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Cornell Public Library (Ithaca, N.Y.)

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Henry Hull papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-249
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, regarding his professional career and financial accounts pertaining to Ithaca, N.Y. organizations. Additional records include deeds, mortgage and survey (1733-1803) on lands in Albany and Montgomery Counties and newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about the early Ithaca "Moral Society". One box of lantern slides.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1850-1945.

Ezra Cornell letter to Henry Brewer

 Collection — Manuscript box 25 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244935]
Identifier: 624m
Scope and content

Letter in answer to Brewer's complaint about the Library Association's proposal to charge the Ithaca Farmers Club $100 per year in rent. Cornell defends the library's board of trustees, describes the composition of the board, and refers Brewer to them to address the issue.

Dates: 1874 October 22.

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates: 1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870

Lorraine Williams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6627
Abstract

Librarian Lorraine Williams worked at the Cornell Public Library in the 1960s and in the Acquisitions Department at the Cornell University Library from 1965 to 1969. The collection primarily contains photographs and letters of Cornell Public Library and Cornell University Library staff.

Dates: 1959-1993.

Tompkins County Public Library items

 Collection — Manuscript box 53 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251948]
Identifier: 2933m
Scope and content Typescript, leaflets, and newspaper articles concerning the laying of the cornerstone for the Tompkins County Public Library in 1968 and the dedication of the new library building in April 1969. The typescript document is a transcript of the proceedings at the dedication ceremony. The newspaper articles include a multi-page "Library supplement" to the Ithaca Journal from February, 1969, including historical information on the Cornell Public Library and the transition to the new county-run...
Dates: 1968-1969.

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Subject
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 2
Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
Cattle -- Breeding -- New York (State) 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Coal trade. 1