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Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering records

 Collection
Identifier: 16-5-1151

Scope and content

Includes papers of Charles Osborn Mackey, Howard N. Fairchild, and Frank Oakes Ellenwood, including materials about refrigeration, heat pumps and heat transfer, compressors, vacuum pumps, diesel engines, and turbines. Also, a photograph of the Cornell University Faculty, 1916 and the Sibley Faculty, 1917.

Scope and content

Includes Annual Reports to the Dean (1949-1997), faculty meeting minutes (1947-1996), Richard Phelan's planning drawings for the sundial on the Engineering Quad, and lantern slides.

Dates

  • 1917-2009.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Boxes 20-25 closed for digitization project.

Conditions Governing Access

All materials in Series VI, "Faculty and Students" photographs in Series IV, and "Professor Richard Phelan's Planning Drawings" in Series V are closed until processed.

Extent

15.5 cubic feet. (15.5 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Includes correspondence, course material, lantern slides, and equipment manuals of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, formerly the Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering. Also the papers of Charles Osborn Mackey, Howard N. Fairchild, and Frank Oakes Ellenwood.

Physical Description

Correspondence, photographs, printed material, research material, lantern slides.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC StaffAnne Lambert
Date completed:
September 2001April 2011
EAD encoding:
Evan Earle, July 2009, May 2011
Date modified:
Fredrika Loew, October 2018

NOTES

Includes collection #16-5-508, and #16-5-993.

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
September 2001
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

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)