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Political and social correspondence of prominent New Yorkers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065197034]
Identifier: 58
Scope and content

Approximately 400 items including olitical and social letters from James W. Wadsworth, R.H. Walworth, Christopher Morgan, Eli Perry, John V.L. Pruyn, W. McClay, Erastus Corning, G.M. Schuyler, W.E. Robinson, George Law, T.C. Platt, Charles Tracey, and many others.

Dates: 1822-1924.

Political cartoons concerning France

 Collection
Identifier: 8552
Abstract

French Revolution period caricatures mainly concerning the three estates of France, the nationalization of church property, privileges of the clergy and nobility, despotism, the constitution of 1791, and the political process.

Dates: 1789 - 1830

Political pamphlet collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070748326]
Identifier: 8048
Scope and content Copies of clippings about the Stephens-Ashurst bill relating to price setting, 1916; campaign brochure: "Vote for Proposition No. 1... Playgrounds for the Use of All the People," relating to the extension and improvment of New York State parks, 1924; "Alien Property Today," published by the Board of Trade for German-American Commerce, 1927; "Radio Addresses by Honorable Sol Bloom delivered on Mothers' Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, 1931," published by the United States George Washington...
Dates: 1916-1944.

Portfolio of antislavery letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065340147]
Identifier: 6416
Scope and content Manuscript and printed letters written by and to British and American abolitionists, including clippings of printed letters from Harriet Martineau to the National Anti-slavery standard and other newspapers. Subjects include the controversy between Martineau and the Standard, and Martineau's attitude to the approach of the Civil War. Correspondents include Harriet Martineau, Sarah Pugh, Auguste Langet, Maria Weston Chapman, and Maria's daughter Anne Chapman. Also included is a letter from...
Dates: 1859-1946,-1859-1861 (bulk)

Portraits of Samuel Johnson

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6815
Scope and content

Portrait of Samuel Johnson after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraved by William Doughty (mezzotint, 60 x 47 cm, dated June 24, 1779); and portrait of Johnson engraved by W.T. Fry, after a drawing by Abraham Wivell from the bust by Joseph Nollekens (engraving, 35 x 25 cm., undated).

Dates: circa 1779.

Postcards of German female impersonators

 Collection
Identifier: 7636
Abstract Sixty-two late-Wilhelmine male transvestite postcards portraying thirty individuals in their Damen-Imitator personas, including three images of "Gauze, Canadian Indian Soprano." Sixteen are signed or inscribed by the subjects, with references to gay cabarets in Berlin, Cologne, Kiel, and throughout the country. Five are addressed to Paul Shafer and one to Asta, female impersonators of the period, who are also pictured on some of the cards. One postcard depicts Man de Wirth in costume, circa...
Dates: 1900-1920

Premium and prize lists from fairs and expositions

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1694
Scope and content Approximately 86 items including pamphlets and paperbook books containing premium lists and prize lists from fairs mainly in New York State, with a few also from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and the Midwest, one from Washington, D.C., and one from Canada. Fairs include the Pennsylvania Farm Show, Rochester Exposition, Rochester Fair & Exposition, New York State Fair, Massachusetts Horticultural Society exhibitions, Tompkins County Fair, Trumansburg Fair, Town and Country Fair (Ithaca,...
Dates: 1916-1983.

Printed leaf collection

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113554590]
Identifier: 8416
Scope and content Individual leaves from early printed books: a hand-colored leaf (leaf [91]) from Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum, 1493 (known as the Nuremberg chronicle), including a woodcut depicting the city of Toulouse, France; and a hand-colored leaf (leaf [97]) from the book Das Concilium geschehen zu Constanz, by Ulrich von Richental (also spelled Richenthal), 1483, containing woodcuts depicting coats of arms claimed to be "the three oldest heraldic devices in the world" ("die ersten drey Wappen...
Dates: 1483-1493.

Printer materials collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6489
Scope and content

Twenty-one items relating to printing, typography, and layout: clippings from "The American Printer," "Printing News," "The Imprint," "Advertising Age," "Printing Magazine," "The Trade Compositor," unidentified newspapers and magazines, and one quire of an unidentified book serving as an example of octavo imposition, including an illustration evidently by Tom Lea. Also, one video cassette, "Format in the hand-press period."

Dates: 1930-1954.

Prison reform collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093395204]
Identifier: 4693
Scope and content

Three letters re prison reform from John Howard, 1779; Josiah Domford, 1787; and Elizabeth Fry, 1817.

Dates: 1779-1817.

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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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