White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Person
Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:
Extension Teaching prize speaking contests records
Collection
Identifier: 21-24-3105
Abstract
Material documenting Prize Speaking Contests held under the auspices of the Oral Expression Division of Extension Teaching, including the Eastman Stage in Public Speaking, the Farm Life Challenge Contest; and the Home Economics Stage in Public Speaking.
Dates:
1908-1971.
Ezra Cornell papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content
The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates:
1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870
Francis Miles Finch papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 433
Abstract
Legal and business documents and correspondence of Walbridge and Finch, Boardman and Finch, and Francis M. Finch; also, correspondence and accounts of the Finch family, including letters from Daniel Coit Gilman, Chauncey M. Depew, Hiram S. Sage, and others dealing with legal, personal, literary, and educational subjects. Trial testimony, instructions to the jury, and other material pertaining to the Edward H. Rulloff murder case. Also, gold Venetian ceremonial cufflink-coins presented to...
Dates:
1851-1889.
Frank Asa Darrow miscellany
Collection — Manuscript box 63 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256640]
Identifier: 3965
Scope and content
Two letters from Andrew Dickson White to Frank A. Darrow of Orwell, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The letter dated December 19, 1870 concerns consent to Darrow's request to practice on the Cornell University chimes; the letter dated December 7, 1874 is White's affirmative reply to Darrow's readmission inquiry. Also, typescript copy of "Franklin Asa Darrow, 1849-1922, A Biographical Sketch," by John M. Parker III, 1986 and excerpts from Darrow's diary entries relating to Cornell University...
Dates:
1870-1874, 1986.
Frank Thilly papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-21-623
Abstract
Correspondence and lecture notes relating to Thilly's career at the University of Missouri (1893-1904), Princeton (1904-1906), and Cornell University (1906-1934); notes in German (ca. 1889-1890) taken by Thilly while studying at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.
Dates:
1889-1935.
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 Bain Cummings papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065210464]
Identifier: 37-5-1431
Scope and content
Scrapbook of George Cummings, including clipping, programs and photographs. Also, letter (photocopy) to Cummings from former Cornell University President Andrew Dickson White, expressing sympathy upon the death of Cummings' mother, June 15, 1912; letter to Cummings from Francis J. O'Connor, October 3, 1952, in which O'Connor relates an anecdote about Andrew Dickson White and William Henry Miller; and an address, "The Hill and the Tower," given by Cummings to the Quill and Dagger Society, May...
Dates:
1908-1952,-1908-1912 (bulk)
George Frederick Behringer papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-242
Scope and content
Autograph book containing signatures of Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White, Behringer's classmates and members of the 1869 faculty; a volume of class notes from his year at Cornell containing a lecture on moral philosophy by William Dexter Wilson; and diplomas and certificates of George F. Behringer. Inlcudes diploma from Cornell's first commencement in 1869. Since Behringer was one of the eight members of the first graduating class and because was first alphabetically this is the very first...
Dates:
[ca.1868-1909]
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.
Gertrude Jane and Ruth Augusta Nelson letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065193637]
Identifier: 37-5-717
Scope and content
Approximately 110 letters from Gertrude (later Mrs. Reinhard A. Wetzel) and Ruth Nelson to their parents while living at Sage College colorfully portray university and coed life in the nineties, and include descriptions of life at Sage College, courses and examinations, comments about professors, dating, parties, football games, clubs, Bible classes, activities at Sage Chapel, and prices of clothing in Ithaca. Special observations are made on such outstanding Cornell figures as George...
Dates:
1891-1897.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Photographs 13
- College teachers 9
- Scrapbooks 8
- Women college students. 5
- Blueprints. 3
- College students 3
- Drawings. 3
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 3
- Lawyers 3
- Philosophy. 3
- United States -- Politics and government. 3
- African Americans. 2
- Authors. 2
- China. 2
- Diaries 2
- Education. 2
- English literature. 2
- Families -- New York (State) 2
- Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
- Ithaca (N.Y.) 2
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Description and travel. 2
- Maps. 2
- New York (State) -- Politics and government. 2
- Philippines. 2
- Portraits. 2
- Prohibition. 2
- Religion. 2
- Spanish-American War, 1898. 2
- Speeches 2
- Account books 1
- Aesthetics. 1
- African American criminals. 1
- Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
- Apportionment (Election law) -- United States. 1
- Architects. 1
- Architectural drawings. 1
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Architecture, Domestic -- United States. 1
- Articles. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Belgium -- Description and travel. 1
- Belgium -- Social life. 1
- Bibliographies. 1
- Biographies.2aat 1
- Bonds. 1
- Book of the dead. 1
- Botany -- Study and teaching. 1
- Briefs (legal documents). 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Transportation. 1
- Business enterprises -- Michigan. 1
- Business enterprises -- Ontario -- Bell Ewart. 1
- Business enterprises -- Wisconsin. 1
- Business records -- Michigan. 1
- Business records -- Wisconsin. 1
- Businessmen. 1
- Campus planning. 1
- Canada -- Ethnic relations. 1
- Canada -- Foreign relations -- United States. 1
- Canada -- Politics and government. 1
- Canals -- Mexico. 1
- Cattle -- Breeding -- New York (State) 1
- Census -- 1900. 1
- Certificates. 1
- Chemung County (N.Y.) 1
- Clergy 1
- Coal trade. 1
- College administrators 1
- College publications. 1
- College students -- New York (State) -- Social conditions. 1
- Colleges and universities -- Canada. 1
- Colleges and universities -- United States. 1
- Commerce. 1
- Criminal statistics -- United States. 1
- Cyanotypes. 1
- Daybooks. 1
- Debates and debating. 1
- Decedent\'s estates -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Decedents\' estates. 1
- Diplomas. 1
- Drafts (rough). 1
- Economists. 1
- Education -- Germany. 1
- Education -- New York (State) 1
- Education -- United States. 1
- Education, Rural. 1
- Egypt -- Religion. 1
- Egypt. 1
- Egyptian language. 1
- Egyptian literature -- Religious literature -- Funerary texts. 1
- Electric utilities -- Law and legislation. 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- England -- Foreign relations -- Russia. 1
- Engraving. 1
- Engravings. 1
- Era. 1
- Essays 1
- Estate planning. 1
- Ethics. 1
- Europe -- Description and travel. 1
- European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600. 1 + ∧ less
∨ more