Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Person
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Adna Ferrin Weber papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2872
Scope and content
Collection includes photographs; notebooks; professional and popular writings, 1899-1913; correspondence, notes, references, and reviews concerning Weber's GROWTH OF CITIES; student exams, notebooks, papers, and treatises from Cornell University; and miscellaneous items relating to Cornell, including one handwritten letter from President Jacob Gould Schurman.
Dates:
1884-1966.
Albert Hazen Wright papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-26-1382
Abstract
Correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, study notes, typescripts of articles, genealogies of the Wright family and of Noah Downs, negatives, slides, photographs, clippings, drawings, census reports, maps, New York publications and printed material, transcripts of oral history interviews with Wright, manuscripts of his scientific books, and other material pertaining to his career as a zoologist, university professor, lecturer, and author. Other subjects include the Cornell Natural History...
Dates:
1779-1965.
Alexey Vasilyevich Babine letters, to Jacob Gould Schurman.
Collection — Manuscript box 12 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065489480]
Identifier: 41-5-m.252
Scope and content
Two letters, October 9, 1905 and November 13, 1905 from Alexey Vasilyevich Babine to President Jacob Gould Schurman requesting a copy of the Cornell University Charter for the Russian Department of Education and thanking him for the gift.
Dates:
1905:
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.
Alpheus W. Smith papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3695
Scope and content
Includes military correspondence, reports, and talks; photographs of Cornell University; Cornell publications; research on Ezra Cornell and on early Cornell history; correspondence with George L. Burr; manuscripts and verses of Ruby Green Smith and Albert W. Smith; letter (1915) from Harper Sibley in Rochester and from Jacob Gould Schurman (1918); scrapbook of newspaper clippings, June 1945-March 1946; leaflets from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations; and other papers of...
Dates:
[ca.1915-1947].
Aram Houssig Dimijian World War I letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064934254]
Identifier: 2014
Scope and content
Letter to Mrs. Howard E. (Hilda) Babcock from Dimijian focus on his activities during the first World War, including information on army camp, military training, personal problems, his experiences with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, the city of Tours, Jacob Gould Schurman's visit to the front (August 27, 1918), Dimijian's membership on the Allied War Claims Commission (1919), and his return to the United States. Also, one photograph of Dimijian.
Dates:
1917-1919.
Bristow Adams papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3205
Abstract
Consists of papers of Bristow Adams, journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Various materials document his journalistic career, including early work with a paper in D.C.; his editorial responsibilities on Stanford University publications; and his work as publications program director for the College of Agriculture at Cornell. From his student years are sketches of fur seals; college memorabilia; and many letters to his mother. Also, photographs from work for the US Forest Service;...
Dates:
1853 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1957
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.
Carnegie Foundation records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-4-122
Abstract
Records concerning the establishment of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, including letters from Andrew Carnegie to Jacob Gould Schurman and Livingston Farrand (Presidents of Cornell and trustees of the Foundation). The collection includes extensive correspondence of Foundation presidents Henry Pritchett, Henry Suzzallo, and Walter A. Jessup, and secretaries Clyde Furst and Howard Savage; also, material and lists pertaining to pensions, financial records, trustee...
Dates:
1905-1945.
Charles Hazen Blood papers
Collection
Identifier: 2263
Abstract
Consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, depositions and other legal documents, statements of account, and memoranda, mainly concerning legal matters Blood handled in public office and in private practice, as well as his family and personal business affairs. Also documented are Blood's activities as a Cornell alumnus, mainly regarding the promotion and financing of Alumni Field and his candidacy for reelection as alumni trustee in 1906, as graduate treasurer of the Cornell Masque,...
Dates:
1889-1909.
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- African Americans. 2
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects. 2
- Blueprints. 2
- City planning 2
- Historians. 2
- Lawyers 2
- Maps. 2
- New York (State) -- Politics and government. 2
- Philippines. 2
- Phrenology. 2
- Spanish-American War, 1898. 2
- Speeches 2
- United States -- Politics and government. 2
- Women college students. 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Account books 1
- Advertising, Newspaper 1
- Africa, West. 1
- African American criminals. 1
- Agricultural administration. 1
- Agricultural colleges. 1
- Agricultural economists. 1
- Agriculture -- China. 1
- Agriculture -- Philippines. 1
- Alcoholism -- Press coverage. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Apportionment (Election law) -- United States. 1
- Artists. 1
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- Community newspapers. 1
- Composition (Music). 1
- Constitutional conventions -- Rules and practice -- New York (State) 1
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- Criminal statistics -- United States. 1
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- Drafts (rough). 1
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