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Prescott Winson and Daphne Showalter Townsend papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4232

Scope and content

Student papers from Middletown High School and Cornell University; genealogical information; writings by Daphne and Prescott Townsend on historical subjects and personal reminiscences; correspondence, primarily personal; financial records including correspondence with stockbrokers; estate papers, including documents relating to the Townsends' role as benefactors of Cornell; certificates; Cornell student scrapbook, 1912-1916; family photograph album, Middletown, N.Y. (?), ca.1917; and photographs, largely unidentified, including prints, tintypes, and daguerreotypes.