Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960.
Collection Number: 2531
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2531
Abstract:
Correspondence includes personal and business correspondence; Berry's letters from
Kenneth Roberts, E.B. White, and Allison Danzig; one letter from Major William B.
Miles concerning the activities of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard;
correspondence of Berry's second wife, Hester Bancroft Berry, her father, Wilder D.
Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family. Writings include copy and clippings
from his "Talk of the Town" columns in The New Yorker; articles from the Ithaca Journal
and Cornell Alumni News; radio broadcasts; and books and pamphlets by others. Diaries
and journals by Berry, Katherine Bott Bancroft, and Hester Bancroft Berry, 1943-1951;
farm accounts from "Stoneposts," Jacksonville, N.Y., 1936-1938; drawings; family and
other photographs; legal documents and related items referring to the Berry and Gould
families; newspaper clippings relating to Professor Wilder D. Bancroft; items having
Ithaca or local interest, including Lyceum Theater accounts, 1893-1923; and miscellaneous
family items. Also, student scrapbook of Olive Nutting Berry at Wells College, with
material about social events at Cornell University.
Abstract:
Also, correspondence between Romeyn Berry, his grandmother Hannah Wright Gould, his
mother, and others, mostly when he was an undergraduate at Cornell; condolence letters
after Berry's death, written to his widow Hester Bancroft Berry, to his daughter,
Hilda Berry Sanford, and to Ruth Berry McDonald; program from the memorial stone dedication
in 1988; magazine and newspaper articles; trust agreement; and typescript version
of Hannah Wright Gould's 1871"Garden Journal," with a pen-and-ink drawing on wood
of Romeyn and Harriet Berry as children.
Creator:
Berry, Romeyn, 1881-1957.
Gould, Hannah Wright, 1819-1912.
Quanitities:
11.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Romeyn Berry (pronounced Ro-Mine) graduated from Cornell University in 1904. His nickname
was Rym, pronounced rim. Columnist, author, lawyer, farmer. He served as graduate
Director of Cornell Athletics from 1919 to 1935.
Correspondence includes personal and business correspondence; Berry's letters from
Kenneth Roberts, E.B. White, and Allison Danzig; one letter from Major William B.
Miles concerning the activities of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard;
correspondence of Berry's second wife, Hester Bancroft Berry, her father, Wilder D.
Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family. Writings include copy and clippings
from his "Talk of the Town" columns in The New Yorker; articles from the Ithaca Journal
and Cornell Alumni News; radio broadcasts; and books and pamphlets by others. Diaries
and journals by Berry, Katherine Bott Bancroft, and Hester Bancroft Berry, 1943-1951;
farm accounts from "Stoneposts," Jacksonville, N.Y., 1936-1938; drawings; family and
other photographs; legal documents and related items referring to the Berry and Gould
families; newspaper clippings relating to Professor Wilder D. Bancroft; items having
Ithaca or local interest, including Lyceum Theater accounts, 1893-1923; and miscellaneous
family items. Also, student scrapbook of Olive Nutting Berry at Wells College, with
material about social events at Cornell University.
Also, correspondence between Romeyn Berry, his grandmother Hannah Wright Gould, his
mother, and others, mostly when he was an undergraduate at Cornell; condolence letters
after Berry's death, written to his widow Hester Bancroft Berry, to his daughter,
Hilda Berry Sanford, and to Ruth Berry McDonald; program from the memorial stone dedication
in 1988; magazine and newspaper articles; trust agreement; and typescript version
of Hannah Wright Gould's 1871"Garden Journal," with a pen-and-ink drawing on wood
of Romeyn and Harriet Berry as children.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Romeyn Berry family papers, #2531. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Berry, Hester Bancroft, 1899-1963.
Bancroft, Wilder D. (Wilder Dwight), 1867-1953.
Bancroft, Katherine Bott.
Berry, Olive Nutting.
Gould, Hannah Wright, 1819-1912.
Sanford, Hilda Truslow Berry, 1916-
McDonald, Ruth Seely Berry, 1913-
Danzig, Allison.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957.
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
Bancroft family.
Berry family.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Wells College -- : Students.
Lyceum Theater (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Cornell University. Class of 1904.
Subjects:
Gardening
Authors.
Lawyers.
Journalists.
Women college students.
Families -- New York (State)
Farms -- New York (State) -- Jacksonville.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Drawings.
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Account books.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Romeyn Berry
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Series Ia. Legal Papers
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| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Application and registration of Romeyn Berry as Attorney
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1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Greene Consolidated Gold Company, La Brisca
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1897-1904 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Lee Nutting Estate
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1835-1889 |
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Scope and Contents
Indentures, property map, petition of Rebecca Wright regarding lands in Lancaster
and York (1835)
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| Box 1 | Folder 3-9 |
Lee Nutting Estate
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1906-1918 |
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Scope and Contents
Papers largely relate to Lee Nutting but include Arietta, Marcus Nutting, and others.
Folder 5 includes photograph of unidentified woman.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Burke v. Underhill
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1903-1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Hunter, James v. Hudson, John
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1906-05 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Vaughan's Seed Store v. Stringfellow
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1906-1907 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Vaughan's Seed Store larceny case
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1907 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Nutting v. The Joice Contracting Co.
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1907 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Berry, Edward v. Bridgeport Transportation
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1908-1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Richmond Tax Matter
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1908 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Avebury Realty Company
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1909-1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Truslow and Berry agreements
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1909-1918 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Miscellaneous legal papers
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1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Sacerdote v. Layman
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1911-1914 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Bischof, Louis v. Schaeffer, Elizabeth
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1912-1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Jones, Morgan estate
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1912-1914 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Rumsey and Co. v. Morey, L.A.
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1912-1915 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1-3 |
Rumsey and Co. v. Travis, Walter W.
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1912-1918 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Frelinghuysen, Theodore v. Howard, Francis
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1913 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
New York Yacht Launch and Engine Co. v. Erwin Jennings
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1913-1914 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Prarie State Grain and Elevator Co.
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1913-1914 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Fred Young and Co., Inc.
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1913 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co.
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1914 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Jackson v. Knapp
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1914-1915 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10-19 |
Mackenzie, Charlotte Documents
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1914-1917 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Maynard and Co. v. H.C. Mole
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1914-1915 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Rumsey and Co. v. Charles Folcke
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1914-1915 |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Steen, Thomas
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1914 |
| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Taylor, Short, and Kennedy
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1914-1915 |
| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Whinery, Samuel v. Berg, James and Cline, John
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1914-1916 |
| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Feldman, Henry documents
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1915-1916 |
| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
H.S. Vail and Sons v. F.R. McMullin
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1915 |
| Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Various agreements
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1915 |
| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Bischof, Clara v. Straub, Frank and Anna
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1916-1917 |
| Box 2 | Folder 29-30 |
Carew, Joseph J. v. Keefer, Daniel H.
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1916-1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Carew, Joseph J.
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1916-1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Dean, Dorothy v. Hewett, Dexter
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1916-1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Ennis and Co. v. Greenfield
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1916-1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Fertig, Henry v. Carew, Joseph J.
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1916-1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Friedler, Rudolph v. Samuel Brody
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1916 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
McCulloch, George F.
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1916 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Technology Sales Inc.
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1916-1917 |
| Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Turner, J.R. and Effie savings
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1916-04-27 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Bancroft, Griffing v. Bancroft, Ethel
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1917-1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Court Martial of Edward Burns Jr., First Provisional Battery, ORTC
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Caminsky, Benjamin
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Carew and Co. v. Perry Winckler and Co.
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Carew and Co. v. Brand, Charles
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Chambers, Bernard
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Dal-Brun
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Fullman, Arthur v. Ellis, George
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Gans, Leopold
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 17-18 |
Gould, Sarah estate
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1917-1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Hanover Brick Co. v. Kenny
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1917-1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Hollander, C.H.
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 21 |
The Life Saving Devices Co.
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Mason, Norman v. Mason, Edith Barnes
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Marsalis, Thomas partnership
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Muller, H.B. v. Schmidt and Deery
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Pittsburgh Life and Trust Company
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Rowland v. Kirby
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Schafer, William
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Schmidt and Deery
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1917-1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Philip D. Shapiro
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1917-1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Hiram Sibley Estate
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Texas Medical Journal, Dr. Foregger
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Vezin estate
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Atlantic Motors Co.
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1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Hewett Publishing Company
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1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Hyman Estate
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1918 |
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Subseries Ib. Athletics Documents
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| Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Documents and correspondence
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1906-1909 |
| Box 3 | Folder 37 |
Documents and correspondence
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1914 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes scores and notes on track meets
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| Box 3 | Folder 38 |
Documents and correspondence
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1915 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes scores and notes on track meets and corresopondence about track book
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| Box 3 | Folder 39 |
Documents and correspondence
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1916 |
| Box 3 | Folder 40-41 |
Documents and correspondence
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1917 |
| Box 3 | Folder 42 |
Documents and correspondence
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1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 47 |
A Brief History of Cornell Football from 1887 to 1924, typed
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Undated |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Olympic Committee report of Gustavus Kirby
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1920 |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Olympic Committee correspondence
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1955 |
| Box 3 | Folder 44 |
Event speeches, notes, and scores
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1914-1918 |
| Box 3 | Folder 45 |
Miscellaneous documents
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1907-1917 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes print of Shoellkkopf field and proposed stadium (1916), Entry Blank ICAAAA
indoor meeting (1917), ICAAAA record of track meeting blank, college name placards,
program 1917, Cornell-Penn 1907 football flier
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| Box 3 | Folder 45 |
Two photographs of Shoellkopf Stadium, one photograph of track race
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Undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 46 |
Athletics clippings and articles
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Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Intercollegiate Association of the Amateur Athletes of America 34th Annual Field Meeting,
Soldiers Field, Cambridge Mass
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1909-05-28-1909-05-29 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Intercollegiate Association of the Amateur Athletes of America 39th Annual Field Meeting,
Soldiers Field, Cambridge Mass
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1914-05-29-1914-05-30 |
| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
The National Collegiate Atheltic Association Proceedings of the 37th annual convention
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1942-12 |
| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
First Annual Indoor Meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes
of America program
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1915-03-06 |
| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Program for dinner in honour of the Oxford-Cambridge Track Teams
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1929-07-20 |
| Box 10 |
Scrapbook of clippings related to athletics, some by or about Berry
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1914-1919 | |
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Scope and Contents
Includes some invitations, programs, and publications like "The Winged Foot". Also
includes handwritten loose speeches and articles. The back of the scrapbook has clippings
on the Progressive Party, Berry's certification as attorney (1914), and a photograph
of a Progressive Party banner with Berry running for assembly.
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| Box 3 | Folder 48 |
Cornell/Princeton statistics and score sheet
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Undated |
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Subseries Ic. Correspondence
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Copy of letter to Amos Dean Esq.
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1829 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1876-1891 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes 1876 'stump recipe' and 1884 letter to Santa Claus, letters regarding fathers
death
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| Box 6 | Folder 22 |
Bound letters to Romeyn from William B. Berry
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1892-1896 |
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Scope and Contents
Content includes boat travel and trip out west.
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1895-1904 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letters to and from Romeyn as a student at Cornell and letters about family
deaths
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Manuscript letter dated "Saturday," on Beta Theta Pi House stationery, in which Berry
asks his mother's advice on whether to accept a job offer as editor of the Cornell
Alumni News. At the upper left is a note in ink, "The plot thickens; please return."
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1900-1920 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1905-1909 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes 1907 letters with Bert Johnson regarding Ithaca Colored Band
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence from mother
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1910 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1915-1919 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes legal correspondence
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1925-1930 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1932-1939 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of letter from E.B. White (1937), information and correspondence
on Hiram Corson's house
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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1943-1949 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Kenneth Roberts
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
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1950-1957 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Kenneth Roberts and booklet titled "Kenneth Roberts: biographical
sketch, an informal study, his books and critical opinions"
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| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Condolence letters and memorial statements
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1957 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15-16 |
Memorial statements and obituary
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1957 |
| Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence regarding family cemetary upkeep and wills
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1917-1918 |
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Subseries Id. Publications, Speeches, Broadcasts, and Plays
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Publications
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| Box 4 | Folder 44 |
List of Romeyn Berry articles published since 1938
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Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 17-20 |
State and Tioga clippings
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Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1930 |
| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1931 |
| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1932 |
| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1933 |
| Box 4 | Folder 25 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1934 |
| Box 4 | Folder 26 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1935 |
| Box 4 | Folder 27 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1936 |
| Box 4 | Folder 28 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1937-1938 |
| Box 4 | Folder 29 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1939 |
| Box 4 | Folder 30 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1940 |
| Box 4 | Folder 31 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1941 |
| Box 4 | Folder 32 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1942 |
| Box 4 | Folder 33 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1943 |
| Box 4 | Folder 34 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1944 |
| Box 4 | Folder 35 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1945 |
| Box 4 | Folder 36 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1946 |
| Box 4 | Folder 37 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1951-1955 |
| Box 4 | Folder 38 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1956 |
| Box 4 | Folder 39 |
State and Tioga clippings
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1957 |
| Box 4 | Folder 40 |
Reprints from State and Tioga
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Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 41 |
Various articles by Berry
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1910-1950 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes Accomodations for Visitors, Dee Day on the Dirt Roads, Memoirs of Push and
Pull Football, campus confusion
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| Box 4 | Folder 45 |
The Widow
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1950-1954 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
The Alumneurosis
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Undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Behind the Ivy
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1950 |
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Scope and Contents
Book jackets, related articles
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Behind the Ivy
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1950 |
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Scope and Contents
Unbound book pages
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| Box 5 | Folder 4-5 |
Now, In My Time!
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1937-1957 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes handwritten copies
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Dirt Roads to Stoneposts
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Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 24 |
Stoneposts in the Sunset
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1950 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Reading Books for Fun
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Undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Notes and comments for the New Yorker column
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Undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Sport Stuff
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Undated |
| Box 10 |
Scrapbook of "Sports Stuff" clippings
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1920-1926 | |
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Scope and Contents
Includes picture of Berry in boat, and signed copy of "Painting the Town Red" by TF
Crane
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| Box 10 |
Scrapbook of "Sports Stuff" clippings
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1927-1929 | |
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Scope and Contents
Includes some correspondence
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| Box 11 | Folder 5 |
Writin's About Country Life
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1936-1938 |
| Box 11 | Folder 5 |
Writin's by Rym Berry
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1936-1938 |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
American Agriculturalist
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Undated |
| Box 11 |
American Agriculturalist
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1937 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 4 |
The Big Red Team: A Football Song
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1905 |
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Scope and Contents
Signed by Romeyn Berry
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Publications not by Berry
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| Box 4 | Folder 42 |
Articles featuring Romeyn Berry
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1937 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly
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| Box 4 | Folder 43 |
Miscellaneous articles
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Scope and Contents
Includes Rochester Times article on Irene Castle and a pig pen lawsuit and "Berry
Junction" by Alice Kline and Lila Jones. Some of the articles may have been written
by Berry but no author is listed
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
The Ithaca Journal
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1915 |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 |
Pamphlets and booklets
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1907-1951 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes Picture Taking with No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, The British Farmer at War,
New York History, France History, Brief History of Jamestown Williamsburg and Yorktown
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| Box 9 | Folder 3 |
Pamphlets and booklets
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1926 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes copy of Topography Maps of US, La Revue Moderne, FAO Schwarz catalog
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| Box 9 | Folder 4-6 |
Programs to various operas and plays
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1906-1915 |
| Box 9 | Folder 7 |
Sheet music
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Undated |
| Box 11 |
Magazines
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1943, 1957 | |
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Scope and Contents
Life, Yank
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| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Cornell Calendar
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1929 | |
| Box 7 |
Climate and Man
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1941 | |
| Box 7 |
The Plattsburger
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1917 | |
| Box 7 |
The Architectural Forum
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1923-07 | |
| Box 7 |
The Melodies Linger On, but Larry Freeman
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1951 | |
| Box 7 |
In Memory of Henry Williams Sage
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1898 | |
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Scope and Contents
With compliments of President Schurman
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| Box 7 |
Retraints of Trade in Patented Articles, by Frank Gladney
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1910 | |
| Box 7 |
The Autobiography of Mary Emily Cornell
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1929 | |
| Box 7 |
Above Cayuga's Waters: A collection of articles and poems which have appeared in the
Cornell Era, compiled by the class of 1917
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1916 | |
| Box 8 |
Era Cost and Stock Book of Drugs and Chemicals for Drug Buyers
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1897 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 26 |
Enrollment of Voters in Tompkins County
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1944-1945 |
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Speeches and Broadcasts
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Speeches and articles
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1901-1950 |
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Scope and Contents
Writings may be drafts of speeches or articles
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| Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Speeches and articles
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1901-1950 |
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Scope and Contents
Writings may be drafts of speeches or articles
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| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Speeches
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1920-1950 |
| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Radio scripts
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1940-1950 |
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
The Barnyard Gate broadcast
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1943 |
| Box 5 | Folder 16-17 |
The Barnyard Gate broadcast
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1944 |
| Box 5 | Folder 18-19 |
The Barnyard Gate broadcast
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1945 |
| Box 5 | Folder 20 |
The Barnyard Gate broadcast
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1946 |
| Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Today and Yesterday broadcast
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1946 |
| Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Today and Yesterday broadcast
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1947 |
| Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Today and Yesterday broadcast
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1948 |
| Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Untitled writings
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Undated |
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Plays
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| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
The President of Oolong: A Comic Opera in Three Acts
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1906 |
| Box 5 | Folder 25 |
Bright College Years: A Short Burlesque Helped Out by Song and Wassail
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1922 |
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Subseries Ie. War Materials
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| Box 5 | Folder 26 |
Documents and correspondence
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1918-1919 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes honorable discharge documents, US Gas School course certification, "Stunt
Night" program, application for insurance, vaccination records, and some correspondence
including grammar exercises from his children, Appointment to Sergeant certificate,
paper certifying service (1957)
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| Box 5 | Folder 27 |
Lecture notes on chemical warfare gases
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1918-12 |
| Box 5 | Folder 28 |
Gas documents, orders, and bulletins
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1917-1918 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes "Manual for the Use of Troops in Aid of the Civil Authority"
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| Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Certificates and discharge papers
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1918-1957 |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
The Possibilities of Harmless Gases as a Weapon to be Used by the State Guard in Suppressing
Riot and Civic Disorder
|
1918 |
| Box 10 |
Scrapbook
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1917-1920 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains documents, correspondence, and unidentified photographs of military men.
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Subseries If. Personal Material and General Documents
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Papers regarding 'father'
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1889-1905 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains various newspaper articles and geneological pamphlets, focusing largely on
James Romeyn, as well as a handwritten account (unsigned)
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Romeyn Berry biography
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1930 |
| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Hudson High School certificates
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1897-1898 |
| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Bank statements and taxes
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1937-1956 |
| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Romeyn Berry insurance whole life contract
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1927-08 |
| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Romeyn Berry birth certificate
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1918 |
| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Notebook including sketches, notes for Sport Stuff
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Undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Notes and ephemera
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Scope and Contents
Includes Spring Day 1929 invitation, silhouette, caricature, name cards, family material
and invitations to events
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| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Daily School Register for Ulysses
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1882-10-1883-09 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 27 |
Memorial book for Romeyn Berry
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1957 |
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Subseries Ig. Cornell Material
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| Box 5 | Folder 29 |
Notebook of costs, notes for "The Widow" and events
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Undated |
| Box 5 | Folder 30 |
Documents regarding alumni affairs and committee matters
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1916-1919 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes legal agreements, event plan descriptions, and the Cornell Rubicon Song
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| Box 5 | Folder 31 |
Cornell miscellany
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1900-1915 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes copy of the Cornell Deadly Sin spring day edition (1906), Beta Theta Pi programs,
dance list and attendance, handwritten list fraternities with descriptions like "some
angels are faithful" and " no sheep are carnivorous"
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| Box 5 | Folder 32 |
Cornell Dramatic Club script and programs for "Traffic Signals"
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1934 |
| Box 5 | Folder 33 |
William Robinson, ME 1906, reminiscences about Lyceum Theatre and plays
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Undated |
| Box 5 |
Bailey Hall performance programs
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1925-1928 | |
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Scope and Contents
Includes Percy Grainger, Russian Symphonic Choir (Basile Kibalchich), Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Toscha Seidel and Arthur Loesser, Mischa Lebitzki, Dusolina Giannini (signed),
The Cleveland Orchestra (signed, Nikolai Sokoloff), Harold Bauer, Ignace Jan Paderewski,
Rosa Ponselle and Stuart Ross, Emilio de Gogorza and Helen Winslow, and Giovanni Martinelli
(signed)
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| Box 5 | Folder 35 |
Reunion programs
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1952-1956 |
| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Cornell Extension Bulletins
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1931-1935 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Cornell Bulletin for Homemakers
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1929-1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Cornell pamphlets
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1907-1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes The Cornell Plantations 1953, John F Moakley: 40 years at Cornell, Alumni
27th annual dinner, President's Report, Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell (Part one signed
by Albert Hazen Wright), Presentation Addresses the War Memorial, Corrnell Annual
Horse Show, Savage Club Program and notes
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
The Misfit Man presented by The Cornell Masque
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1910 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
John F. Moakley biography and notes
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Undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Rowalnd versus Hammond typewriter notes and correspondence
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1907 |
| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
The College Biddy
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1900-1910 |
| Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Cornelliana
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1900-1910 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes Lehi Valley Railroad ticket, Spring Day Big Double Show (1908), receipts
for the Widow, Ass. Managers Banquet ribbon, and folded scrapbook page with invitations
and lecture notes
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| Box 6 | Folder 19 |
Is Cornell Unique? Draft by J. L. Zwingle, with letter
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1955 |
| Box 10 |
Student scrapbook
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1899-1906 | |
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Scope and Contents
Scrapbook includes: photographs of people and athletic events (baseball, boating,
and football), clippings, invitations and programs, ticket stubs, football programs,
Beta Theta Pi material, Athletic Association documents and programs, trade stakes,
"The Widow" documents and programs, track documents, ribbons and awards, 1903 red
beanie, and a Macaronigram.
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| Box 9 | Folder 23 |
Lyceum Theater accounts
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1893-1923 |
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Series II. Harriet V.V. Berry and Elizabeth Berry
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| Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Harriet Berry correspondence and documents
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1891-1918 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence about cemetery upkeep
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| Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Agreement settling the estate of Harriet V.V. Berry and the final settlement of the
account of Romeyn Berry, as executor of the will of Elisabeth W. Berry
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1924 |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Elizabeth Berry correspondence and will
|
1909-1923 |
| Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Elizabeth Berry estate documents
|
1921-1928 |
|
Series III. Berry/Gould Family Material
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| Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Geneology and family history
|
Undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 23 |
Martin van Buren death claim report and biography (copy)
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
Romeyn Berry's grandfather preached at Van Buren's funeral surface
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| Box 6 | Folder 24-26 |
Various pamphlets on gardening and architecture and other topics
|
Date Unknown |
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Scope and Contents
Includes The Architectural Record, The Lantern Westover School Magazine, Brookgreen
Gardens History, A Century of Growth, and more
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| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
5 pp. of biographical data concerning Warner ("Butch") Berry's first three years of
life
|
Undated |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
"History of the Village of Brookton" (dictated by Cantine Lounsbery, July 11, 1907,
2 pp. typescript)
|
1907-07-11 |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
U.S. Geological Survey Map of New York - Ithaca Quadrangle
|
1929 |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Berry Family Tree
|
Undated |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Hand drawn calling cards/place settings
|
Undated |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Rutgers College commencement program
|
1974-07-17 |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Various documents
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
Includes hand drawn map from Ithaca to Pittsfield,
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| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Daily journal, writer unknown
|
1865 |
| Box 6 | Folder 27 |
A small notebook partially filled with notes on animal diseases and notations "Stock
Book" (owner unknown).
|
1939 |
| Box 10 |
Volumes III and V of daily farm diary, possibly written by Romeyn Berry
|
1943-1950 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 8 |
Ruth Berry Sunday school handouts
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 9 |
Hannah Gould Garden Diary
|
1930 |
|
Scope and Contents
Includes piece of wood with drawing of Harriet and Romeyn
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| Box 9 | Folder 10 |
Trust document, letter to Miss Berry
|
1928-1931 |
| Box 9 | Folder 22 |
Desk diary
|
1949 |
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Scope and Contents
Romeyn or Hester Berry's
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| Box 9 | Folder 28 |
Mounted image of saint
|
Undated |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Indenture - Yorkshire
|
1636 | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Indenture - Lancashire, England
|
1691 | |
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Series IV. Hester Bancroft Berry and Wilder Bancroft
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| Box 6 | Folder 28 |
Bancroft family correspondence
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1881-1941 |
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Scope and Contents
Letters to George and John C. Bancroft (the letter to George appears to be from John,
but the last page is missing) of May 11 and 12, 1881, concerning the will of Abisha
Larned of Oxford, Mass., a copy of the will, and other relevant information; a letter
from Peter Cantine (location?) to Charles F. Mulks (Ithaca), Jan. 15, 1895, re: Cantine's
family genealogy, which Mulks had apparently requested, and in turn requesting information
from Mulks in order to "prove" the will of a Samuel W. Ransom; two letters to Wilder
D. Bancroft from Mark A. DeWolfe Howe (July 15 and Dec. 14, 1904); fifteen letters
(Nov. 20-23, 1906) from various British scientists to Sir William Ramsay, regarding
Wilder Bancroft's suggestion that the Journal of Physical Chemistry be published in
England; letters to Hester Bancroft in Europe (ca. 1926), including a letter from
Morris Bishop (Feb. 18, 1926); and other letters to Hester and Romeyn Berry, pertaining
to Hester Berry's sculptures, the launching of the U.S.S. Bancroft, publication of
Romeyn's work by Putnam's, and other topics. Also a printed Christmas card from Sir
Wilfred and Lady Grenfell (undated.) and a Christmas card from a drawing by Hester
Berry (May 11, 1881-Mar. 31, 1953).
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| Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Wilder Bancroft will
|
1939-12-04 |
| Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Inventory of Wilder Bancroft estate items
|
1953 |
|
Scope and Contents
Art objects displayed and stored at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. Acc.
Nos. given by each item.
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| Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Newspaper clippings
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1923-1955 |
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Scope and Contents
Clippings (25 items) from many newspapers relating to Professor Wilder Bancroft's
experiments in rain-making (1923); a page from the Ithaca Journal about early explorers
and travellers in Tompkins County (Jan. 26, 1955); and other items.
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| Box 6 | Folder 29 |
"Stoneposts - Stock on Hand," a book kept by Hester Berry - egg, cream sales, etc.
|
1936-1938 |
| Box 6 | Folder 30 |
A European travel diary kept by Katherine Bott (later Mrs. Wilder Bancroft) in the
summer
|
1880 |
| Box 6 | Folder 30 |
"Greenhouse Diary," a small partially filled notebook kept by Hester Berry
|
1934 |
| Box 6 | Folder 31 |
Hester Bancroft passport, receipts
|
1899 |
| Box 6 | Folder 31 |
Mrs. Romeyn Berry name plate
|
Undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence pertaining to family estates
|
1952-1954 |
| Box 6 | Folder 33 |
Poems by Hester Bancroft
|
1919 |
| Box 6 | Folder 34 |
Poems by Hester Bancroft
|
1914-1916 |
| Box 6 | Folder 35 |
A notebook of poems written about or during World War I compiled by Hester Bancroft.
|
1914-1919 |
|
Series V. Olive Nutting Berry and Nutting Family
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 36 |
Lee Nutting civil war record and tax documents
|
1908-1927 |
| Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Olive Berry indenture
|
1919-08-18 |
| Box 8 |
Olive Nutting Berry scrapbook
|
1902-1912 | |
|
Scope and Contents
Includes invitations to social functions at Cornell University and elsewhere, programs,
postcards, photographs; Wells College material including a manual, constitution and
by-laws and two copies of the Wells College Chronicle, correspondence, poetry from
Romeyn Berry to Olive, formal announcement of the their wedding, calling cards, a
copy of the Cornell Alumni News and photographs of fraternity parties at Cornell.
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| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Printed items removed from Olive Nutting Berry scrapbook
|
1903-1909 |
| Box 8 | Folder 2-4 |
Olive Nutting Berry scrapbook items, loose
|
1902-1912 |
| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Olive Lee Berry memorial from Garden Club of Ithaca
|
Undated |
| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Olive Lee Berry card and stationary plate receipts
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Article from the Ithaca Daily News on Cornell Crew, with R.W. Nutting
|
1904-07-29 |
|
Series VI. Photographs and artwork
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Photographs of Romeyn Berry
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 19 |
Photographs of Romeyn Berry
|
|
| Box 9 | Folder 11 |
Photographs of Romeyn, Hester, Butch, and the farm
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 12 |
Photographs of Child with dogs
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 13 |
Photographs of Hester in costume
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 13 |
Unidentified photographs
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 13 |
Photographs of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
|
1954-04-17 |
| Box 9 | Folder 13 |
Portrait photograph of Ezra Cornell, gift of C.H. Blair 1936
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 13 |
Glossy print of George Bancroft portrait
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 14 |
Negatives
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 15 |
Reproductions of pen and ink drawings (etchings?) by Daubigny, Corot, Rousseau, and
other artists
|
Undated |
| Box 11 | Folder 3 |
Photographs
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
Includes many unidentified photographs, large photograph of the Cornell Crew, and
a class of 1907 reunion photograph
|
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| Box 7 |
Scrapbook of photographs of South Ireland
|
Undated | |
| Box 11 | Folder 2 |
Reproductions of pen and ink drawings (etchings?) by Daubigny, Corot, Rousseau, and
other artists
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 16-17 |
Photographs of sculptures by Hester Bancroft Berry
|
1928-1936 |
| Box 9 | Folder 20 |
Hester Bancroft's photo album
|
Undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 21 |
Hester Bancroft's photo album
|
1918 |
| Box 9 | Folder 25 |
List of individuals in military photographs
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
Not matched with any photographs in the collections
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 18 |
Water colors, washes, oils, etchings, and pencil and charcoal drawings, many of foreign
scenes, likely by Hester Bancroft
|
1920-1940 |
| Box 11 | Folder 1 |
Water colors, washes, oils, etchings, and pencil and charcoal drawings, many of foreign
scenes, likely by Hester Bancroft
|
1920-1940 |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Watercolor picture
|
Undated | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
3 oversized comic photographs of "boxers," including Berry and Robert Elias Treman
|
Undated | |
| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Watercolors and a print of a bird
|
1880-1900 | |
|
Series VII. Medals, Ribbons, and objects
|
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| Box 12 | MU-2778 |
University of Pennsylvania tenth annual intercollegiate and interscholastic relay
race meeting
|
1904 |
| Box 12 | MU-2779 |
Marshal, International track and field meet, Travers Island
|
1929-07-20 |
| Box 12 | MU-2780 |
Long Island Interscholastic Athletic League, pole vault
|
1900 |
| Box 12 | MU-2804 |
Inspector, New York Athletic Club
|
1911-02-18 |
| Box 12 | MU-2781 |
Inspector, New York Athletic Club
|
1914-02-11 |
| Box 12 | MU-2810 |
Pole vault medal
|
1899 |
| Box 12 | MU-2782 |
Run High Jump medal
|
1900 |
| Box 12 | MU-2783 |
HHSAA hammer throw
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2784 |
Judge at Finish, Oxford-Cambridge vs. Harvard-Yale track meet
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2785 |
Field Judge FHAC
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2786 |
Official, IAAC
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2787 |
Field Judge, unlabelled medal with winged foot
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2788 |
Inspector, Columbia University
|
1912-02-17 |
| Box 12 | MU-2789 |
Judge at Finish, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University track
meet
|
1925-05-02 |
| Box 12 | MU-2790 |
International Collegiate Athletic Association 187th annual convention
|
1923-12-28 |
| Box 12 | MU-2791 |
17th annual convention National Collegiate Athletic Association
|
1922-12-28 |
| Box 12 | MU-2792 |
Yale vs. Notre Dame
|
1923-05-11 |
| Box 12 | MU-2793 |
Official, Princeton-Yale Track AA
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2794 |
Inspector, Harvard-Yale Athletic Association
|
1911-05-13 |
| Box 13 | MU-2838 |
Field judge, Harvard-Yale Athletic Association
|
1915-05-15 |
| Box 12 | MU-2798 |
Track judge, 25th annual relay race carnival, University of Pennsylvania
|
1919 |
| Box 12 | MU-2795 |
Track judge, 30th annual relay race carnival, University of Pennsylvania
|
1924 |
| Box 12 | MU-2796 |
Track judge, 31st annual relay race carnival, University of Pennsylvania
|
1925 |
| Box 12 | MU-2819 |
Track judge, 32nd annual relay race carnival, University of Pennsylvania
|
1926 |
| Box 12 | MU-2797 |
Track judge, 33rd annual relay race carnival, University of Pennsylvania
|
1927 |
| Box 12 | MU-2799 |
Judge, ICAAAA
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2800 |
Field judge, Senior and Junior AAU national championships
|
1916-09-08 |
| Box 12 | MU-2801 |
Inspector, Columbia University indoor meet
|
1909 |
| Box 12 | MU-2802 |
Inspector, 10th annual indoor relay carnival, Columbia University
|
1910-03-12 |
| Box 12 | MU-2803 |
Inspector
|
1913-02-15 |
|
Scope and Contents
Ribbon only, medal missing
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| Box 12 | MU-2805 |
Sigma Alpha Epsilon pin
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2806-2807 |
US military pins
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2808 |
Theodore Roosevelt for President political button
|
Undated |
| Box 12 | MU-2809 |
Dunston pin
|
1900-1920 |
|
Scope and Contents
Small monk's head pin from Cornell's Dunston society
|
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| Box 12 | MU-2811 |
Director of field, ICAAAA 41st annual field meet
|
1916-05-27 |
| Box 12 | MU-2812 |
Chief inspector, 8th annual cross country championships of the ICAAAA
|
1915-11-20 |
| Box 12 | MU-2827 |
Clerk of course, 8th annual cross country championships, ICAAAA
|
1915-11-20 |
| Box 12 | MU-2828 |
Chief inspector, 9th annual cross country championships of the ICAAAA
|
1916-11-25 |
| Box 12 | MU-2829 |
Inspector, 10th annual cross country championships of the ICAAAA
|
1917-11-24 |
| Box 12 | MU-2830 |
Judge at Finish, 42nd annual track and field championships, ICAAAA
|
1918-05-31 |
| Box 12 | MU-2813 |
Judge at Finish, 43rd annual track and field championships, ICAAAA
|
1919-05-30 |
| Box 12 | MU-2814 |
Judge at Finish, 44th annual track and field championships, ICAAAA
|
1920-05-28 |
| Box 12 | MU-2815 |
Judge at Finish, 45th annual track and field championships, ICAAAA
|
1921-05-27 |
| Box 12 | MU-2816 |
Judge at Finish, 4th annual indoor championship, ICAAAA
|
1925-03-07 |
| Box 12 | MU-2817 |
Judge at Finish, 49th annual track and field championships, ICAAAA
|
1925-05-29 |
| Box 12 | MU-2818 |
Inspector, ICAAAA Cross County Run, Columbia
|
1913-11-22 |
| Box 12 | MU-2820 |
Inspector, 5th annual cross country run, ICAAAA
|
1912 |
| Box 12 | MU-2821 |
Advisory committee, 1st annual cross country run, ICAAAA
|
1908-11-21 |
| Box 12 | MU-2822 |
Inspector, 3rd annual cross country run, ICAAAA
|
1910-11-12 |
| Box 12 | MU-2823 |
Inspector, 35th annual field meet, ICAAAA
|
1910 |
| Box 12 | MU-2824 |
Advisory committee, 36th annual field meet, ICAAAA
|
1911-05-26 |
| Box 12 | MU-2825 |
Inspector, 37th annual field meet, ICAAAA
|
1912-05-31 |
| Box 12 | MU-2826 |
Advisory committee, 38th annual field meet, ICAAAA
|
1913-05-30 |
| Box 13 | MU-2831 |
Advisory committee, ICAAAA medal
|
1912 |
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Scope and Contents
Engraved
|
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| Box 13 | MU-2832 |
Advisory committee, ICAAAA medal
|
1913 |
|
Scope and Contents
Engraved
|
|||
| Box 13 | MU-2833 |
Advisory committee, ICAAAA medal
|
1914 |
|
Scope and Contents
Engraved
|
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| Box 13 | MU-2839 |
Advisory committee/treasurer, ICAAAA
|
1907-1908 |
|
Scope and Contents
Engraved
|
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| Box 13 | MU-2834 |
Phi Beta Kappa medal
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
Back engrave, "W.B.Berry, Dec. 5th 1776"
|
|||
| Box 13 | MU-2835 |
Columbia athletic medal
|
Undated |
| Box 13 | MU-2836 |
NY Giants Worlds Championship charm
|
1921 |
|
Scope and Contents
Back engraved, "1922, 349 Romeyn Berry"
|
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| Box 13 | MU-2837 |
Delta Kappa Epsilon medal
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
Back engraved, "R.M.L."
|
|||
| Box 13 | MU-2840 |
Cornell Varsity Crew, R.W.Nutting
|
Undated |
| Box 13 | MU-2841 |
Carved bone bobbin and crotchet hook
|
Undated |
| Box 13 | MU-2842 |
The Romeyn fly
|
Undated |
|
Scope and Contents
Fly-fishing lure on card, describing the "Romeyn" fly
|
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| Box 13 | MU-2843 |
Printer's block image of Romeyn Berry
|
Undated |
| Box 13 | MU-2844 |
Romeyn Berry's stopwatch
|
1921 |
|
Scope and Contents
Back engraved, "To Romeyn Berry, with best wishes, from Gustavus T. Kirby"
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