United States. Army

M. L. Baker letters

Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1

Identifier: 9201

Scope and content Photostats of letters from M. L. Baker to his family with typed transcriptions. Ten letters dating from September 13, 1846 to May 23, 1849. They describe the writer's participation in Mexican and Indian campaigns. Descriptions of the culture of Indians and landscape of the area around New Mexico, including encounters with Indians. Letters are addressed from Santa Fe New Mexico, Council Grove Kansas, Arkansas River near Pawnee Forks, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Head quarters Fort...

Dates: 1846-1849.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / M. L. Baker letters

Marilyn Monroe photographs

Collection — Manuscript box 18 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924088349398]

Identifier: 6527

Scope and content

Color prints documenting Marilyn Monroe's visit to American troops in Korea, 1954.

Dates: 1954.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Marilyn Monroe photographs

My life in the military-- World War II

Collection — Manuscript box 71 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924093382426]

Identifier: 6688

Scope and content

Memoir of his experiences in the Infantry, the Detached Enlisted Men's List (office clerk), and in the Army Air Corps. He served in Accra (Ghana, then Gold Coast), Khartoum (Sudan), Port of Aden, Karachi (Pakistan, then India), and Chakulia and in aerial operations in China, Singapore, and Japan.

Dates: 2001.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / My life in the military-- World War II

New York 56th Infantry Regiment ordnance records

Collection — Manuscript box 32 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246617]

Identifier: 1192

Scope and content

Quarterly return of ordnance, and ordnance stores received for Company "L" in the fall of 1864, when it was stationed on Morris Island, South Carolina.

Dates: 1864.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York 56th Infantry Regiment ordnance records

New York State items

Collection — Manuscript box 23 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244471]

Identifier: 348m

Scope and content

Document discharging Silas Wilmott from his post as inspector of turnpike roads for Rensselaer County, signed by Governor DeWitt Clinton, March 29, 1821; receipt for eight dollars for enlisting in the military, received from Ensign John Bliss, signed by Columbus Washington, in Albany, January 8, 1812; and the autograph of George Clinton, excised from a letter from Fort George, September 24, 1750.

Dates: 1750-1821.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York State items

New York Volunteers, 108th Regiment records

Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064924115]

Identifier: 493

Scope and content

Quarterly ordnance and ordnance stores returns, invoices, muster rolls, and miscellany of Company A, Volunteer Infantry, of which Dwight H. Ostrander was lieutenant and later captain; also, a muster roll and clothing receipt for Company B.

Dates: 1863-1864.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York Volunteers, 108th Regiment records

Ninth New York Artillery documents

Collection — Manuscript box 68 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065334249]

Identifier: 6348

Scope and content Collection of ten signed documents including 8 itemized Special Requisitions, 1 p., and 2 Monthly Returns of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, 8 pp., documents, all received and issued at Camp in the Fields, Virginia. Four are dated November, 1864; one April, 1865; and five May, 1865. All Special Requisitions are signed by George W. Snyder, Commanding Officer, and a variety of Captains with the Returns signed by Lt. J. W. Rice, Quartermaster. Includes items such as trousers, drawers,...

Dates: 1864-1865.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ninth New York Artillery documents

Patrick H. Graves Jr. papers

Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064935384]

Identifier: 7047

Scope and content

Diary kept in Vietnam, 1965-1966; diary entry for August 13, 1968; "Observations of a Platoon Leader," written by Graves and published by the 101st Airborne Division, 1966; "Observations of a Platoon Leader," published by the Dept. of the Army, 1967, as Operations Report Lessons Learned; and photographs of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne Divsion marching back from the relief of Toumorong, 1966 (identified on reverse).

Dates: 1966-1968.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Patrick H. Graves Jr. papers

Pratt family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 223

Abstract Letters received by Horace L. Edgar Pratt, a Protestant Episcopal rector on Staten Island, New York; also, a Civil War draft exemption certificate issued to John A Kernochan, Sept. 10, 1863; Queens County documents including a four year indenture apprenticing Joseph Lawrence to Effingham Lawrence; a bill of sale selling Joseph, a Negro boy; a receipt for a twelve pound bounty for William Aitken for New York militia service during the Revolutionary War; and a proclamation of Governor George...

Dates: 1758-1903

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Pratt family papers

Remembrance Vietnam '67-'68

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 7051

Scope and content

Memoir, with annotated photographs of Col. Landau's experiences in Vietnam. Includes a description of the Tet Offensive. "Return to Vietnam, April '98" documents Landau's 1998 return visit with color photocopies of photographs in an album and accompanying commentary.

Dates: 1990.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Remembrance Vietnam '67-'68

Archives at Cornell

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

M. L. Baker letters

Marilyn Monroe photographs

My life in the military-- World War II

New York 56th Infantry Regiment ordnance records

New York State items

New York Volunteers, 108th Regiment records

Ninth New York Artillery documents

Patrick H. Graves Jr. papers

Pratt family papers

Remembrance Vietnam '67-'68

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