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Cornell University. Class of 1881

 Organization

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell University 1880s photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065449435]
Identifier: 37-5-2768
Scope and content

Includes photographs of Andrew Dickson White, Professors Goldwin Smith, John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock, William R. Dudley, W. D. Wilson, A. N. Prentiss, and J. B. Burbank; and students from the classes of 1881 and 1886.

Dates: ca.1881-1886.

Edwin W. Catchpole Cornelliana.

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113243012]
Identifier: 2359
Scope and content

Cornell University ephemera. Also, Class of 1881 Commencement Banquet program, and a notebook kept by Rutherford P. Hayes, Class of 1880, (son of Rutherford B. Hayes), for an agricultural course, and also used by Catchpole for a miltary science class. Both were Delta Kappa Epsilon roommates.

Dates: Undated

Frank Harding scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092814858]
Identifier: 37-5-4226
Scope and content Scrapbook includes receipts for registration and fees to Cornell, many newspaper clippings, some from local papers like the Ithaca Democrat, many related to politics, obituaries for his father William J. Harding, a note indicating that Harding was the first individual from Sullivan County to complete four years, one indicating Harding received a scholarship, some poems. A campus resolution and clippings discussing town and gown relations and an altercation from February 23, 1880 between...
Dates: 1876-1883.

George Schumm miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112453117]
Identifier: 37-5-3769
Scope and content

Group photographs of members of the Class of 1881; cabinet card photograph of George Lincoln Burr (Schumm's roommater at Cornell); photograph album with campus scenes and family and personal photographs; diploma; and "Quarter Century Book Class of '81 Cornell University," 1911.

Dates: 1878-1911.

Henry H. Wing correspondence concerning alumni

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064718319]
Identifier: 41-4-235
Scope and content

Correspondence concerning the activities or the passing of individual alumni, mainly of the Class of 1881, as well as plans for class reunions, fundraising, and other alumni activities.

Dates: 1879-1936.

Isabel Howland papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065222790]
Identifier: 37-5-2368
Scope and content

Notes from classes in Practical Floriculture with Professor W.R. Lazenby, Spring and Summer terms, 1880; list of plants studies, Spring, 1879;notes on ferns; and Chester Water Tower Museum weight and measurement ticket.



Dates: 1879-1902.

John Van Rensselaer letter

 Collection — Manuscript box 14 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065301859]
Identifier: 47-2-m.318
Scope and content

Excerpts from a typed copy of a letter, October 31, 1880, from Jack Van Rensselaer to William G. VerPlanck about a trip of 150 Cornell students to a Republican rally in Elmira at which General Grant and Governor Woodford were present, and the students' visit to Elmira College.

Dates: 1929.

Michael L. and Catherine H. Whalen Collection of Cornelliana

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3784
Abstract

Photographs, including carte-de-visite pictures, cabinet cards, stereo views, prints and negatives. Also scrapbooks.

Dates: 1865-1975.

Otto Eidlitz scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065193728]
Identifier: 37-5-1500
Scope and content

Scrapbooks of exams, programs, term calendars, dance cards, class notes, and other items from Eidlitz' student days at Cornell University.

Dates: 1877-1881.

William Ballard Hoyt papers

 Collection
Identifier: 37-5-563
Abstract

Notebooks kept and letters written by Hoyt concerning class work and athletics.

Dates: 1878-1881.

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 3
Scrapbooks 3
Cabinet photographs. 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Diplomas. 1