United States (Title of work: Land Grant Act of 1862..)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cornell University western lands records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7-4-12
Scope and content
Records relating to Ezra Cornell's land business, primarily in Wisconsin, but also in Minnesota and Kansas, and to the financial dealings of the university in its first forty years. Includes account books, day books, cash books, ledgers, plat books, land scrip book, lists of lands, tax registers, survey notes, maps, and atlases. Includes correspondence with Ezra Cornell, W. A. Woodward, and Cornell Treasurers, J. W. Williams and E. L. Williams, and correspondence of Henry C. Putnam,...
Dates:
1859-1932.
Francis Miles Finch proposal
Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065266359]
Identifier: 2-2-m.28
Scope and content
Proposal by Francis Miles Finch to assume Ezra Cornell's contracts for college lands, October 14, 1874.
Dates:
1874.
United States National exposition (Brazil) papers
Collection — Manuscript box 18 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065305967]
Identifier: 6-2-m.675
Scope and content
Items pertaining to the first U.S. National Exposition held in Brazil, at which an exhibit told the “Land Grant College Story” and included a photographic study of Cornell as an outstanding land grant college. Includes correspondence (February-December 1963) of Exposition designer Leonard Levitan with University Secretary Frank C. Baldwin and Assistant Archivist John Buchanan, concerning historical items pertaining to Cornell University, its relation to Brazil, and the Morrill Land Grant...
Dates:
1963.