New York State College of Agriculture Department of Botany records, [ca. 1882-1963]
Collection Number: 21-17-2491
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State College of Agriculture Department of Botany records, [ca. 1882-1963]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-17-2491
Abstract:
Photographs, prints, and lantern slides; memorabilia about Botany Department field
trips and social activities, and department minutes.
Creator:
New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Botany
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Memorabilia, prints, scrapbooks, photographs and lantern slides of field trips, and
meeting minutes related to the Department of Botany.
Photographs, including some of Barbara McClintock and Karl Wiegand; scrapbooks belonging
to Professors Muenscher and Knudson; and diaries belonging to Professor Walter Muenscher.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
New York State College of Agriculture Department of Botany records, #21-17-2491. Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992.
Muenscher, Walter Conrad Leopold, 1891-1963.
Knudson, Lewis, 1884-1958.
Wiegand, Karl M. (Karl McKay), 1873-1942.
Cornell University -- : Faculty
Subjects:
Botany -- Study and teaching.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Scrapbooks.
Lantern slides.
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Department of Botany
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Picnic Lists
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1898-1920 |
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed attendance sheets for local field trips
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Programs, Articles, and Cards
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1904-1976 |
Scope and Contents
Includes "History of Botany at Cornell(1868-1931): 25 Year Mark of Department" Also
includes "Dichotomous Key to member of the Department of Botany," for others like
this see volume 4
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Copies of Historic Plant Catalogs
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Scope and Contents
Copies of plant catalogs from 1822 and 1831
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Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Plant Physiology Seminar Sign-in Book
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1951-1957 |
Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Botany Department Minute Book
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1952-1961 |
Scope and Contents
Also includes correspondence and articles
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Box 1 | Volume 3 |
Department of Botany Memorial Volume I
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1907-1918 |
Scope and Contents
Humorous scrapbook - includes poems, stories, sketches, photographs, collages, and
clippings from newspapers and magazines
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Box 1 | Volume 4 |
Department of Botany Memorial Volume II
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1922-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Humorous scrapbook - includes poems, stories, plays, puzzles, and clippings from newspapers
and magazines
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Box 2 | Volume 1 |
Professor Lewis Knudson
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1952 |
Scope and Contents
Photo album and scrapbook containing letters and photos of the current lives of Prof.
Knudson's former students
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Botany and Plant Biology centennial materials
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2013 |
Photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Matted Photographs
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1900 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Field Trips I: Candid people
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1900-1940s |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Field Trips II: Candid People and Landscapes
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1900-1940s |
Scope and Contents
Includes a few color images, negatives, dated photos, and photos with lists of names
of persons.
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
"Early Days of Botany," candid people, classroom, and Cornell Campus photos
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1900-1940s |
Scope and Contents
Includes prints and negatives
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Group Portraits: Cornell Faculty, Cytology, Ecology, and Officers of the Congress
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1910-1926 |
Scope and Contents
Oversize
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
K.M. Wiegand
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1917-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Matted and loose photographs of field trips. Individuals in the photographs are named.
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Students and Staff
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1922-1971 |
Scope and Contents
Portraits and candid photos with individual's names written on the opposite side.
Dated and undated
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Botany Department Portraits
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1935 |
Scope and Contents
Bound scrapbook
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Department of Botany Group Portraits
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1938-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Staff and Classrooms
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Scope and Contents
Prints and negatives
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Professor Arthur Eames on his 80th Birthday
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1961 |
Box 1 |
Roll of 35mm negatives for Botany Department Portraits
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1935 | |
Scope and Contents
See folder 15 for prints
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Box 2 |
Glass Plate Lantern Slides and Negatives
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Plate Glass Lantern Slides
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1882-1929 |
Scope and Contents
3x4" plate glass sides of students, professors, seasonal field trips, classrooms,
and the Cornell University campus
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Plate Glass Lantern Slides
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1929-1941 |
Scope and Contents
3x4" plate glass sides of students, professors, seasonal field trips, classrooms,
and the Cornell University campus
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Plate Glass Lantern Slides and Negatives
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Scope and Contents
3x4" plate glass sides of Tahiti and Fiji trip.
Glass plate negatives(c.1885-1920):
Negative Box 1 - classrooms, staff and the Cornell University campus.
Negative Box 2 - Seasonal Field trips
Some of the prints are among the photographs in Box 1 and in collection #14-29-2026
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Plate Glass Negatives
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1929-1941 |
Scope and Contents
4x5" plate glass negatives of trees
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Professor Walter C. Muenscher
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Loose Photo album
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1918-1925 |
Scope and Contents
Includes many portraits of the members of the Department of Botany during field trips.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Department of Botany - Dr. Walter C. Muenscher
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1935-1941 |
Scope and Contents
Humorous puzzles and plays
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence and Memos
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1954-1963 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Plaque Dedication
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1957-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Death Notices and Obituary
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1963 |
Box 1 | Volume 5 |
Record
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1910-1920 |
Scope and Contents
Diary that includes hand written notes, news clippings and other paper ephemera
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Box 1 | Volume 6 |
Record
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1921-1922 |
Scope and Contents
Diary that includes hand written notes, news clippings and other paper ephemera
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