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Voyages and travels

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

David Fay Edwards papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064714433]
Identifier: 1209
Scope and content

Letters and journals of David Fay Edwards of Lisle, New York, describing experiences as a seminary student and later as a teacher in Illinois, a trip to California, family matters and genealogical notes. Also, two copies of VALIANT FOR TRUTH: LIFE, LETTERS AND DIARIES OF DAVID FAY EDWARDS by his nephew, Richard Henry Edwards (1952), and notes regarding Edwards's biography.

Dates: 1843-1952.

Deane Waldo Malott papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-9-983
Scope and content Personal and professional correspondence, diary, journals, speeches, reports, printed material, clippings, and photographs documenting Malott's career as a professor at Harvard Business School, chancellor of the University of Kansas, and papers pertaining to his activities after retiring from the Cornell University presidency. Relates to the various corporations and organizations with which Malott was associated; travel writings; and political writings, including his support for Barry M....
Dates: 1894-1996.

Floyd R. Newman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-1619
Abstract

Floyd R. Newman was born in Casnovia, Michigan in 1890 and grew up in Churchville, New York. Newman's papers document his Cornell experience as a student and alumnus, his professional career, family and travels dating 1893-1990. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, programs, menus, broadsides, clippings, pamphlets, Cornell memorabilia and World War I artifacts.

Dates: 1893-1990.

Fordyce family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3646
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.

Dates: 1839-1979.

Gates and Moore family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 461
Scope and content Correspondence, accounts, and miscellany of the Gates-Moore family of Savona, Steuben County, New York. Correspondence (1847-1910) concerns Lillian Gates' and Mrs. Katherine Moore's investments in Western lands, mortgages and loans, and includes information on tenancy and land sales in Michigan, North Dakota, Illinois, and Oklahoma; also, investments in the East Lynn Railroad and other eastern enterprises. Letters of James G. Moore, consultant engineer at the U.S. Naval Base, Key West,...
Dates: 1847-1913.

George Burr Upton papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065172961]
Identifier: 16-5-268
Scope and content Included are excerpts and copies of letters written by Upton's mother relating incidents of Upton's boyhood and describing life in the Colorado grain country of the 1880s and 1890s; genealogical notes on the Burr family; two family bibles; a letter (2 pp.) to Upton's uncle, George Lincoln Burr; a poem written by Mrs. Upton; and a travelogue in the form of letters, including observations on animal life, botanical subjects, and geological features on a coast-to-coast automobile trip taken by...
Dates: 1845-1942.

Gustav Jaeger Requardt papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2548
Abstract

Printed and photocopied items, mainly concerning Requardt's student years at Cornell University, his participation in alumni activities, his career in sanitary engineering, and his interest in national politics and public affairs.

Dates: 1905-1966.

H. K. Wilcox photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6372
Abstract

Photographic albums containing photographs taken on trips to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France, England, the United States, Africa, Holland, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and Algeria between 1897 and 1915. Also, loose photographs, lantern slides, and dry plate glass negatives documenting extensive travel from 1890.

Dates: 1890-1915.

Helen A. C. Long and May Chadwick Collection of Hamilton Manufacturing Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6688 P
Abstract

Photographs of Charles B. Amory and Oliver H. Moulton of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, mainly of rivers and canals.

Dates: 1859-1910