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Archives at Cornell

Environmental Health and Safety records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 43-7-3686

Scope and content

Includes reports, photographs, and films of various campus fires. Also films and images of fire training and tests. Documentation of some fires at other schools including photos and clippings relating to the October 1963 fire of the Colgate University administration building. Incident reports, report of investigation forms, photographs or correspondence relating to the following incidents: Baker laboratory fire, lighting strike at the Veterinary College, Franklin Hall flood, Plant Science head house fire, Mann library fire, Noyes Lodge fire, Dairy Barn fire, parade of fire fighting equipment at Schoellkopf field, fire training exercises, Neimi farm fire, the Africana Studies Center fire including report of the Regional History Department and University Archives on the conservation of documents from the building, Statler Hall fire, fire risk of the Day Hall Shanty Town, 1985. Photos of the aftermath of the Morse Hall fire of 1916.

Dates

  • 1964-1985.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Restrictions on Access

Box 1 files, access restricted to the permission of the office of origin. Films, published items, and box 2 are unrestricted.

Extent

.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)

66.3 megabytes.

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)