Archives at Cornell

Ethel S. Carpenter papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 37-5-3756

Scope and content

Photograph album with snapshots and photographs of scenes and people at Cornell in the late 1920s, also scenes of Niagara Falls in the winter; negatives of Cornell, Six Mile Creek, Enfield Glen and other local places; photographs by U.S. Navy photographers and others of naval officers teaching midshipmen, and doing other exercises, 1942-1946. Also miscellaneous items including an Old Gold cigarette advertising letter and two postcards designed by Alexis Romanoff.

Dates

1929-1946.

Creator

Carpenter, Ethel Stiffler. (Person)
Romanoff, Alexis Lawrence, 1892-1980. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Ethel Grace Stiffler was a graduate student in Botany at Cornell from 1927 to 1929. She returned to Cornell with her family when her husband, astronomer Edwin F. Carpenter taught naval navigation in the Navy V-12 program during World War II.