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Items relating to the reunion of the Cornell University Class of 1874 in 1929; includes a photograph and a detailed letter describing the changes on campus and in the city of Ithaca from the writer's college days to his reunion.

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Correspondence (20 letters) between Birchard Austin Hayes, his father, Rutherford B. Hayes, his mother and brother; includes letters of parental counsel, news from home and young Hayes' descriptions of college life at Cornell University and activities on the campus, Sept. 15-Dec. 11, 1870.

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"Statistics of the Class of 1874" broadside, 1874; pamphlet "The Class of '74 of Cornell University," Ithaca, 1909; and Fortieth Anniversary Banquet, 1914.

Scope and content Correspondence concerning class reunions and activities of individual alumni in the years since their graduation; issues of the Cornell Alumni Magazine containing articles on the Class of 1874; pages from the July 7, 1874 issue of the Ithaca Daily Journal, containing an article by John L. Stone of the Class of 1874; printed statistics on the Class of 1874, including members' political and religious affiliations, height, and weight, among other things; a program for Commencement, 1874; and...

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Photograph album of Cornell students.

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Letter to Harold Herrick from E. Walter Roberts about Marshall Herrick and the Class of 1874, of which Roberts was a member, January 25, 1939; letters to Harold Herrick from Willard Hatch about the Class of 1874, Andrew Dickson White, and Cornell University, January 25, 1939.

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Oliver H. P. Cornell's diploma from Cornell University; railroad work estimate for the Utica, Ithaca, and Elmira Railroad; photograph of Oliver H. P. Cornell, and photograph of his wife Louisa Conklin; and pocket watch.

Scope and content Papers of the Cornell University Class of 1874 include class statistics, programs, notebooks, clippings, photographs, tickets, and material pertaining to an 1898 reunion. Also, minutes, lodge books, certificates, communications, and other documents pertaining to Sheppard's involvement in the Masonic order in Yates and Ontario Counties, New York; also, correspondence with John Livy Lewis. Sheppard personal correspondence refers to Hamilton College and Yale University, and local and national...

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Scrapbook including pictures of professors and students.