Scope and content
Includes an accessions book for Harris's personal library, 1868-1914; a photo album of views of Europe and Nova Scotia, 1887; two photos of Cornell University, 1891 and n.d.; manuscript translations of descriptions of "The Antonine Column" and "The Trajan Column" (columns designed or originally described by Giovanni Battista and Francesco Piranesi); and one folder of postcards, letters, notes, and miscellaneous items. Also, a file on a proposed copyright law, with correspondence relating to the importation of books by libraries, 1906. Handwritten instructions for catalogers, n.d.
Dates
- 1868-1914.
Creator
- Harris, George William, 1849-1917. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Cornell University Librarian. Inventor of the Harris system of book classification, which was used at Cornell from the 1880s until the 1940s.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- 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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