Scope and content
This set of papers relates largely to the school and teaching activities of the Williams and Craddock families of Weedsport, Cayuga County, New York, and includes letters (1847) from Samuel Craddock describing his experiences at Geneva Medical College, and the attempt to steal a cadaver from the graveyard; a long series of letters of Diana Craddock Williams and her daughters Ida and Alice relating to student, teaching, and social activities at Oswego Normal and Training School (1869-72), Ann Arbor (1872-76), and School for Girls, New York City (1877-92); letters from Mrs. Helen Campbell relating to her appointment at the University of Wisconsin (1874) and her lecturing career; and letters from Mary Sheldon (Mrs. Earl Barnes) relating to Oswego Normal and Wellesley (1872-78), life in Clay County, Kentucky (1879), and to activities at Cornell and Stanford Universities (1886-93).
Dates
- 1844-1921.
Creator
- Williams family. (Family)
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Campbell, Helen.
- College students -- Conduct of life.
- Cornell University -- : Students.
- Craddock family.
- Craddock, Samuel.
- Education.
- Geneva Medical College -- : Students.
- Kentucky -- Description and travel.
- Kentucky -- Social life and customs.
- Oswego Normal and Training School -- : Students.
- School for Girls (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheldon, Mary.
- Stanford University -- : Students.
- Teaching.
- University of Wisconsin -- : Faculty.
- Wellesley College -- : Students.
- Williams, Alice.
- Williams, Diana Craddock.
- Williams, Ida.
- Women college students.
- Women college teachers.
- 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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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