New York State regional pamphlet collection, 1840-1964.
Collection Number: 2226
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State regional pamphlet collection, 1840-1964.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2226
Abstract:
Pamphlets, reports, periodicals, guidebooks, and brochures on a wide variety of subjects,
mainly focused on New York State, including agricultural, educational, business, religious,
tourism, cultural, historical, political, and social issues and activities.
Creator:
no primary creator
Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Brooklyn Art Club
Children\'s Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)
Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children in the City of New
York
Quanitities:
3.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Pamphlets, reports, periodicals, guidebooks, and brochures on a wide variety of subjects,
mainly focused on New York State, including agricultural, educational, business, religious,
tourism, cultural, historical, political, and social issues and activities. Agricultural
topics include fruit cultivation techniques, ways to prevent plant diseases, agricultural
surveys, drainage, and livestock management. Includes issues of some periodicals,
such as the Bulletin of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (later
the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station), the Cornell Reading-course for
farmers, and Rural America. Education topics include reports from various schools
in New York State, including schools for Indians and for the blind. Historical materials
include many pamphlets on the history of various New York State towns, plans for centennial
celebrations, and activities of historical societies. Cultural materials include an
article on art at the New York World's Fair (1940) and a manuscript list of art works
bought and sold at the Brooklyn Art Club's annual exhibition in 1897.
Political pamphlets include orations given by politicians on national holidays, and
pamphlets for and against President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies. Business
pamphlets include annual reports of various companies, discussions of economic issues,
and pamphlets on labor relations and management. Pamphlets on charitable and social
organizations and issues include annual reports of local social clubs in various towns,
reports of charitable organizations, and discussions of social issues such as world
hunger. Charitable organizations covered include the Children's Aid Society (in New
York City) and the Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children
in the City of New York.
Also included are a few pamphlets on engineering and medical topics, including a
pamphlet on how to build an Aladdin oven, a catalog of medical instruments, and pamphlets
on sewers and public health in Ithaca, New York.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
New York State Regional Pamphlet Collection, #2226. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Places:
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Politics and government.
New York (State) -- Politics and government.
New York (State) -- History, Local.
Subjects:
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Medical instruments and apparatus -- Catalogs.
Public health -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Aladdin oven.
Blind -- Education -- New York (State)
Indians of North America -- Education -- New York (State)
Education -- New York (State)
Agriculture -- New York (State)
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Cultural life
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Tourism
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Business
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Agriculture
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
History
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Science
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Religion
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Education
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Charitable and social organizations and issues
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Politics
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