Abstract Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and illustrative material pertaining to books published by the Cornell University Press and the Comstock Publishing Company; correspondence pertaining to a merger of the Nature Study Review and Nature Magazine; and correspondence pertaining to John W. ("Uncle John") Spencer's stories and letters for children on nature study and rural life; correspondents include Anna Botsford Comstock, Mary Eleanor Davis, Paul S. Galtsoff, Albert H. Hartzell, Frank E....

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Two printed looseleaf volumes, "Field Book of Nature Study with Classroom Outline and Helps" by Ephraim L. Palmer, and "General Ornithology Laboratory Notebook" by Arthur A. Allen, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and Miles D. Pirnie, with notations, identifications of birds, and observation data by Miss Davidson.

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Pencil and ink drawings.

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Exhibit broadsides, postcards, note paper, reviews, and clippings concerning the 1980 Cornell University Library exhibit "Growth of an Artist: Louis Agassiz Fuertes," and the 1983 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia exhibit, "Celebration of Birds: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and His Art."

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The papers of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), an ornithologist and a painter of birds. Includes student notes, notebooks, journals and sketchbooks; diaries; journals from expedition, many including sketches; notes; articles by and about Fuertes. The collection also contains artwork.

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Student scrapbook with programs, menus, greeting cards and other memorabilia; "General Ornithology Laboratory Notebook" by Arthur A. Allen, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and Miles D. Pirnie, with notations, identifications of birds, and observation data by Marie Froehlich; diplomas; and letters from students whose work she supported. Also, family photograph album, with identification of some images; 90th birthday celebration album, 2002; and program for a celebration of her life, 2006.