Helen Vandervort papers, 1922-1994.
Collection Number: 4378
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Helen Vandervort papers, 1922-1994.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4378
Abstract:
Correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, photographs, printed materials,
certificates, and biography relating to Vandervort's work with the Tompkins County
Public Library and the Finger Lakes Library System; the Tompkins County Senior Citizens'
Council and senior citizens issues; the New York State College of Human Ecology; the
New York State Fair; and women's rights issues. Also, letters from the Bull family
(1922-26), interviews with Helen Vandervort by Eleanor Randles and Kathleen Babbitt.
Creator:
Vandervort, Helen, 1905-1994.
Randles, Eleanor Foster, 1920-
Babbitt, Kathleen
Quanitities:
7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Extension education administrator.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Helen Vandervort papers, #4378. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, photographs, printed material,
certificates, and biographical material relating to Helen Vandervort's work with the
Tompkins County Public Library and the Finger Lakes Library System; the Tompkins County
Senior Citizens' Council and senior citizens issues; the New York State College of
Human Ecology; the New York State Fair; Alpha House in Trumansburg, New York and women's
rights issues. Also, letters from the Bull family (1922-26), and interviews with
Helen Vandervort by Eleanor Randles and Kathleen Babbitt.
Names:
Bull family.
Finger Lakes Library System
Tompkins County Public Library
Alpha House (Trumansburg, N.Y.)
Tompkins County Senior Citizens\' Council
New York State College of Human Ecology
Cornell University -- : Alumni and alumnae.
New York State Fair
Subjects:
Women -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Home economics extension workers.
Home economics extension work.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Libraries and Miscellaneous
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Library financial records
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Library correspondence: Tompkins County Public Library and Finger Lakes Library System
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Finger Lakes Public Library System
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Friends of the Library
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Library dedication
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Tompkins County Public Library
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Cornell Library Association
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Library - Study Team/Reference Team
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Library Contracts, Agreements, Proclamations
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Micellaneous correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Personal correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Vandervort Christmas letters
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Box 1 | Folder 13-15 |
Flora Rose Fellowship
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Box 1 | Folder 16-18 |
Flora Rose Scholarship
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Flemmie Kittrell Fellowship
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Emily Atkers (aunt of Alfred Kahn)
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Agda Osborn
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Box 1 | Folder 22-23 |
Vertrees Ackerly (cousin active in Home Bureau)
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Connie Cook
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Jeanette B. McCay
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Box 1 | Folder 26-27 |
Meade Summers
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Nelson Rockefeller
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Miscellaneous local projects
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Route 96 controversy
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
"Doing Woman's History" - conference on research sources at Cornell
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1986 |
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Cooperative Extension miscellany
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Small projects
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Class of 1926 miscellany
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Susan B. Anthony coin
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Box 1 | Folder 37-40 |
Woman's Hall of Fame director's meetings
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Box 1 | Folder 41-42 |
Woman's Hall of Fame catalogs
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Libraries - general guidelines, other local libraries
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Library - donations
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Albany fund raising
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Woman's Community Building
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
New York State Department of Commerce Woman's Council
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
United Way
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Hospital
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Cornell University Council - membership
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Gamma Sigma Delta
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall - new wing
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Savage Hall - fund raising
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
New York State Fair
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Syracuse Music Museum
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Lectures
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Retirement from New York Sate Fair
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Speeches
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Certificates
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Series II. Senior Citizens
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Miscellany
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
RSVP
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Cookbook for Two (draft)
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Older Persons Records
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Sorority
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Box 2 | Folder 23-24 |
Biography
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Jody Colerick
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Thesis: Adaptional Process in Later Life, by Elizabeth Jo Colerick
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Box 2 | Folder 27-29 |
Old letters, monographs, health bill
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Box 3 | Folder 1-4 |
Older Persons Record
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Box 3 | Folder 5-6 |
Senior Citizen course taught at Elmira
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Nutrition for the Elderly - Title IV
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Ruth Pond correspondence - Colbert, Shipherd, etc.
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Senior Citizens and Aging Gray Panthers
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Office for the Aging
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Lansing Housing Authorities
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Material on Holland
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
New York State Health Planning Commission
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Box 3 | Folder 15-16 |
Right to Die
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Protective Services for Aged
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Box 3 | Folder 18-19 |
Legislation
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Box 3 | Folder 20-22 |
White House Conference on Aging
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1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Health care
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Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Vision care
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Box 3 | Folder 25-26 |
Miscellany
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Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Senior Citizens' Council reports
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Box 3 | Folder 28-29 |
Senior Citizens' Council - new buildings
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Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Senior Citizens' Council evaluations
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Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Senior Citizens' Council Operations Manual
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Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Tompkins County Office for the Aging
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Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Housing for the elderly
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Box 3 | Folder 34 |
State Plan for the Aging
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Box 3 | Folder 35 |
New York State Office for the Aging
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Box 3 | Folder 36 |
New York State Office for the Aging - Older Americans Act Program Committee
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Box 3 | Folder 37 |
Special items - letter to Gannett concerning funds to complete the payment for the
Senior Citizen Center
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
New York State Older Americans Act
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Tompkins County Older Americans Needs Assessment Survey
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Series III. Printed Material
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Box 4 |
Legislative Approaches to the Problems of the Elderly; A Handbook of Model State Statutes
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Box 4 |
The Golden Years...A Tarnished Myth
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Box 4 |
The Employment Problems of Older Workers
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Box 4 |
Serve: Older Volunteers in Communtiy Service
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Box 4 |
Report of the Advisory Committee on Service Centres for Old People - Netherlands?
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Series IV. Biographical Information
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Box 5 |
Cassette tape and Genealogy of William Bull
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1984 | |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Resume, photographs
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
High school memorabilia, and Phi Alpha Phi certificate
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1922-1926 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Copy of marriage certificate
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1928-07-21 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Achievements
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1960-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Congratulatory letters for Helen's receiving the Women of Achievement Award
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1967 |
Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Congratulatory letters
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1959-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Obituary, clippings, correspondence concerning Helen Vandervort's death
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1994 |
Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence, clippings, photos concerning the Vandervort and Bull families
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1950-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Vandervort genealogy
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1920-1979 |
Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Clippings concerning Amy Bull Crist - Helen's sister
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1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence concerning Harry Bull - Helen's uncle
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1978 |
Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Condolences - death of Helen's Father
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1965 |
Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Manning genealogy
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1969-1988 |
Box 8 | Folder 18 |
John Vandervort correspondence concerning his career
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1936-1960 |
Box 8 | Folder 19 |
John Vandervort retirement party photographs
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1965 |
Series V. Correspondence
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Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence to Helen Vandervort from family while she was at Cornell
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1923-1926 |
Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Postcards to and from John and Helen Vandervort
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Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence - from Helen's family to Helen
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1923-1948 |
Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence written by Helen Vandervort
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1920 |
Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence written by John Vandervort
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Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence - from Helen's mother to Helen
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1924-01-1924-05 |
Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence - from Helen's mother to Helen
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1925-06-1925-12 |
Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence - from Helen's mother to Helen
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1926, 1943, 1960 |
Box 6 | Folder 19 |
Correspondence - from Helen's father to Helen
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Undated |
Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence - from Helen's children
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1949-1958 |
Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence - from various people
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1922-1924 |
Box 6 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence - from various people
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1925-1928 |
Box 6 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence - from various people
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Undated |
Box 6 | Folder 24 |
Correspondence - from famous people
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1920-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 25 |
Correspondence, clippings, photos, concerning the Rockefellers
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1960-1979 |
Box 6 | Folder 26 |
Correspondence - personal letters from John Vandervort to Helen Bull Vandervort
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1923-1928 |
Box 6 | Folder 27 |
Correspondence - personal letters from John Vandervort to Helen Bull Vandervort
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1923-1928 |
Box 6 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence - personal
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1940-1959 |
Box 6 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence - personal
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1960-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 30 |
Correspondence - personal
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1960-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 31 |
Correspondence - personal
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1960-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence - personal
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1960-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 33 |
Correspondence - personal
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1960-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 34 |
Correspondence concerning politics
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1950-1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 35 |
Correspondence concerning politics
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1970s |
Box 6 | Folder 36 |
Correspondence concerning politics
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1980s |
Box 6 | Folder 37 |
Correspondence concerning Savage Hall
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1980-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 38 |
Correspondence with Shizuko Muto
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1980-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 39 |
Correspondence - concerning course at Elmira College, Antique Sale, Auction Channel
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1950-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 40 |
Correspondence - concerning students helped for Cornell admission
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1960-1989 |
Box 6 | Folder 41 |
Correspondence concerning job opportunities
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1920-1929, 1988 |
Box 6 | Folder 42 |
Correspondence concerning MVR booklet by Percival
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1950-1969 |
Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence concerning SUNY
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1960-1989 |
Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence concerning Library Association
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1960-1969 |
Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence with Jeanette McCay
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1980-1989 |
Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Memos, cards, clippings, letters
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1945-1994 |
Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Memos, cards, clippings, letters
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1964-1994 |
Series VI. New York State Fair
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Box 8 | Folder 8 |
New York State Fair material
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1944-1965 |
Box 8 | Folder 9 |
New York State Fair material - including photos, newspapers clippings and Nelson Rockefeller
letters
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1950-1979 |
Box 8 | Folder 10 |
New York State Fair material
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1966-1979 |
Box 8 | Folder 11 |
New York State Fair material
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1960-1979 |
Box 8 | Folder 12 |
New York State Fair photographs
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1959-1970 |
Box 8 | Folder 13 |
New York State Fair photographs
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1950-1969 |
Box 8 | Folder 14 |
New York State Fair photographs
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1960-1979 |
Series VII. Subject Files
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Box 8 | Folder 17 |
College of Home Economics related material
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1924-1926 |
Box 5 |
Calendars
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1960-1989 | |
Box 5 |
Alpha House - correspondence, clippings, minutes of meetings
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Campus Master Plan and response to the SUNY Master Plan to 1980 - College of Human
Ecology
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
College Committee on Public Service and Continuing Education - suggested ways to expand
continuing education in Human Ecology
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1971 |
Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Guidelines for Field Experience - report
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1971 |
Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Report of Admissions and Recruitment Activities
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1970-1971 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Plan of Organization for the College of Home Economics from David Knapp
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1969 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Planning for the 1980s- from Jerome Zigler to Advisory Council
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1979 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
DNS- Philosophy statement
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1976 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
DNS goals and plans
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1980-1986 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Extracts from Dean's Mid-Year Report to Provost W.K. Kennedy- Jerome Zigler
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1980 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Occupations of Human Ecology male alumni
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1970-1979 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Statement of College-Wide Goals and Priorities - Jerome Zigler
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1980-1986 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Dean's Report to the Advisory Council
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Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Human Ecology Planning Document
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1980-1986 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Proposal for establishing a Master of Professional Studies Program in Health Administration
in Human Ecology
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1984 |
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Alpha Xi Delta
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
American Association of University Women
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1950-1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 3 |
American Association of University (Fellows)
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1950-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 4 |
College of Human Ecology - correspondence, memos
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1960-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 5 |
College of Human Ecology - correspondence
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1950-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Human Ecology Advisory Council - background material relating to the last 10 year
period
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1978-1988 |
Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Early history of Human Ecology - MVR, Rose, Blanding - clippings and correspondence
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1940-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Advisory Council material
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1960-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Alumni meeting in Rochester to raise scholarship money
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1970 |
Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Human Ecology- biographical material on Helen Vandervort
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1960-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Letters and material concerning nutrition
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1980-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 12 |
William Wright correspondence - Human Ecology
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1980-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Commemorations
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Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Confederation of Alumni Associations Alumni Award
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1976 |
Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Cornell Class of 1926
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Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Cornell "11"
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Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Dairyman's League publications
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Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Empire State Theater and Music Society
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Box 7 | Folder 19 |
Finger Lake Library System
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1960-1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 20 |
Corrine Brown Galvin
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Box 7 | Folder 21 |
Gamma Sigma Delta
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1980-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 22 |
Governor's Conference on Women's Work and Women's Council
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1960-1979 |
Box 8 | Folder 15 |
Women's Council photographs
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1960-1970 |
Box 7 | Folder 23 |
Home Bureau and Cooperative Extension - correspondence, memos
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1930-1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 24 |
Hotel School - founding of it
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Box 7 | Folder 25 |
International Fair
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1960-1969 |
Box 7 | Folder 26 |
Ithaca Area Beautification
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1970-1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 27 |
Ithaca City Federation of Women's Organizations and Women's Community Building
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1980-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 28 |
Ithaca - Northeast Senior Citizens
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1980-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 29 |
Ithaca Public Library
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1960-1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 30 |
Merril-Palmer Institute
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Box 7 | Folder 31 |
Office of the Aging
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1970-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 32 |
Oral history transcript - Helen Vandervort
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Box 7 | Folder 33 |
Scholarships
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1969 |
Box 7 | Folder 34 |
Flemmie Kittrell Scholarship
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1970-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 35 |
Flora Rose Graduate Fellowship
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1960-1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 36 |
Helen Vandervort Scholarship
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1980-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 37 |
Helen Vandervort Scholarship recipients
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1980-1989 |
Box 8 | Folder 16 |
Vandervort Scholarship correspondence and sympathy cards
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1994 |
Box 7 | Folder 38 |
Human Ecology Fellowship
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1960-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 39 |
Jean Failing Fellowship
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1970-1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 40 |
Speeches
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Box 7 | Folder 41 |
Ithaca and New York State Senior Citizens
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1980-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 42 |
Women's Hall of Fame - MVR nomination
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1960-1989 |
Box 7 | Folder 43 |
Youth
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1963 |
Box 7 |
Pins and badges worn by Helen Vandervort
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