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Charles Oliver Heggem Jr. scrapbook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 37-5-4229

Scope and content

Charles O. Heggem Jr. scrapbook contains news clippings and photographs of student life on campus, includes coverage of athletics, rowing, football, track, Schoellkopf stadium dedication. Articles and photographs on a Cornell student suicide do to the Germans losing World War One, Morse Hall Fire, snow covered Arts Quad in the winter, Ithaca and Collegetown, including one captioned with, "the biggest little city", dorm room photos. Wharton studios items and programs from the Lyceum and Star Theater. Ephemera from the Cascadilla Association, Cornell Dramatic Club, Mother's Kitchen at Sheldon Court, The Sturgis School, Ithaca Hotel, Olaf Brauner art exhibition in Goldwin Smith Hall, Lehigh Valley and Lackawana Railroad items including crew ticket, John R Mott at Bailey Hall, Clinton House, Freshman banquet program for the class of 1919, Massillon High School and the steelworks in Ohio, a drawing of a women by Thomas Raymond Whitman, acknowledgement of a gift to the Cornell University Alumni Fund, a number of printed images of women, perhaps actress some in the flapper girl style, photos in front of a Cole Garage Ithaca sign with a car, Taughannock Falls images, many photographs of fellow students. Several items pertaining to military service and hospital corps, including an article written Heggem about military training at Cornell and Massillon. Class rush items including pieces of clothing from the event, including a shirt piece from Lucien R. Henry. Several telegrams and some correspondence, including a letter from Clyde Christie from the Alpha Tau Omega house discussing partying too hard and vomiting and "enjoying" every room in the fraternity house with his wife. Also mention of Pete Abbott and his Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Dates

  • 1911-1918.

Creator

Language of Material

English.

Biographical / Historical

Charles Oliver Heggem Jr. took a Mechanical Engineering course and attended between 1915-1917, he did not receive a degree. He died January 1, 1929 in Tulsa Oklahoma.

Extent

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

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

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