Bruce W. Fordham photograph album

Collection — cd: 1394

Identifier: 37-5-3939

Scope and content

Cyanotype photographs of Cornell campus scenes, buildings, and activities; snapshots of Delta Kappa Epsilon activities; Chi Psi house; Spring Day; family photographs; snapshots of the Great Lakes, 1902; Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1904; Camp Pines, Raleigh County, West Virginia, 1905-1907; New River Fuel Company, West Virginia; Raleigh Lumber Company, West Virginia; Thurmond, West Virginia; Sprague, W.V., 1907; and Beckley, W.V., 1907

Dates

1899-1907.

Creator

Fordham, Bruce W. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Class of 1905. Bruce Wight Fordham was born on October 3, 1882 in Scranton, Pa. , where he went to high school. He attended Cornell from 1901 to 1904 in Mechanical Engineering, but did not graduate. At Cornell, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Dunstan, the sophomore class crew, the Mummy Club, and Bench & Board. After leaving Cornell, he attended the Colorado State School of Mines for a brief period, worked as a miner in Utah, and as a draftsman and then an engineer for the New River Fuel Company in West Virginia. His career history explains many of the photographs in the album. He eventually returned to Pennsylvania where he ran B. W. Fordham & Co. in Trevorton, Pa. He died on March 27, 1951.