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Ezra Cornell’s Tools
Collection of Ezra Cornell, Class of 1970
Contents
Archival Resources
Ezra Cornell Papers, #1/1/1. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Digital collection. Finding Guide
Andrew Dickson White Papers, #1/2/2. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Sage Hall Cornerstone Collection, #1/1/3251. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Cornell University Collection of Political Americana. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Cornell University Digital Archives
[Selected issues of early Cornell publications, including the Cornell Era, President’s Report, Cornell University Register, Class Books, and other official Cornell University publications]
Cornell Alumni News.
Available through Cornell University’s DSPACE. Searchable through Google: Search on the phrase (in quotation marks) “Cornell Alumni News” and [keywords.]
Online Exhibitions
Elaine Engst, “The Cornell Library,” from Legacy of Leadership, Cornell’s Presidents. Online exhibition, first published in 2003.
Elaine Engst, Invention & Enterprise. Ezra Cornell: A Nineteenth-Century Life. Online exhibition, first published in 1996.
Primary Sources, Published
Alonzo Barton Cornell. “True and Firm”: Biography of Ezra Cornell, Founder of the Cornell University. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1884.
Available through Cornell University’s DSPACE.
John Cornell. Genealogy of the Cornell Family. Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R. I. New York: Press of T. A. Wright, 1902.
Available through Cornell University Library’s “Windows on the Past” Historical Collection.
Cornell University. Account of the Proceedings at the Inauguration, October 7, 1868. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, 1869.
Cornell University. The Cornell University Register, 1870-1871. Ithaca, N.Y. The University Press, 1870.
Robert Morris Ogden, editor. The Diaries of Andrew Dickson White. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 1959.
John H. Selkreg. “The Opening of the University,” in Landmarks of Tompkins County. New York: D. Mason & Co., 1894.
Available online through the Tompkins County, New York, GenWeb Site
Rufus Phineas Stebbins. Memorial Address, Delivered in Library Hall, January 11th, 1875, “Founder’s Day.”: In Commemoration of the Life and Character of Ezra Cornell, Founder of the Cornell University. Ithaca: University Press, 1875.
Available through Google Books.
Andrew Dickson White. The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White. New York: The Century Co., 1905.
Available in electronic format through Project Gutenberg:
Secondary Sources
Glenn C. Altschuler. Andrew Dickson White: Educator, Historian, Diplomat. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979.
Carl Becker. Cornell University: Founders and the Founding. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1943.
Available through Cornell University’s DSPACE.
Morris Bishop. A History of Cornell. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1962.
Mark Dimunation and Elaine D. Engst. A Legacy of Ideas: Andrew Dickson White and the Founding of the Cornell University Library. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 1996.
Available through Cornell University’s DSPACE
Philip Dorf. The Builder: A Biography of Ezra Cornell. Ithaca, N.Y.: The DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, Inc., 1952.
Elaine D. Engst, “Cornell University”
Available through Cornell University’s DSPACE
Paul Wallace Gates. The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University: A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1943. (reprinted in 1965 by the Wisconsin Historical Society).
Waterman T. Hewitt. Cornell University: A History. New York: University Publishing Society, 1905.
Carol Kammen. Cornell: Glorious to View. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 2003.
Selections available through Cornell University’s DSPACE
Carol Kammen. First Person Cornell: Students’ Diaries, Letters, Email and Blogs. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Library, 2006.
Carol Kammen, “Not the Most Isolated Place on the Eastern Seaboard.” Chapter One of the book with the working title, GLOBAL CORNELL, A History of the University’s International Experience
Available through Cornell University’s DSPACE
Carol Kammen, “Sparks at the Founding: Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White” Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring 2005.
Available online in pdf format.
Susan Lang, ed. “The Ezra Files.” Cornell Chronicle.
Kermit Carlyle Parsons. The Cornell Campus: A History of Its Planning and Development. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968.
Beth Saulnier, “Happy Birthday, Ezra!” Cornell Alumni Magazine Online. Vol. 109, No. 4, Jan/Feb 2007.