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Martin Cooper film of Cornell University

 Collection — dvd: 4759
Identifier: 37-5-4660

Content Description

Collection contains a DVD of footage taken by Martin Cooper while a student on Cornell University's campus. Footage includes: leaving Cascadilla Hall for classes, September 1949, Martin Cooper first, then Steve Schwirk and Bill Gurowitz; Martin Cooper waving to statue of Ezra Cornell and panorama of main quad; Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house; Fall Creek Gorge; street above Cascadilla Gorge; dorms at foot of Libe Slope, Libe Tower, Willard Straight Hall; Olin Hall and street; gorge and foliage; Martin Cooper and Bill Gurowitz on icy steps to Fall Creek suspension bridge; traying on Libe Slope; Lake Cayuga and Taughannock Park; Bill Gurowitz and Dave Hertzig skipping stones in lake; Taughannock Falls and gorge; fraternity crew races on Beebe Lake 15..15; Yale-Cornell football game and band, fall 1950; view from Olin Hall second floor, Spring 1954; and sunset from Olin Hall, spring 1954.

Dates

  • 1949 - 1954

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Martin Cooper graduated from Cornell University in 1953, B. Chem. Eng. 1954, M. Eng. 1966.

Extent

1 DVDs.

Language of Materials

English

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)