Abstract Correspondence and printed material relating to fingerprinting, the history of fingerprinting in the United States, crime, and the International Society for Personal Identification. Also includes correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover. Photographs (originally used as lantern slides in lectures) about the Bertillon method of criminal investigation. Also, material pertaining to Columbia University and Cornell University; vacation journals and memorabilia; correspondence with and about Clinton...

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Photograph album containing pictures of professors at Cornell University, and students of the Classes of 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, and 1889.

Scope and content Newspaper clippings, mainly from the Cornell Era and Ithaca Journal, include several relating to the new Gymnasium and Military Hall (the Armory), which Major Burbank was instrumental in obtaining for the Cornell students, and to the improvement of the Military Department under his leadership, and also include one letter, June 3, 1880, from Burbank to the Era editors concerning a recent instance of dishonesty in college athletics. Also a copy of the words to a song, "When We First Saw the...