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Found in 2936 Collections and/or Records:

Letter: from Livingston Farrand

 Collection — Manuscript box 42 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924093382723]
Identifier: 3-7-3498
Scope and content

Letter from Cornell President Livingston Farrand thanking Mungle for his support of the University's fundraising campaign. Also photocopy of obituary, 1974.

Dates: 1925.

Letters from home during World War II

 Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113451334]
Identifier: 37-5-4100m
Scope and content

Volume of typescript copies of letters written from family members in Oakfield, N.Y., including her mother Lucile Calkins Greene, her father Walter Greene, her sister Norma Greene, her brother Richard ("Dick") Greene, and her aunt Donna Calkins Williams.

Dates: 1942 September 25-1945 June 16.

Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243358]
Identifier: 115m
Scope and content Routine letters and notes signed by famous New Yorkers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, William Henry Seward, Russell Sage, Moses Coit Tyler, Jacob Gould Schurman, and Edward Eggleston. The letter from Stanton and one of the notes from Schurman is a fragment. Stanton's letter expresses her reaction to the tributes received on her 70th birthday. The letter from Seward (1864), written on Department of State letterhead, is addressed to Charles Sumner, Chairman of the...
Dates: circa 1851-1902.

Letters relating to Francis (Frank) Drexel Mullan

 Collection — Manuscript box 17 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065305637]
Identifier: 37-5-592
Scope and content

Contains letters of October 4, 1894 from E.S. Williams, Cornell Treasurer to Mrs. Rebecca Mullan (mother of Francis Drexel) and April 6, 1895 from David F. Hoy, Asst. Registrar of Cornell University to Mr. John Mullan (father of Francis Drexel). There is also one envelope postmarked Ithaca, NY August 8, 1895. Letter of October acknowledges receipt of $50 for tuition; letter of April advises that the faculty will consider the readmission of the son in September 1895.

Dates: 1894-1895.

Letters to Frances Wright

 Collection — Manuscript box 38 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065342317]
Identifier: 37-5-3099
Scope and content

Letters describing student activities and classes at Cornell University.

Dates: 1878.

Lewis Derby Culp R.O.T.C. Band Uniform and Clarinet

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-7-4114
Scope and content

Grey wool band uniform jacket and pants. Pants have a black stripe, five button fly, lace up cuffs and are in the style of jodhpurs. Jacket has epaulette straps and the U.S. R.O.T.C. logo on the breast pocket. Both the pants and the jacket have tags from Rothchild's Ithaca, New York. The clarinet is a seven ring Boehm system model made by G. Pruefer, Providence, Rhode Island. It is serial #4654 and comes with a case.

Dates: ca. 1935

Lewis E. Dofflemeyer letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241386]
Identifier: 1857
Scope and content

Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Crosby Kelly of Albany, New York from Dofflemeyer regarding his health; Cornell University reunions; the sale of his paintings; and an exhibition of Dofflemeyer's work. Also, a poem and two sketches of the Ezra Cornell tunnel which appeared in the 1890 CORNELLIAN and the 1979 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

Dates: [ca.1888]-1950; -1946-1950 (bulk)

Lewis Knudson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-17-1778
Abstract

Articles and notes concerning plants as a source of rubber, including guayule and kok-saghyz; papers pertaining to the Ninth Annual Chemurgie Conference. Also, photocopy of bound manuscript containing "A Brief History of the Department of Botany" by Lewis Knudson, October 15, 1938, and menu and guest list from Botany Department dinner, 1938.

Dates: 1938-1946.

Lewis Leaming Forman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-9-772
Scope and content Student notes, notes for lectures on ancient history, classical literature, Greek art, Greek and Latin vocabulary and usage, the New Testament, philosophy, and other subjects; diary and expense book kept during a visit to Greece (1900-1901), photographs, letters, and clippings. Notebooks of diary entries and memoranda kept (1915-1916) during trips to Sicily, Tunis, Egypt, and Greece. Notes for addresses made at the organizing meeting of the American Rights Committee, and before the Cornell...
Dates: 1879-1932.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory Greenhouse documentation

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070775600]
Identifier: 43-4-4020
Scope and content

"Cornell University Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory Greenhouse: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive data" created for the Historic American Buildings Survey includes a narrative document; 10 photographs, with negatives; and a DVD of the materials (HABS NY-6395).

Dates: 2012.

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Type
Collection 2893
Archival Object 43
 
Subject
Photographs 678
Scrapbooks 434
Women college students. 138
Women college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 134
College teachers 99
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Diaries 83
Greek letter societies. 67
Videotapes. 47
Greek letter societies -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 37
Postcards. 33
College students 28
Account books 26
Ithaca, New York 26
Negatives. 26
Programs (documents) 26
World War, 1914-1918 26
Drawings. 23
Photograph albums. 23
History -- Study and teaching. 22
Ithaca (N.Y.) 22
Motion pictures (visual works). 22
Slides (photographs). 22
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 21
Architecture -- Study and teaching. 20
Broadsides (notices) 20
Physics -- Study and teaching. 20
Reminiscences. 20
Cyanotypes. 19
Diplomas. 19
Genealogies. 19
Student movements. 19
Lecture notes. 18
Programs (documents). 18
Blueprints. 17
College students -- Political activity. 17
College teachers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 17
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 17
Rowing. 17
Students -- Political activity. 17
Agriculture -- Study and teaching. 16
Architectural drawings. 16
Engineering -- Study and teaching. 16
Menus 16
Minutes (administrative records) 16
Minutes. 16
Notebooks 16
Oral histories. 16
Women -- Societies and clubs. 16
Agriculture -- Economic aspects. 15
Class reunions. 15
Entomologists 15
Mechanical engineering -- Study and teaching. 15
Agriculture. 14
Botany 14
Botany -- Study and teaching. 14
Maps. 14
New York (State) -- Ithaca 14
Geology -- Study and teaching. 13
Lantern slides. 13
Minority college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 13
Physicists. 13
World War, 1939-1945 13
African American college students 12
Cornell daily sun. 12
Education. 12
Philippines. 12
Poems 12
Sketches. 12
Speeches 12
Student movements -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 12
Accounts. 11
City planning 11
College administrators 11
College students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 11
College students -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 11
Lawyers 11
Posters. 11
Universities and colleges -- Faculty 11
Women college teachers. 11
Agriculture -- New York (State) 10
Architects. 10
Chemistry -- Study and teaching. 10
China. 10
Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 10
Geologists. 10
Nutrition. 10
Authors. 9
Campus planning. 9
Entomology -- Study and teaching. 9
Entomology. 9
Japan. 9
Memorabilia 9
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 9
Politics, Practical 9
Psychology -- Study and teaching. 9
Questionnaires. 9
Tompkins County (N.Y.) 9
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements 9
Academic freedom. 8
Agricultural education. 8
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