Cornell University Press and Comstock Publishing Company records, [ca. 1880-1935]
Collection Number: 35-6-257
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cornell University Press and Comstock Publishing Company records, [ca. 1880-1935]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
35-6-257
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and illustrative material pertaining to books
published by the Cornell University Press and the Comstock Publishing Company; correspondence
pertaining to a merger of the Nature Study Review and Nature Magazine; and correspondence
pertaining to John W. ("Uncle John") Spencer's stories and letters for children on
nature study and rural life; correspondents include Anna Botsford Comstock, Mary Eleanor
Davis, Paul S. Galtsoff, Albert H. Hartzell, Frank E. Lutz, James G. Needham, Arthur
Newton Pack, Cuthbert W. Pound, Percival S. Ridsdale, John W. Spencer, and Paul S.
Welch.
Creator:
Cornell University Press
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927.
Quanitities:
12 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and illustrative material pertaining to books
published by the Cornell University Press and the Comstock Publishing Company; correspondence
pertaining to a merger of the Nature Study Review and Nature Magazine; and correspondence pertaining to John W. ("Uncle John") Spencer's stories and letters
for children on nature study and rural life; correspondents include Anna Botsford
Comstock, Mary Eleanor Davis, Paul S. Galtsoff, Albert H. Hartzell, Frank E. Lutz,
James G. Needham, Arthur Newton Pack, Cuthbert W. Pound, Percival S. Ridsdale, John
W. Spencer, and Paul S. Welch.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cornell University Press and Comstock Publishing Company records, #35-6-257. Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
Davis, Mary Eleanor, 1910-1968.
Galtsoff, Paul S. (Paul Simon), 1887-1979.
Hartzell, Albert H.
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943.
Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1957.
Pack, Arthur Newton, 1893-1975.
Pound, Cuthbert W. (Cuthbert Winfred), 1864-1935.
Ridsdale, Percival Sheldon.
Spencer, John W.
Welch, Paul Smith, 1882-
Comstock Publishing Company
Subjects:
Children -- Books and reading.
Country life.
Nature stories.
Natural history literature.
Natural history -- Study and teaching.
Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
University presses -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Compendium correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Compendium abstracts
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Compendium page proofs
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Compendium odds and ends
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Compendium galley proofs
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Illustrations
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
List of addresses on 3x5 cards
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Comstock photos, 1932-1933 (S-T)
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1932-1933 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Original proof of Fig. 31 of Culture Methods
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Proofs of "Wings of Insects"
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Proofs, pictures, etc. of Hahn, Applied Biochemistry
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Letter concerning "Organized Play"
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Acknowledgments to Comstock's Introduction to Entomology ( Dec. 10, 1924 ) [Transferred to Boxes 10-12]
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Dec. 10, 1924 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Picture proofs for Sweetman: Biological Control of Insects
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Carbon copy of An Introduction to Entomology, Part I
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Copy of An Introduction to Entomology, Ch. 1
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Table of contents for An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Ch. 4, An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Table of figures, An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Illustrations for An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
"Wings of Spidoptera"
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
"Wing of Diptera)
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Box of negatives on glass from the McMillan Co. to Prof. Comstock
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| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
"Duplicate prints" negatives on glass
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| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Personal negatives of photographs, on glass
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| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Engraved steel plate--flower
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| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
"Wings of Lepidoptera"
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| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Reprint from Fortune--The Univ. of Chicago, Hutchinson's "new look"
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| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Clippings from a publisher's journal
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| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
History of Sage House in Ithaca Journal
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2013-11-23 |
| Box 4 |
Miscellaneous illustrations
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Practical Course in Touch Typing
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology?)
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
First copy, An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Proofs of figures, An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology)
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Resolutions of the faculty of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell
upon the retirement of Anna Comstock
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| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
"The Wings," first draft for An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Copy, An Introduction to Entomology, ch. 3
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| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Legends for figures, An Introduction to Entomology
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology)
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| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Original drawings for figures, An Introduction to Entomology, Pt. II
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Duplicate prints, spiders
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| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
An Introduction to Entomology, draft, ch. 4
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| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Original drawings for the illustrations, An Introduction to Entomology, Pt. I
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| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
List of legends (for An Introduction to Entomology?)
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| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
First copy, An Introduction to Entomology, ch. 2
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| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology?)
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| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Lore of an Adirondack County by E. F. Cutting, galley proofs
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Proof of Islandica, Vol. 26
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 57,
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1925 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Cut of T. O. Howard
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Proof of figures for Cortner: Selected Topics in Colloidal Chemistry
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| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Revision of Handbook
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Manuscript of The Spider Book
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Biological Control of Insects, proof
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Proof, H. J. Davenport: Economics of Alfred Marshall
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| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Hahn: Applied Radiochemistry, proof
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| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
"Poor Collin's Proof, Ainsworth"
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| Box 7 | Folder 1-15 |
Pauling's manuscript: "Nature of the Chemical Bond"
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| Box 7 | SR-31428-31433 |
American Bird Songs
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1942 |
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Scope and Contents
Six 30cm 78 rpm discs.
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Kellogg, P.P.
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Allen, A.A.
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| Box 8 |
An Introduction to Entomology, Pt. II, first copy
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| Box 9 |
Proofs of Engravings for "Daniel's Book"
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| Box 10 |
Three 4" boxes of letters, one dated, two undated: Comstock correspondence concerning
"Nature" magazine; "Uncle John" letters; Jack and Jill stories for publication in
monthly Grange Review
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| Box 11 |
Three 4" boxes of letters, one dated, two undated: Comstock correspondence concerning
"Nature" magazine; "Uncle John" letters; Jack and Jill stories for publication in
monthly Grange Review
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| Box 12 |
Three 4" boxes of letters, one dated, two undated: Comstock correspondence concerning
"Nature" magazine; "Uncle John" letters; Jack and Jill stories for publication in
monthly Grange Review
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| Box 13 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 14 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 15 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 16 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 17 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 18 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 19 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 20 |
Wooden cases of slides
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| Box 21 |
Wooden cases of slides
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Cornell University Press webcrawl
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| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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| Box 24 |
Signed engravings by Anna Botsford Comstock
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| Box 24 |
Signed engravings
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Photograph of Comstock Publishing House
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