Scope and content Two letters written by Alonzo B. Cornell and four receipts written by others. The receipts concern payments made for army allotments to the families of soldiers of the 137th New York Volunteers infantry regiment during the Civil War. The two letters, both written in 1893, express Alonzo Cornell's wishes that the original allotment roll of the 137th Regiment from October 1864 be deposited in the Cornell Library. The letters are addressed to Jacob Gould Schurman, President of Cornell...

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Reports and correspondence concerning the activities of the Associate Alumni, including membership renewals, election of officers, preparations for Reunion, election of alumni Trustees, fundraising, and preparation of Alumni Field to be used for Cornell sports. Many of the letters are addressed to George William Harris; other correspondents include Charles H. Hull and Robert Henry Treman, among others.

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...

Scope and content Correspondence, documents, and plans relating to the construction and maintenance of the University Library building, including specifications for its construction, specifications for a ventilation system and for metal book stacks, and correspondence concerning the addition of electricity and modifications to its steam heating system. Correspondents include University Librarian George W. Harris, Henry W. Sage, University Treasurer E.L. Williams, Buffalo Forge Company, Snead & Company...

Scope and content 3 volumes of manuscript and typewritten minutes of Library Council meetings, and minutes of meetings of the [Andrew Dickson] White Library Commission. The minutes were taken by University Librarian George W. Harris and his successor Willard Austen. A draft of the Library Council's charge appears at the beginning of the first volume. The last volume contains an index to the whole set. Topics covered in the minutes include specific books and serials to be purchased in response to faculty...

Scope and content Primarily correspondence of Cornell Librarians George William Harris, Willard Austen, and Otto Kinkeldey concerning such routine library matters as requests for information, receipts for books, donations, and other business. Also, miscellaneous correspondence of Woodford Patterson, Albert William Smith, David Fletcher Hoy, Justin Winsor, and letters to the C.U. Board of Trustees and faculty members. Some correspondence relates to the Fiske collections. ...

Scope and content Pamphlets and leaflets concerning Cornell University Library. Includes the first issue of the periodical "The Library of the Cornell University" (1873); the pamphlet "Twenty-five years of the annals of Cornell University Library, 1868-1893," by University Librarian G.W. Harris (1893); another essay by Harris, "The library question: some points to be noted," arguing against allowing most of the Library's collection to circulate (1905); a catalogue of the A.D. White Library's holdings on the...

Scope and content Includes an accessions book for Harris's personal library, 1868-1914; a photo album of views of Europe and Nova Scotia, 1887; two photos of Cornell University, 1891 and n.d.; manuscript translations of descriptions of "The Antonine Column" and "The Trajan Column" (columns designed or originally described by Giovanni Battista and Francesco Piranesi); and one folder of postcards, letters, notes, and miscellaneous items. Also, a file on a proposed copyright law, with correspondence relating to...

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Consists mainly of correspondence among American abolitionists, including many letters to Samuel Joseph May. Also included correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim; and some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University.

Scope and content Reports and manuscript statements on the current state of the Library and proposed improvements, dating from 1905, 1929, and 1934, together with a few accompanying letters. Includes a "Report of the Committee to Administer the Library to the Department of Buildings and Grounds on changes and new construction," written by Charles H. Hull, 1929; an unsigned typewritten reaction by Hull to G.W. Harris's printed leaflet "Some points to be noted," 1905 (with a pencilled note by Hull reading,...