William F. Devendorf photographs
Scope and content
Photographs of Cornell University scenes including Sibley College of Engineering, the Library, the old Armory, and Fall Creek gorge, 1898. Also an album of photographs with scenes from telephone exchanges in Georgia, images of African-Americans in the South, scenes of Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, GA., 1900-1901; scenes of New York City, 1903; St. Augustine, FL; the Grand Canyon, 1903; a fire in Baltimore, 1904; the Thousand Islands, 1903; Niagara Falls, 1902; Buffalo, N.Y. and the Pan-American Exposition, 19012-1902; Montreal and elsewhere in Canada, 1903; and other places. Includes material from the National War Labor Board and several ILGWU Grievance Boards. Also includes subject files.
Dates
- 1898-1904.
Creator
Biographical / Historical
. Cornell University Class of 1898. William Frederick Devendorf graduated from Cornell in 1898 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a concentration in Electrical Engineering. He later held positions as head of telephone exchanges for Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Atlanta, Georgia, as a telephone exchange designer for Western Electric Co. in New York City, and as the owner of Wm. F. Devendorf & Co. in Rochester, NY, a steam power plant engineering and contracting company. Mr. Devendorf died in April of 1963 at the age of 88.
Extent
.2 cubic feet. (.2 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of David and Jean Lanni, Fairport, N.Y.
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- Pictorial works.
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Pictorial works.
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Pictorial works.
- Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Pictorial works.
- Cornell University -- : Pictorial works.
- Fires -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
- Georgia -- Pictorial works.
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works.
- Montréal (Québec) -- Pictorial works.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Pictorial works.
- Pan-American Exposition (Location of meeting: Buffalo, N.Y.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1901 :.)
- Photographs
- Savannah (Ga.) -- Pictorial works.
- Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts -- : Pictorial works.
- St. Augustine (Fl.) -- Pictorial works.
- Telephone stations -- Pictorial works.
- Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Pictorial works.
- United States -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works
- 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)