Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts records
Scope and content
This collection contains records from the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts dating 1878-1934. It contains photographs, slides, correspondence, and documents regarding students and alumni. Included in the collection are glass lantern slides; cards with contact prints made from slides; photograph of the Civil Engineering faculty (1891-1892); a group picture of the senior class of 1930, Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering (identified); three group photographs of the Class of 1905, Engineering, including Irvin Norton '05; photo of the Class of 1913 with Dean Albert William Smith belonging to Clifford A. Brown '13; bound volumes of alumni records; and correspondence (1878-1904) concerning professor John Lewis Morris and student charges against him of incompetence, as well as other college matters; eight mimeographed sheets of names of students who withdrew from Sibley College from February 1917 to May 1917, apparently after the U.S. entry into World War I (reason for withdrawal is listed as well as date of leaving); mimeographed biographical sketches of the seniors; three samples of personnel rating sheets, 1930; Sibley College Pocket Book for students, 1916-1917; and a copy of "American Schools of Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture: School of Marine Construction, Sibley College, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York," in Marine Engineering, May 1899, given to the Library by Robert Henry Thurston.
Dates
- 1878-1934.
Creator
- Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
3.9 cubic feet. (3.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Glass lantern slides; cards with contact prints made from slides; bound volumes of alumni records; photograph of the Civil Engineering faculty (1891-1892); and correspondence (1878-1904) concerning professor John Lewis Morris and student charges against him of incompetence, as well as other college matters.
Physical Description
Lantern slides, cards, volumes, a photograph, and correspondence.
- Cornell University -- : Alumni and alumnae.
- Cornell University. Class of 1905
- Cornell University. Class of 1913
- Cornell University. Class of 1930
- Cornell University. College of Engineering
- Engineering -- Study and teaching.
- Lantern slides.
- Marine engineering -- Study and teaching.
- Morris, John Lewis, -1905.
- Norton, Irvin.
- Photographs
- Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts. Class of 1905
- Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903
- World War, 1914-1918
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Huth, N. Dean
- Date
- April 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)