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Leonard C. Thompson miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-4116

Scope and content

Football programs, 1940-1948; basketball program, 1947; and indoor track, 1947; Bailey Hall music programs, 1947-1948; and signed 8 x 10 photographs of Cornell athletes, Bart Viviano '33 (football), Joe Mangan '34 (track), and Bruce D. Kerr '35 (track). Also, a letter from George J. Thompson to his son Leonard, 1937, when Leonard was a sophomore at the Westtown School in Westtown, Pa., with a copy of a letter of Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, written to his children in 1660.

Also includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and coursework, as well as Cornell pamphlets and brochures. Some material involves George Jarvis Thompson.

Dates

  • 1933-1948.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Class of 1948. Leonard C. Thompson received an LLB degree from Cornell University in 1948.

Extent

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

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
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