Cornell University

Cornell University Alumni and Admission Center architectural model

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 8550

Scope and content Early working model of the proposed Alumni and Admission Center at Cornell University (unbuilt), in which several iterations of the design are visible by interchanging parts of the model. The proposed complex is situated on opposite sides of Fall Creek at the northern end of the original campus. It includes a four-story reception building on the northern face of the gorge and a four-story administrative wing situated on the opposite bank. The reception building faces the main public...

Dates: 1988.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University Alumni and Admission Center architectural model

Cornell University alumni petition

Collection — Manuscript box 14 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065301784]

Identifier: 47-5-m.330

Scope and content

Alumni petition urging that Cornell not give honorary degrees, September 17, 1886.

Dates: 1886.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University alumni petition

Cornell University Alumni service bulletin and semi-centennial records

Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065491445]

Identifier: 6-2-347

Scope and content

Scattered issues of the Alumni service bulletin, and committee minutes, pamphlets, and leaflets from Cornell's semi-centennial celebration in 1919 and the fundraising and other preparations for it.

Dates: 1915-1919.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University Alumni service bulletin and semi-centennial records

Cornell University alumni trusteeship papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 41-7-758

Scope and content

Letters, notes, petitions, clippings, flyers, and postcards from the campaigns to elect and re-elect various alumni as Alumni Trustee, including Mary H. Donlon, Mary M. Crawford , and Robert E. Treman (Class of 1909). Correspondents include Donlon, Treman, and Agda Swenson Osborn.

Dates: 1927-1939.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University alumni trusteeship papers

Cornell University and Goodkind family scrapbooks

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-5-4043

Scope and content Scrapbook/stamp album documenting Cornell history begins with envelope addressed to Elijah Cornell, 1856, includes a letter from Ezra Cornell written to Edwin D. Morgan on the back of the announcement for the first annual Commencement of Cornell University, 1869; a variety of Cornell envelopes, all with stamps, 1867, 1869; envelopes sent by Willard Fiske, 1876; envelope sent by Charles Frederick Hartt, ca. 1873; envelopes sent by Waterman Thomas Hewitt, ca. 1890s later Cornell envelopes,...

Dates: 1856-1965.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University and Goodkind family scrapbooks

Cornell University and Ithaca area matchbooks

Collection

Identifier: 8899

Content Description

Collection contains matchbooks from Cornell University and the Ithaca area. Included are local venues such as Zinck's and Chanticleer, campus events, campus departments, and a matchbook from the "Far Above" Cornell University plane.

Dates: 1950 - 1970

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University and Ithaca area matchbooks

Cornell University and Ithaca views and guidebooks

Collection — Framed item 2

Identifier: 4059

Abstract

Guidebooks and books of views of Cornell University and Ithaca, N.Y.

Dates: 1873-1982.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University and Ithaca views and guidebooks

Cornell University and Tompkins County aerial photographs

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 47-1-4161

Scope and content Aerial photographs of campus and Tompkins Country from various individuals. Four photographs were taken for Henry S. Kramer from a small airplane base at the Tompkins County airport by Tom Bartelt, a fellow student. Kramer and Bartelt both worked at WVBR -FM. The Bartelt aerial photographs depict Barton Hall and the ILR buildings, Willard Straight Hall, the West Campus dorms, and an overview of the entire campus. Also a very large set of prints and negatives showing campus from 1992 printed...

Dates: 1928; 1959-1960; 1992.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University and Tompkins County aerial photographs

Cornell University Architectural Advisory Council records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 43-3-496

Scope and content

Includes bound volumes of council minutes, correspondence files, and blueprints concerning construction and improvements of buildings and grounds on the Cornell University campus.

Dates: 1923-1959.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University Architectural Advisory Council records

Cornell University Art Museum records

Collection

Identifier: 49-2-1729

Scope and content Minutes and notes of the Cornell University Art Museum Board at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, and later the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Includes reports and notes on the planning of the Johnson Museum. Also a film of the dedication ceremonies of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, May 1973 and a 1974 film by Andrew Gillis titled A Building, Some Observations, on Forms and Spaces, featuring images of the Johnson Art Museum exterior and interior. Also,...

Dates: 1952-1974.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University Art Museum records

Archives at Cornell

Found in 2936 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell University Alumni and Admission Center architectural model

Cornell University alumni petition

Cornell University Alumni service bulletin and semi-centennial records

Cornell University alumni trusteeship papers

Cornell University and Goodkind family scrapbooks

Cornell University and Ithaca area matchbooks

Cornell University and Ithaca views and guidebooks

Cornell University and Tompkins County aerial photographs

Cornell University Architectural Advisory Council records

Cornell University Art Museum records

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