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Engineering -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Albert William Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-5-431
Scope and content

Personal correspondence concerning Smith's acceptance of the directorship of Sibley College, advice to students and prospective students, faculty appointments, alumni contacts and patent and production problems of the Nitrogen Company, to which he was a consultant.

Dates: 1904-1914.

Andrew Schultz Schultz, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-2-2244
Abstract

Records and personal papers of Andrew Schultz, Dean of the Cornell University College of Engineering.

Dates: [ca.1932-1991]

Beatrice Hagedorn reminiscences

 Collection — Manuscript box 34 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065336582]
Identifier: 37-5-3066
Scope and content

Reminiscences, in a letter to Professor Margaret Rossiter, describing the student experiences and later life of an early woman in electrical engineering at Cornell. Also copies of certificates and other documents about her.

Dates: 1999.

Charles L. Walker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-4-1681
Scope and content

Includes engineering notes; lectures; examinations; and Cornell University programs, photographs, and articles.



Dates: 1900-1931.

College of Engineering clipping scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203816]
Identifier: 16-3-860
Scope and content

Two scrapbooks of clippings kept by the College of Engineering containing news concerning the college's students and professors, Cornell University, and the study of engineering. Also typescript ancedotes and items relating to Dean Albert W. ("Pete") Smith and Dean Herman Diederichs.

Dates: 1934-1946.

College of Engineering publicity records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-3-4048
Scope and content

Four scrapbooks of clippings about the College of Engineering: Vol. I, Sept. 1937-Nov. 15, 1939; Vol. II, Nov. 15, 1939-Feb. 1942; Vol. III, Feb. 1942-Sept. 1945; Vol. IV, Oct. 1945-April 1953. Also tape recording of a lecture/discussion.

Dates: 1937-1953.

Cornell University College of Engineering Deans Office records

 Collection — Manuscript box 41 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924093379125]
Identifier: 16-2-2156
Abstract

Dean's Office subject files, including correspondence, annual reports, minutes of meetings, and working papers concerning the establishment of programs and construction of buildings. Includes the administrative papers of Deans Andrew Schultz, William Streett, T. E. Everhart, Edmund Cranch, and Solomon Hollister. Earlier records consist primarily of the records of Assistant Engineering Dean John F. McManus. Also, blank Fuertes Medal for graduate research in civil engineering.

Dates: [ca. 1916-2000]

Cornell University College of Engineering photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 16-2-2378
Abstract

College of Engineering photographic negatives, ca. 1945-1965, unidentified; seven lantern slides of field trips, 1870-1900, identified; photographs of Physics Dept. apparatus, 1870s-1880s, identified; five glass negatives and photographs of the construction of the Hydraulic Laboratory; glass slides depicting College of Engineering equipment and facilities (1870-1900); and photographs of John McMullen with a McMullen Scholarship brochure.

Dates: 1870-1990.

Edmund Dandridge class notes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064720505]
Identifier: 37-5-2544
Scope and content

Physical and Mechanical Laboratory reports, 1903-1904.

Dates: 1903-1904.

Edward P. Burrell drawings

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065211009]
Identifier: 37-5-374
Scope and content

Notebooks, engineering drawings, and engineering catalogues pertaining to Burrell's work as a mechanical engineering student at Cornell.

Dates: 1898.