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Five-page typed manuscript, with inked-in corrections in the handwriting of Andrew Dickson White, pertaining to the conditions that prevailed in the Agricultural Department at Cornell up to the arrival of Isaac P. Roberts in 1873. The manuscript was evidently prepared for the Cornell Countryman.

Scope and content Silk top hat given by Isaac Roberts to Liberty Hyde Bailey and then passed on to other Deans of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Documentation includes ten letters relating to the "Dean's Hat"; correspondents include Liberty Hyde Bailey, Carl E. Ladd, Mary Roberts Coolidge, William I. Myers, C. E. Palm, W. Keith Kennedy, Beverly T. Galloway, I. P. Roberts, and Alfred R. Mann. Also, a scroll describing the tradition of the hat. Also a twig pen belonging to...

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Photographs of Cornell University football and baseball games at Percy Field, and of Agriculture Dean Isaac P. Roberts.

Abstract

Correspondence, printed matter, and photographs concerning efforts to obtain funds from the state legislature for the construction of agricultural college buildings at Cornell University. The principal correspondents are Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Craig, George Malby, Isaac Phillips Roberts, Jacob Gould Schurman, John Spencer, Edwin Stewart, John Lemuel Stone, Henry Hiram Wing, and Daniel Parrish Witter.