Content Description

Scrapbook of Florence Louise Williams, Cornell University class of 1898 and 1905. Contains clippings, ephemera, correspondence, and photographs relating to her time as a graduate student at Cornell University.

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Scrapbooks of clippings, programs, menus, photographs, etc. documenting his years at Cornell and some items from Little Falls (N.Y.) High School. Also, portraits of fellow students, including a inscribed picture of Yau Hang Tong ('07), an early Chinese student.

Scope and content Included are excerpts and copies of letters written by Upton's mother relating incidents of Upton's boyhood and describing life in the Colorado grain country of the 1880s and 1890s; genealogical notes on the Burr family; two family bibles; a letter (2 pp.) to Upton's uncle, George Lincoln Burr; a poem written by Mrs. Upton; and a travelogue in the form of letters, including observations on animal life, botanical subjects, and geological features on a coast-to-coast automobile trip taken by...

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Scrapbook with programs, broadsides, letters, postcards, exams and other memorabilia documenting his experiences at Cornell University. Also a few items from Penn State University where he spent his freshman and sophomore years.

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Campus and local theatre programs, announcements and programs of campus activities, broadsides, programs and newspaper clippings of athletic events and photographs of Harding and his friends.

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Cornell University wall plaque and Cornell University Crew pocket flap. Also, letter from Anna Botsford Comstock to George J. MacAndrew of the Mamaroneck, New York school system, August 22, 1905, recommending Marion Winifred Elliott for a position as a high school science teacher.

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Correspondence with the Registrar concerning Fritch's failure in English and Algebra entrance exams; registration certificates, receipts and medical exam forms; copies of the CORNELL DAILY SUN and THE WIDOW; clippings of athletic and social events; Class Day and banquet programs; printed material, including a list of courses at a high school.

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Glass lantern slides; cards with contact prints made from slides; bound volumes of alumni records; photograph of the Civil Engineering faculty (1891-1892); and correspondence (1878-1904) concerning professor John Lewis Morris and student charges against him of incompetence, as well as other college matters.

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Cornell University certificates include an appointment from the Department of Military Science and Tactics naming him a 1st Lieutenant of Infantry in the Corps of Cadets, 1903; a Cornell University diploma conferring the degree of Mechanical Engineer, 1905; and a certificate certifying that William Washington Hodge "pursued the special studies characteristic of the course in Electrical Engineering," 1905.