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Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974.

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences

 Collection — Manuscript box 19 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065305819]
Identifier: 11-1-721
Abstract

Recollections (13 pp. typescript) based on dictation that Cornelius Betten, dean of the Cornell University faculty (1932-45), gave to Mrs. Argetsinger while she was his secretary or on statements that he made following their marriage.

Dates: undated.

Carl E. Ladd papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-2-87
Abstract Includes curricula, budgets, printed material, clippings, and memoranda and correspondence with Cornell faculty and administrators, students, county extension agents, agricultural club leaders, farmers, publishers, state and federal agricultural agencies, credit associations, and state and national politicians. Subjects include administration of the College of Agriculture; appointments, promotions, and resignations of faculty and administrators; Farm and Home Week at Cornell; construction of...
Dates: 1932-1943.

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3725
Abstract

Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines.

Dates: 1887 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1887 - 1926

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall

 Collection
Identifier: 3782
Abstract

Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall; lecture notes, notebooks, diaries and travel journals; an inventory for the records room at Dartington Hall and a diary describing World War I by an unknown author. Also, microfilmed correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and Dorothy Whitney Straight; her diaries, clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses.

Dates: 1890-1976,-1920-1958 (bulk)

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project interview transcripts

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064928686]
Identifier: 13-6-2061
Scope and content

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Karolyn Gould for a project concerning Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst; includes interviews with Roger Baldwin, Bruce Bliven, Frances Bolton, Ellen von Voltenberg Brown, George Cushman, Josephine Whitney Duveneck, Leonard Elmhirst, Milton Rose, Frances Tower Thatcher, and notes concerning Whitney Park. Also, proposals, correspondence, and draft chapters for a biography of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst.

Dates: 1971-1976.

George Lincoln Burr papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203709]
Identifier: 14-17-22
Abstract Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...
Dates: 1861-1942.

Jared Treman Newman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2157
Abstract

Jared Treman Newman was an Ithaca, New York attorney, 1893-1896, and mayor, 1907-1908; Cornell University Trustee, 1895-1903 and 1907-1933; and a bank official.

Dates: 1803-1953,-1803-1937 (bulk)

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