John Burchard papers, 1927-1999.
Collection Number: 6793

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
John Burchard papers, 1927-1999.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6793
Abstract:
Papers related to the Telluride Association and Deep Springs College. Includes newsletters, reports, and correspondence.
Creator:
Burchard, John.
Quanitities:
2.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

John Burchard attended Deep Springs College between 1928 - 1930. He resided at Telluride House 1931 - 1934.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers related to the Telluride Association and Deep Springs College. Includes newsletters, reports, and correspondence.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related collections: L.L. Nunn Papers, #37-4-1770, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMA01770 and Deep Springs College Records, #6428.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

John Burchard papers, #6793. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Access Restrictions:

Access to Box 4 restricted until 2038.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Telluride Association
Deep Springs College -- : Students.
Deep Springs College -- : Alumni and alumnae.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Associates related to Deep Springs and Telluride Association
Box 1 Folder 1
Beaumont, John
1993 - 1994
Scope and Contents
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 2
Conable, Barber
1990
Scope and Contents
"Banker to the World" from Cornell Alumni News, July 1990
Box 1 Folder 3
Cronk, Ed and Dorothy
Scope and Contents
Deep Springs brochure
Box 3 Folder 2
deBeers, Jack
1967 - 1988
Scope and Contents
Quebec Terrace correspondence, some legal-size
Box 1 Folder 4
For DeBeers
1980 - 1990
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Quebec Terrance papers, Cornell campus photographs
Box 1 Folder 5
Dodge, Norton
1995
Scope and Contents
Newsclippings
Box 1 Folder 7
Grant, Lindsay
1993
Scope and Contents
Newsclippings
Box 1 Folder 8
Laylin, John
1979
Scope and Contents
Newsclippings
Box 3 Folder 3
Olin, Jim - Congressman
1985 - 1989
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, some legal-size
Box 3 Folder 4
Roberts, Dick, Helen and Roger
1982 - 1995
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, some legal-size
Box 1 Folder 9
Sabine, George
1983 - 1988
Scope and Contents
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 10
Sheridan, Bob and Marite
1983 - 1995
Scope and Contents
Correspondence
Series II. Correspondence and records
Box 1 Folder 6
Fairchild, Tom
1927 - 1962
Scope and Contents
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 11
Alumni of Deep Springs and Telluride Association (ADSTA)
1974 - 1979
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, fund drives, financial statements, reunion information
Box 1 Folder 12
Alumni of Deep Springs and Telluride Association (ADSTA)
1980 - 1996
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, fund drives, reunion information, oral history project report
Box 1 Folder 13
Cornell
1994 - 1995
Scope and Contents
Newsletter, reunion
Box 1 Folder 14
Deep Springs
1947 - 1956
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, two photographs,reports, typed copy of L.L. Nunn's "The Purpose"
Box 1 Folder 15
Deep Springs
1975 - 1979
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, fund drives, survey, "Giving to Deep Springs College"
Box 1 Folder 16
Deep Springs
1983 - 1988
Scope and Contents
Correspondence,three photographs of John Burchard from 1920s included in 1988 letter from John E. Beaumont , donation reports, fund raising committee manual
Box 1 Folder 17
Deep Springs
1990 - 1993
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, literary publication The Bonepile Volume 1, 1993, fund raising, donation reports, blank survey
Box 1 Folder 18
Deep Springs
1994 - 1995
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, fund raising, alumni questionnaire, 3 pre-1945 photos including Jack Burchard, coeducation, page proof "The cattle ranch that doubles as a school for doers"Smithsonian Magazine April, 1995, "Capitol Letters","Common Cause Magazine May/June 1994 featuring Barber Conable
Box 1 Folder 19
Deep springs
1996 - 1997
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, literary publication The Bonepile Volume Two: A Matchless Book, 1997, brochures, Campaign for Deep Springs newsletter, personal correspondence from Ruth Burchard to Deep Springs College notifying college of John Burchard's death
Box 3 Folder 5
Deep Springs newspaper clippings
1972 - 1986
Scope and Contents
Some legal-size
Box 1 Folder 20
Deep Springs and Telluride Association
1928 - 1936
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, financial statements, pamphlet "The Debt-Deflation Theory of the Great Depressions" reprinted fromEconometricaVolume 1, Number 4, October 1933, "Experimental Data and Its Use. Making Observations", "Nine elementary rules of documentation", "Instructions for Students entering Deep Springs"
Box 1 Folder 21
Deep Springs and Telluride Association
1937 - 1940
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, financial statements
Box 1 Folder 22
Deep Springs and Telluride Association
1941 - 1957
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, fund raising, minutes, blank application forms, minutes, investment plan, constitution and bylaws of Telluride Association, finance committee, Telluride Association Alumni constitution, The George Fisher Baker non-resident lectureship in chemistry at Cornell University:"Atomic Structure of Minerals" by W.L. Bragg, Cornell University 1937
Box 1 Folder 23
Deep Springs and Telluride Association
1974 - 1978
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, fund raising, alumni events, coeducation, scholarships
Box 1 Folder 24
Deep Springs and Telluride Association
1978 - 1989
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Telluride House renovations brochure, fund raising, reunion events, newspaper clippings, reports, "Motivation: key to educational Problems" by Robert B. Aird reprinted from Phi Delta Kappan, September 1981, holiday photocard
Box 1 Folder 25
Deep Springs and Telluride Association
1990 - 1997
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, fund raising, alumni events, survey
Box 3 Folder 6
Deep Springs and Telluride Association
1930 - 1952
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, application process, some legal-size
Box 1 Folder 26
Telluride Association custodian correspondence
1938 - 1947
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, investments, insurance, reports
Box 1 Folder 27
Telluride Association custodian correspondence
1947 - 1954
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, investments, finances, reports, Telluride Power Company
Box 1 Folder 28
Telluride Association financial advisory committee
1951 - 1953
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, convention resolutions 1951
Box 1 Folder 29
Deep Springs pamphlets
1993 - 1994
Box 1 Folder 30
Deep Springs and Telluride Association pamphlets
1926 - 1947
Box 1 Folder 31
Telluride Association and Cornell Pamphlets
1930 - 1982
Box 1 Folder 32
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 1 , Early Mining Ventures
n.d.
Scope and Contents
Includes list of chapter headings
Box 1 Folder 33
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 2, L.L. Nunn's Investigation of Alternating Current Electricity
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 34
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 3, The Ames Power Plant, Built and Operated Successfully
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 35
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 4, Founding of the Telluride Power Company in Colorado
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 36
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 5 - Extension of Telluride Power into Utah
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 37
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 6, Nunn's Role in the Development of Niagara Falls Power
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 38
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 7, L.L. Nunn as Educator
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 39
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 8, Can Business and Education Mix?
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 40
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 9, The Telluride Educational Work is Perpetuated
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 41
Orville Sweeting manuscript - Chapter 10, The Founding of Deep Springs
n.d.
Box 4 Folder 1
Deep Springs and Telluride Association Correspondence, Applicants
1928 - 1980
Restricted
Series III. Published newsletters and reports
Box 2 Folder 1
Deep Springs Alumni Newsletter
1992 - 1998
Box 2 Folder 2
Deep Springs alumni study - "Among the Few"
1980
Box 2 Folder 3
Deep Springs College Annual Report
1991 - 1995
Box 2 Folder 4
Master Plan Deep Springs College
n.d.
Scope and Contents
Architectural planning
Box 2 Folder 5
Deep Springs College Newsletter
1971 - 1993
Box 2 Folder 6
Peace Action of the National Council for the Prevention of War newsletter
1935 - 1940
Box 2 Folder 7
Telluride Newsletter
1929
Box 2 Folder 8
Telluride Newsletter
1930 - 1946
Box 2 Folder 9
Telluride Newsletter
1947 - 1953
Box 2 Folder 10
Telluride Newsletter
1954 - 1968
Box 2 Folder 11
Telluride Newsletter
1969 - 1976
Box 2 Folder 12
Telluride Newsletter
1977 - 1987
Box 2 Folder 13
Telluride Newsletter
1987 - 1999
Box 2 Folder 14
Telluride Association convention minutes
1927 - 1936
Box 2 Folder 15
Telluride Association convention minutes
1943 - 1946
Box 2 Folder 16
Telluride Association convention minutes
1947 - 1950
Box 2 Folder 17
Telluride Association convention minutes
1938 - 1942
Box 2 Folder 18
Telluride Association convention minutes
1951 - 1956
Box 2 Folder 19
Telluride Association convention minutes
1958 - 1967
Box 2 Folder 20
Telluride Association Pre-Convention Report of the Treasurer
1990
Box 2 Folder 21
Telluride Association Directory of Associates
1955 - 1985
Box 2 Folder 22
Telluride Association Directory of Associates
1973 - 1997
Box 2 Folder 23
Inventory of Orville Sweeting's material in Cornell archives
1980
Scope and Contents
Includes 1980 correspondence with Beatirice McLeod
Box 3 Folder 1
Photographs
1930s
Scope and Contents
Telluride Association members (1935), undated Telluride Association members with separate list of names, Telluride Association members outside of CBTA