Scope and content
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to the planning and fundraising for an expansion in scope of the Ithaca Festival, including planning for the construction of a new theater building. Correspondents include Walter J. Wiggins, Richard M. Ramin, Walter G. Bruska, and others. Also included is a report by Alvin H. Reiss on the state of the Ithaca Festival at the time.
Dates
- 1965-1966.
Creator
- no primary creator (Person)
- Wiggins, Walter J. (Person)
- Ramin, Richard M. (Person)
- Bruska, Walter G. (Person)
- Reiss, Alvin H. (Person)
- Cornell University. Development Office (Organization)
Language of Material
In English.
Biographical / Historical
The Ithaca Festival (previously Summer-Ithaca and the Ithaca Festival of the Classics) incorporated in 1964 as a center for the performing arts in Ithaca and Tompkins County, New York.
Biographical / Historical
Walter G. Bruska was the director of the Development Office at Cornell University. Walter J. Wiggins was a partner in the local law firm of Wiggins, Tsapis and Golder, and chairman of the fundraising campaign for the Ithaca Festival.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
- Art festivals -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Cornell University -- : Public relations.
- Ithaca (N.Y.)
- Ithaca Festival
- 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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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