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Lytle family photographs

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 37-5-3529

Scope and content

Twenty-nine cabinet card photographs: one member of Class of 1892, twenty-four members of Class of 1896, two members of Class of 1897, one member of Class of 1898, and one Black Smith.

Scope and content

Fourteen cabinet card photographs, many identified, of classmates and friends.

Dates

1896.

Creator

Lytle, Charles Augustus (Collector, Person)

Biographical / Historical

Charles A. and Louis E. Lytle were brothers who both attended the Cascadilla School, a private preparatory school in Ithaca, entered Cornell University in 1892 and graduated with degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 1896. Charles won the Sibley Prize in Mechanic Arts in 1894, was married in 1906 and worked for the Petroleum Iron Works. Louis was elected to Sphinx Head, a senior honorary society, was married in 1898, and worked for the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.