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Rare books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell University Department of Rare Books records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1673
Scope and content

Correspondence files and monthly and annual reports of the Cornell Rare Books Department. Also, exhibit files from previous exhibits, including cards from an early Lafayette exhibition.

Dates: 1950-1992.

Dorothy May Schullian papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4131
Scope and content

Files of personal and professional correspondence, research files, files on writings, files relating to her work on the Roman author Valerius Maximus, personal memorabilia, travel diaries, and photographs. Also includes personal correspondence with Margaret Bingham Stillwell, and a printed copy of Schullian's dissertation, External stimuli to literary production in Rome, 90 B.C.-27 B.C.



Dates: 1915-1989.

George Lincoln Burr papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203709]
Identifier: 14-17-22
Abstract Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...
Dates: 1861-1942.

Petrarch collection correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941812]
Identifier: 13-6-1172
Scope and content

Manuscript volume of correspondence to Miss Fowler of the Cornell Library pertaining to the Petrarch collection.

Dates: 1883-1919.