Daniel Willard Fiske papers,1847-1927, 1847-1904 (bulk)

Collection Number: 13-1-1165

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Daniel Willard Fiske papers, 1847-1927, 1847-1903 (bulk)
Collection Number:
13-1-1165
Creator:
Willard Fiske, 1831-1904.
Quantity:
23.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, scrapbooks, account books, pamphlets, photographs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, scrapbooks, and account books pertaining chiefly to Fiske's activities as a book collector, although there are extensive family correspondence and other letters pertaining to his education, his career as a journalist, his activities as a professor and librarian at Cornell University, his interest in chess, and his cultural studies of Iceland and Egypt; included is correspondence of George Lincoln Burr, Wendell Phillips Garrison, George W. Harris, Samuel May, Charles Warner, and others.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

CHRONOLOGY

Nov. 11, 1831 Daniel Willard Fiske born at Ellisburg, New York
1845-1847 Student at Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, New York
1847-1848 Student at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
1850-1852 Scandinavia. Studied at the University of Upsala. In Copenhagen (1850, 1851), Fiske was connected with the United States Legation. Correspondent for American newspapers
1852-1861 Returned to America where he continued as newspaper correspondent. From 1852-1859, he held a position in the Astor Library (NYC). From 1857-1860, he edited the American Chess Monthly
1861-1863 Attache to the United States legation in Vienna
1863-1865 Editorial Staff of the Syracuse Daily Journal
1865-1867 Book dealer
1867-1868 Staff of the Hartford Courant
1868-1883 While traveling abroad he was offered the position of Professor of North-European Languages and Librarian of Cornell University. On July 13, 1880 he was married to Jennie McGraw who died in Ithaca on Sept. 30, 1881. During 1882-1883 Fiske made trips to Egypt and Europe and it was in the latter year that the Petrarch Collection was begun. There were more European travels until 1883 when Fiske severed all connections with Cornell University
1883-1892 Lived in Florence in a rented villa (Villa Forini) until 1888. During these years in Italy he made several trips to the United States, Egypt, Scandinavia, and other European countries.
1892-1904 In 1892 Fiske purchased and proceeded to remodel the Villa Landor near Florence where he entertained many guests and pursued his book collecting and many other interests. The Dante Collection was begun in 1893. In 1891 the Rhaeto-Romantic Collection was started.
Sept. 17, 1904 Daniel Willard Fiske died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. Buried next to Jennie McGraw Fiske in the Crypt of Sage Chapel at Cornell University.
Trips to United States were made in 1889, 1890, 1891-1892, 1893, 1895-1896, 1897; to Egypt in 1888-1889, 1898; to Scandinavia periodically (according to HSW in Chronological Outline, Willard Fiske, Life and Correspondence)

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, scrapbooks, and account books pertaining chiefly to Fiske's activities as a book collector, although there are extensive family correspondence and other letters pertaining to his education, his career as a journalist, his activities as a professor and librarian at Cornell University, his interest in chess, and his cultural studies of Iceland and Egypt; included is correspondence of George Lincoln Burr, Wendell Phillips Garrison, George W. Harris, Samuel May, Charles Warner, and others.
Additional correspondence includes instructions to Willard Austin for filing this collection in preparation for Horatio Stevens White's biography of Fiske; letters to him from acquaintances and close friends in the United States; from Italy where he spent the remainder of his years following his resignation from Cornell in 1883; from Egypt and Iceland; and from many other countries. Letters range in subject from social plans to those relating to his library and book collecting. Also, mss., fragments, notes, biographical correspondence, and post-1904 correspondence relating to the Dante and Petrarch Collections at Cornell; Egyptian manuscripts, printed material relating to the Egyptian alphabet, and photographs of Egypt; family photographs; Fiske genealogy; printed material and miscellany. Miscellaneous items include Fiske's notebooks pertaining to the Arabic language and statements of account for the the Fiske Library Fund and the Fiske Estate Library Fund; a whip, presumed to have been used by Fiske in Iceland in 1874, and an archaic lettered stone.
Also, audiocassettes of lectures on Willard Fiske given by Stephen Weissman, P.M. Mitchell, Elmer H. Antonsen, Louis Pitschmann, and Gould Colman as part of a commemoration of Fiske at Cornell University Library in 1989. These audiocassettes are cataloged individually.
Also included is a bound manuscript index of photographs (photos not included by referred to by number), annotated in French. When first received by the Cornell Library (ca. 1906?), the photographs indexed were originally assigned Harris call numbers 7851 T13-16: T13 covered Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia; T14, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany; T15, France; and T16, Italy. Also, a suitcase owned by Willard Fiske as well as a chair from his library in Florence, Italy.

INDEX TO CORRESPONDENCE

Selected correspondents, early 1870's
June 11, 1877 Adams, Charles Kendall (misfiled in 1872 folder)
1873; July 17, 1874 and others? Bacon, Richard
Dec. 3, 1873 Behringer, George Frederick
July 25, 1872; July 28, 1873 Blair, Charles H., Zanesville
1873-1892 Boyesen, H.H., folder 11 - not interfiled
1873? C[rane], T.F.
Mar. 7, 1874 Curtis, George William
Apr. 3, 1874; Apr. 17, 1874; Dec. 12, 1874 and earlier D'autremont, Jr., C.
Dec. 5, 1874 and earlier Fitch, Charles E., Roch. Dem. and Chr.
Mar. 15, 1872; Feb. 3, 1872 Folwell, William Watts
Sept. 5, 1871 Hart, James Morgan
Jan. 5, 1873 Hartford Hotel, letterhead
Feb. 8, 1873 Hartt, Ch. F., Peabody Inst.
Aug. 27, 1872; Sept. 3, 1873; Nov. 25, 1874 Hewett, Waterman Thomas [?]
1871 - exact dates? Law, James
Dec. 19, 1872 McKoon, Bela P.
1873 Rooker, Thomas N.
Oct. 24, 1871 Russel, Wm. Channing
Dec. 1, 1873; Dec. 4, 1873; Dec. 12, 1873; Dec. 15, 1873; Jan. 1, 1874; May 11, 1874 Sanford, L[yman] G., Syracuse
Jan. 15, 1871; Jan. 15, 1873; June 2, 1873 Smith, Goldwin
May 27, 1872 Sparks, Mary C. [Mrs. Jared]
Sept. 28, 1872 White, A.D.
Selected correspondents, mid-1880's
1884 Blair, Charles H.
see separate list (green temp. cat. cd. made) Botta, Vincenzo
1886 Burr, George Lincoln
numerous, 1880's Evans, Edward Payson and Elizabeth E.
1884, 1885 Francis, John Morgan
Oct. 7, 1883 Fuertes, Estevan Antonio
numerous, 1880's Garrison, Wendell Phillips
1886 Johnson, Eastman - 1 letter
Sage, Dean
1880's Sage, Sarah Manning, Menands, Albany
1884 Schuyler, Eugene - 12 letters
1885 Schuyler, Eugene - 4 letters
1886 Schuyler, Eugene - 13 letters
1884 Stanton, Theodore - 12 letters
1886 Stanton, Theodore - 1 letter
1880's Villari, Pasquale
Dec. 20, 1887 Wilbour, Charles E., post card from Egypt and other correspondence
SUBJECTS

Names:
Fiske, Willard, 1831-1904.
Austin, Willard, 1860-1934.
Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907.
Harris, George William, 1849-1917.
May, Samuel, 1810-1899.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
White, Horatio Stevens, 1852-1934.
Cornell University--Libraries.
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University. Libraries. Dept. of Rare Books.
Cornell University. Libraries. Icelandic Collection.

Subjects:
Book collecting.
Chess.
Arabic language.
Book collectors.
Journalists.
Librarians.

Places:
Iceland--Description and travel.
Egypt--Description and travel.
Egypt--Description and travel--Views.
Egypt--Languages.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Audiocassettes.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Daniel Willard Fiske papers, #13-1-1165. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Includes collections #13-1-348, #13-1-1165, #13-1-1600, #13-1-28, #13-1-m896.

RELATED MATERIALS

Cf. Fiske Icelandic Collection (manuscript material, correspondence, and graphic material) Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press. (Islandica 48.)
Scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine articles on virtually every subject relating to the poet Dante Alighieri and his works, 1827-1915, and correspondence dealing with Fiske's own publications and with catalogues of the Dante Collection at Cornell are housed in the Rare Book Department at Cornell.
See also the Psi Upsilon Fraternity Chi Chapter Records, #37-4-2060, for several additional letterbooks filled with Fiske correspondence mostly related to the fraternity.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence
Series II. Manuscripts and Notes
Series III. Petrarch Collection Material
Series IV. Dante Collection Material
Series V. Arabic Language
Series VI. Miscellaneous and Printed Material
Series VII. Photographs
Series VIII. Card files
Series IX. Audio Material

CONTAINER LIST

Container
Description
Date
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 1
Directions for Filing Fiske Material; H.S. White to Willard Austin
1922,1927
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 2
Letters to Parents and Brothers, and to Joe
1850-1868
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 3
Fiske to Ettore Sordi
1882-1904
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 4
Fiske to Ettore Sordi
n.d.
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 5
Letters from Fiske, miscellaneous
n.d.
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 6-7
May Collection - correspondence and notes
1870-1874
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 8
May Collection - correspondence and notes
1875-1880,n.d.
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 9
Letters from Fiske to J.M. Hart, etc.
1871-1895
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 10-12
Correspondence
1871-1873
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 12
Letters to FJ Garrison
December, 1874
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 13
Boyesen, H.H.
1873-1892
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 14-17
Correspondence
1874-1877
Box 13-1-1165: 1 Folder 18-19
Correspondence A-Z
1878
Box 13-1-1165: 2 Folder 1-4
Correspondence A-Z
1879
Box 13-1-1165: 2 Folder 5-8
Correspondence A-W, unknown
1880
Box 13-1-1165: 2 Folder 9-15
Correspondence A-Z
1881
Box 13-1-1165: 3 Folder 1-7
Correspondence A-Y
1882
Box 13-1-1165: 3 Folder 8-12
Correspondence A-W
1883
Box 13-1-1165: 4 Folder 1-5
Correspondence A-W, unknown
1884
Box 13-1-1165: 4 Folder 6-9
Correspondence A-W, unknown
1885
Box 13-1-1165: 4 Folder 10-12
Correspondence A-Z
1886
Box 13-1-1165: 5 Folder 1-3
Correspondence A-W, unknown
1887
Box 13-1-1165: 5 Folder 4-6
Correspondence A-W
1888
Box 13-1-1165: 5 Folder 7-10
Correspondence A-W
1889
Box 13-1-1165: 6 Folder 1-5
Correspondence A-W
1890
Box 13-1-1165: 6 Folder 6-10
Correspondence A-Z
1891
Box 13-1-1165: 7 Folder 1-5
Correspondence A-W, unknown
1892
Box 13-1-1165: 7 Folder 6-11
Correspondence A-Z
1893
Box 13-1-1165: 8 Folder 1
Miscellaneous Fiske
1893-1901, n.d.
Box 13-1-1165: 8 Folder 2-8
Correspondence A-Z
1894
Box 13-1-1165: 9 Folder 1-6
Correspondence A-W
1895
Box 13-1-1165: 9 Folder 7-11
Correspondence A-Z
1896
Box 13-1-1165: 10 Folder 1-5
Correspondence A-Z
1897
Box 13-1-1165: 10 Folder 6-10
Correspondence A-Z
1898
Box 13-1-1165: 11 Folder 1-4
Correspondence A-W
1899
Box 13-1-1165: 11 Folder 5-9
Correspondence A-W, unknown
1900
Box 13-1-1165: 11 Folder 10-13
Correspondence A-Z
1901
Box 13-1-1165: 12 Folder 1-4
Correspondence A-W
1902
Box 13-1-1165: 12 Folder 5-8
Correspondence A-S
1903
Box 13-1-1165: 12 Folder 9
Stockwell
1903
Box 13-1-1165: 12 Folder 10
Correspondence T-W
1903
Box 13-1-1165: 13 Folder 1-4
Correspondence A-Z
1904
Box 13-1-1165: 13 Folder 5-13
Correspondence A-M
n.d.
Box 13-1-1165: 14 Folder 1-8
Correspondence N-Z
n.d.
Box 13-1-1165: 14 Folder 9
Correspondence, unknown
Box 13-1-1165: 14 Folder 10
Correspondence, "Half-sheet updated"
Box 13-1-1165: 14 Folder 11
News-clippings, Psi Upsilon announcements, invitations, etc.
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 5
Bibliographical correspondence, English
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 6
Bibliographical correspondence, Danish, Russian, German, etc.
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 7
Bibliographical correspondence, Italian
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 8
Bibliographical correspondence. Notes: French Provencal, etc.
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 9
Bibliographical correspondence - De Remediis
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 20
Correspondence regarding the Fiske Collections
1908-1918
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 1
Correspondence
1847-1848
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 2
Correspondence
1849
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 3
Correspondence
1850-1852
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 4
Correspondence
1853-1855
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 5
Correspondence
1856-1865
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 6
Correspondence
1866-1870
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 7
Correspondence
1871
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 8
Correspondence
1872-1873
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 9
Correspondence
1874-1877
Box 13-1-1165: 25 Folder 12
Postcards between Fiske and Psi Upsilon
1876-1878
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 10-11
Correspondence
1878
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 12-14
Correspondence
1879
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 15-25
Correspondence
1880
Box 13-1-348: 1 Folder 26-34
Correspondence
1881
Box 13-1-348: 2 Folder 1-9
Correspondence
1881
Box 13-1-348: 2 Folder 10-25
Correspondence
1882
Box 13-1-348: 2 Folder 26-36
Correspondence
1883
Box 13-1-348: 3 Folder 1-20
Correspondence
1884
Box 13-1-348: 3 Folder 21-38
Correspondence
1885
Box 13-1-348: 4 Folder 1-15
Correspondence
1886
Box 13-1-348: 4 Folder 16-28
Correspondence
1887
Box 13-1-348: 4 Folder 29-40
Correspondence
1888
Box 13-1-348: 4 Folder 41-47
Correspondence
1889
Box 13-1-348: 5 Folder 1-14
Correspondence
1890
Box 13-1-348: 5 Folder 15-23
Correspondence
1891
Box 13-1-348: 6 Folder 1-4
Correspondence
1891
Box 13-1-348: 6 Folder 5-16
Correspondence
1892
Box 13-1-348: 7
Correspondence
1893
Box 13-1-348: 8
Correspondence
1894
Box 13-1-348: 9 Folder 1-21
Correspondence
1895
Box 13-1-348: 9 Folder 22-29
Correspondence
1896
Box 13-1-348: 10 Folder 1-17
Correspondence
1896
Box 13-1-348: 10 Folder 18-28
Correspondence
1897
Box 13-1-348: 11 Folder 1-6
Correspondence
1897
Box 13-1-348: 11 Folder 7-26
Correspondence
1898
Box 13-1-348: 12 Folder 1-22
Correspondence
1899
Box 13-1-348: 12 Folder 23-30
Correspondence
1900
Box 13-1-348: 13 Folder 1-12
Correspondence
1900
Box 13-1-348: 13 Folder 13-24
Correspondence
1901
Box 13-1-348: 14 Folder 1-13
Correspondence
1901
Box 13-1-348: 14 Folder 14-24
Correspondence
1902
Box 13-1-348: 15 Folder 1-9
Correspondence
1902
Box 13-1-348: 15 Folder 10-20
Correspondence
1903
Box 13-1-348: 16 Folder 1-6
Correspondence
1903
Box 13-1-348: 16 Folder 7-20
Correspondence
1904
Box 13-1-348: 17 Folder 1-2
Fiske letters to his mother
n.d.
Includes letter about buying villa in Italy.
Box 13-1-348: 17 Folder 3
Correspondence: Westberg, C.F.
n.d.
Box 13-1-348: 17 Folder 5-12
Correspondence
n.d.
Box 13-1-348: 17 Folder 13
Letters from Mrs. CW Fiske to Willard Fiske
n.d.
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 42
Correspondence with George W. Burr
January 25, 1886
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 43
Correspondence from EP Evans
February 13, 1886
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 44
Letters regarding the Order of the Italian Crown
1893
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 45
Correspondence from M. Nijhoff
June 5, 1899
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 46
Correspondence to HH Tyndale
August 18, 1899
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 47
Harris letters
August 14, 1890
Box 13-1-348: 25 Folder 1-5
Correspondence regarding deaths and birthdays
1890-1910
Box 13-1-m.896
Copied letter from Villa Landor
1893-1901
Box 37-4-2060: 1
Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1875
1875
"The correspondence in the this volume has chiefly to do with the early months of the Chi - then called the Pi - and with the efforts made to secure the legality of its existence. It supplements another volume relating to the same period of the Chi's history."
Box 37-4-2060: 1
Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1876 Volume 1
January - June 1876
"The correspondence relates principally to the efforts to establish the Chi, to the Convention of 1876, and closes with the formal institution of the Chi in June 1876."
Box 37-4-2060: 1
Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1876 Volume 2
July - December 1876
"The correspondence in this volume is quite miscellaneous. Some of it relates to the catalogue of 1878 and the song book of 1877."
Box 37-4-2060: 1
Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1877 Volume 1
January - April 1877
"The correspondence in this volume is largely concerned with the catalogue of 1878 and the preparations for the Convention of 1877 at the Xi."
Box 37-4-2060: 1
Psi Upsilon Letterbook 1877 Volume 2
May - August 1877
"The letters in this volume relate chiefly to the Convention of 1877 at the Xi, the midsummer reunion at Auburn, N.Y. in July, and the catalogue of 1878."
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 1-2
Manuscript fragments and notes on Arabic transliterations
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 3
Notes on Chaucer in Italy, etc.
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 4
Miscellaneous Notes
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 10
Part I "Chess"- correspondence, notes, articles, etc.
Box 13-1-1165: 15 Folder 11
Part II "Chess" correspondence , notes, articles, etc.
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Notebook - "Fall Trimester 1871-1872"
1871-1872
Box 13-1-348: 18, 26
Notebooks and Journals
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Notebook - Icelandic
13-1-1165 Bd. Ms. 1
Manuscript index of photographs (photos not included by referred to by number), annotated in French. When first received by the Cornell Library (ca. 1906?), the photographs indexed were originally assigned Harris call numbers 7851 T13-16: T13 covered Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia; T14, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany; T15, France; and T16, Italy.
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 38
Fiske lectures given in Upsala, Sweden
1851-1852
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 52
Fiske's notebook, bibliographic notes in German
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 1
Correspondence regarding the Dante and Petrarch Collections
1900-1920
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 2
Correspondence and miscellaneous material regarding Dante, Petrarch, etc.
1883-1904
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 3-7
Letters and bills
1878, 1881-11903
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 8
Letters and bills
n.d.
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 9
Sunderland Sale receipts
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 10
Letter from White, H.S. (to Mary Fowler, Cornell University) regarding Petrarch and Dante Collections
1911-1918
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 11
I Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection - acknowledgements of gifts
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 12
II Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection - acknowledgements of gifts
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 13
Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection, MSS
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 14
Correspondence with Clarendon Press regarding the Petrarch catalogue
1914-1917
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 15
Miscellaneous autographs and contents of Petrarch Rarities
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 48
GW Burr's notes on Petrarch
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 53
Bibliographic notebook with references on Petrarch
Box 13-1-348: 24 Folder 18
Petrarch and Icelandic autographs
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 16
Dante catalogue correspondence
1894-1904
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 17
History of Dante notes, MSS
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 18
Cards and bills
Box 13-1-1165: 16 Folder 19
Correspondence of Richard C. Jackson regarding Dante
Box 13-1-348: 27
Notebook on Dante
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 40
Dante bibliography
ca. 1894
I. Newspaper and magazine articles and illustrations, broadsides, some corres.
1846,1865-1899
II. Same as I., also Poems
1827,1831,1839,1850,1861-1903
III. Articles concerning the collection of Willard Fiske presented to Cornell University, and about Fiske; corres. concerning Dante Catalogue
1893-1904
IV. Corres. to Kroch, Harris and others from Fiske
1893-1897,1899
V. Book Reviews; Book announcements; Societies, Conferences, Lectures, etc.; Dramas and Dramatic Presentations
1880-1915
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Bundle of Arabic notes
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Bundle of printed materials
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Address book English and Arabic
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Notebooks
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Record book- Exchanges to Libraries
Box 13-1-1165: 17
"Note on the Italian Words in the Modern Spoken Arabic of Egypt" by Socrates Spiro Bey
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Notes regarding offer of Egyptian Arabic publications
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Letters in envelope - "Letters with D..." from Egypt, including Spiro. Some in Arabiv
Box 13-1-1165: 17
2 copies - "Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung"
April 26, 1898
Box 13-1-1165: 17
Article by E.P. Evans on the Arabic Egyptian Alphabet
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 58
Arabic publications
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Pamphlet - Desiderata (2 copies)
1885
Box 13-1-1165: 19
v.b. - De Sanctis Francesco, Esposizione critica della Divina Commedia
1921
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Address book
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Fiske's "Remarks Introductory to Dante Catalogue, published by Cornell University"
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Fiske's "On the Death of Lincoln" unbound
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Envelope containing copies of photographs of Fiske and frontispiece of "Chess in Iceland"
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Cover of small booklet with page inscribed "Amelia Southworth, Jan. 12, 1841, Earlville"
1841
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Workbook, "Abstracts of History, Pelham Priory, Feb. 13, 1857, Jeannie McGraw" (note spelling)
1857
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Memorial to JMF of poems by Fiske. 1 of 15 copies printed with correspondence enclosed.
Box 13-1-1165: 19
Pamphlet - "J. McG." - 68 copies of memorial poem
Box 13-1-1165: 19
"The Cornell Magazine" with article on Jennie McGraw Fiske
1899
Box 13-1-1165: 19
"The Florence Gazette", in English
1890
Box 13-1-1165: 21 MU-845
Silver Wreath on Black Pillow
A memorial to Fiske from the Reading Society of the Latin School in Reykjavik (Iceland) called "Ithaka" 1904 (with letter and inscription translation); A small box of Runic coins (22), ca. 1047-1076, and explanatory folder
Box 13-1-1165 MU-2129
Chair from Willard Fiske's library in Florence, Italy
Box 13-1-1165 MU-2130
Willard Fiske's suitcase
Box 13-1-348: 17 Folder 4
Certain Regulations proposed for Cornell University pamphlets
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 36-37
Fiske calling cards and admission cards
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 39
DW Fiske draft statement, Lund, Sweden
September 4, 1852
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 41
Printed poem eulogizing John McGraw
1877
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 49
Fiske's request for information form, printed
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 50
Notebook on table games in Arabic and other languages
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 51
Fiske's address book, mostly Scandinavian
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 54
Bibliographic notes and addresses, German
1880
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 55
Envelopes used for correspondence
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 56
Coat of arms
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 57
Fiske's will and obituary
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 59
Library Journal obituary
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 60
English obituaries
Box 13-1-348: 19 Folder 61
Italian obituaries
Box 13-1-348: 20
Scrapbook
Box 13-1-348: 20
CW Fiske's notebook
1895
Box 13-1-348: 20
Bibliography notebook
Box 13-1-348: 21-23
McGraw and Fiske Estates books
Box 13-1-1165: 25 Folder 13
Fiske/McGraw marriage certificate
July 13, 1880
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Newspaper articles on Fiske
Date unknown
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Archaic lettered stone
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Fiske Library Fund papers
1911-1917
These are commercial photographs, some from Abdullah Freres, JP Sebah, A. Beato, and Bonfils among others.
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Willard Fiske's "Passport to visit the Egyptian Antiquities,"
1889-06-30
Photochroms, 8x10 in
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Pyramids and Menahouse Hotel
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The Pyramid at Sakkara
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Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo
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Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo
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The Pavilion at Medinet-Abou, Thebes
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The Port, Port Said
Albumen prints, 8x10 in
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Human Interest: Arab shops in old Cairo, woman and children on donkey, women with stone jars, camels, camels with drivers, donkeys with driver, buffalo, ostriches, date palms, old fort and palms, street procession and crowd scene.
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Pyramids and the Sphinx: Sphinx, ascending the pyramid, general view of the pyramids
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Al-Azhar (Arab University): entrance, doorway, courtyard, minarets, cloisters with students, students in courtyard
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Temple at Luxor: Columns, statue of woman, exterior view with date palm
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Buildings in or near Cairo: Arab village, L'Esbekieh (Square with horse-drawn cabs), general view of a dam, Verandah at Shepherd's Hotel Sanctuary of a Mosque, Interior dome of a Mosque, Building partly in ruins, Riverside with fort and date palms, Place de l'Opera, Cairo, Street in Cairo, Palace Hotel, Cairo, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Minarets, Gizah Bridge, Mosque and tomb of Kait-Bey, Tomb of the Califes and Cairo Citadel, Arab cemetery Unidentified building, New Hotel, Cairo, miscellaneous buildings
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Colossus: Rameses, two colossus of Memnon
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Friezes, statues, mummies, etc.: Giza mummies, monoliths and ships, seated figures, wooden statue, inscriptions, statues, statue of Chefron, tomb inscriptions
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Temples, tombs, etc.: Temple of Isis Philae, columns, Denderah temple, Temple of Rameses, Colon at Abydos, heads of columns, Obelisk, doorway and columns at Thebes, inscribed columns, Medinet-abou hypostyle of temple, ruins of temple
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Ruins of Karnak: general view, obelisks, interior doorway, wall with inscriptions, triumphal archway of Rameses IV, columns
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River scenes with boats: banks of the Nile, Nile with temple in the background, Nile with cruisers and sailboats river bank with Arabs working a type of derrick, dam across river,
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Gardens and roads: Djezireh road, Schoubra road, garden of Ezbekieh, grotto, Antoniadwa III garden in Alexandria, Tree of St. Vierge, zoological garden.
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Miscellaneous: Palace of Gihezireh, window of mosque El Refai, courtyard of Arab house, view of Arab town
Albumen prints, 4x6 in
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Miscellaneous: road to Giza, lake, Arab town with minarets, doorway with colossus, bust of Cleopatra at Denderah, tomb of a caliph, Arab woman
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Photographs "Fiske's Studio, 3A, Via Lungo et Mugnone, Florence..."
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Cabinet card photographs of Villa Landor
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Portrait of Willard Fiske
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Card photographs - Friends, relatives, Villa Landor, travel views
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Portraits of Jennie McGraw Fiske
ca. 1880
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Bust of John McGraw cabinet cards
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Portraits of Daniel Willard Fiske
1879-1904
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Portrait of Daniel Willard Fiske
Formerly on display in the A.D. White library
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Portraits of Daniel Willard Fiske
1880-1904
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Cabinet card photographs of Daniel Willard Fiske, some with Michele Monzecchi
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Portraits of Fiske in Egypt
ca. 1888-1889
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Fiske on board steamer, early Kodak prints
ca. 1890
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Fiske and the Stellas on board ship
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Unmounted collodion prints of the Villa Landor and Fiske
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Portraits of DH and CW Fiske, daguerreotypes
ca. 1850
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Three portraits by Schemboche of Florence
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Cabinet card portraits of CW Fiske
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Assorted family photos
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Hand painted frames with portraits of Fiske
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Metal frame with portrait of CW Fiske
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Michele Monzecchi portraits, with 'lessons'
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Photographs from CF Westbury, with letter
1902
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Dr. and Mrs. Aksel Anderson, Upsala in his study
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Bjarni Jonsson
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Dr. Konrad Von Maurer
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Cabinet cards of the Villa Landor
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Fiske's Studio
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DW Fiske chess games
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Cabinet card portraits from Egypt
1897
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Printed reproduction of artwork, Players at the first American chess congress
ca. 1857
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Campus scenes at Cornell University
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Torre de Gallo portraits, Florence by Fratelli Alinari
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Cabinet card photographs of Lund, Sweden by Lina Jonn
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Cabinet card photographs of Upsala, Chateau de Chillon
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Printed scenes of Upsala, Sweden
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Photographic postcard of the Vatican library in Rome
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Unidentified sports team
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Photograph of Fiske memorial pillow
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Photograph reproductions of correspondence
1832, 1877
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The villa Landor
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Portraits of Jennie McGraw Fiske
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Scenes from Sweden, Norway
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Unidentified interiors
Undated
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Unidentidied portraits
Undated
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Kaiser Wilhelm II saloon and ladies room
Undated
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Hand colored photographs of Italy
Undated
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Fontaine de Vaucluse
Undated
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Unidentified landscapes
Undated
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Montpelier, Avignon, and unidentified
Undated
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Vestmanlands Dala Nation in Upsala
1900
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McGraw-Fiske mansion, exterior photographs
Undated
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Tintype of men at Taughannock Falls
1875
George Hartt, Emmons Lee Williams, Josiah Williams, Daniel Willard Fiske
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Mrs. Fiske
Undated
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Jennie McGraw Fiske and Daniel Willard Fiske on boat in Egypt during their honeymoon
1880
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Iceland
Undated
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Jennie McGraw Fiske medallion
Undated
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Jennie McGraw Fiske tomb in Sage Chapel
Undated
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Building interiors and exteriors
Undated
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Five carte-de-visite photograph albums originally belonging to Jennie McGraw Fiske
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Fiske's library at Villa Forini
Undated
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Trento
Undated
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Landscapes and people
Undated
Includes photographs by Somner.
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Portraits, mostly unidentified
Undated
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Stockholm and Trollhatten
Undated
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Portraits, mostly unidentified
Undated
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Roman sites and art travel photographs
Undated
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Le Rigi Kulm, by Charnaux Freres
Undated
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Montpelier
Undated
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Snapshots of Fiske
Undated
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Firenze, Napoli
Undated
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Jennie McGraw Fiske, in ornate frame
Undated
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Visiting cards (of Fiske's callers)
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"Willard Fiske and Chess", Stephen Weissman
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"Willard Fiske Runic Collection", Elmer H. Antonsen
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"Willard Fiske and Chess", Stephen Weissman
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"Willard Fiske Icelandic Collection", Phillip Marshal Mitchell
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"Willard Fiske and Cornell University", Gould Patchin Colman
Box 13-1-1165: 24 TR-8046a
"Willard Fiske Rhaeto-Romanic Collection", Louis Pitschmann