Albert Force drawings and essay

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 1625

Scope and content

26 items including pen and ink drawings of trees made by Albert Force for a series of nature-study sheets planned to be published by the Slingerland-Comstock Press of Ithaca, New York, to supplement its nature study booklets. Nine of the drawings were used in an article by Professor E. Laurence Palmer, "Wooded laboratories," published in the spring 1951 issue of the Cornell Rural School Leaflets. Also, typescript essay by Albert Force, "Free hollow: the first one hundred years of Forest Home" (14 pages).

Dates

1923-1955.

Creator

Force, Albert, 1897-1970. (Person)
Force, Albert, 1897-1970. (Title of work: Free hollow..) (Person)
Slingerland-Comstock Press (Organization)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Albert William Force was born in Waterloo, New York on February 26, 1897. He served with the Army Medical Corps in World War I, and in 1921 he received a B.S. in agriculture from Cornell University. He spent a year as a graduate student and assistant in Cornell's Department of Plant Pathology. He was known in Tompkins County, New York for his interest in local history and antique collecting, and was an authority on Henry Walton, the 19th century American painter. He lived in Forest Home, Ithaca, New York.