Gladys A. Sperling papers, 1929-1987.
Collection Number: 21-14-3324

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Gladys A. Sperling papers, 1929-1987.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

21-14-3324

Abstract:

Correspondence files, subject files, talks and papers, reprints (both those in which Sperling is a co-author and ones by Clive McCay), and clippings. Also student notebooks, particularly in bacteriology.

Creator:

Sperling, Gladys Athena, 1903-

McCay, Clive Maine, 1898-1967.

Quanitities:

2 cubic feet.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Research assistant in nutrition.

After receiving an M.S. degree in bacteriology from Cornell in 1936, Miss Sperling was hired by Professor Clive McCay to assist him in nutritional studies. She was responsible for rats and other laboratory animals, supervised graduate students and other technicians, mixed animal feed, answered correspondence, created exhibits, helped take blood samples, and arranged for photography. She is credited as a co-author on many scientific papers on foods, nutrition, health, and longevity. Gladys Sperling died on January 17, 2003.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Included is a subject file on Professor Loren Petry and photographs relating to the Nobel Prize award to James Sumner.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Gladys A. Sperling papers, #21-14-3324. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Petry, Loren C. (Loren Clifford), 1887-

Sumner, James B. (James Batcheller), 1887-1955.

Subjects:

Nutrition -- Research.

Animals -- Research.

Animal nutrition.

Aging -- Nutritional aspects.

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Correspondence
Box 1	Folder 1	Correspondence	1937-1939
Box 1	Folder 2	Correspondence	1940-1941
Box 1	Folder 3	Correspondence	1942
Box 1	Folder 4	Correspondence	1943-1944
Box 1	Folder 5	Correspondence concerning Christmas newsletter	1943
Box 1	Folder 6	Correspondence - Vitamin A	1943
Box 1	Folder 7	Correspondence	1944-1945
Box 1	Folder 8	Correspondence - Vitamin D	1945
Box 1	Folder 9	Correspondence	1946
Box 1	Folder 10	Correspondence	1947
Box 1	Folder 11	Correspondence	1948
Box 1	Folder 12	Correspondence	1949
Box 1	Folder 13	Correspondence - Christmas newsletter and Easter	1949
Box 1	Folder 14	Correspondence pertaining to hamsters	1949
Box 1	Folder 15	Correspondence pertaining to hamsters (o/s)	1949
Box 1	Folder 16	Correspondence - Madison County Health Council	1949
Box 1	Folder 17	Correspondence - Dr. Fred Miller	1949-1956
Box 1	Folder 18	Correspondence	1950-1951
Box 1	Folder 19	Correspondence	1952
Box 1	Folder 20	Correspondence	1953-1955
Box 1	Folder 21	Correspondence	1956-1957
Box 1	Folder 22	Correspondence	1958-1959
Box 1	Folder 23	Correspondence	1960-1961
Box 1	Folder 24	Correspondence - Dr. Smith - teeth	1961
Box 1	Folder 25	Correspondence	1962-1963
Box 1	Folder 26	Correspondence	1964-1969
Box 1	Folder 27	Correspondence	1970-1979
Box 1	Folder 28	Correspondence	1980-1987
Box 1	Folder 29	Correspondence	19--
		Series II. Subject Files
Box 1	Folder 30	Notes on A.M.A. meeting	1942
Box 1	Folder 31	Animal nutrition	1937-1938
Box 1	Folder 32	Arthritis	1957-1960
Box 1	Folder 33	Atlantic City	1942
Box 1	Folder 34	[New] Building	1947-1962
Box 1	Folder 35-36	Clippings	1938-1973
Box 1	Folder 37	Coffee experiment	19
Box 1	Folder 38	Conferences	19
Box 1	Folder 39	Equipment	1948
Box 1	Folder 40	Holiday newsletters - Animal Nutrition	19
Box 1	Folder 41	Humor	19
Box 1	Folder 42	Lab schedules, etc.	19
Box 1	Folder 43	Schedule notes	19
Box 1	Folder 44	Lifetime living	19
Box 1	Folder 45	Nutritional requirements conference	19
Box 1	Folder 46	Personal	19
Box 1	Folder 47	Petry, Loren	19
Box 1	Folder 48	Dr. Pope, Brown, Blaustein	19
		Series III. Articles, Papers, Talks
Box 1	Folder 49	Publications	19
Box 1	Folder 50	Dr. Pope's paper	19
Box 1	Folder 51	Popular Science	19
Box 1	Folder 52	Sex steroids on rats	19
Box 1	Folder 53	Papers	19
Box 1	Folder 54	Talks	19
		Series IV. Photographs
Box 1	Folder 55	Photos	1951-1967
Box 1	Folder 56	Photos - conferences	1927-1954
Box 1	Folder 57	Photos - rats	1939-1942
Box 1	Folder 58	Photos - Sumner Nobel Prize	1946
		Series V. Reprints
Box 1	Folder 59	Sperling reprints	1939-1949
Box 1	Folder 60	Sperling reprints	1952-1958
Box 1	Folder 61	Sperling reprints	1960-1978
Box 2	Folder 1	McCay reprints	1927-1929
Box 2	Folder 2	McCay reprints	1931-1939
Box 2	Folder 3	McCay reprints	1940-1949
Box 2	Folder 4	McCay reprints	1950-1955
Box 2	Folder 5	McCay reprints	1955-1959
Box 2	Folder 6	McCay reprints	1960-1963, 1973, 19--
Box 2	Folder 7	McCay biographical material and miscellany	1946-1967
		Series VI. Coursework
Box 2	Folder 8	Student notes	1933, 19--
Box 2	Folder 9	Bacteriology	1935-1936
Box 2	Folder 10	Biochemistry, histology	1931, 1935
Box 2	Folder 11	Notebooks	1935-1936
Box 2	Folder 12	Geology - summer session	19--
Box 2	Folder 13	Bacteriology 105	193-
Box 2	Folder 14-15	Bacteriology 211	1935-1936
Box 2	Folder 16	Bacteriology 213	1935-1936
Box 2	Folder 17	Bacteriology	1936
Box 2	Folder 18	Bacteriology lab manual	1936
Box 2	Folder 19	Dairy bacteriology	19--
Box 2	Folder 20	Lab notes	1937
		Series VII. Experiments
Box 2	Folder 21	Animal nutrition	1938
Box 2	Folder 22	Manganese experiment	1938-1940
Box 2	Folder 23	Longevity - retarded growth	1939
Box 2	Folder 24	Animal nutrition - dairy	1943
Box 2	Folder 25	Dry matter balance	1947
Box 2	Folder 26	Egg experiments	1953
Box 2	Folder 27	Retardation - exercise	1953
Box 2	Folder 28	Rats on mink diets	1965
		Series VIII. Miscellany
Box 2	Folder 29	Small Animal Lab guest book	1941-1958
Box 2	Folder 30	Account books	1936, 1946
Box 2	Folder 31	Collier's article re Clive McCay	1943
Box 2	Folder 32	Certificates	1944, 1983-1984

Contents

Gladys A. Sperling papers, 1929-1987. Collection Number: 21-14-3324

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

Gladys A. Sperling papers, 1929-1987.
Collection Number: 21-14-3324

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library