White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Funerary papyrus
Collection — Framed item 1
Identifier: 8631
Scope and content
Discovered in a tomb in 1887 and purchased by Andrew Dickson White in 1889 in Cairo, this eight-foot-long funerary papyrus describes what will happen to the deceased, stolist Usir-Wer, and how he will be greeted in the afterlife. The central vignette depicts Spell 125 from the Book of the Dead.
Dates:
circa 320-30 BCE (Ptolemaic period)
George Perrigo Conger papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2660
Scope and content
Documentation from George Conger's student days at Cornell (1903-1907); Union Theological Seminary; Columbia University; Paris, France; and Berlin, Jena, and Marburg, Germany includes scrapbooks; letters from George L. Burr, Lane Cooper, Charles Ezra Cornell, Mary E. Cornell, Ralph Catterall, Charles E. Courtney, James Crafts, Edward E. Hale, Jane L. Hardy, W. T. Hewett, Nathaniel Schmidt, Albert W. Smith, Goldwin Smith, Charles M. Tyler, Glenn Warner, Andrew D. White, and Burt G. Wilder,...
Dates:
1903-1960.
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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