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Project records kept by Cornell University Libraries, primarily by Felix Reichmann and Josephine Tharpe.

Scope and content This collection contains records and correspondence documenting Alfred C. Barnes Reference Library, dating 1889-1970.It includes receipted bills (1892-1904) for books from dealers and publishing houses, for compiling and indexing the catalog and shelf list from Reverend G.F. Danforth, and for printing the catalog from Andrus & Church; a bound copy of the catalog (1898); unbound pages containing alphabetical and numerical classification of books; lists of books suggested or ordered...

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Correspondence, clippings, and other records concerning the Class of 1921 and Cornell alumni fundraising organizations, including the Cornell Club of Albany and the Cornell University Library Associaties. Correspondents include Ellis H. Robison, Felix Reichmann, and Emerson C. Kelly. Also included are 1929 articles on Cornell University in Time Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post.

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The Cornell University Library Acquisitions Department records contains departmental records dating 1874-1994. The collection includes correspondence, accession volumes, memoranda, budgets/fund books, and Technical Services records.

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Correspondence, subject files, and records of library acquisitions kept by Dr. Felix Reichmann, Assistant Director.

Scope and content Typewritten manuscripts of Reichmann's book Sugar, Gold, and Coffee: Essays on the History of Brazil, Based on Francis Hull's Books. The Francis Hull library of Braziliana was presented to Cornell University Library by Herbert F. Johnson, and Reichmann's book was published "as a testimonial to a great bookman [Hull]." One manuscript is dated 1957; the second, which has autograph corrections, is dated 1958. With these is a typewritten manuscript of Reichmann's unpublished article The Origin...

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Correspondence concerning permission from librarians at various institutions to use their cataloging production data; the submission of the data, and comments about the nature of the figures submitted; standards of cataloging production; cataloging costs; and revisions to the figures submitted.

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Librarian Lorraine Williams worked at the Cornell Public Library in the 1960s and in the Acquisitions Department at the Cornell University Library from 1965 to 1969. The collection primarily contains photographs and letters of Cornell Public Library and Cornell University Library staff.