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Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.

 Person

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Adelaide Taber Young papers

 Collection
Identifier: 37-5-820
Abstract

Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities; student notebooks; scrapbooks of photographs, programs, clippings, and other memorabilia from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning her sister, Sara Louise (Elmira Class of 1904).

Dates: 1887-1911.

Alice Percy papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944840]
Identifier: 37-5-933
Scope and content

Includes one letter from Jacob Gould Schurman (1893) denying Miss Percy (later Mrs. Alton Winslow Leighton) permission to leave Sage College at the beginning of the spring term, and letters from Moses Coit Tyler, Samuel Gardner Williams, Oliver Farrer Emerson, Waterman Thomas Hewett, and George Lincoln Burr recommending her for a teaching position; also, photographs, programs, and other Cornelliana.

Dates: 1888-1901.

Alpheus W. Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3695
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...
Dates: [ca.1915-1947].

Andrew Dickson White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-2-2
Abstract

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

Dates: 1832-1919.

Burt Green Wilder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-26-95
Abstract Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Charles F. Cochran miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-2-m.320
Scope and content

Conversation (typescript) of Edith Fox and Gould Colman with Charles Cochran, who served as Andrew Dickson White's secretary from 1908 to 1912 concerning White's personality, George Lincoln Burr, T. F. Crane, Charles Kendall Adams, Jacob Gould Schurman, and the writer Winston Churchill, December 28, 1953.



Dates: 1861-1890, 1953.

Cooley family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3625
Scope and content Clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia of Carolyn Slater Treman Cooley, her second husband Charles R. Cooley, her mother Caroline Adsitt Slater, her first husband Robert E. Treman, and other family members. Includes letters (three from George Lincoln Burr to Caroline Adsitt Slater); postcards; items from the American Battle Monuments Commission (World War II); passports of Charles R. Cooley; Cornell University class reunion items; file on Brud Holland; dog pedigree charts and...
Dates: [ca.1891]-1978.

Daniel C. Knowlton miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-697
Scope and content

A dismantled scrapbook of correspondence and Cornelliana, including clippings, official notices, pictures, and programs; texts, syllabi and notes by Knowlton on European History taught by Henry Morse Stephens and George Lincoln Burr, English History in India by Stephens, American History by Moses Coit Tyler, and International Law by Ernest W. Huffcutt; photographs and an expense book.

Dates: 1894-1899.

Edwin Emerson, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-5-148
Scope and content

"Groves of Academe," reminscences of student days at Cornell and of President Jacob Gould Schurman, and Professors John Henry and Anna Botsford Comstock, George Lincoln Burr, E. E. Hale, and of fellow student Alexis Babine.





Dates: 1954, circa 2020-2023

Ellen Coit Brown Elliott and Orrin Leslie Elliott papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 13 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065303509]
Identifier: 41-5-2655
Scope and content Reminiscences, 1953-1954, of Ellen Coit Brown, who married Orrin Leslie Elliott, include descriptions of Cornell University President Andrew Dickson White and Professor George Lincoln Burr (with whom Miss Brown worked as an assistant in President White's library after graduation), and a description of women students at Cornell, their attitudes and activities (1878-1882). Also, a small book of poems by Ellen Coit Brown Elliott; annotated volume of The Cornell Review, 1880-1881; A.D. White's...
Dates: 1880-1954.

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Photographs 8
College teachers 5
Scrapbooks 5
Women college students. 4
Diaries 3
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Notebooks 3
Authors. 2
China. 2
College students 2
Diplomas. 2
Education. 2
History -- Study and teaching. 2
Ithaca (N.Y.) 2
Journalists. 2
Manuscripts for publication. 2
Politics, Practical 2
Religion. 2
Temperance. 2
United States -- Politics and government. 2
Abolitionists. 1
African Americans -- Education 1
Antislavery movements. 1
Architecture -- Study and teaching. 1
Articles. 1
Baltimore sun. 1
Blueprints. 1
Botanical specimens. 1
Botany 1
Brain. 1
Canada -- Ethnic relations. 1
Canada -- Foreign relations -- United States. 1
Canada -- Politics and government. 1
Civil service 1
College publications. 1
College students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Colleges and universities -- Canada. 1
Colleges and universities -- Description. 1
Colleges and universities -- United States. 1
Composition (Music). 1
Cornell Expedition to Asia Minor. 1
Diplomacy. 1
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Germany 1
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Soviet Union 1
Diplomats. 1
Drawings. 1
Education -- Political aspects. 1
England -- Foreign relations -- Russia. 1
English literature. 1
Era. 1
Essays 1
Europe -- Politics and government. 1
Expeditions, Adventure. 1
First drafts. 1
Freed persons 1
French-Canadians. 1
Galley proofs. 1
Genealogies. 1
Germany -- Description and travel. 1
Germany. 1
Great Britain -- Politics and government. 1
Greek letter societies. 1
Greenwich Village (N.Y.) 1
Guyana -- Boundaries -- Venezuela. 1
Haiti. 1
Higher education and state. 1
Historians. 1
Hygiene. 1
Illustrators. 1
Imperialism. 1
India. 1
International relations. 1
Ireland -- Politics and government. 1
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Politics and government. 1
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
Japan. 1
Java (Indonesia). 1
Jews -- History -- 1789-1945. 1
Korea. 1
Labor unions -- Political activity. 1
Land use -- New York (State) -- Bryant Park. 1
Land use -- New York (State) -- Cayuga Heights. 1
Land use -- New York (State) -- Renwick Heights. 1
Landscape architects. 1
Latin America. 1
Lawyers 1
Lecture notes. 1
Leighton, Alice Percy. 1
Literature 1
Mad hatter mutterings. 1
Maps. 1
Nantucket Island (Mass.) 1
Natural history. 1
Netherlands. 1
Neurologists. 1
Neurology. 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
New York State Canal System (N.Y.) 1
Passports. 1
Philanthropists. 1
Philippines. 1
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