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Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.

 Person

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Charles R. Wright papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 64 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257549]
Identifier: 4101
Scope and content

Letter to Charles R. Wright from H. Bronson in Orwell, Vermont, April 17, 1848, in which Bronson tells Wright that Ezra Cornell has been called to Ithaca, New York because of family illness. Also, a broadside advertising telegraph prices for major east coast cities and many cities in New York State.

Dates: [ca.1848]

Cornell Public Library manuscript collections

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2594
Abstract

Various manuscripts related or belonging to the Cornell Public Library (now Ithaca Public Library).

Dates: 1818 - 1905; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1887

Cornell University museum items

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-7-1948
Scope and Contents

Collection contains Cornell University memorabilia and ephemera. Items include bookends, clocks, souvenirs, and other branded items. For college or department-specific memorabilia, please refer to those collections.

Dates: 1869 - 2025

Cornell University Office of Investments records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7-2-82
Scope and content Includes deeds, and other legal documents; land contracts, tax receipts, correspondence, and land examiner's reports regarding Western lands owned by Cornell University, 1866-1920; legal documents and logging reports of the New York State College of Forestry; leases for campus houses, including the use of fraternity houses by the armed forces, 1943; manuscript "Narration on the Financial Beginnings of the University 1865-1897"; volume "Mortgage Foreclosure Accounts," 1893-1898; reports to...
Dates: [ca.1865]-1943.

Cornell University Trustee resolution

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065265104]
Identifier: 2-11-m.32
Scope and content

Printed resolution, signed by Ezra Cornell as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University about qualifications for entrance to Cornell University for the second term of the year 1868-1869, dated January 15, 1869, mentions expenses and possible employment (multiple copies).

Dates: 1869.

David Starr Jordan items

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3888
Scope and content Letter from David Starr Jordan to Jacob Gould Schurman on the 100th anniversary of Ezra Cornell's birth, relating to the spirit that animated the students and faculty of the newly-founded university and to the concepts and functions of the university in the democratic society (9 pp.). Also, handwritten, autographed poem by David Starr Jordan, and a request for a poem from Jordan by Albert C. Almy (to use in the Cornell Era, February 9, 1872), with a handwritten poem by Jordan on the...
Dates: 1872, 1907, 1921.

Delta Phi, Pi chapter records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070746973]
Identifier: 37-4-2714
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1917-1980.

Diven family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2231
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, account books, and legal papers of an Elmira family of lawyers and businessmen.

Dates: 1828-1940.

Edwin B. Morgan papers

 Collection
Identifier: 550
Abstract

Papers concerned principally with elections in the 25th Congressional District of New York (Cayuga County) in 1850; Morgan's platform included high protectionism, free soil, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law; he was defeated by Thomas Y. How, the Loco-Foco candidate.

Dates: 1840-1888.

Elias W. Cady papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2399
Abstract

Letters to Cady and deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems.

Dates: 1801-1857.

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 11
Deeds. 3
History -- Study and teaching. 3
Telegraph. 3
College teachers 2
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Diaries 2
Diplomas. 2
Diplomats. 2
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 2
Poems 2
Railroads -- New York (State) 2
Real property, Exchange of. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 2
Agricultural colleges. 1
Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
Allegany County (N.Y.) 1
Ambassadors. 1
Architecture -- Study and teaching. 1
Aurora (N.Y.) -- History. 1
Botanical specimens. 1
Botany 1
Bounties, Military -- United States. 1
Canals. 1
Cayuga County (N.Y.) 1
Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government. 1
Certificates. 1
Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863. 1
Chemung County (N.Y.) 1
China. 1
Cider industry -- New York (State) 1
Civil service 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Congressmen. 1
Daybooks. 1
DeRuyter (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 1
Diplomacy. 1
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Germany 1
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Soviet Union 1
Dressmaking -- Patterns. 1
Dryden (N.Y.) 1
Dutchess County (N.Y.) 1
Education -- Political aspects. 1
Education. 1
Europe -- History. 1
Europe -- Politics and government. 1
Families -- Genealogy. 1
Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. 1
Germany -- Description and travel. 1
Greek letter societies -- New York (State) 1
Guardian (Manchester, England). 1
Guyana -- Boundaries -- Venezuela. 1
Herpetology. 1
Higher education and state. 1
Historians. 1
Historiography. 1
History -- Research. 1
History -- Societies, etc. 1
Inventories 1
Ithaca (N.Y.) 1
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History. 1
Land titles -- Dakota Territory -- Registration and transfer. 1
Land titles -- Illinois -- Registration and transfer. 1
Land titles -- Registration and transfer. 1
Lantern slides. 1
Library architecture -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Logging. 1
Lumbering. 1
Lutheran Church -- Clergy. 1
Manuscripts for publication. 1
Maps. 1
Memorabilia 1
Michigan -- Description and travel. 1
Montgomery County (N.Y.) 1
Mortgages. 1
New York (State) -- History. 1
Notebooks 1
Onondaga County (N.Y.) 1
Orwell (Vt.) 1
Photogaphic prints. 1
Plaques (flat objects). 1
Politics, Practical 1
Politics, Practical -- New York (State). 1
Protectionism -- United States. 1
Psychologists. 1
Public libraries -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Railroads -- New York (State). 1
Real estate investment. 1
Real property -- Kentucky -- Rowan County. 1
Real property -- New York (State) -- Allegany County. 1
Real property -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County. 1
Reminiscences. 1
Reports. 1
Republican Party Campaign 1871. 1
Rowing. 1
Russia -- Description and travel. 1
Samplers (embroidery). 1
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) 1
Saratoga County (N.Y.) 1
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