Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney Straight, 1887-1968.

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project interview transcripts

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George Lincoln Burr papers

Leonard K. Elmhirst reminiscence

Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944568]

Identifier: 37-5-1509

Scope and content

32 page reminiscence by Leonard Knight Elmhirst.

Dates: 1920.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Leonard K. Elmhirst reminiscence

Willard Dickerman Straight papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1260

Abstract

Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09).

Dates: 1825-1925.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Willard Dickerman Straight papers

Archives at Cornell

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project interview transcripts

George Lincoln Burr papers

Leonard K. Elmhirst reminiscence

Willard Dickerman Straight papers

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