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Postcards.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Techno music poster collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8010
Scope and content

Posters, promotional materials, flyers and postcards documenting the techno, house, and electronic music cultures in Germany and other European countries.

Dates: 1989 - 2006
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Techno music poster collection

Tianjin collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6823m
Scope and content Photographs: albumen prints of "Treaty Temple, Tientsin" and "Tientsin towards Treaty Temple," circa 1860; cabinet card photographs from Yuen Chang, photographer in the French Concession, Tientsin of Mildred, Agnes, and Edith Syke (?); cabinet card photograph from M. Maki, Japanese Photographer at the Studio of S. Takeuechi & Co., Tientsin of an unidentified Western religious figure; and photograph of the mounted detachment of the U.S. Army 15th Infantry "guarding American interests in...
Dates: circa 1860-1912.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Tianjin collection

Two postcard albums

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938115]
Identifier: 828
Scope and content

Two postcard albums filled with postcards anonymously collected. Subjects include: Cortland, N.Y.; floral greeting cards; Christmas cards; valentines, George Junior Republic, Freeville, N.Y.; Ithaca, N.Y.; among others. Albums demonstrate hobby of collecting and preserving postcards.

Dates: 1890-1920.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Two postcard albums

Upstate New York tourist pamphlets and postcards

 Collection — Manuscript box 37 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065247383]
Identifier: 1452m
Scope and content

24 items including postcards, guidebooks, pamphlets, and booklets advertising locations in upstate New York, including the Hudson River, the Adirondacks, Rochester, Niagara Falls, Newport, Centerville Station, Centerville, Smithville Flats, Oneonta, and various towns in Tompkins County. Some items are illustrated with lithographs, others with photographs.

Dates: 1877-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Upstate New York tourist pamphlets and postcards

Valentine collection

 Collection
Identifier: 7718
Abstract

A variety of commercially produced postcards and greeting cards for the occassion of Valentine's Day, February 14. Included are clapsaddle postcards (one with a girl making a quilt reads "St. Valentine's Greeting, Woman's sphere is in the home"); three-dimensional German cards from the early 1900's; and valentines from the 1960's through 1980 saved by Gladys Coughlan, a woman in Alberta, Canada.

Dates: [ca. 1900-2004]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Valentine collection

Verena Lillian Luscher and Ruth Margaret Luscher miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3344
Scope and content Includes photographs, postcards, grades, Cornell state scholarship certificate, and diplomas of Verena Luscher and of Ruth Margaret Luscher (1922). Also, a copy of the Cornell Women's Review, May 1916, with a story by Verena Luscher and clippings and stationery of the Cornell Women's Club of Albany. Also included is the scrapbook of Ruth Luscher, documenting her time as a student at Cornell University, with many photographs of classmates and Cornell events such as mud rush, spring day, and...
Dates: 1916-1944.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Verena Lillian Luscher and Ruth Margaret Luscher miscellany

Wallace Duncan DuPré postcards

 Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924088359660]
Identifier: 37-5-3319m
Scope and content

Postcards of Cornell scenes sent by Wallace DuPré to his mother and sister in Spartanburg, S.C.

Dates: 1910-1913.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Wallace Duncan DuPré postcards

Warner D. Miller collection

 Collection
Identifier: 9180
Abstract Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry, newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs. Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to...
Dates: [ca. 1930-1945].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Warner D. Miller collection

Warner family memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092774086]
Identifier: 37-5-4110
Scope and content

Items relating to Sherman D. Warner include photographs, ca. 1917; programs from Sage, Chapel, Music and the Lyceum Theatre; basketball schedule, 1919-1920; Junior Smoker, 1919, Schedule of Examinations, 1917-1918; Gridiron Rules; 1920 Freshman Banquet program, 1917; clippings about the founding of Cornell from the December 1917 Cornell Daily Sun; and printed speech by Jacob Gould Schurman, "Why America is in the War," 1917.



Dates: 1917-1950
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Warner family memorabilia

Willard Dickerman Straight papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1260
Abstract

Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09).

Dates: 1825-1925.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Willard Dickerman Straight papers

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