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Cornell University. Class of 1871

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Henry Sewell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-5-405
Scope and content Includes carte-de-visite photographs of members of the Class of 1871; lecture notebooks, including English history with Goldwin Smith and zoology; a letter from Sewell to his aunt regarding the cost of his room and board while attending Cornell and explaining how he met those expenses; a photograph and autograph album of the Class of 1873, Albany Law School; Sewell's first license to practice law in New York State; a judge's gavel; and numerous formal invitations and programs for official...
Dates: circa 1869-1916.

Class of 1871 photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113445195]
Identifier: 37-5-4089
Scope and content Leather-bound album of cabinet card photographs of selected members of the Class of 1871. Album also contains some other photos, including tintypes. The album contains the following: James Freeman Clarke 1869-1870 '71, did not graduate. Myron Kasson 69-71; '71 BVS, Cornell's first Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree. Miller Armstrong Smith 68-71; '71 BCE. August (Augustus) Doerflinger 69-71; BCE '71 CE '90. Anita Marson, child actress. Miss Williams of Ithaca, New York, possibly a...
Dates: 1871.

Class of 1871 photograph album

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924070595602]
Identifier: 37-5-3874
Scope and content

Photograph album (leather-bound, with clasps) with carte-de-visite photographs of members of the Class of 1871 and selected faculty members. Includes a key to the student photographs.

Dates: 1871.

Cornell University Class of 1871 pictures

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230140]
Identifier: 37-5-206
Scope and content

Photographs of the members of the class which numbered 41 and the University faculty.

Dates: 1871.

Louis Livingston Seaman notes

 Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065267423]
Identifier: 37-5-m.194
Scope and content

Notes taken in President White's printed outline for his course of lectures on history.

Dates: 1870.

Royal Taft papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944741]
Identifier: 37-5-61
Scope and content

Collection includes diaries kept by Taft for the first three years of Cornell University's existence; also pictures of classmates and professors, and miscellanea pertaining to student life. Letters from family and friends including a letter from Francis Finch from June 1868 discussing plans for class academic standing at Cornell.

Dates: 1869-1871.

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Cartes-de-visite (card photographs). 2
Diaries 1
Great Britain -- History -- Study and teaching. 1
History -- Study and teaching. 1
Papers. 1