin - Annual Reports/Bylaws	1988-1993
Box 5	Folder 4	Watermargin - flyers, clippings, programs of events	1948-1993
Box 5	Folder 5	Watermargin - Insurance Information	1979-1992
Box 5	Folder 6	NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation) newsbriefs, pamphlets	1988-1993
Box 5	Folder 7	NASCO - brochures, annual reports
Box 5	Folder 8	Budgets	1948-1960's
Box 5	Folder 9	Financial Correspondence	1958
Box 5	Folder 10	Watermargin - Financial Records	1957-1963
Box 5	Folder 11	Watermargin - Financial Records	1955-1957
Box 5	Folder 12	Financial Records	1970's
Box 5	Folder 13	Financial Records	1980's-1990's
Box 5	Folder 14	Watermargin - Balance Sheets	1949-1954
Box 5	Folder 15	Watermargin - Balance Sheets	1954-1958
Box 5	Folder 16	Watermargin - Balance Sheets	1959-1961
Box 5	Folder 17	House Operations
Box 5	Folder 18	Appraisal Report	1988
Box 5	Folder 19	Proposed By-laws and Amendments
Box 5	Folder 20	Proposed By-laws and Amendments
Box 5	Folder 21	Constitution and By-laws of Watermargin
Box 5	Folder 22	Constitution and By-laws of Watermargin
Box 5	Folder 23	Constitution and By-laws of Watermargin
Box 5	Folder 24	Watermargin - Minutes, By-laws	1987
Box 5	Folder 25	Membership - forms, letters
Box 5	Folder 26	Membership - correspondence	1948-1950's
Box 5	Folder 27	Membership Lists
Box 5	Folder 28	Membership Cards
Box 5	Folder 29	Membership Cards
Box 5	Folder 30	Membership Cards
Box 5	Folder 31	Miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda; Handmade poster	1940's-1980's
Box 6		Dance Photos	1950-1952
Box 6		Dance Photos	1954-1955
Box 6		Dance Photos	1958-1966
Box 6		Group Photos	1959-1962
Box 6		Group Photos	1965-1967, 1969
Box 6		Group Photos	1975, 1977-1979
Box 6		Group Photos	1981-1984
Box 6		Group Photos	1986-1988
Box 6		Group Photos	1991-1994
Box 6		Group Photos	1997-1999
Box 6		Group Photos	2001-2012
Box 6		Phonograph Record: Bad Company Rough Diamonds
Box 6		Posters
Box 6		News Clippings
Box 7	Folder 1	Watermargin Photos [transferred to box 1, folder 8]	1949-1950
Box 7	Folder 1	Miscellaneous Papers [transferred to box 1, folder 8]	2001
Box 7	Folder 2	Friends of Watermargin	2000
Box 7	Folder 3	Goals	n.d.
Box 7	Folder 4	Correspondence	11/21/2000
Box 7	Folder 5	Correspondence and Articles	1999-2001
Box 7	Folder 6	Watermargin	2003
Box 7	Folder 7	News from, Watermargin	1998-2001
Box 7	Folder 8		1999-2002
Box 7	Folder 9	Watermargin Correspondence	1957-1959
Box 7	Folder 10	Watermargin: Photos, Correspondence, Directories, etc.	1999-2002
Box 7	Folder 11	History: "What is Watermargin?"	1948-51, 1956, 1962, 1966, 1989
Box 7	Folder 12	Taxes - Exemption	1950, 1952, 1954, 1952, 1954
Box 7	Folder 13	Jack Sheinkman/Labor files	2004
CD 11	CD-11	Untitled	Undated
Box 1	V-11293	Watermargin: Meet the Alumni documentary	2001
		Creator: Cheng, Wei-Chuan
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 2	SR-34048-34049	Watermargin Quartet Sings!!!	1950
		Scope and Contents 10" phonograph record, 2 copies. Center label reads: "Cornell Recording Service; Cornell Radio Guild, Inc.; Willard Straight Hall; Dick Jung, Jack Schlosser, Thurm Boddie, Dick Reichart, Dick Davison; 78 RPM."