Watermargin records, 1947-2012.
Collection Number: 37-4-446
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Watermargin records, 1947-2012.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
37-4-446
Abstract:
Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, minutes of meetings, programs,
incorporation papers pertaining to a Cornell University cooperative living unit, with
particular reference to social issues and visits from Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson
and Norman Thomas.
Creator:
Watermargin (Cornell University)
Sutipornprachum, Vichian.
Quanitities:
5.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Watermargin Iron Chef Competition
Co-op founded as a non-discriminatory fraternity.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Watermargin records, #37-4-446. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, minutes of meetings, programs,
incorporation papers pertaining to a Cornell University cooperative living unit, with
particular reference to social issues and visits from Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson,
and Norman Thomas. Also "103 McGraw Place," a documentary film about the Watermargin
house, by Wei (Vichian Sutipornprachum), 2009.
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings,
viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is
in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information
on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
webpage.
Audio visual media that has been digitized: V-11293
See also Watermargin miscellaneous publications call number: LD1376.5 .W32.
Names:
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Anderson, Marian R. (Marion Roberta), 1897-1993.
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University -- : Societies, etc.
Subjects:
Student cooperatives -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Cooperative societies -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Watermargin Papers: Printed Material
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Watermargin Papers: Newsletters
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1951-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Watermargin Papers: In the Margin
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1948-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Watermargin Papers: Newspaper Clippings
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1948-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Watermargin Papers
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1947-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Brochure and newsletter "The Marginal"
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Spring 2006 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Group Photos - 2004 and 2006; CD of photos from Iron Chef Competition
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2004, 2006 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Group Photos [transferred from box 7, folder 1]
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1949-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Miscellaneous Papers
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2001 |
Box 1 | DVD-2671 |
103 McGraw Place
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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."
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Watermargin - Origins - Incorporation
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1947 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Certificate of Incorporation
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Origins - Constitution, meaning of the name
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1948 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence, Eleanor Roosevelt's visit, memoranda
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1947-1957 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Foundation/Fundraising
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1949-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Early House Operations
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1949-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1948 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Brochures
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Brochures
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Conference committee information
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1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Conference - publicity, information
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1949-1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Conference - "Inter-Group Living and the College Campus"
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1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Conference - personal correspondence
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Applications for those attending the Watermargin Conference and Correspondence
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1948-1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Conference material
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Conference - correspondence
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1949-1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Conference - Sourcebook, Session Minutes, Publicity
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February 18-20, 1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Conference Correspondence - from other universities
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1952-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
College Exchange Weekend Committee
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1952-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Farm Weekend
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1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Education Committee Correspondence
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1940's-1960's |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Speaker Series
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1950's-1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Langston Hughes - Programs, signed book The Dream Keeper
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Scott Hamilton's correspondence
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1950's |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Field Trips - Arkansas and NYC and bound copy of "Watermargin Arkansas Study Trip"
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1950-1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Education Committee Correspondence
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1951-1963, 1980's-1990's |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Social Activities
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1950's-1980's |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Intergroup Relations in Ithaca
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Box 2 | Folder 29 |
House Activities - Blood Bank
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1950's-1960's |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Publications Committee Reports
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1940's |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Special Projects Committee
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Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Committees - Nominating, Dedication, Communications, Secretarial, etc.
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1950's |
Box 2 | Folder 33 |
"In the Margin" - publication
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1948-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
"In the Margin"
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1954-1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
"In the Margin"; books of quotes and programs; "Watermelon, Inc"
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1950's-1987 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Newspaper clippings
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1940's-1950's |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Photographs - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Photographs - group picture of the Founders and others
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Photographs - speakers
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Photographs - unidentified
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Photographs - unidentified
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Photographs
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Negatives
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Photographs - Campus Scenes
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Songs and Certificates
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Watermargin Activities and posters
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1948-1990's |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Watermargin cookbook
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1988-1989 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence - miscellaneous
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Annual Reports
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1965-1975 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Annual Reports
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1976-1982 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Annual Reports
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1983-1993 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Cooperatives at Cornell
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Proposal that a National Association for Intercultural Living be formed
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Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Cooperatives elsewhere - N. American Student Cooperative League (NASCL)
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Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Education Committee
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Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Education Committee
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1950's |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Board of Directors
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1950's-1960's |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Foreign Students Fund - Alumni Association
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1960's |
Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Newsletter - Alumni
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1970-1994 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Newsletters - Alumni
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1948-1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Letters to Alumni
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Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings
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1947-1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings
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1951-1955 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings
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1956-1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings
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1961-1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings
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1969-1981 |
Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Minutes - Watermargin Membership Meetings
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1982-1990's |
Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Watermargin - Executive Committee Minutes
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1950-1959 |
Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Watermargin - Executive Committee Minutes
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1960-1970's |
Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Watermargin - Board of Directors Material
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1989-1991 |
Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Watermargin - Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
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1949-1990's |
Box 3 | Folder 37 |
Watermargin - Education Committee Minutes
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Box 3 | Folder 38 |
Watermargin - Social Committee Minutes
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1940's-1950's |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1950's |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1958 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1959 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1960's |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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1960 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1961 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1963 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1963 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1970's |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1980's |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence - Co-op Crisis
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1987 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
45th Reunion
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1993 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Membership Lists
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Membership Lists
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Membership Lists
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Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Membership Lists
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Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Articles about Alumni
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Special Housing - Annex
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1960's |
Box 4 | Folder 20 |
House Expenditures
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1979-1980 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
House Maintenance Records
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1950's-1990's |
Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Policies - Insurance
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1970's-1980's |
Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Residential Life Material
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1970's-1990's |
Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Insurance Offered
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1961 |
Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Slides - M. Anderson Concert, Farm and Work Party, others
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1953 |
Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Photos of Members
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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)
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Box 4 |
16mm Film: Norman Thomas, Eleanor Roosevelt, One unidentified
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Box 4 |
Reel to Reel Film - Education Committee - Speaker Series
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Box 4 |
Tin Photo Block
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Box 4 |
Watermargin due cards
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Not for Profit - Financial Information
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Watermargin - Education Programs
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Watermargin - Annual Reports/Bylaws
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1988-1993 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Watermargin - flyers, clippings, programs of events
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1948-1993 |
Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Watermargin - Insurance Information
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1979-1992 |
Box 5 | Folder 6 |
NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation) newsbriefs, pamphlets
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1988-1993 |
Box 5 | Folder 7 |
NASCO - brochures, annual reports
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Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Budgets
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1948-1960's |
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Financial Correspondence
|
1958 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Watermargin - Financial Records
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1957-1963 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Watermargin - Financial Records
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1955-1957 |
Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Financial Records
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1970's |
Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Financial Records
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1980's-1990's |
Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Watermargin - Balance Sheets
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1949-1954 |
Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Watermargin - Balance Sheets
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1954-1958 |
Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Watermargin - Balance Sheets
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1959-1961 |
Box 5 | Folder 17 |
House Operations
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Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Appraisal Report
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1988 |
Box 5 | Folder 19 |
Proposed By-laws and Amendments
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Box 5 | Folder 20 |
Proposed By-laws and Amendments
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Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Constitution and By-laws of Watermargin
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Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Constitution and By-laws of Watermargin
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Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Constitution and By-laws of Watermargin
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Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Watermargin - Minutes, By-laws
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1987 |
Box 5 | Folder 25 |
Membership - forms, letters
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Box 5 | Folder 26 |
Membership - correspondence
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1948-1950's |
Box 5 | Folder 27 |
Membership Lists
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Box 5 | Folder 28 |
Membership Cards
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Box 5 | Folder 29 |
Membership Cards
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Box 5 | Folder 30 |
Membership Cards
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Box 5 | Folder 31 |
Miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda; Handmade poster
|
1940's-1980's |
Box 6 |
Dance Photos
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1950-1952 | |
Box 6 |
Dance Photos
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1954-1955 | |
Box 6 |
Dance Photos
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1958-1966 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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1959-1962 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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1965-1967, 1969 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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1975, 1977-1979 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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1981-1984 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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1986-1988 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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1991-1994 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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1997-1999 | |
Box 6 |
Group Photos
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2001-2012 | |
Box 6 |
Phonograph Record: Bad Company Rough Diamonds
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Box 6 |
Posters
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Box 6 |
News Clippings
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Watermargin Photos [transferred to box 1, folder 8]
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1949-1950 |
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Miscellaneous Papers [transferred to box 1, folder 8]
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2001 |
Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Friends of Watermargin
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2000 |
Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Goals
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n.d. |
Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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11/21/2000 |
Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence and Articles
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1999-2001 |
Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Watermargin
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2003 |
Box 7 | Folder 7 |
News from, Watermargin
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1998-2001 |
Box 7 | Folder 8 | 1999-2002 | |
Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Watermargin Correspondence
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1957-1959 |
Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Watermargin: Photos, Correspondence, Directories, etc.
|
1999-2002 |
Box 7 | Folder 11 |
History: "What is Watermargin?"
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1948-51, 1956, 1962, 1966, 1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Taxes - Exemption
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1950, 1952, 1954, 1952, 1954 |
Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Jack Sheinkman/Labor files
|
2004 |
CD 11 | CD-11 |
Untitled
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Undated |
Box 1 | V-11293 |
Watermargin: Meet the Alumni documentary
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2001 |
Creator: Cheng, Wei-Chuan
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Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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Box 2 | SR-34048-34049 |
Watermargin Quartet Sings!!!
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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."
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