Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Adelaide Taber Young papers

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Alice Percy papers

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Burt Green Wilder papers

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ellen Coit Brown Elliott and Orrin Leslie Elliott papers

Gertrude Jane and Ruth Augusta Nelson letters

Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065193637]

Identifier: 37-5-717

Scope and content Approximately 110 letters from Gertrude (later Mrs. Reinhard A. Wetzel) and Ruth Nelson to their parents while living at Sage College colorfully portray university and coed life in the nineties, and include descriptions of life at Sage College, courses and examinations, comments about professors, dating, parties, football games, clubs, Bible classes, activities at Sage Chapel, and prices of clothing in Ithaca. Special observations are made on such outstanding Cornell figures as George...

Dates: 1891-1897.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gertrude Jane and Ruth Augusta Nelson letters

Herbert D. Donovan course notes, programs of student activities, pipes, tobacco

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 41-5-115

Scope and content

14 items containing class notes on lectures given by Professors Henry Morse Stephens, George Lincoln Burr, Hiram Corson, Alfred Gudeman, and Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, with introductory remarks by Herbert Donovan, 1899-1903. Also 15 Cornell programs dated 1900-1912, 5 pipes, and two packets tobacco used at reunion functions.

Dates: 1899-1912.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Herbert D. Donovan course notes, programs of student activities, pipes, tobacco

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