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Prints, negatives, and glass plate negatives documenting many aspects and areas of Cornell life, including faculty, buildings, individuals, groups, alumni functions, academic departments, athletics, students' cartes-de-visite, and agriculture.

Scope and content Includes military correspondence, reports, and talks; photographs of Cornell University; Cornell publications; research on Ezra Cornell and on early Cornell history; correspondence with George L. Burr; manuscripts and verses of Ruby Green Smith and Albert W. Smith; letter (1915) from Harper Sibley in Rochester and from Jacob Gould Schurman (1918); scrapbook of newspaper clippings, June 1945-March 1946; leaflets from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations; and other papers of...

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Collection consists of papers relating to White's activities as educator, politician, and diplomat.

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This collection contains papers from Cornell University professor of history, Carl Becker, dating 1898-1956. It primarily contains lecture and course notes, correspondence, papers and photographs.

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Photographs of G. Harry Case, Franklin C. Cornell, the Cornell home Forest Park, and Laura Pettigrove; Cornell family genealogical chart prepared by Dorothy Cornell; Cornell University loan payment to G. Harry Case, September 4, 1907; two bank notes signed by Ezra Cornell, July 12, 1867 and October 16, 1869; a mechanic's triangular metal 6" ruler/scale signed by Ezra Cornell (son of the founder); a Class of 1902 Sophomore Smoker pipe.

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A history of the fraternity and house, originally built for Ezra Cornell, ca. 1971; also, floor plans and photographs. Programs from the Century at Llenroc celebration, September 24, 2011, with a congratulatory letter from Cornell President David J. Skorton.

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Pamphlets and photographs pertaining to the Cornell University Class of 1880, including a letter from Justin S. Morrill to Andrew D. White; and maps of Ithaca, New York, and other cities in the states. Deed from Stephen Dodd and Mary Dodd to Jeremiah S. Beebe, Stephen B. Munn, and Horace Mack, 1828. Also two volumes of poetry (one bound and in a wooden box); and a framed photograph of Ezra Cornell that belonged to Horace Mack.

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Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks, photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of land in central and eastern New York.

Scope and content Lead box found in the cornerstone of Sage Hall included a letter from Ezra Cornell; photographs of Henry W. Sage and Susan Linn Sage; a copy of the Cornell University Registers from 1868-69, 1869-70, 1870-71, 1871-72, and 1872-73 (2 copies); Cornell University Laws and Documents; the Cornell Era, May 9, 1873; the Evening Journal Almanac, 1873; and newspapers from May 14, 1873, including The Ithaca Journal, The Ithaca Daily Democrat, and The New-York Times. Also, photographs of the opening...

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Printed items and photographs concerning the centennial of the first telegraph message, May 1844; exhibition of artworks by Samuel F. B. Morse at Vassar College Centennial, 1961; Samuel F. B. Morse exhibit at Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, 1956; the United States Farmers Almanac 1863, published by Sower and Barnes, and 1914 clipping from an Ithaca, New York newspaper.