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Frank C. Edminister scrapbooks

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 37-5-3811

Scope and content

Scrapbooks of clippings, programs, photographs, and other memorabilia documenting his student experience, including athletics, lectures, plays, and student life, but also various topics of interest, current events, disasters, scandals, etc.

Dates

1897-1919.

Creator

Edminster, Frank Custer, 1879-1932. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Frank C. Edminster was born in Brooklyn in 1879. He attended Cornell from 1898 to 1902, graduating with a degree in Arts. He served as an assistant in Civil Engineering, 1902-1903 and in Math from 1903 to 1906. He also took graduate courses from 1903 to 1910, 1915-1917. Known as "Eddie" he conducted a private tutoring school and a travel agency in Ithaca. He died on December 15, 1932.