Sally Hoyt Spofford papers, 1923-1982.
Collection Number: 21-18-2374

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Sally Hoyt Spofford papers, 1923-1982.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-18-2374
Abstract:
Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and memoranda pertaining to the administration of the Laboratory of Ornithology and her other interests in ornithology; rough drafts of Arthur A. Allen correspondence and writings; Edna Lane's Bird and Flying Squirrel field notes; Christmas newsletters with photographs from Peter Paul Kellogg; and J. Southgate Hoyt field notes, manuscripts, drawings, a draft of his Ph.D. thesis, and photographs, primarily relating to the pileated woodpecker. Also, Arthur Allen slides that match Bird Song records and files relating to the Federation of New York State Bird Clubs.
Creator:
Spofford, Sally Hoyt.
Quanitities:
3.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Ornithologist, Administrative Assistant at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology.
Series I. Laboratory of Ornithology and Personal Correspondence Box 1
Series II. Arthur A. Allen Drafts Box 1
Series III. Southgate Y. Hoyt and Sally Hoyt Spofford Papers Boxes 1-4

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Sally Hoyt Spofford Papers, #21-18-2374. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and memoranda pertaining to the administration of the Laboratory of Ornithology and her other interests in ornithology; rough drafts of Arthur A. Allen correspondence and writings; Edna Lane's Bird and Flying Squirrel field notes; Christmas newsletters with photographs from Peter Paul Kellogg; and J. Southgate Hoyt field notes, manuscripts, drawings, a draft of his Ph.D. thesis, and photographs, primarily relating to the pileated woodpecker. Also, Arthur Allen slides that match Bird Song records and files relating to the Federation of New York State Bird Clubs.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Allen, Arthur A. (Arthur Augustus), 1885-1964.
Kellogg, Peter Paul, 1899-1975.
Hoyt, John Southgate Yeaton, 1913-1951.
Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology
Subjects:
Woodpeckers.
Bird refuges -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Ornithology -- Study and teaching.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Laboratory of Ornithology and Personal Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
Arthur A. Allen
Sept. 1956-Aug. 1982
Box 1 Folder 2
Arthur A. Allen; Peter Paul Kellogg
Sept.-Dec. 1955
Box 1 Folder 3
William C. Dilger
Jan. 1956-Oct. 1965
Box 1 Folder 4
Erma J. Fisk (Mrs. Bradley Fisk)
Dec. 1970-Oct. 1965
Box 1 Folder 5
Peter Paul Kellogg
May 1954-Nov. 1975
Box 1 Folder 6
Paul and Byrl Kellogg Christmas Cards
1945-1963
Box 1 Folder 7
W. Keith Kennedy
Nov. 1969-Mar. 1971
Box 1 Folder 8
Douglas A. Lancaster
Feb. 1968-Sept. 1972
Box 1 Folder 9
Art Lane
Apr.-May 1971
Box 1 Folder 10
Lewis F. Pearsall
Sept. 1967-July 1970
Box 1 Folder 11
Arthur G. Peterson
Feb. 1958-Apr. 1962
Box 1 Folder 12
Olin Sewell Pettingill
Apr. 1961-Dec. 1963
Box 1 Folder 13
Olin Sewell Pettingill
Mar. 1964-July 1972
Box 1 Folder 14
Virginia Scheetz (Mrs. Francis Scheetz)
Jan. 1957-Feb. 1971
Box 1 Folder 15
Charles G. Sibley
Nov. 1953-May 1964
Box 1 Folder 16
Lyman K. Stuart
July 1958-Sept. 1962
Box 1 Folder 17
Charles Sutherland
Apr.-July 1962
Box 1 Folder 18
Gustav A. Swanson
July 1959-Aug. 1961
Box 1 Folder 19
James Tate, Jr.
Apr. 1970-Sept. 1972
Box 1 Folder 20
Fred Kent Truslow
Apr.-Aug. 1968
Box 1 Folder 21
Miscellaneous
Jan. 1957-Dec. 1959
Box 1 Folder 22
Miscellaneous
Jan.-Dec. 1960
Box 1 Folder 23
Miscellaneous
Jan. 1964-Dec. 1975
Box 1 Folder 24
Miscellaneous
Undated
Box 1 Folder 25
Search for director
Mar.-Oct. 1972
Box 1 Folder 26
Lab job
May 1967-Dec. 1968
Box 1 Folder 27
Response to J. Southgate Y. Hoyt broadcast
Mar. 1960
Box 1 Folder 28
Income/expense statements and related material
July 1958
Box 1 Folder 29
Accounting notes, letters
Nov. 1958-Jan. 1959
Box 1 Folder 30
Newspaper clippings
Undated
Series II. Arthur A. Allen Drafts
Box 1 Folder 31
Handwritten letters
Undated
Box 1 Folder 32
Drafts, #1
Undated
Box 1 Folder 32
Drafts, #2
Undated
Series III. J. Southgate Y. Hoyt and Sally Hoyt Spofford Papers
Box 1 Folder 34
Draft of Ph.D. thesis
1948
Box 1 Folder 35
Photos of Pileated Woodpecker
Undated
Box 1 Folder 36
Photos of Pileated Woodpecker development
Undated
Box 1 Folder 37
Miscellaneous photos and negatives
Undated
Box 1 Folder 38
Articles, reprints, publications
Undated
Box 1 Folder 39
Carbon manuscript-Published,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 40
Elsa Guerdrum Allen
Undated
Box 1 Folder 41
Correspondence
1923-1950
Box 1 Folder 42
Correspondence
1951-1975
Box 1 Folder 43
New York upstate birds - Hoyt and Pettingill - Early drafts
Undated
Box 1 Folder 44
Pileated Woodpecker material
Undated
Box 1 Folder 45
Pileated Woodpecker
Undated
Box 1 Folder 46
Bird Study Class (Campus Club)
Undated
Box 1 Folder 47
Key to North America Bird Eggs - Manuscript
Undated
Box 1 Folder 48
Women's Committee - International Ornithological Congress (IOC)
Undated
Box 1 Folder 49
(IOC)
1962
Box 1 Folder 50
Newspaper clippings
Undated
Box 2 Folder 1
Laboratory of Ornithology correspondence, S. H. Spofford
1963-1978
Box 2 Folder 2
Miscellaneous ornithology and lab correspondence
1956-1966
Box 2 Folder 3
Nature Study Course, Cold Spring Harbor - Long Island Biological Association
1942-1951
Box 2 Folder 4-7
Lecture correspondence
1947-1973
Box 2 Folder 8
Ornithology class quizzes, reports
Box 2 Folder 9
Lab matters
Box 2 Folder 10
Laboratory directorship
1972-1981
Box 2 Folder 11
Correspondence concerning Pileated Woodpecker
1955-1956
Box 2 Folder 12
Correspondence, Natural History
1946-1953
Box 2 Folder 13
Extension releases
1969-1972
Box 2 Folder 15
Encyclopedia Americana
1967
Box 2 Folder 15
Correspondence concerning sightings
1960-1961
Box 2 Folder 16
Thesis, charts, drawings
Box 2 Folder 17
Civil Service
1933-1934
Box 2 Folder 18-19
Published manuscripts
1954-1961
Box 2 Folder 20-23
"Edna Lane's Bird and Flying Squirrel Notes"
1939-1956
Box 2 Folder 24
A. A. Allen lecture notes
Box 2 Folder 25
J. S. Y. Hoyt thesis
1948
Box 2 Folder 26
Hoyt notes and observation records
1939-1947
Box 2 Folder 27
Cyclops material
Box 2 Folder 28
Ornithology synopsis and key to birds
Box 2 Folder 29
Pileated Woodpecker field notes, Hoyt
1941
Box 2 Folder 30
The Migration of Birds, S. Y. Hoyt
1934
Box 2 Folder 31
Drawings - Pileated Woodpecker Anatomy, J. Southgate Hoyt
Box 2 Folder 32
Notes on 1941 Pileated Woodpecker nest, Phloeo
1941-1952
Box 2 Folder 33
Manuscripts - Hoyt
Box 2 Folder 34
Student photographs in South's course, Hoyt
Box 2 Folder 35
Map, Pileated Woodpecker locations, Hoyt
1928-1932
Box 2 Folder 36
Conservation 131 lecture notes, Hoyt
1949
Box 2 Folder 37
Pileated Woodpecker correspondence
1938-1949
Box 2 Folder 38
Birds of the World by A. A. Allen; lecture and laboratory notes, Ornithology 126
1946-1947
Box 3
Annual bird lists
1933-1939
Box 3
Photograph album
Box 3
Photograph album
Box 4 Folder 1
Correspondence
1942-1955
Box 4 Folder 2
Field List of Birds
1940
Box 4 Folder 3
"Example of Recent American Bird Art" by Harry Harris
1926
Box 4 Folder 4
"Bird Life in America" Series II (2 complete sets)
Box 4 Folder 5
Laboratory of Ornithology History by Spofford
Box 4 Folder 6
"The Southgate Y. Hoyt Dispatch"
1946-1949
Box 4 Folder 7
Journal notes (loose)
Box 4 Folder 8
Scripts for lectures
Box 4 Folder 9-10
Old rough drafts, minutes
Box 4 Folder 11-12
Laboratory information, brochures, flyers, etc.
Box 4 Folder 13
Laboratory financial statements, etc.,
1957-1962
Box 4 Folder 14
Laboratory financial statements, etc.,
1962-1963
Box 4
Daybooks,
1957-1966
Box 5 Folder 1
Laboratory of Ornithology newsletters and meeting minutes
1956-1969
Scope and Contents
Includes a note to Charles Smith from "Sally and Spoff" from 1991
Box 5 Folder 2
Laboratory of Ornithology newsletters
1970-1977
Box 5 Folder 3
Photograph of Federation Bird Group
1954
Box 5 Folder 4
Federation of New York State Bird Clubs (1)
1954-1961
Box 5 Folder 5
Federation of New York State Bird Clubs (2)
1954-1961
Box 5 Folder 6
State Bird Book
1954-1956
Box 5 Folder 7
Arthur Allen's discarded conservation lecture notes
1936-1948
Box 5 Folder 8
Bird sighting notes
1938-1941
Scope and Contents
Includes an hand-drawn map of Sapsucker Woods with notations of bird sighting from 1935-1941
Box 5 Volume 1
The 1957-1958 New Zealand-Australia Expedition of the Laboratory of Ornithology
1958
Box 6
Arthur Allen slides that match bird song records
undated
Box 7
Arthur Allen slides that match bird song records; other Arthur Allen slides
undated
Box 8
Negatives of Pileated Woodpecker work by J.S. Hoyt; other bird species; copies of famous prints
1930s-1950
Box 8 F-601
Pileated film from man in Ohio
1959