Scope and content Office files, including correspondence; duplicate accession files; guest register signed at Alumni Reunion Weekend exhibit prepared by staff of the University Archives, Barton Hall, 1977 and 1978; SPINDEX Development Project Records and SPINDEX and CornellC documentation, 1968-1975; records relating to the 1976 University records survey; and exhibit material from department exhibits, 1952-1970. Also, letters and resumes relating to the appointment of the first curator of the Collection of...

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Correspondence relating to the development and administration of the library, general administrative files, administrative files of Librarians, financial records, statistical reports, and grant files.

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Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Karolyn Gould for a project concerning Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst; includes interviews with Roger Baldwin, Bruce Bliven, Frances Bolton, Ellen von Voltenberg Brown, George Cushman, Josephine Whitney Duveneck, Leonard Elmhirst, Milton Rose, Frances Tower Thatcher, and notes concerning Whitney Park. Also, proposals, correspondence, and draft chapters for a biography of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst.

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Professional papers, including alphabetical subject files and files relating to other professional activities.

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Alphabetical subject files documenting activities as chairman of the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, and as Director of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

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Correspondence of James M. Gillies during his tenure as Chairman of the Lambda Alpha Literary Archives Committee. Correspondents include Richard Homer, Douglas Cannon, Herbert Finch and Michael Hugo-Brunt.

Scope and content Papers include research files on Anna Botsford Comstock; research files on manuscript collections relating to China and Chinese students at Cornell; research files on Sarah Cooper; checklists of manuscript collections at Cornell relating to the West Indies, to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, to temperance, to architecture, and to Theodore Roosevelt; and information about cataloging and processing guidelines for the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Also photographs of...