Adelaide Taber Young papers, 1887-1911.
Collection Number: 37-5-820
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Adelaide Taber Young papers, 1887-1911.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
37-5-820
Abstract:
Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies
at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities;
student notebooks; scrapbooks of photographs, programs, clippings, and other memorabilia
from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning her sister, Sara Louise
(Elmira Class of 1904).
Creator:
Young, Adelaide Taber, 1877-1964.
Quanitities:
1.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
After graduation from Cornell University (Class of 1899), Adelaide Young taught biology
and physiology at Elmira College, Elmira, New York. She married Dr. Farnham Horatio
Shaw.
Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies
at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities;
student notebooks; scrapbooks (4 vols., 1894-1904) of photographs, programs, clippings,
and other memorabilia from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning
her sister, Sara Louise (Elmira Class of 1904); a book of American history notes (1898);
53 photographs of trees identified by their Latin names, with a letter (1901) from
Professor Willard W. Rowlee of the Cornell Botany Department concerning them, and
22 pressed and mounted botanical specimens (unidentified); a letter (1901) from George
Lincoln Burr; correspondence (1890-1901) with family and friends; photographs of friends
and relatives from her hometown, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, from Cornell and Ithaca,
and from Elmira College.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Adelaide Taber Young papers, #37-5-820. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.
Rowlee, Willard W.
Young, Sara Louise.
Young family.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Elmira College -- : Students.
Subjects:
Shaw, Adelaide Taber Young.
Women college teachers.
Botany.
Women college students.
Trees.
Students -- Recreation.
Greek letter societies.
Form and Genre Terms:
Botanical specimens.
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Notebooks.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
Elmira College scrapbooks
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1901-1904 | |
| Box 1 |
Cornell scrapbook
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1896-1899 | |
| Box 1 |
Cornell cyanotype album
|
undated | |
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Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
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| Box 1 |
Cornell vs. Penn Thanksgiving football game souvenir booklet
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1896 | |
| Box 1 |
American History notebook
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1898-01-1898-05 | |
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Scope and Contents
Professor unknown.
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| Box 1 |
Diary
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1894 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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1890-1901 |
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Scope and Contents
Correspondance from Elmira College pertaining to her teaching position. One letter
from friend George Lincoln Burr. One letter from W.W. Rowlee of the Cornell University
Department of Botany providing numbers for tree photographs and a list of titles,
as well as confirming the ability to order duplicates. Also, correspondence with friends
and family.
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| Box 2 | Folder 13-14 |
Cornell University and Elmira College memorabilia
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undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 5-11 |
Photographs
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1887-1911 |
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Scope and Contents
Portraits of Cornell and Elmira students as well as named families.
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| Box 2 | Folder 1-4, 15 |
Cyanotypes of trees in the Ithaca area
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1901 |
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Some mounted, others loose. Negative numbers appear on most.
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Scope and Contents
Trees identified. Letter in folder 12 from Cornell University related to these prints.
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Trees.
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Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
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| Box 3 |
Pressed and mounted botanical specimens
|
undated | |
| Box 4 | Folder 1-18 |
Correspondance from Adelaide Taber Young while at Cornell, to her mother
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1895-1900 |
| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Botanical notebooks with sketches and cyanotypes
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undated |