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White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.

 Person

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Louis Agassiz letters and portrait

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-15-m.82
Scope and content Collection contains letters from Agassiz to Edwin Percy Whipple concerning Agassiz' interests in a museum and new photographic processes; to Andrew Dickson White concerning the need for adequate university instruction in the United States and making recommendations for faculty appointments at Cornell University; letters to Dom Pedro II; also includes a reprint of the account "Agassiz' Last Lecture at Cornell." Also includes a framed portrait of Agassiz that previously hung in Stimson...
Dates: 1867-1874.

Mary Outwater White collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064712361]
Identifier: 1-2-421
Scope and content Letters from Mary Outwater to Andrew D. White during the period of their courtship (1853-1857); an undated letter from Lucia Outwater to her daughter, Mary; an undated letter from Maria H. Wilkinson, Mary's friend, to White; and many notes in White's hand commenting on the letters. Also a short essay on painting, by Mary Outwater, dated June 26, 1848. Also an article in the Ezra Cornell Centennial Number of the Cornell Era by J. M. Hart, Men and Women of the Early Days of the University,...
Dates: 1848-1857, 1887

Millard Fillmore letter: to Andrew Dickson White

 Collection — Manuscript box 17 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065305611]
Identifier: 1-2-m.598
Scope and content

Letter from Fillmore regretting that White must travel to Europe for his health and agreeing to comply with White's request for a general letter of recommendation.

Dates: 1857.

Minor H. Brown reminiscences

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065263968]
Identifier: 47-2-m.323
Scope and content

Reminiscences of Minor H. Brown, a member of the Class of 1892 and a life-long Ithaca resident. He recalls how as a child he went to Ezra Cornell's funeral with his mother; a crew race in 1875 when Cornell University under John Ostrom defeated twelve other crews; a conversation in upper New York State vernacular between Francis Miles Finch and Andrew Dickson White; and his many “pilgrimages” back to Cornell University.

Dates: n.d.

Newspaper articles on Cornell University

 Collection — Portfolio 1: [Barcode: 31924118692080]
Identifier: 47-1-4206
Scope and content Newspapers and clippings with articles and illustrations concerning Cornell University, especially from its early years. Topics include the founding principles and growth of the University, its secular nature, its lands in Wisconsin, and anniversaries in its history. Individuals discussed include Cornell's founder Ezra Cornell and early presidents Andrew Dickson White and Jacob Gould Schurman. Newspapers represented include the Sonntagsblatt der N.Y. Staats-Zeitung (a New York paper in...
Dates: 1868-1922.

Priscilla Ferry reminiscences

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065267241]
Identifier: 1-1-20
Scope and content

Includes "Grandpa White and His Wonderful House," a six page transcript of Ferry's recollections of Andrew Dickson White and his house on the Cornell campus; also, a six page typescript of an interview with Ferry conducted by Edith M. Fox, 1957.

Dates: 1957.

Prudence Risley log

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230710]
Identifier: 37-3-169
Scope and content

Account of student activities at Risley Hall (a women's dormitory at Cornell University) kept by Warden Gertrude Nye, including descriptions of the Women's Dramatic Club, the Student Government Association, and social events written by residents of Risley; copied letters from Andrew Dickson White to Margaret Olivia Slocum (Mrs. Russell) Sage concerning her gift of the building to Cornell; and 1910-11 programs and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1913-1923.

Robert Morris Ogden papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-23-467
Abstract

Correspondence, financial records, notes, essays, drafts, reviews, reprints, and printed material pertaining to Ogden's work as a psychologist, author, and educator and to his membership in various scientific societies.

Dates: 1889-1959.

S. Jackson Demary reminiscences

 Collection — Manuscript box 14 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065301883]
Identifier: 47-2-m.315
Scope and content

Reminiscences of Andrew Dickson White and T. F. Crane.

Dates: 1951.

Thomas Frederick Crane papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-18-136
Scope and content Manuscripts, notes, and speeches relating to folklore, medieval and Renaissance literature; correspondence from Andrew Dickson White, and others pertaining to Cornell University, its buildings, and campus planning; and correspondence regarding the publication of Crane's articles. Also, an honorary diploma granted to Crane by Princeton University and signed by Woodrow Wilson, 1903; and a portrait of Crane by Truman E. Fassett, commissioned by the Cornell Class of 1909 and presented to the...
Dates: 1875, 1888-1926.

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Photographs 13
College teachers 9
Scrapbooks 8
Women college students. 5
Blueprints. 3
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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
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