George Chapman Caldwell papers
Scope and content
Diaries, lecture notes, personal accounts, a thesis, photographs, and pamphlets. Includes diaries of Caldwell and his wife, and of George W. Chamberlain, his son-in-law who was a professor of architecture at Cornell; notes kept by Caldwell on Louis Agassiz's lectures; family photographs, clippings, and letters, and an elaborate set of financial accounts kept by Caldwell. Typescript of a vacation journal, 1855.
Notebooks and lecture notes, and other Caldwell papers collected by Anna Elsbree consisting of correspondence with friends and relatives, and letters from families trying to locate soldiers hospitalized during the Civil War.
Dates
- 1853-1903.
Creator
- Caldwell, G. C. (George Chapman), 1834-1907. (Person)
- Elsbree, Anna. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Professor of chemistry, Cornell University.
Extent
2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Agassiz, Louis.
- Chamberlain, George W.
- Chemistry -- Study and teaching.
- Chemists.
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Cornell University. College of Architecture
- Cornell University. Department of Chemistry
- Diaries
- Education -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Finance, Personal -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- 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)