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Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew C. White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1084
Scope and content

Cash account books of general living expenses; also, some family history, and mention of Joseph White and Hamilton College; perhaps Madison County.



Dates: 1883-1911.

Andrew Curtis White family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112443258]
Identifier: 6841
Scope and content

Correspondence of various members of the White family, primarily from the 1890s to the 1940s, includes letters to and between Minnie White, Marion White, and Ruth White from family and friends. Also some miscellaneous clippings and documents.

Dates: 1862-1972.

Benjamin Cornell family letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088370402]
Identifier: 6598
Scope and content

Letters from Benjamin Cornell to his parents and brother; from his son, Benjamin F. Cornell to various family members; and other family correspondence.



Dates: 1835-1876.

Brand family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4934
Scope and content

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, diplomas, sketches, notebooks, and other papers of an Ithaca, New York family. Includes material of Ernestine Isabel Brand (Barnard College); John E. Brand, especially pertaining to his service in World War II; Charles Brand; Alice Brand; and paintings by Charles S. Isabel.

Dates: [ca.1912-1955]

Breckenridge-Bates family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3352
Abstract

Correspondence, financial records, business records, accounts, photographs, and other items deriving from the families of Fred E. Bates and Juanita Breckenridge of Ithaca, New York.

Dates: 1861-1902.

Curran family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4552
Scope and content

Account books, daybooks, cashbooks, election registers, and assessment rolls; also, clippings on oil production in Pennsylvania, price lists, hardware and merchandise accounts, and fire insurance records, Tompkins County (N.Y.).

Dates: 1834-1882.

Eagles family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 942
Scope and content

Correspondence, business accounts, and stereopticon views of central New York, the Cornell University campus, Ithaca homes, and foreign scenes. Includes material relating to Eagles' photographic supply company in Ithaca. Related family material includes description of hard times in Ithaca, and farm accounts of W. H. Sebring of Dundee, Yates County, and David Gannon of Marilla, Michigan.

Dates: 1849-1927.

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates: 1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870

Francis Miles Finch papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 433
Abstract Legal and business documents and correspondence of Walbridge and Finch, Boardman and Finch, and Francis M. Finch; also, correspondence and accounts of the Finch family, including letters from Daniel Coit Gilman, Chauncey M. Depew, Hiram S. Sage, and others dealing with legal, personal, literary, and educational subjects. Trial testimony, instructions to the jury, and other material pertaining to the Edward H. Rulloff murder case. Also, gold Venetian ceremonial cufflink-coins presented to...
Dates: 1851-1889.

Galvin family papers

 Collection — Mu 1022: [Barcode: 31924027053309]
Identifier: 4933
Abstract

Correspondence, passports, photographs, certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other papers of an upstate New York physician and college professor. Includes correspondence, accounts, historical descriptions, constitution and by-laws, and other papers pertaining to Cornell University's African-American fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha.

Dates: 1906-1987.