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William Bramhall scrapbook and student papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 37-5-3925

Scope and content

Student scrapbook with clippings, programs, and memorabilia. Some items pertaining to Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the Mozart Club, Crew, Dryden Young Men's Association, Inter-Collegiate Literary Association, and an Ithaca Hotel menu. Also includes a collection of course exams from his Cornell classes including, analytical geometry, French, rhetoric, ancient history, physiological botany, English, algebra, chemistry, acoustics, and optics.

Scope and content

Also, student essays and lecture notes by Bramhall, a syllabus for a lecture course on General Geology in the spring of 1876, lists of stock market prices, and a commencement program for 1877.

Dates

  • 1874-1877.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

William Ely Bramhall, from Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Cornell University in 1877 with a degree in civil engineering. He died in New York City in 1931.

Biographical / Historical

Cornell University Class of 1877, Civil Engineering.

Extent

.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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