Scope and content
Collection includes photographs; notebooks; professional and popular writings, 1899-1913; correspondence, notes, references, and reviews concerning Weber's GROWTH OF CITIES; student exams, notebooks, papers, and treatises from Cornell University; and miscellaneous items relating to Cornell, including one handwritten letter from President Jacob Gould Schurman.
Also, family letters, letters published in the Cattaraugus Republican, journal, and other documents relating to his study in Germany. Two small albums, one with cyanotype photos of Cornell and the other of trips, to Niagara Falls and to Florida.
Dates
- 1884-1966.
Creator
- Weber, Adna Ferrin, 1870-1968. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Professor. Adna Weber graduated from Cornell University in 1894, and was instrumental in the development of urban studies in the United States. He helped found and was secretary of the American Association of Labor Legislation.
Extent
2.2 cubic feet. (2.2 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Cities and towns -- Study and teaching.
- City planning
- College teachers
- Cornell University -- : Pictorial works.
- Cyanotypes.
- Education -- Germany.
- Germany -- Description and travel.
- Germany -- Social life and customs.
- Niagara Falls (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
- Photographs
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
- Scrapbooks
- Universities and colleges -- Germany.
- Weber, Adna Ferrin, 1870-1968. (Title of work: Growth of cities..)
- 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
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)