Scope and content Letters to Finch from Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White, and Timothy Dwight. White's letter, and Ezra Cornell's letter of 1868, accompanied friendly gifts of buttons and books that they sent to Finch. Dwight's letter (1905) contains news of classmates who have died recently, and comments on how leading universities such as Yale and Cornell have grown over the past 50 years. Ezra Cornell's letter of 1866 concerns the future of Cascadilla Place and its relation to Cornell University and...

Abstract Correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, photographs, printed materials, certificates, and biography relating to Vandervort's work with the Tompkins County Public Library and the Finger Lakes Library System; the Tompkins County Senior Citizens' Council and senior citizens issues; the New York State College of Human Ecology; the New York State Fair; and women's rights issues. Also, letters from the Bull family (1922-26), interviews with Helen Vandervort by Eleanor Randles and...

Scope and content Typescript, leaflets, and newspaper articles concerning the laying of the cornerstone for the Tompkins County Public Library in 1968 and the dedication of the new library building in April 1969. The typescript document is a transcript of the proceedings at the dedication ceremony. The newspaper articles include a multi-page "Library supplement" to the Ithaca Journal from February, 1969, including historical information on the Cornell Public Library and the transition to the new county-run...

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Microfilm copies of historical records, 1866-1965; Tompkins County Public Library scrapbooks, 1940-1965, n.d.; Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library minutes, 1946-1996; and Board of Trustees minutes, 1950-2007.