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Found in 288 Collections and/or Records:

1960s magazines

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8077
Scope and content

Copies of Life and Look magazines. Subjects include the Vietnam War (article by Robert F. Kennedy), the assassination of Martin Luther King, the revolt in Czechoslovakia, the USSR (article by Nikita S. Khrushchev), December 1969 '60s issues, and "The Year in Pictures 1972." Also, United States politics (1960), the presidency (1968), and commemorations of President John F. Kennedy (1963 and 1964).

Dates: 1960-1972.

Abraham Lincoln miscellany

 Collection
Identifier: 8412
Abstract

Posters, broadsides, memorabilia, etc., pertaining to Lincoln, particularly to his death and funeral.

Dates: 1864-2015

Academic freedom and communism articles

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065265013]
Identifier: 11-11-m.63
Scope and content

Two undated articles written by Cornell Professors Robert E. Cushman: "Academic Freedom and Responsibility," reprinted from Cornell Daily Sun, n.d. and Milton R. Konvitz, "Justice and the Communist Teacher," published in New Leader, April 20, 1953.

Dates: [ca. 1953]

Account booklets, Savona, New York

 Collection — Manuscript box 23 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244497]
Identifier: 367m
Abstract

This collection contains financial records kept in pocket-size booklets, dating 1903-1910.

Dates: 1903-1910.

African American civil rights and literary sound recordings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8488
Scope and content

Sound recordings on vinyl relating to the African-American narrative in the United States, with a focus on the Civil Rights movement. Recordings include those by Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Louis Farrakhan, Langston Hughes, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, and many more.

Dates: circa 1960s-circa 1980s.

African highlife - afrobeat - palmwine music archive

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8101
Scope and content A large selection of rare original African LPs and 45s together with support materials, with an emphasis on the most iconic highlife and afrobeat artists. Afro beat, afro funk, highlife and palmwine music is represented in the collection by LP high points. Many albums were pressed in Britain, with the sleeve jackets produced on the African continent. In some instances, records from Ghana and Nigeria had different sleeve designs as the editions sold out; this is also represented in the...
Dates: 1960s-1970s.

Agricultural pamphlet collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 20 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070748656]
Identifier: 8046m
Scope and content Pamphlets on agricultural topics include: "Agriculture Beyond the 100th Meridian A Review of the U.S. Public Land Commission" by Samuel Aughey and C. D. Wilber, Lincoln, 1880; "Farming by Irrigation in Northern Colorado," Platte Land Company, Denver, CO, n.d. 19th century; "Farming and Stock Raising in North and South Dakota... published by the Passenger Department, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway," ca. 1896; "Burpee's 'Vest-Pocket' Guide to the Culture of Vegetables," 1906;...
Dates: 1896-1919.

Allen collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937372]
Identifier: 672
Scope and content 16 items including two pages of an issue of the American Mercury newspaper (Hartford, Connecticut, June 24, 1823); indenture conveying a plot of land in Levanna, Onondaga County, New York from Henry Kerr to John Richardson, 1798; three manuscript poems in various hands, including "Song of the Fugitive Slave," undated; a legal opinion in a case involving a disputed trust fund, 1861; and letters, including a short note from Theodore Roosevelt, on State of New York Executive Chamber letterhead,...
Dates: 1798-1904.

"American atrocities in Vietnam" miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 73 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924093405144]
Identifier: 7054
Scope and content

Pamphlet "American atrocities in Vietnam," an Australian reprint of an article from the Feb. 1966 issue of the American magazine Liberation, together with a typewritten letter and statement on the seizure of copies of the reprint in Melbourne by the Australian police, and clippings from Australian newspapers on the pamphlet and surrounding controversy. The clippings document the Australian government's attempt to ban the pamphlet as obscene, and the reaction by the press and public.

Dates: 1966.

American military and financial correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239901]
Identifier: 463m
Scope and content Letters and a few legal documents concerning financial and military affairs before, during, and after the American Revolution, written by various people, mainly in Connecticut and New Jersey, with a few from New York City and Pennsylvania. Included are a document written by attorney Benjamin Chew, filing suit against Henry Heiger at Easton, Pennsylvania for refusing to pay a debt of five pounds (1758); a letter from Joseph Chew to Sir William Johnson, Baronet, informing him that some...
Dates: 1758-1796.

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Indians of North America 21
Photographs 14
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 8
Posters. 6
Indians of Mexico 5
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Ithaca (N.Y.) 5
Fliers (printed matter) 4
Indentures. 4
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Politics and government. 4
Legal documents 4
New York (State) -- History. 4
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 4
New York (State) -- Social life and customs. 4
Postcards. 4
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 4
Broadsides 3
Ephemera. 3
Indians of North America -- Government relations 3
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 3
Mayas. 3
Nahuatl language. 3
Oral histories. 3
Real property -- New York (State) 3
Slavery -- United States. 3
Videocassettes 3
Videotapes. 3
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements 3
Art festivals -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
Aztecs -- History. 2
Aztecs. 2
Broadsides (notices) 2
Brochures. 2
CD-ROMs. 2
Canals -- New York (State) 2
Caricatures and cartoons -- France -- 18th century 2
Caricatures and cartoons -- France -- 19th century 2
Clocks and watches -- New York (State) 2
Cornell University -- Students. 2
Dakota Indians 2
Epidemics -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
Erie Canal (N.Y.) 2
Erotica 2
Eskimos. 2
Fan magazines 2
Iceland -- Description and travel. 2
Indians of North America -- Canada 2
Interactive multimedia 2
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Commerce. 2
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History. 2
Manuscripts -- Mexico. 2
Maps. 2
Munsee Indians. 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 2
Oneida Indians. 2
Palm leaf. 2
Patents. 2
Poetry -- United States -- 19th century 2
Political posters. 2
Portraits. 2
Printing -- Specimens. 2
Programs (documents) 2
Receipts (financial records). 2
Scrapbooks 2
Seneca Indians. 2
Shawnee Indians. 2
Songs 2
Student movements. 2
Temperance -- New York (State) 2
Testimonies. 2
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- History. 2
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 2
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music. 2
United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877. 2
United States -- Politics and government. 2
Veterans. 2
Veterinary medicine -- Study and teaching. 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Atrocities 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States 2
Wills. 2
Witches -- Pictorial works. 2
Zines 2
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Biography. 1
Abolitionists -- Great Britain. 1
Abolitionists -- United States. 1
Academic freedom -- United States. 1
Academic libraries -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Account books 1
Acolhua Indians. 1
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- History. 1
Adolescence -- Study and teaching. 1
Advertising -- Clothing and dress. 1
Advertising -- Motion pictures -- United States. 1
Advertising cards 1
Aerial views. 1
African American intellectuals. 1
African American poetry. 1
African American women. 1
Afrobeat. 1
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