Glenn H. Beyer papers, 1934-1969.
Collection Number: 53-4-1548
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Glenn H. Beyer papers, 1934-1969.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
53-4-1548
Abstract:
Manuscripts and galley proofs; correspondence; questionnaires; photographs, negatives,
and slides; research material, notes, and rough drafts pertaining to rural housing;
printed materials; and 2 victrola records and 3 film strips relating to the 1950 census.
Creator:
Beyer, Glenn H.
Quanitities:
10.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Glenn Beyer was born in Chester, South Dakota in 1913. He earned degrees from Augustana
(South Dakota) College in 1935 and George Washington University in 1939. He held positions
in several federal housing agencies until he became Professor of Housing and Design
at Cornell University in 1947. He became Director of the Cornell Center for Housing
and Environmental Studies (formerly the Housing Research Center) upon its establishment
in 1950. Beyer wrote several books, monographs, and articles on rural and farm housing
and housing for the elderly. Many works were concerned with Upstate New York housing
practices.
Manuscripts and galley proofs; correspondence; questionnaires; photographs, negatives,
and slides; research material, notes, and rough drafts pertaining to rural housing;
printed materials; and 2 victrola records and 3 film strips relating to the 1950 census.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Glenn H. Beyer papers, #53-4-1548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Digitized copy of "The Cornell Kitchen" can be found online here: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/40835
See also collections #23-2-2817 and #47-10-3394 for additional biographical information.
Names:
Beyer, Glenn H.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University. Cornell Center for Housing and Environmental Studies
Cornell University. Housing Research Center
Subjects:
College teachers.
Older people -- Dwellings.
Housing, Rural.
Housing -- United States -- Research.
Housing -- New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Color slides.
Questionnaires.
Photographs.
Negatives.
Motion pictures (visual works).
Galley proofs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Chronological Correspondence Files, 1955-1969
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
July-August
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
September
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
October
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
November
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
December
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
January
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
February-March
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
April-May
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
June
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
July-August
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
September-October
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
November
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
December
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
January-February
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
March
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
April-May
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
June
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
July-August
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
September-October
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
November-December
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
January-February
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
March-April
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
May-June
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
July-August
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
September-October
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
November-December
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
January-February
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1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
March-April
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1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
May-June
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1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
July-August
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1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
September-October
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1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
November-December
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1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
January
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1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
February-March
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1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
April-June
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1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
July-September
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1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
October-December
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1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
January-February
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1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
March-May
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1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
June-July
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1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
August-December
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1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
January-May
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1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
June-July
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1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
September
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1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
October
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1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
November-December
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1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
January-March
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1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
April-May
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1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
June-July
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1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
August-October
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1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
November-December
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1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
January-February
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1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
March-April
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1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
May-July
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1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
August-September
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1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
October-December
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1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
January-February
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
March-April
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
May
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
June-July
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
August
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
September
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
October
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
November-December
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
January
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1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
February-April
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1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
May-July
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1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
August-September
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1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
October-December
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1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
January-March
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1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
April-August
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1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
September-December
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1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 20 |
January-May
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1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
June-August
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1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
September-December
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1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
January-May
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1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 24 |
June-December
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1969 |
Series II. Subject Files
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Box 23 | Folder 12-14 |
Biographical files related to work
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1939-1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 25-27 |
Agency for International Development (AID)
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1964-1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Agency for International Development (AID) - official papers and authorizations (including
WCI)
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1964-1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Agency for International Development (AID) - 7539 contract and amendments; detailed
work plan; standardized regulations
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1963-1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 30 |
American University Course
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1945-1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 31-32 |
"Analysis of Housing Need in Oak Ridge" (see also box 14)
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1950 |
Box 4 | Folder 1-6 |
"An Economic Appraisal of the Miami Metropolitan Area with Emphasis on Miami Beach"
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1954 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Application for research grant - architecture
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1964 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Articles - published and unpublished
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1962-1968 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Article: Neighborhoods - personal, not published
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1967 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Bathroom
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1958-1959 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Beyer - articles, talks, comments, papers
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1948-1966 |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Carreiro, Joseph - Search Committee for Chairmanship, Department of Housing and Design
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1964-1965 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Carter, Lisle C. - Center for Housing and Environmental Studies
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1968-1969 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Climate Study
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1952-1953 |
Box 4 | Folder 15-16 |
College of Architecture
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1959-1961 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
College of Architecture - faculty meetings
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1960-1966 |
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Columbia University demonstration
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1968 |
Box 4 | Folder 19 |
"The Community Land Use Game"
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1966 |
Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Conference on Building Documentation
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1953-1958 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Conference on Methodology in Housing Research North-East Regional Housing Research
Project NE-7
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1953 |
Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Contracts, agreements
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1948-1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence
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1960-1961 |
Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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1966 |
Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Documentation
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1954-1958 |
Box 4 | Folder 26-27 |
Documentation
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1958-1959 |
Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Documentation Study - Ford Proposal
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1958 |
Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Extended Monroe County survey
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1950-1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 30 |
FHA - Industrialized Housing Branch
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1947 |
Box 4 | Folder 31 |
Federal-State aging
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1959 |
Box 4 | Folder 32 |
Ford Foundation - India trip
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1964 |
Box 4 | Folder 33 |
Galley
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Box 4 | Folder 34 |
Hotel Project no. 453
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1964 |
Box 4 | Folder 35-37 |
Houses are for People
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1955 |
Box 4 | Folder 38-39 |
Houses are for People
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1956 |
Box 4 | Folder 40 |
Housing: A Factual Analysis - Reader's Reports
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1956-1957 |
Box 4 | Folder 41 |
Housing Center Report
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1961 |
Box 4 | Folder 42 |
Housing for Aged - Ford Foundation
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Box 5 | Folder 1-2 |
Housing Materials Study
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Box 5 | Folder 3-5 |
Concerning housing research
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1959-1967 |
Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Housing Research Center brochure, Cornell University
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1961 |
Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Housing Research Center Values Study -draft of report
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1951 |
Box 5 | Folder 8-10 |
Housing Value Studies
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1950-1952 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 |
"Important Documents"
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1950-1967 |
Box 5 | Folder 12 |
India
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Box 5 | Folder 13-14 |
India - Housing Mission (Ford Foundation)
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1964-1965 |
Box 5 | Folder 15 |
"India's Urban Housing - a Report to the Ford Foundation"
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1965 |
Box 5 | Folder 17-20 |
Low Income Housing Area Survey - WPA
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1939 |
Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Lustron House - Excerpts from Final Report
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1949 |
Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Lutheran Association of Ithaca
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1965 |
Box 5 | Folder 23 |
McGraw Housing
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1964 |
Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Mailing lists, miscellaneous, etc.
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Box 5 | Folder 25 |
Market study on residential air conditioning
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1964 |
Box 5 | Folder 26 |
Material on Hired Man
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1951 |
Box 5 | Folder 27 |
Memos to Long from Glenn and Barclay
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1969 |
Box 5 | Folder 28 |
Middle-income housing and rehabilitation
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1960 |
Box 5 | Folder 29 |
Minutes - code
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Box 5 | Folder 30-34 |
Newsclippings, pamphlets, articles, etc. from scrapbook
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Box 5 | Folder 35 |
Newsclippings
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1969 |
Box 5 | Folder 36 |
New York State Commerce Review
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1954 |
Box 5 | Folder 37 |
The Next Fifty Years - 1967-2017, includes C. Abrams Paper "Housing in the Year 2000"
with Remarks by G.H. Beyer (to Ewald)
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1967 |
Box 5 | Folder 38 |
North Eastern Commuting Study
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1951 |
Box 5 | Folder 39 |
Outline for research proposals
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Box 5 | Folder 40 |
Papers, testimonies
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1959-1964 |
Box 5 | Folder 41 |
Permissions
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1956-1958 |
Box 5 | Folder 42 |
Permission file
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1956-1959 |
Box 5 | Folder 43-44 |
Personal - Beyer sabbatic
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1961 |
Box 5 | Folder 45 |
Personal
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1962-1968 |
Box 5 | Folder 46 |
"Plastics in Building Trade"
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Box 5 | Folder 47 |
Publications from the Cornell Studies in Intergroup Relations
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1963 |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Public Housing, miscellany
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1951-1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 2-3 |
Public Housing Research Proposal (Social Effects of Public Housing)
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1953-1955 |
Box 6 | Folder 4-7 |
Puerto Rico
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1967-1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 8-10 |
Prefab Study
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1952 |
Box 6 | Folder 11 |
President's Committee to Study the College of Home Economics
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1966 |
Box 6 | Folder 12 |
President's Committee to Study Low-Cost Ithaca Housing (Mackesey - chairman; O. Winston
- vice-chairman)
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1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 13 |
"Proposal to the Agency for International Development from Cornell University ...
Urban Housing Policy in Latin America..."
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1965 |
Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Proposal to Study the Housing Needs of the Elderly
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1958 |
Box 6 | Folder 15-17 |
Reading file, September-December
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1946 |
Box 6 | Folder 18-20 |
Reading file, January-March
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1947 |
Box 6 | Folder 21-23 |
Reading file, April-June
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1947 |
Box 6 | Folder 24-26 |
Reading file, July-December
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1947 |
Box 6 | Folder 27 |
Reading file, October
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1947 |
Box 6 | Folder 28-29 |
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - Greenport Basin Case
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1947-1958 |
Box 6 | Folder 30-31 |
"Report on Housing in the Bahama Islands" (see also box 14)
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1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 32-33 |
Regional Housing Survey Laboratory
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1949-1955 |
Box 6 | Folder 34-39 |
"Research Methods for Housing and Urbanization Studies in Developing Countries" by
Margaret E. Woods and Earl W. Morris
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1969 |
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Research Needed in Urban Land Use and Housing
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1950 |
Box 7 | Folder 2-3 |
No. 8 Reynolds Metal Company
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1945-1955 |
Box 20 | Folder 1-7 |
Rural Housing Study, Cortland County, NY
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1945 |
Box 7 | Folder 4-5 |
Sabbatic correspondence
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1954 |
Box 7 | Folder 6-7 |
Search Committee - Deanship of Home Economics
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1967-1968 |
Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Secondary Farm Housing
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Box 7 | Folder 9 |
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), Austria,
Denmark, England (see also 8-6)
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1962-1963 |
Box 7 | Folder 10 |
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), Finland,
France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands
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1962-1963 |
Box 7 | Folder 11 |
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), Norway,
Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland (see also 8-7)
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1962-1963 |
Box 7 | Folder 12-13 |
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), United
States
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1962-1963 |
Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Stockholm trip - UN conference (correspondence) (pd. from CHES)
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1968 |
Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Study of Bathroom Equipment and Planning Requirements
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1960 |
Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Sweden
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1962-1968 |
Box 7 | Folder 17-19 |
Sympathy notes, greeting cards
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1969 |
Box 7 | Folder 20 |
Tape recordings while abroad
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1961-1962 |
Box 7 | Folder 21 |
U.S.-Mexican seminar, Mexico City, sponsored by HEW
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1966 |
Box 20 | Folder 8 |
USDA - Marketing and Research Study schedules
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1948 |
Box 7 | Folder 22-25 |
University faculty minutes and notices
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1966-1969 |
Box 7 | Folder 26 |
University Long Range Planning Committee
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1961 |
Box 7 | Folder 27 |
The Urban Explosion in Latin America galley proof (partial) and index (?)
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1967 |
Box 7 | Folder 28 |
Urbanization book permissions
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1965-1966 |
Box 7 | Folder 29 |
Values proposal #3
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1959-1960 |
Box 7 | Folder 30-31 |
Woodshole - conference (with Department of Housing and Urban Development)
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1966 |
Box 7 | Folder 32-35 |
Youngstown Kitchens
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1954-1960 |
Box 8 | Folder 1-3 |
Bahamas (see also box 6)
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Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Oak Ridge, Tenn. housing (see also box 3)
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1948 |
Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Venezuela, H.P. Greep Memorandum on Housing Finance in
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1961 |
Box 8 | Folder 6 |
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (see also 8-6)
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Box 8 | Folder 7 |
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (see also 8-7)
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Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Miscellany
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Series III. Photographs
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Box 9 |
Broome County #1-#304
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Box 10 |
Broome County #305-#441
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Box 10 |
Chemung County #1-105
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Box 11 |
Chemung County #106-#189
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Box 11 |
Clinton County #1-#155
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Box 12 |
Clinton County #156-#410
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Box 12 |
Dutchess County #6-#19
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Box 13 |
Dutchess County #20-#311
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Box 14 |
Dutchess County #312-#648
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Box 15 |
Dutchess County #649-#741
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Box 15 |
Monroe County #1-#127
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Box 16 |
Monroe County #128-#327
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Box 17 |
Monroe County #328-#564
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Box 18 |
"Pictures of houses pulled as possible cover for NE 20 Publication"
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Box 8 |
Slides and photos (and negatives) re housing, include European housing for elderly
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Box 19 |
Kitchens and pre-fabricated houses - photographs and glass slides (also index cards
of kitchen supplies)
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Series IV. Printed Material
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Box 21 |
Publications
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Box 23 | Folder 1-10 |
Papers written by Beyer as a graduate student
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1935-1938 |
Box 23 | Folder 11 |
Paper written by Beyer as a professor
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1966-1969 |
Series V. Miscellany
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Box 20 |
Day books, notebooks
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Box 22 |
Photograph album: "Lustron"
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Box 22 |
Scrapbook on housing, kitchens, etc.
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
Photostat copy of large greeting card: "Season's Greetings, 1966-1967"
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1966-1967 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Diploma froom Mexico
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1966-11-12 | |
Box 23 |
Yearbook from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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1934 | |
Box 23 |
Diploma from Augustana College in Sioux Fall, South Dakota
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1935 | |
Box 23 |
Medal and Citation from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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1960 | |
Box 23 |
Address book
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