Scope and content
Scrapbook has annotations by Blackwell. Includes items from Lawrenceville School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Cornell items include athletic, particularly football memorabilia, report cards, cigarette wrappers (one noted as being high class and used extensively at Cornell), alcoholic beverage items including a Budweiser label, Beebe Lake Toboggan slide pass, fellow student calling cards, notes regarding plays to be run at the Michigan football game and how opposing players will play, many newspaper clippings including, sports teams, crew, an article about sledding down Buffalo Street reaching 60 miles per hour, 1910 football programs including Chicago and Pennsylvania, post graduation material includes letters seeking employment and the job search. A number photographs covering student life, athletics, football, track, Delta Upsilon fire, a trip from the Delaware Water Gap to Trenton New Jersey in canoes, Six Mile Creek, Cayuga Lake, Spring Day, including a photo of New York State governor and former Cornell student John Alden Dix. Several items relating to the frosh and flag rush, including photos and article describing placing the 1912 flag on top of the campus flag pole and then greasing the pole to prevent it from being taken down. Items from area businesses including Clinton House, Little John Chacona, Lyceum Theatre (program and review from controversial "The Girl from Rector's" performance, Dutch Kitchen, Ithaca Hotel, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also items from theaters in Trenton, N.J.. Travel items include, brochure from the Hotel Normandie in Philadelphia, itineraries, lodging information, postcards and ephemera from football trips to Pennsylvania and Chicago.
Dates
- 1904-1917.
Creator
- Blackwell, Howard . (Person)
Language of Material
English.
Biographical / Historical
Howard Blackwell graduated Cornell University in 1912 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He played on the football team and was from Trenton, N.J..
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
- Cornell University -- : Students.
- Cornell University. Class of 1912
- Scrapbooks
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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