Cornell University Department of Rural Sociology records, 1920-2010.
Collection Number: 21-33-1085
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cornell University Department of Rural Sociology records, 1920-2010.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-33-1085
Abstract:
Includes minutes of the New York State Interdepartmental Committee on Farm and Food
Processing Labor (1948, 1950-1955); descriptions and reports concerning migrant labor
in New York State and various funded projects; requests for information; and other
records of Olaf F. Larson at the New York State College of Agriculture Department
of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. Also, reports and bulletins (1920-1955),
department newsletters (1961-1967), mimeographed proposals, notices, and position
papers relating to challenges to governance at Cornell, collected by Harold Capener,
1965-1977 and Capener's correspondence (1963-1977).
Creator:
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Department of Rural Sociology
Quanitities:
4.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cornell University Department of Rural Sociology records, #21-33-1085. Division of
Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
The Cornell University Department of Rural Sociology records documents the functioning
of the Department, 1920-2010. It includes minutes of the New York State Interdepartmental
Committee on Farm and Food Processing Labor (1948, 1950-1955); descriptions and reports
concerning migrant labor in New York State and various funded projects; requests for
information; and other records of Olaf F. Larson at the New York State College of
Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. Also, reports and
bulletins (1920-1955), department newsletters (1961-1967), mimeographed proposals,
notices, and position papers relating to challenges to governance at Cornell, collected
by Harold Capener (1965-1977), Capener's correspondence (1963-1977), and a bibliography:
"One Act Plays for Mixed Casts" compiled by the Department of Rural Social Organization
(mimeograph), post-1914.
Names:
Larson, Olaf F.
Capener, Harold R (Harold Rigby), 1919-
Cornell University -- : Administration.
New York (State). Interdepartmental Committee on Farm and Food Processing Labor
Subjects:
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Food industry and trade -- Employees.
Agricultural laborers.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Projects
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Rockefeller Project
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1948 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Carnegie Project
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1947-1948 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Interview of Olaf Larson by Paul Eberts
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March 2005 |
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Series II. Requests for Pamphlets and/or Information
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Requests for pamphlets and/or information answering and making requests
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1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Answering and making requests
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1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Answering and making requests
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1948 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Answering and making requests
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1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Answering and making requests
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1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Answering and making requests
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1951 |
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Series III. New York State Interdepartmental Committee on Farm and Food Processing
labor
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
New York State Interdepartmental Committee on Farm and Food Processing Labor Newsletters
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1948-1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Minutes of Meetings
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1948 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Minutes of Meetings
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1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Minutes of Meetings
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1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Minutes, and Parts of Miscellaneous Drafts
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1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Minutes of Meetings
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1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Minutes of Meetings
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1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Minutes of Meetings
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1955 |
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Series IV. New York State Farm Labor Program, Procedural Manual
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
New York State Farm Labor Program, Procedural ManualIntroduction, TOC, Index
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Section I Administration
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Section II Year Round Help
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Section III Seasonal Help
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Section IV Employers Associations
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Section V Private Housing
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Section VI Transportation of Workers
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Section VII Insurance of Workers
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Section VIII Health and Medical
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Section IX Ordering and Placing Workers
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Section X Labor Utilization
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Section XI Recognition
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Section XII Publicity
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1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Section XIII Camp Operations
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1945 |
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Series V. Migrant Camps in New York
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Migrant camps in New York, carbon transcripts describing camps
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Ca 1948 |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Clinton, New York, Annual Reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings
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1950-1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Suffolk County Camp Report
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1952-1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Suffolk County, Migrant Labor Committee, Minutes of Meeting
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1952-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Annual Report on Migrant Contract Systems, summaries, comments
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1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Report of New York State Migrant Child Care Program by Dr. Howard E. Thomas
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1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
New York State migrants, carbon transcript on camp management, employer-labor relations.
Copies of MIGRATOR, 1946 (mimeo newsletter), sample copies of records, etc.
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1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Farm Labor Program
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1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Farm labor letters (mimeo letters to county agriculture agents from Cooperative Extension
in Agriculture and Home Economics)
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1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Farm labor letters and circulars
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1946-1955 |
| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
FARM LABOR PAINS (mimeo newsletter)Vol. 1, No. 1-16
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May, 1944-October 1944 |
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Vol. 2, No. 1-17
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March 1945-December 1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Vol. 3, No. 2-28
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March 1946-December 1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Vol. 4, No. 1-11
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February 1947-October 1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Home Economics Projects in Migrant Camps Case Study
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1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Investigation Report on Migrant Labor Camps
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1957 |
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Series VI. Other Colleges, Campus-Wide Events, Rural Sociology Faculty and Students
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| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Other colleges, campus-wide events, Rural Sociology faculty and students resolution,
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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4-22-19-- |
| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Proposal for Constitutional Convention
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| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Staff Organization Constitution, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
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February 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Report of Survey of Cadet Alumni of the Cornell Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC by Lillian
Wilson
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October 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Committee of Concerned Faculty, statement
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May, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Letter to department heads and chairman, College of Agriculture
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April 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Cornell Community of Anthropologists, statement
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April 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Letter to all university units from Committee on Mass Media
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May, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 55 |
"The Student as Nigger"
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April 1967 |
| Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Proposed Study of New York State Farm Labor System
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| Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Surveys, graduate students, committees, etc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Position letter, faculty, Rural Sociology
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May 6, 19-- |
| Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Letter to faculty, research proposal from students of Rural Sociology
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May, 1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 60 |
Department of Rural Sociology, "Major Social Problems in the United States," "Social
Problems Listed by Rural Sociology Faculty."
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1969? |
| Box 1 | Folder 61 |
"A Resolution from FCSA for Adoption by the University Faculty," "Faculty Statement"
(with marginal notes), Memos Concerning Secretarial, Clerical Staff and Restructuring
Committee
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1969? |
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Series VII. Correspondence of Harold R. Capener, 1963-1977
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| Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Correspondence of Harold R. Capener
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1963-1977 |
| Box 1 | Folder 63 |
BA-BN
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1963-1977 |
| Box 1 | Folder 64 |
BO-BZ
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1963-1977 |
| Box 1 | Folder 65 |
C-CH
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1963-1977 |
| Box 1 | Folder 66 |
CI-CZ
|
1963-1977 |
| Box 1 | Folder 67 |
D
|
1963-1977 |
| Box 1 | Folder 68 |
E
|
1963-1977 |
| Box 1 | Folder 69 |
F
|
1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
G
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
HA-HD
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
HE-HZ
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
I
|
1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
J
|
1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
K
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
L
|
1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Mc, Mac
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
M
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
N
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
O
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
PA-PD
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
PE-PZ
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Q
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
R
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
SA-SH
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
SI-SZ
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
T
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
U
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
V
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
W
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1963-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
X, Y, Z
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1963-1977 |
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Series VIII. Department of Rural Sociology, Publications, Reports, Extension Reports
(Bound Volumes and Various Folders)
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Department of Rural Sociology, publications, reports, extension reports (bound volumes
and various folders)
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| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
"The Staff and Program of the Department of Rural Sociology"
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1962-1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Department of Rural Sociology academic staff
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1961-1964 |
| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Department alumni, 1985 back to 1922
|
1985 |
| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Christmas letter (incomplete)
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1961-1969 |
| Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Christmas letter, change of address form
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1970-1979 |
| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Christmas letter
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1980-1986 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Holiday letter
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1988, 1991, 1993-2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 |
| Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Rural Sociology Newsletter, Vol. 1-Vol.6 (incomplete)
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1961-1967 |
| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Rural Sociology Newsletter, Vol.1-Vol.6 (duplicates)
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1961-1967 |
| Box 2 |
Little Theatre Bulletin
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1946-1954 | |
| Box 2 |
"Rural Sociology in the Nineties" - CSRS Review (includes faculty vitae)
|
1989 | |
| Box 2 |
"Comprehensive Review of the Department of Rural Sociology" Sponsored by: USDA Cooperative
State Research, Education and Extension Service, Cornell University Faculty Committee
on Program (includes faculty vitae) Reviews
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September 24-26, 1997 | |
| Box 3 |
Department of Rural Sociology Annual Reports of Extension Work and Special Reports
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1939-1942 | |
| Box 3 |
Department of Rural Sociology Annual Extension Reports 1943-45
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| Box 3 |
Department of Rural Sociology Annual Extension Reports
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1946-1949 | |
| Box 3 |
Department of Rural Sociology Annual Extension Reports 1950-1955
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| Box 4 |
Rural Sociology. extension mimeographs I - Recreation
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| Box 4 |
Rural Sociology. extension mimeographs II -Dramatics
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| Box 4 |
Rural Sociology. extension mimeographs III - Rural Community
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| Box 4 |
Rural Sociology extension mimeographs IV-Music
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| Box 4 |
Rural Sociology extension publications
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1943-1953 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Papers for fiftieth anniversary of Rural Sociology at Cornell, 1915-1965
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Department histories
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1986-2010 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Dept. of Rural Sociology and Graduate Field of Development Sociology-Publication
|
1993 |
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Series IX. Photographs
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Department
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1932, 1947, 1960s |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
New York State Extension Farm Labor Program, 1947; State Farm Labor Staff, 1944-1945;
Tour of the Farm Labor Projects for Cornell, 1945
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| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Little Theatre
|
1946 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Migrant Camp Personnel-Stout, Bullard, Floyd, Neeley,1947; Bernice Scott, 1982
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Home Demonstration Agents-Chemung County Survey, 1946; Agaton Pol and Ben Chitamber
, 1958; Dr. Ernest Neal, 1958; Earl Regiman and Family, 1948; Rural Sociology Seminar
Room in Mann, 1952
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| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Group of Graduate Students and Faculty who Organize Work Abroad- Polson, Deening,
Winsor
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1957 |
| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Staff-Barnett, Preston, Moe
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no dates |
| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Staff-Reeder, Capener, Taietz, Eberts
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no dates |
| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Staff-Francis, Harp, Cummings, Thomas
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no dates |
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Staff-Mann, Larson, Duthie
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no dates |
| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Staff-Sanderson, Melvin, Cottrell, Anderson
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no dates |
| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Staff-Robert Polson
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no dates |
| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Unidentified
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no dates |
| Box 5 |
Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting
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1962 | |