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Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931.

 Person

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Cornell University 1880s photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065449435]
Identifier: 37-5-2768
Scope and content

Includes photographs of Andrew Dickson White, Professors Goldwin Smith, John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock, William R. Dudley, W. D. Wilson, A. N. Prentiss, and J. B. Burbank; and students from the classes of 1881 and 1886.

Dates: ca.1881-1886.

Cornell University Department of Physics records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-693
Abstract

Correspondence, biographical material, clippings, photographs, notes, diagrams, publications, glass slides and other items pertaining to the Cornell University Department of Physics, primarily from the 1880s through the 1950s, along with some later memoirs and histories of the Department and those associated with it.

Dates: 1876-1994.

E. Eugene Barker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-156
Abstract

E. Eugene Barker was an Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding at Cornell University. This collection contains notes, sketches, lab reports, as well as miscellaneous photographs, clippings, and letters.

Dates: 1907-1918, 1953-1958.

Grace Fordyce Fox papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093395097]
Identifier: 21-23-3574
Scope and content

Letters from Anna Comstock to Grace Fordyce Fox; letters from James Needham to the Foxes; letter from Gertrude Marx; and letter from Minnie Whetzel describing the funeral of John Henry Comstock; photographs of the Comstocks; and miscellaneous publications by and about the Comstocks.

Dates: 1914-1931.

James G. Needham papers

 Collection — Box 1 (unprocessed)
Identifier: 21-23-479
Abstract

Correspondence and documents describing the career of James G. Needham.

Dates: 1884-1957.

John Henry and Anna Botsford Comstock papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-23-25
Abstract Includes personal correspondence of Anna Botsford and Henry John professional correspondence; publications by or about the Comstocks; lecture and field notes; certificates and awards; typescript draft of an autobiography by Anna Comstock, published posthumously as The Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock; Botsford and Comstock family photographs; Anna Botsford diaries and poem; a scrapbook relating to the Botsford family, Phebe Irish Botsford, and Anna...
Dates: 1833-1955,-1874-1931 (bulk)

John Henry Comstock collection of photographs of entomologists

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-23-57
Scope and content Photographs of entomologists, both individually and in groups at conferences, together with some photographs of entomology and natural history buildings and laboratories that formerly existed at Cornell University. Group photographs are from conventions held by the Entomological Congress, the Association for the Advancement of Science, and others; a photograph of faculty of the New York State College of Agriculture, Department of Entomology, is also included. Individual photographs are...
Dates: circa 1878-1940.

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