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Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.

 Person

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Leonard Carr Treman scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203477]
Identifier: 37-5-773
Scope and content

Programs, newspaper clippings and photographs, cards, ribbons, schedules and other Cornelliana; also a letter from President Jacob Gould Schurman to Treman about the selection of a Sage College preacher.

Dates: 1910-1914.

Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243358]
Identifier: 115m
Scope and content Routine letters and notes signed by famous New Yorkers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, William Henry Seward, Russell Sage, Moses Coit Tyler, Jacob Gould Schurman, and Edward Eggleston. The letter from Stanton and one of the notes from Schurman is a fragment. Stanton's letter expresses her reaction to the tributes received on her 70th birthday. The letter from Seward (1864), written on Department of State letterhead, is addressed to Charles Sumner, Chairman of the...
Dates: circa 1851-1902.

Margaret Milmoe papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 29 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065307732]
Identifier: 47-2-2331
Scope and content

An episode of '73, a handwritten reminiscence about the laying of the cornerstone of Sage College at Cornell University, written ca. 1919. Also, program for Class Day exercises, 1886; letters from Jacob Gould Schurman, T. F. Crane, and George P. Bristol; obituary, February 9, 1940; and printed remarks by Andrew Dickson White on the selection of his successor, 1885.

Dates: 1886-1924.

Moses Coit Tyler collection

 Collection — Bound manuscript 48++ (index--photocopy): [Barcode: 31924117272827]
Identifier: 14-17-2641
Abstract

Diaries, lecture notes, and commonplace books by Moses Coit Tyler, and letters to him from others.

Dates: 1779-1900-(bulk 1850-1900)

Rockefeller Hall construction correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 26 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070595842]
Identifier: 14-22-1480m
Scope and content

98 pages of typewritten correspondence between Cornell University administrators and faculty and architects at Carrè€re & Hastings, discussing specifications for Rockefeller Hall, and also updates to the electricity and lighting in Goldwin Smith Hall. Correspondents include Jacob Gould Schurman, Robert Henry Treman, George S. Moler, Edward L. Nichols, Owen Brainard, and others.

Dates: 1903-1904.

Warner family memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092774086]
Identifier: 37-5-4110
Scope and content

Items relating to Sherman D. Warner include photographs, ca. 1917; programs from Sage, Chapel, Music and the Lyceum Theatre; basketball schedule, 1919-1920; Junior Smoker, 1919, Schedule of Examinations, 1917-1918; Gridiron Rules; 1920 Freshman Banquet program, 1917; clippings about the founding of Cornell from the December 1917 Cornell Daily Sun; and printed speech by Jacob Gould Schurman, "Why America is in the War," 1917.



Dates: 1917-1950

Waterman T. Hewett papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065172110]
Identifier: 14-18-391
Scope and content

Letters to Hewett, and reports, notes, and drafts of articles by him, including many letters from Andrew Dickson White, and regular reports by Hewett to Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman on the activities of the German Department. Correspondents besides White and Schurman include Charles S. Francis, Hiram Corson, and William Elliot Griffis.

Dates: 1891-1918.

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Scrapbooks 3
Photographs 2
Agricultural extension work. 1
Ambassadors. 1
American literature -- History and criticism. 1