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Utica, Ithaca, and Elmira Railroad

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

Franklin Cuthbert Cornell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1-1-456
Abstract

Family papers, correspondence, and miscellaneous items concerning Franklin C. Cornell and son, Franklin C. Cornell, Jr.

Dates: 1857-1938.

Gail and Stephen Rudin Cornelliana Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-1-4159
Scope and content Letters and documents from and to Ezra Cornell relating to the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira Railroad, to Douglass Boardman regarding the telegraph business, from Thomas Rooker about an "acoustic telegraph," and from Conrad Milton about a "percussion shell." Letters from Andrew Dickson White to. W. C. Crane about the possible purchase of a newspaper for the Library and to Abner I. Phipps doubting a visit to New England. A manuscript written by Jacob Gould Schurman for an anthology to be produced...
Dates: 1848-1931.

Oliver Hazard Perry Cornell miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088353861]
Identifier: 37-5-2053
Scope and content

Oliver H. P. Cornell's diploma from Cornell University; railroad work estimate for the Utica, Ithaca, and Elmira Railroad; photograph of Oliver H. P. Cornell, and photograph of his wife Louisa Conklin; and pocket watch.

Dates: 1874.

Railroad miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4396
Scope and content

Tintype of Utica, Ithaca, and Elmira Railroad. Photographs of the Dundee railroad station, ca. 1900; the Geneva railroad station, 1906; the Canandaigua wharf, 1891; steroscopic photograph, Engine 77 at Cayuga, N.Y., ca. 1877; and photograph, Empire State Express and DeWitt Clinton. Also, "The Auburn Branch of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, 'Butter and Cheese Express,'" 1990 revision (63 p.) by Richard Palmer.

Dates: 1871-1906, 1990.

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Railroads -- New York (State) 2
Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
Canandaigua Lake (N.Y.) 1
Cattle -- Breeding -- New York (State) 1
Coal trade. 1