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Cornell Daily Sun collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 35-11-1162

Scope and content

Original contract between George Francis Gifford and William Ballard Hoyt concerning the founding of the Cornell Daily Sun, June 22, 1880; cabinet card photograph of Hoyt; and postcard to Horatio S. White advising that the first number will be issued and what it will contain, September 10, 1880. Also framed copy of the contract.

Scope and content

Typescript drafts of columns and letters to the editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, 1963-1968 and an invitation and two programs for the Cornell Daily Sun Banquet, 1965, one with doodles by Peter Kahn.

Scope and content

Assorted of loose issues from Volume 1 of the Sun including Volume 1 Number 1, September 16 1800. Special, parody, and Spring Day issues of the Cornell Daily Sun include Regatta Edition, May 30, 1899; Commencement Number, 1900; Cornell Deadly Sin, 1906; Cornell Daily Fun, 1911; Cornell Badly Done, May 22, 1915; Cornell Badly Stung, 1920; Cornell Deadly Bun, 1919; Cornell Mourning Male, 1920; Cornell Wrongly Run, 1921; The Morning Roast, Nov. 1921; Camelot Courier, 1922; Cornell Yearly Sun, Feb. 1, 1923; The Winding Sheet, Mar. 7, 1923; Cornell Oily Scum, May 19, 1923; Cornell Dumbly Run, 1924; Cornell Daily Gum, 1925; The Globe & Square Dealer, 1926; L'Oiseau, 1934; The Cornell Daily Syndicate, May 12, 1951; Cornell Deadly Sin, April 1, 1954; 5th Anniversary Issue, April 16, 1955; The Cornell Inquirer, May 15, 1959; Harvard Crimson parody issue, October 10, 1959 (this issue was distributed in Cambridge); Cornell Daily Sun May 12, 67 (photocopy) parody issue about President Perkins being involved in a pot drug bust and Ken Dryden leaving to play hockey for the Montreal Canadiens; Cornell Daily Scum, October 30, 1978; The Daily Pennsylvanian, September 20, 1987 (distributed at Franklin Field Philadelphia during football game, includes Sports Illustrated magazine for September 28, 1987 with article on page 51 mentioning the prank) these parody issues were in some cases actually produced by The Widow; The Cornell Daily Sun: 1880-1960, 4-page section on the publishing of the paper through the years; Readings in Nuclear Peril, special issue with a selection of letters, editorials, and speeches on the general topic of nuclear war published on behalf of the Committee on Nuclear Peril of the Cornell University Faculty, 1962 (20 pp.); and Yale Daily News parody issue, November 3, 1989. Also November 23, 1963 issue with President Kennedy assassination headling and photocopy of the Daily Sun Extra edition for December 7, 1941, with Pearl Harbor headline. April 16, 1966 Seventy-Five Years at Cornell issue.

Scope and content

Additional parody issue: November 7, 1975, and "joke" issues 1974-1980.

Scope and content

Also, a copy of A Century at Cornell, edited by Daniel Margulis and designed by John Schroeder, published by the Sun to commemorate its centennial, including an article by Kurt Vonnegut, and Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Directory, 1998.

Scope and content

Also CD of the 125th Anniversary Dinner, held on September 17, 2005, with featured speaker Kurt Vonnegut '44.

Scope and content

"The Senior Archives, 2007-2011," published by the Cornell Daily Sun, 2011.

Dates

  • 1880-2011.

Creator

Extent

.5 cubic feet. (.5 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Related Archival Materials

See also the Howard Blackwell scrapbook, 37-5-4156, for a May 21, 1909 parody issue called the Cornell Daily Bun.

Related Archival Materials

Related collection: William Ballard Hoyt. Papers, #37-5-563.

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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