Cornell-Bouck family papers, [ca. 1770-1900]
Collection Number: 8502
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cornell-Bouck family papers, [ca. 1770-1900]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8502
Abstract:
Papers from the family of Alonzo Cornell and his son, Charles Ezra and daughter-in-law,
Katherine Bouck.
Creator:
Cornell family.
Bouck family.
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Papers from the family of Alonzo Cornell and his son, Charles Ezra and daughter-in-law,
Katherine Bouck.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cornell-Bouck Family Papers, #8502. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
See also William C. Bouck papers, #2206, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMM02206.
Also see William Bouck Cornell scrapbook, #37-5-4441.
Names:
Cornell family.
Bouck family.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
Series I. Alonzo Cornell Materials
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Subseries Ia. Incoming Correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letters from Ezra Cornell
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1845-1847 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Letters from Ezra Cornell
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1848-1849 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Letters from Ezra Cornell
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1853-1862 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Letters from Ezra Cornell
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1862-1872 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1848-1849 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from H. Bronson and Margaret
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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1850-1860 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Otis E. Wood, A. Oakey Hall, DH Craig, and Colonel John C. Fremont
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1864-1866 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from G. Schuyler, D. Boardman, Thomas Faile Jr., HB Lord, O. Wood,
WC Curran, and Alfred Wells
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1867-1869 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from John Meredith Read, Friedrich Schuk, Judge Folger, J. Selkreg,
G. Schuyler, D. Boardman, Thomas Strong, GC Caldwell, Wesley Hooker, and Edward Underhill
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1871 |
Scope and Contents
Letter from Horace Greeley
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1882-1885 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from William Bogardt and James Blaine,
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1888-1889 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from WW Astor, JB Foraker, Stewart Woodford, Albert Shaw, William
Bogardt, and B. Lucy
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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1893-1897 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Crane, Elijah Coffue, and Mayor of NY
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
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1899-1912 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from the President's secretary, Mayor of NY, Charles Hughes, and
Jacob Gould Schurman,
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Republican Party letters and letterheads
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1859-1878 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Letters and notes from Civil War soldiers
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1861-1868 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Letters regarding New York State politics
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1856-1862 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from D. Boardman, O. Sawyer, Horace Greeley, Jas. Terwilliger, T.
Platt, Charles Cook, and William S. Lincoln
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Political correspondence
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1860-1866 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Jas. Terwilliger
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Political correspondence
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1867-1872 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Oliver Hurd, DS Bennett, OW Chapman, JS Thurston, George Otis,
JH Selkreg, GW Schuyler, R. Sidney, Charles K. Graham, and several others
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Letter from Grover Cleveland
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December, 1887 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Letters from Roscoe Conkling
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1866-1889 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Letters from President-Elect Harrison
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1889 |
Scope and Contents
Discusses possible appointment of Alonzo Cornell to his cabinet
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Letters from GW Hotchkiss
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1865-1868 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Letters from Thomas C. Platt
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1864-1865 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Letter from CA Scroggs
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1861 |
Scope and Contents
Describes living with Abraham Lincoln and his impressions
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Letters from Andrew Dickson White
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1871, 1893 |
Box 2 | Folder 8-11 |
Letters regarding early days of the telegraph
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1848-1882 |
Scope and Contents
Includes some outgoing correspondence
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Letter from Elijah Cornell to Alonzo, with Elijah's will
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1857, 1830 |
Subseries Ib. Outgoing Correspondence
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1844-1846 |
Box 7 | Folder 2-4 |
Outgoing letters, mainly to family members
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1845-1847 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1847 |
Box 2 | Folder 14-17 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1848 |
Box 2 | Folder 18-19 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1849 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1850 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1852-1853 |
Box 3 | Folder 3-5 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1854-1856 |
Box 3 | Folder 6-8 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1857-1859 |
Box 3 | Folder 9-11 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1861-1863 |
Box 3 | Folder 12-13 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1864-1865 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letter about building the library
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
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1866-1869 |
Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Outgoing letters
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1865 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Gov. Fenton, Charles Cornell, and the bank
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Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Letter to Governor Roosevelt
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1900 |
Subseries Ic. Miscellaneous Documents
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Box 9 | Folder 1 |
"Life of Ezra Cornell", by Alonzo Cornell, original manuscript
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Box 7 | Folder 7 |
"Recognition by the United States of Foreign Powers", by Alonzo Cornell
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Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Handwritten biography of Alonzo Cornell
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Box 9 | Folder 2 |
Alonzo's telegraph abbreviation notebook with clippings
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1846 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Compositions
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1846 |
Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Fall Creek deed, sketches, and maps
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1853 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Alonzo Cornell references
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1859 |
Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Alonzo Cornell and Lucius Colby contract
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1860 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Railroad tickets
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1863 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Petition from Binghamton to State Senate, regarding stockholders and offices
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1866 |
Box 9 | Folder 3 |
Bank checks
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1871-1874 |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Promissory notes, Alonzo and Ezra Cornell
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1874-1884 |
Box 9 | Folder 7 |
Ledgers
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1881-1889 |
Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Alonzo Cornell and Virgil Blauchard contract, and contract with TD Wilcox
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1894 |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Letters from AD White to Mrs Alonzo Cornell
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1903-1905 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Letters from Jacob Gould Schurman to Mrs. Alonzo Cornell
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1904-1907 |
Box 9 | Folder 4 |
Silver name plaque from casket
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1923 |
Box 10 |
Clippings and articles collected in scrapbook by Alonzo Cornell
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Box 7 | Folder 23 |
Ledger book
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Series II. Ezra Cornell Materials
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Subseries IIa. Incoming Correspondence
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1862-1873 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Jay Gould, Mary Ann Cornell, Goldwin Smith, Stewart Woodford,
James Law, and William Russell
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Letters regarding railroads
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1870s |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Letters from GF Lewis, land warrant broker
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1866-1872 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Letters from John Mcgraw
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1870-1874 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Letters from Hiram Sibley
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1870-1872 |
Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Letters from Henry Sage to Ezra Cornell
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1871-1873 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Letters from AD White, regarding the purchase of the cast collection
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1872 |
Subseries IIb. Outgoing Correspondence
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Box 11 |
Typescripts, with edits and notes, and photostats of letters from Ezra Cornell to
his wife Mary Ann Cornell
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Box 11 |
Old folders with descriptions of letters from Ezra to Alonzo and Mary Ann
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Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1866, 1874 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Letters to Mary Ann
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1843-1845 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Letters to Mary Ann
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1852-1855 |
Box 4 | Folder 10-11 |
Letters to Mary Ann
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1856-1871 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letter from March, 1861 describing Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, in folder 11
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Letters to Mary Ann
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1871-1872 |
Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Letters to Horace Greeley regarding St. Croix land grant
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Subseries IIc. Miscellaneous Materials
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Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Letter to Governor from OEW, transcribed by EEC
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Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Typed story of Cornell and the Telegraph
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Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Page from the Cipher book
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1822 |
Box 9 | Folder 16 |
Souvenir coin given to Ezra by the mayor of New York City on the opening of the Erie
Canal. In a wooden box made from wood shipped on the first boat to go through the
canals
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1826 |
Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Signed petition from Binghamton to Ezra
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1867 |
Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Cornell versus Woodward documents
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1870s |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Appeal book for the settlement of Ezra Cornell's estate
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1892 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Hand-written biography of Ezra Cornell, written on the back of 1892 Ithaca Building
Co. printouts
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1892 |
Series III. Cornell Family Documents and Materials
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Subseries IIIa. Charles Ezra Cornell
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Records at Columbia University, graduates
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1877-1878 |
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Letter from Charles to Frank Cornell
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1882 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Letters and documents to Charles regarding New York State agriculture
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1895, 1839 |
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Incoming correspondence and papers
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1876. 1895-1909 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Alonzo Cornell and Orrin Wood
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Incoming correspondence
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1910-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Cuthbert Pound, Charles Hughes, and Herbert Lehman
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Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Letters from George and Inez Fields
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1933-1934 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Theodore Roosevelt autograph, to Charles
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Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Map of Africa from Charles's room
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
State of New York Attorney and Counsellor certificate
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1880 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Union University Albany Law School bachelor diploma
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1880 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Columbia bachelor diploma
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
Notary Public certificate
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1882-1884 | |
Subseries IIIb. Miscellaneous materials
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Signatures
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Copies of engraving of Alonzo Cornell
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Cornell stationary
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Box 5 | Folder 4 |
10 cent fractional currency
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Marriage service, William B. Cornell and Emily
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Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Wedding invitations
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Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Inventory books
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Box 9 | Folder 5 |
Two daily diaries, one from Charles Cornell, one unknown
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Box 9 | Folder 8 |
Ledgers
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Box 9 | Folder 14 |
Bible
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Box 9 | Folder 15 |
Rocks from Pompeii, sand from where St. Peter was martyred, bullet from Saratoga battlefield,
and buttons from a US Uniform
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Box 9 | Folder 17 |
Bank pouch and receipts
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Box 9 | Folder 18-20 |
Cornell related clippings and articles
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Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Timothy Murphy documents
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1780s-1800s |
Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Elijah Cornell indenture
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1791 |
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Letter from Elijah Cornell to his wife
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1810 |
Box 7 | Folder 19 |
Miscellaneous correspondence
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1818-1940 |
Box 9 | Folder 13 |
Lottery tickets
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1826, 1828 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 |
DR Wood letter to Mary Ann Cornell
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1845 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Letter to Edwin Cornell
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1846 |
Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Letter to "father", unknown sender
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1848 |
Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Cornell Bills, Notes, etc.
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1850-1858 |
Box 9 | Folder 9-11 |
Cornell related reports and pamphlets
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1858-1954 |
Box 9 | Folder 6 |
Cayuga Lake operatim of boats, passenger fares etc.
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1861-1863 |
Box 7 | Folder 20 |
Real Estate inventory
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Box 7 | Folder 21 |
Funeral program for U.S. Grant
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Box 7 | Folder 22 |
Deeds and mortgages, James Covert, Katherine and Charles Cornell
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1877-1907 |
Box 9 | Folder 12 |
Governor's message
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1881-1882 |
Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Letter to Franklin Cornell from Thomas Rooker
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1881 |
Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
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1882 |
Box 5 | Folder 16 |
"History of the Class of Seventy Nine of Columbia College", written by the historian
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1882-1883 |
Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Photograph of clocks possibly made by Ithaca Calendar Clock Co, and article about
Alonzo Cornell clock story
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1889 |
Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Calling cards of prominent persons
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late 1800s |
Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Note regarding the commission of the Ezra Cornell portrait
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1893 |
Box 5 | Folder 19 |
Highway route certification, Town of Fulton
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1901 |
Box 5 | Folder 20 |
Letter to Mary E Cornell
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1917 |
Box 5 | Folder 21 |
William Bouck Cornell letter
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1932 |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Letter from the White House to William B, Cornell
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1933 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
William B. Cornell biography information
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1938 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
William B. Cornell stock information from Yervan Maxudian
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1915-1921 |
Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Inventory of books, including correspondence with book dealers
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post-1940 |
Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Letters to Cornell University regarding gift of William B. Cornell
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1960s |
Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Katherine B. Cornell shares, application for "Daughters of the Revolution"
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1918 |
Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Cornell genealogy
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Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Benjamin Wood genealogy, and miscellaneous genealogies
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Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Photograph of the house on the corner of Seneca and Tioga street, Ithaca, where Ezra
Cornell died.
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Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Velvet pin cushion given by William B. Cornell to his mother
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1885 |
Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Invitations to Boucks and Cornells
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Mapcase Folder 2 |
William B. Cornell American Society of Mechanical Engineers member certificate
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1922 | |
Mapcase Folder 2 |
William B. Cornell The University of the State of New York license to practice engineering
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1924 | |
Mapcase Folder 2 |
William B. Cornell renewal certificate
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1925 | |
Mapcase Folder 2 |
William B. Cornell Institute of Management certificate
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1928 | |
Series IV. Bouck Family Materials
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Subseries IVa. William C. Bouck
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Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Legal receipts
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Box 8 | Folder 14 |
Schoharie patents, leases
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1786-1833 |
Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Certification of election to NY State Senate
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1802 |
Box 8 | Folder 12-13 |
Miscellaneous legal documents
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1805-1855 |
Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Certificates of appointments as sheriff, assemblyman, and military positions
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1812-1840 |
Box 8 | Folder 1-4 |
Letters to WC Bouck
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1812-1819 |
Box 8 | Folder 15 |
Notes and receipts
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1812-1866 |
Box 8 | Folder 16 |
Agreement between Peter Hoes and WC Bouck
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1813 |
Box 8 | Folder 9-11 |
Deeds
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1814-1850 |
Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Letters regarding bank practices, from D. Beckman
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1820 |
Box 8 | Folder 5-7 |
Letters to WC Bouck
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1838-1857 |
Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Letter from John Titus
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1845 |
Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Insurance information
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1846 |
Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Letters regarding the California gold rush
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1849-1850 |
Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Treasury documents and correspondence
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Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Bouck article in Schoharie Newspaper
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1932 |
Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Part of the card case of William Bouck's wife
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Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Perpetual calendar, William Bouck
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Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Bouck photo
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Box 9 | Folder 22 |
Epaulettes from WC Bouck's jacket
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Subseries IVb. Miscellaneous Materials
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Box 9 | Folder 21 |
Map of Schoharie Valley showing route traversed by Colonel Sir John Johnson in 1780
raid
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Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Camp Wahalla Booklet
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Box 8 | Folder 20 |
Bouck clippings
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Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Signature of William Pauck, scripture leaves
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1740 |
Box 8 | Folder 17 |
Infantry appointments for Christyan Bauck, Joseph Bouck
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1793, 1829 |
Box 8 | Folder 18 |
Agreement on sale of a slave
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1797 |
Box 6 | Folder 19 |
Certification of V. Danforth as Physician and Surgeon
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1836 |
Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Letter from Charles Bouck to father
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1843 |
Box 8 | Folder 19 |
Transcript of the Account of William Bouck
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1849 |
Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Charles Bouck, made member of the town war committee
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1865 |
Box 6 | Folder 22 |
Statement on condition of banks
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1843 |
Box 6 | Folder 23 |
Letter from Francis Bouck to Mrs. Charles Bouck
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1905 |
Box 6 | Folder 24 |
Bouck family history
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1928 |
Mapcase Folder 2 |
Genealogy charts
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