George Lincoln Burr papers, 1861-1942.
Collection Number: 14-17-22
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
George Lincoln Burr papers, 1861-1942.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-17-22
Abstract:
Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's
boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell
University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting
rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White;
his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his
work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in the American
Historical Association, the Cornell Alumni Association, the Cornell Christian Association,
the Hall of Fame at New York University, the Telluride Association, and in many other
social and professional groups.
Creator:
Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.
Quanitities:
16.9 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of medieval history, librarian of the Andrew Dickson White Library at Cornell
University.
Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's
boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell
University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting
rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White;
his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his
work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in the American
Historical Association, the Cornell Alumni Association, the Cornell Christian Association,
the Hall of Fame at New York University, the Telluride Association, and in many other
social and professional groups.
Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Charles Kendall Adams, Roland H. Bainton, Carl
Becker, Henry Bourne, James Bryce, John Burroughs, Anna and Henry Comstock, Reverend
Robert Collyer, Leonard K. Elmhirst, Livingston Farrand, Max Farrand, Simon Henry
Gage, Daniel Coit Gilman, Louis Gottschalk, Evarts B. Greene, Charles Gross, George
Willam Harris, Albert Bushnell Hart, Charles Haskins, Ernest Huffcut, Charles Henry
Hull, Edward M. Hulme, J. Franklin Jameson (mainly having to do with the AMERICAN
HISTORICAL REVIEW), David Starr Jordan (extensive, quite impersonal), Louis C. Karpinski,
Horace Kephart, Waldo G. Leland, John Bassett Moore, John R. Mott, David Saville Muzzey,
Wallace Notestein, Cuthbert Pound, Herbert Putnam (Library of Congress), Jacob Gould
Schurman, George H. Sabine, Goldwin Smith, Preserved Smith, H. Morse Stephens, Dorothy
and Willard Straight, Alfred and Ernest Sze, Ida Tarbell, Frederick Jackson Turner,
Moses Coit Tyler, Hendrik Willem Van Loon (extensive and intimate), Oswald Garrison
Villard, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Frederick White, Burt G. Wilder,
and many others.
Letter, 1903, from Andrew Dickson White about his trip to Elba, with comments about
Napoleon I, and fourteen postcards, some annotated, of scenes of Elba.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
George Lincoln Burr papers, #14-17-22. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922.
Bainton, Roland H. (Roland Herbert), 1894-1984.
Bancroft, Frederic, 1860-1945.
Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945.
Bourne, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox), 1837-1909.
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922.
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.
Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908.
Greene, Evarts Boutell, 1870-1947.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943.
Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937.
Hull, Charles Henry, 1864-1936.
Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956.
Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931.
Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947.
Mott, John Raliegh, 1865-1955.
Notestein, Wallace, 1878-1969.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Sabine, George Holland, 1880-1961.
Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910.
Smith, Preserved, 1880-1941.
Sze, Sao-Ke Alfred, 1877-1958.
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944.
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.
Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944.
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949.
White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick), 1859-
Napoleon, Emperor of the French, I, 1769-1821.
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902.
Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931.
Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912.
Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney Straight, 1887-1968.
Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974.
Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939.
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945.
Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944.
Gottschalk, Louis Reichenthal, 1899-1975.
Gross, Charles, 1857-1909.
Harris, George William, 1849-1917.
Huffcut, Ernest W. (Ernest Wilson), 1860-1907.
Hulme, Edward Maslin, 1871-1951.
Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966.
Muzzey, David Saville, 1870-1965.
Pound, Cuthbert Winfred, 1864-1935.
Putnam, Herbert, 1861-1955.
Stephens, H. Morse (Henry Morse), 1857-1919.
Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918.
Sze, Ernest.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide.
Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925.
American Historical Association
Cornell University. Libraries
Cornell University -- : Students.
Universität Leipzig (1409-1953)
Cornell Alumni Association
Cornell University Christian Association
Cortland Academy (Homer, N.Y.)
New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Telluride Association
Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission
Places:
Elba (Italy) -- Pictorial works.
Venezuela -- Boundaries -- Guyana.
Newark Valley (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Guyana -- Boundaries -- Venezuela.
Subjects:
Librarians.
Historians.
College teachers.
Rare books.
Rare book libraries.
College students.
Form and Genre Terms:
Manuscripts for publication.
Diaries.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1861-1873 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1874-1876 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1877-1878 |
Box 1 | Folder 4-6 |
Correspondence
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1879-1881 |
Scope and Contents
Including list of medallions, folder 5
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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January-June 8, 1882 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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July-August, 1882 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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September-December, 1882 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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January-July, 1883 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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August-December, 1883 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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January-April, 1884 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
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May-September, 1884 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence
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October-December, 1884 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
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January-February, 1885 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence
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March-May, 1885 |
Scope and Contents
Includes 4 letters from Horace Kephart to Burr, from Florence, Italy
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
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June-July, 1885 |
Scope and Contents
Includes 4 letters from Horace Kephart to Burr, from Florence, Italy
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Box 1 | Folder 18-19 |
Correspondence
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August-November, 1885 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence
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December, 1885 |
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 letter from Horace Kephart to Burr, from Florence, Italy. Dated December
16.
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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January, 1886 |
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 letter from Horace Kephart to Burr, from Florence, Italy
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Box 2 | Folder 2-3 |
Correspondence
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February-July, 1886 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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August-December, 1886 |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence regarding architectural photos
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Box 2 | Folder 5-6 |
Correspondence
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January-July, 1887 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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August, 1887 |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence regarding the printing of the Reformation catalogue
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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September-December, 1887 |
Box 2 | Folder 9-12 |
Correspondence
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January-June, 1888 |
Box 2 | Folder 13-16 |
Correspondence
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July-December, 1888 |
Box 2 | Folder 17-20 |
Correspondence
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January-July, 1889 |
Scope and Contents
Contains original letter from AD White to Charles Kendall Adams regarding the gift
of the Cornell Papyrus, dated March 18, 1889.
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Box 2 | Folder 21-22 |
Correspondence
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August-December, 1889 |
Box 3 | Folder 1-2 |
Correspondence
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January-June, 1890 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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July-December, 1890 |
Box 3 | Folder 4-5 |
Correspondence
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January-May, 1891 |
Box 3 | Folder 6-8 |
Correspondence
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June-December, 1891 |
Box 3 | Folder 9-10 |
Correspondence
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January-April, 1892 |
Box 3 | Folder 11-12 |
Correspondence
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May-December, 1892 |
Box 3 | Folder 13-14 |
Correspondence
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January-March, 1893 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
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April-May, 1893 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence on university photographs
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Box 3 | Folder 16-19 |
Correspondence
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June-December, 1893 |
Box 3 | Folder 20-22 |
Correspondence
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January-May, 1894 |
Box 3 | Folder 23-25 |
Correspondence
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August-December, 1894 |
Box 4 | Folder 1-3 |
Correspondence
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January-July, 1895 |
Box 4 | Folder 4-5 |
Correspondence
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August-December, 1895 |
Box 4 | Folder 6-8 |
Correspondence
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January-March, 1896 |
Box 4 | Folder 9-10 |
Correspondence
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April-May, 1896 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters on Venezuela
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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June, 1896 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters on Venezuela and Blue Book
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Box 4 | Folder 12-15 |
Correspondence
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July-October, 1896 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters on Venezuela and Blue Book. Many addressed to Mallet-Prevost
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Box 4 | Folder 16-17 |
Correspondence
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November-December, 1896 |
Box 4 | Folder 18-23 |
Correspondence
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January-July, 1897 |
Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Correspondence
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August-September, 1897 |
Scope and Contents
Includes envelope of photos of Burr's family home
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Box 4 | Folder 25-26 |
Correspondence
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October-December, 1897 |
Box 5 | Folder 1-4 |
Correspondence
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January-May, 1898 |
Scope and Contents
Includes letters on Venezuela from Mallet-Prevost
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Box 5 | Folder 5-8 |
Correspondence
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June-October, 1898 |
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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November, 1898 |
Scope and Contents
Including notes on Saint Lucia, Republican campaign
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Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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December, 1898 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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January, 1899 |
Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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February-March, 1899 |
Scope and Contents
Related to the building of the new Chapel and Alumni Hall
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Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
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April, 1899 |
Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence
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May, 1899 |
Scope and Contents
Including correspondence on Venezuela
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Box 5 | Folder 15-17 |
Correspondence
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June-November, 1899 |
Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence
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December, 1899 |
Scope and Contents
Including correspondence on trial of Maria Renata
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Box 5 | Folder 19-21 |
Correspondence
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January-October, 1900 |
Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence
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November-December, 1900 |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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January, 1901 |
Scope and Contents
Includes mention of Professor Tyler's death
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Box 6 | Folder 2-4 |
Correspondence
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February-July, 1901 |
Box 6 | Folder 5-7 |
Correspondence
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August-December, 1901 |
Box 6 | Folder 8-10 |
Correspondence
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January-February, 1902 |
Box 6 | Folder 11-12 |
Correspondence
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March-May, 1902 |
Scope and Contents
Includes two letters from Hendrik Van Loon
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Box 6 | Folder 13-14 |
Correspondence
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June-July, 1902 |
Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
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August, 1902 |
Scope and Contents
Includes two typescript copies of letters Hendrik Van Loon to E. Bell-Robinson
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Box 6 | Folder 16-19 |
Correspondence
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September-December, 1902 |
Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence
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January-February, 1903 |
Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence
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March-April, 1903 |
Scope and Contents
Including a letter and postcards from France, dates March 25.
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Box 6 | Folder 22-24 |
Correspondence
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May-October, 1903 |
Box 6 | Folder 25-26 |
Correspondence
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November-December, 1903 |
Scope and Contents
Including two letters from Win. A. Dunning, one about having Burr fill-in for a lecture
in New Orleans and one on Giddings paper
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Box 7 | Folder 1-3 |
Correspondence
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January-March, 1904 |
Box 7 | Folder 4-6 |
Correspondence
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April-September, 1904 |
Box 7 | Folder 7-9 |
Correspondence
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October-December, 1904 |
Box 7 | Folder 10-12 |
Correspondence
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January-June, 1905 |
Box 7 | Folder 13-15 |
Correspondence
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July-October, 1905 |
Box 7 | Folder 16-17 |
Correspondence
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November-December, 1905 |
Box 7 | Folder 18-22 |
Correspondence
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January-June, 1906 |
Box 7 | Folder 23-26 |
Correspondence
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July-December, 1906 |
Box 7 | Folder 27-28 |
Correspondence
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January-March, 1907 |
Box 8 |
Correspondence
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April 1907 - 1908 | |
Box 8 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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March 9, 1908 | |
Scope and Contents
Routine AHA regarding report on annual meetings in Madison
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Box 8 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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May 25, 1908 | |
Scope and Contents
Regarding publication of essays, especially Robertson's
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Box 8 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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April 8, 1908 | |
Scope and Contents
A general letter "To the Members of the Committee on Public; regarding publication
of Prize Essays; financing/publishers; great length of essays; wants independent Series
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Box 9 |
Correspondence
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1909 - Oct. 1910 | |
Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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January 8, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Regarding Krehbiel's essay; announcement of the series of prize
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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January 18, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Details of essay prizes, etc., financial matters; rules
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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January 22, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Details on essay correction process
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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January 25, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Regarding format of type and page of essays
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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February 17, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Sorrow over death of Burr's wife
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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March 5, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Regarding Krehbiel's manuscript - editing
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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March 31, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Krehbiel's manuscript on way to printer
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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April 5, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
routine - essays
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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June 27, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
routine - re proofs (enclosure attached)
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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October 6, 1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Krehbiel's book
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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June 30, 1910 | |
Scope and Contents
Notestein's essay
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Box 9 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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July 10, 1910 | |
Scope and Contents
Notestein's essay (cynical; anti-Semitic)
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Box 10 |
Correspondence
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Nov. 1910 - 1912 | |
Box 11 |
Correspondence
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1913 - Feb. 1915 | |
Box 12 |
Correspondence
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Mar. 1915 - April 1916 | |
Box 12 |
Correspondence
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Mar. 1915 - January 1916 | |
Scope and Contents
Regarding the management of the American Historical Reviews finances. Historian Frederic
Bancroft got into an epistolary argument with GLB (treasurer). Burr later referred
to this as the "Bancroft Episode."
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Box 12 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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March 5, 1915 | |
Scope and Contents
Looking for new Columbia faculty member
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Box 12 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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May 28, 1915 | |
Scope and Contents
Appointment with Evans
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Box 12 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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January 10, 1916 | |
Scope and Contents
AHA meeting location
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Box 13 |
Correspondence
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May 1916 - 1917 | |
Box 14 |
Correspondence
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1918 - June 9, 1921 | |
Box 14 |
Win. A. Dunning to G.L. Burr
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April 14, 1919 | |
Scope and Contents
recommending W.T. Morgan for Eng. History position
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Box 15 |
Correspondence
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June 10, 1921 - July 1924 | |
Box 16 |
Correspondence
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Aug. 1924 - May 1927 | |
Box 17 |
Correspondence
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June 1927 - April 1931 | |
Box 18 |
Correspondence
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May 1931 - Aug. 1934 | |
Box 19 |
Correspondence
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Sept. 1934 - Nov. 12, 1938 | |
Box 20 |
Correspondence, A-K
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1941, 1942, no date | |
Box 21 |
Correspondence L-Z
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Box 22 |
R. Bainton & L.O. Gibbons Research Correspondence re G.L. Burr
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Series II. Personal Documents and Cornell Material
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Box 23 |
Burr Family Material, G.L. Burr Pre-college Days
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Box 23 |
Burr family account book 1848-1856, followed by Burr's class notes and accounts with
Cornell library
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1848-1880 | |
Box 23 |
Burr's daily diary, partially filled
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1874 | |
Box 23 |
Burr's class notebooks
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1873-1875 | |
Box 23 |
Burr's notebooks from Homer and Newark, New York
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Box 23 |
Book of handwritten poems, many by Mary Burr
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1828-1829 | |
Box 23 |
Hepsy Burr's scrapbook, filled with obituaries and marriages and miscellaneous clippings
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1883-1898 | |
Box 23 | Folder 1 |
William J. Burr correspondence and writing book
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1835-1902 |
Box 23 | Folder 2-3 |
Burr family genealogical papers, including sketches, biographies, family records pages
from a Bible, and marriage records
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Box 23 | Folder 4-6 |
Burr's pre-college notes, clippings, and memorabilia, mainly from Newark, Homer and
Cortland
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Mid-late 19th century |
Box 24 |
Burr's notebooks from lectures at Cornell
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1873-1880 | |
Box 24 |
Class of 1881 Treasurer's Book, with notes and correspondence
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1881 | |
Box 24 | Folder 1-2 |
Printed lectures and exams
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Box 24 | Folder 3 |
Printed Cornell material
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Scope and Contents
Annual Commencement Program 1879, Report of the Librarian, event tickets, Hill Jubilee
program, Class Day Exercises 1878, Rules for Students 1878, Resolutions, The Library
pamphlet 1883, Exercises for the Class of 1882 and 1879, and other printed pamphlets.
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Box 24 | Folder 4 |
Class of 1881 memorabilia
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1881, 1911, 1922, 1929 |
Scope and Contents
Including Burr's oration "Revolt and Revolution"
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Box 24 | Folder 5 |
Burr's lecture notes and maps of North America
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Box 25 |
Letter book
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1884-1886 | |
Box 25 |
Book memoranda
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Box 25 |
Small notebook
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Box 25 |
Book bibliography and memoranda, with small clippings from catalogues
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1885-1888 | |
Box 25 |
Diary
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1885 | |
Box 25 |
Transcribed copy of Balthasar Hubmaier's "Von Letzern und ihren Verbrennen"
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October, 1904 | |
Box 25 |
Drawing book
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Box 25 |
Burr's description of books
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Box 25 |
Collegien-buch from Leipzig, with diploma folded in the back
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Box 25 | Folder 1-2 |
Note cards of lectures and notes
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Box 25 | Folder 3 |
Itinerary of Champlain-St. Lawrence excursion
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1883 |
Box 25 | Folder 4 |
Title slips for books used at Basel and in the British Museum
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1890s |
Box 25 | Folder 5 |
Travel brochures
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Box 25 | Folder 6 |
Cornell Club pamphlet, Cornell invitations, and other Cornell items
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1870-1890 |
Box 25 | Folder 7 |
Photocopies of book memoranda
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Box 25 | Folder 8 |
Passports from the Department of State, with large watermarks
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1888, 1904, 1912 |
Box 25 | Folder 9-11 |
Class exams and notes, mainly from Germany
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1880s |
Box 25 | Folder 12 |
Newspaper clippings
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Box 25 | Folder 13 |
Notes for Mrs. Hodder's Thesis
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Box 25 | Folder 14 |
Burr's handwritten copies of "Politics in College" and "The Religious Philosophy of
Lucretius"
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Box 25 | Folder 15 |
Ithaca Congregational Church programs and pamphlets
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1884, 1892, 1894, 1915 |
Box 25 | Folder 16 |
Deposits in the White library, University library, and Christian Association library
(incomplete)
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1880s-1890s |
Box 25 | Folder 17 |
Burr's application to military training camp
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1915, 1917 |
Box 25 | Folder 18 |
Pedigree form for Burke's Landed Gentry
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1937 |
Box 26 | Folder 1 |
Young Men's Youth Association event programs and pamphlets
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1880-1884 |
Scope and Contents
From New York, Cornell, and Washington DC. Also includes Burr's notes on membership
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Box 26 | Folder 1 |
Cornell University Christian Association invitations and pamphlet
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1916 |
Scope and Contents
Includes notes from a lecture Burr gave to C.U.C.A.
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Box 26 | Folder 2 |
Note cards on a lecture called "The Living Gospel", possibly given at the Unitarian
Church
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1920s |
Box 26 | Folder 2 |
Notes, pamphlets, reports, and programs from the Unitarian Church
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Scope and Contents
Includes lecture "Talk on the Devil", "A Historical Development of the Christian Sunday",
and "The Living Gospel
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Box 26 | Folder 3 |
Reports and copies of correspondence about the Red Cross
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Box 26 | Folder 4 |
American Historical Association leaflets and pamphlets
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1884, 1909, 1916, 1932 |
Box 26 | Folder 5 |
Cornell Alumni Trustee nominations and biographies
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1880s-1930s |
Box 26 | Folder 6 |
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti trial leaflets
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Box 26 | Folder 7 |
Clippings and lecture on the Fred Morelli case
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1921 |
Scope and Contents
Fred Morelli, class of 1924, took a leave of absence after being attacked by classmates
for not wearing his freshman cap. Burr vehemently opposed the use of force and spoke
out against the attacks.
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Box 26 | Folder 8 |
Biographies and sketches of Cornell faculty and alumni
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Box 26 | Folder 9 |
Burr's war and Civic Federation lecture notes
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Box 26 | Folder 10, 15 |
Pamphlets, publications and leaflets of events at other universities
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1900s |
Box 26 | Folder 11, 14 |
Cornell resolutions, pamphlets, and miscellany
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1880s-1920s |
Scope and Contents
Includes invitations to events, program for "Alice and Wonderland", exam schedules,
course listings, handwritten copy of "All Hal, Cornell!" by E.T. 1903, and petition
to not take final exam.
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Box 26 | Folder 13 |
War relief materials
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1910-1920 |
Scope and Contents
Includes war relief brochures, leaflets on Austria aid, documents from the American
Relief Administration (including 3 letters from recipients of Christmas food packages),
outline for a handbook on relief work for students in Europe, and Cornell Rifle Club
announcements
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Box 26 |
Agenda note book
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1896 | |
Box 26 |
Ramabai Circle of Cornell University treasurer's book with membership list and pamphlets
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1898-1920 | |
Box 26 |
The Imprisonment of Ghent Professors, by Kr. Nyrop
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1917 | |
Box 27 |
Telluride Material
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Box 29 | Folder 20 |
Notes and clippings on Geology for Warfare of Science
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Box 29 | Folder 21 |
Notes on education
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Box 30 |
Warfare of Science
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Box 31 |
Warfare of Science Notes, Mss., Revisions
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Box 32 |
Venezuelan Boundary Comm. No. 1
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Box 33 |
Venezuelan Boundary Comm. No. 2
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Box 34 |
Misc. Reviews, Writings, Bibliographies No. 1
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Box 35 | Folder 1 |
Notes and copies of articles and speeches given by Burr on AD White
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Box 35 | Folder 2 |
Notes on Charles Babcock, Bennett, Irving Church, Collyer, Comstock
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Box 35 | Folder 3 |
Notes on Corson, Crane, Fiske, Hull, Russell, Schurman, Sill, Smith, Tyler, White
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Box 35 | Folder 4 |
AD White Obituary by Burr
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Box 35 | Folder 5-6 |
Talks by Burr, on White, Cornell, European Archives, and Venezuela
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Box 35 | Folder 7 |
Loyalty and Liberty
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
Notes in binder
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Box 36 |
Misc. Reviews, Writings, Bibliographies No. 2
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Box 37 |
Misc. Scraps, Notes
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Box 38 | Folder 1-2 |
Miscellaneous witchcraft notes
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Box 38 | Folder 3 |
'New England's place in the History of Witchcraft' by Burr
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Box 38 | Folder 4 |
On the Loos MS.
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Box 38 | Folder 5 |
Burr's reviews of witchcraft books
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Box 38 | Folder 6 |
"A Witch-Hunt in the Book Shops", by Burr
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Box 38 | Folder 6 |
"The Crime of Witchcraft" by Burr
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1923 |
Box 38 | Folder 6 |
"The Historical Work of Henry C. Lea", by Burr
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1925 |
Box 38 | Folder 6-7 |
Burr's notes and drafts on introduction to Lea's materials
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Box 38 | Folder 8 |
"Fragments from the sources- the Witchcraft Persecution" by Burr
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Box 38 | Folder 9 |
Miscellaneous witchcraft notes
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Box 38 | Folder 10 |
"The Historical Work of Henry Charles Lea" by Burr
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Box 38 | Folder 11 |
Robert Calef materials
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Box 38 | Folder 12-17 |
Witchcraft notes and bibliographies
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Box 38 | Folder 18-19 |
Materials on Lea and witchcraft
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Box 38 | Folder 20 |
Kleiner Beitrag zur Geschichte des Hexenwesens, transcribed by Burr
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Box 38 | Folder 21 |
Dietrich Flade notes by Burr
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Box 38 | Folder 22 |
Savonarola notes
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Box 38 | Folder 23 |
Drafts on witchcraft history
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Box 39 |
Degrees and Medals
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Box 40 |
Research Papers by Students
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Box 41 |
Research Papers by Students
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Box 42 |
Jan. 5, "1970 Accession : typed and printed items concerning the AHA-Bancroft episode,
1915; bibliographical notes (witchcraft).
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Series III. Photographs and drawings
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Manuscript Box 51 |
George Lincoln Burr caricature in A.D. White library by Herbert Roland Bainton
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1940-1943 | |
Scope and Contents
Formerly on display in the A.D. White library
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Box 26 | Folder 12 |
Cyanotype and blueprint of Sigma Phi and Professor Nichols house
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Box 28 | Folder 1 |
Edna Moffatt
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Box 28 | Folder 2 |
Schilliger
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Box 28 | Folder 3 |
Burr-Nelson and Morse-Nelson
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1920s-1930s |
Box 28 | Folder 4 |
Cabinet cards
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1800s-early 1900s |
Scope and Contents
Including Isabelle Robertson, Frances Boynton, Margaret Boynton, Mary Bartlett Hill,
Emma Berry, Stella Spencer, Mrs. Clarke, Winifred Ball, and other Cornell students
and associates
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Box 28 | Folder 5 |
Cartes-de-Visite and other small photographs
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1800s-early 1900s |
Scope and Contents
Including Lottie Stines, Martha Whilson, Fran Fanny Stadeli, Amelia Shapleigh, Emily
Outwater, and others
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Box 28 | Folder 6 |
People, including Bobbie Stert, Winifred Ball and others
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early 1900s-1930s |
Box 28 | Folder 7-8 |
Leipzig
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Scope and Contents
Including Anna Biedermann, Therese Biedermann, Mrs. Karl Biedermann, Ludwig Knorr,
and history professors
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Box 28 | Folder 9 |
Cornell faculty
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Box 28 | Folder 10 |
Photographs of the Burr's, labelled "to use" with chapter numbers and a sketch
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Box 28 | Folder 11 |
Scenes and Buildings
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Scope and Contents
Taughannock, Cornell library (1890s), AE Kent and Co, Richmond from Manchester
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Box 28 | Folder 12 |
Telluride group photos, Cornell History Club,
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Box 28 | Folder 13 |
Large group photos
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Box 28 | Folder 14 |
Large Cornell women group photos
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Box 28 | Folder 15 |
Van Loon photos and sketches
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Box 28 | Folder 16 |
Unidentified people
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Box 28 | Folder 17 |
Large photos
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Early 1900s |
Scope and Contents
Including Lyman Abbott, Evan Evans, Edward Huhur, Agnes Tierney
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Box 29 | Folder 1-3, 10 |
George Lincoln Burr
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Late 1800s-1930s |
Box 29 | Folder 4-5 |
Matsy Martin (Mrs. G.L. Burr)
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Box 29 | Folder 6 |
Cabinet cards
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Late 1800s |
Scope and Contents
Including Isabel Howland, Harriet Day, Hannah Otis, Phebe Fort, Alice Goddard (1881),
Clara Teague, Mary Putnam, and Gertrude van Pelt and others
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Box 29 | Folder 7 |
Cabinet cards
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Late 1800s |
Scope and Contents
Including FJ Scott (1880), FC Whitney, Frank Leverance, LF Boyer, George Schurman,
Ostrander, Fred Kilborne and others
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Box 29 | Folder 8 |
Cabinet cards
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Late 1800s |
Scope and Contents
Including Herrick, Halsey, Hahn, Concklin, Curtice, Clarke, Wightman, Stearns, Holmes,
Hoyt, Hough, Wing, David Halsey (1881), and Theobald Smith
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Box 29 | Folder 9 |
George Lincoln Burr in the AD White library and at his desk
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Box 29 | Folder 11 |
Cabinet card photos of Burr taken at the Hague
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1896 |
Box 29 | Folder 12 |
Bound photographs
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1902 |
Scope and Contents
Including Watkins Glen, Taughannock falls and point, Rocky point, South of Sheldrake,
Burr on Cayuga Lake, Esty point
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Box 29 | Folder 13 |
The Burr family
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Late 1800s |
Scope and Contents
Including Mrs. Andrew Burr, Mrs. WJ Burr, WJ Burr, Sarah Burr, and unidentified
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Box 29 | Folder 14 |
Burr family home in Newark Valley and WJ Burr
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1890s |
Box 29 | Folder 15 |
Dr. Robert Collyer and unidentified
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1910 |
Box 29 | Folder 16 |
Cornell Debating Club
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1881 |
Box 29 | Folder 16 |
Group photos
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Box 29 | Folder 17 |
Cartes-de-visite
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Scope and Contents
Including Melville Landon, Harry Norman, Cornelia Smith, DE Roberts, Robina Smith,
Albert Jonas, Jonah Walsh, Mary Roberts, and Mrs. RW Walsh
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Box 29 | Folder 19 |
Glass slide from drawing
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Box 29 | Folder 18 |
Sketch of Burr
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Box 29 | Folder 22 |
Daguerreotype of WJ Burr
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1850 |