Abstract

Collection includes photographs and related materials covering a broad range of topics, with a particular focus on day-to-day life in New York's African-American community during the 20th century.

Abstract

Correspondence with other members of the Cornell Class of 1912 concerning class activities, reunions, and the Donald C. Kerr Memorial Endowment; a small quantity of personal correspondence and financial records; and a phonograph record and tape recording of a portrait presentation ceremony.

Scope and content

Postcards to and from members of the Grevatt and Archdeacon families include views of the World's Columbian Exposition, New York City, upstate New York, and elsewhere in the United States. Also, humorous postcards and greeting cards in postcard format.

Scope and content

Postcards depicting Fort Ticonderoga; various sights in New York City, including St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grant's Tomb; Honolulu, Hawaii; Lake George in the Adirondacks; Clifton Springs, New York; and a few from elsewhere. Most are in color.

Scope and content Photographs of Cornell University scenes including Sibley College of Engineering, the Library, the old Armory, and Fall Creek gorge, 1898. Also an album of photographs with scenes from telephone exchanges in Georgia, images of African-Americans in the South, scenes of Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, GA., 1900-1901; scenes of New York City, 1903; St. Augustine, FL; the Grand Canyon, 1903; a fire in Baltimore, 1904; the Thousand Islands, 1903; Niagara Falls, 1902; Buffalo, N.Y. and the...