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China -- Description and travel.

 Subject
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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

China journal and memorabilia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-2-2543
Scope and content

Collection contains a journal written from notes taken in China, representing a set of impressions rather than a diary of specific events. Also includes a brass paperweight (MU-1040), a small decorative spear or awl (MU-1043, a letter opener with bone handle (MU-1042), and a stein from the Country Club of Ithaca Men's Handicap 1902 (MU-1041).



Dates: 1980.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / China journal and memorabilia

Clarence Stein papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3600
Abstract

Contains job files relating to Clarence Stein's work as an architect and city planner, along with writings, including material pertaining to his book, Toward New Towns for America. Also contains personal and professional correspondence; correspondence and photographs pertaining to travels in China and the Far East; photographs of Stein, friends, and family; and medals, certificates, and pins.

Dates: 1905-1983.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Clarence Stein papers

Cornell-in-China oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-321
Scope and content Oral histories describing the experiences of Cornell University faculty members, former graduate students, and missionaries at the University of Nanking and elsewhere in China. Interviewees include J. Lossing Buck, John Reisner, Glenn W. Hedlund, and Stanley Warren on the development of an agricultural economics department at Nanking. Attached to Warren's interview is Buck's "Social and Economic Survey Losses in Rural Area in Vicinity of Shanghai Caused by Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1932." ...
Dates: 1962.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell-in-China oral histories

Elizabeth Faith Genung miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 52 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251815]
Identifier: 2847
Scope and content

Correspondence, clippings and photographs concerning: Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to the U.S.; and Jacobus Christian Faure, Cornell University M.S. 1913, an entomologist and one of the first two South Africans to be sent by the government of the Republic of South Africa to study abroad. Also includes material relating to Ithaca, Cornell University and Trumansburg, New York; and a letter to Genung from Morris Bishop.

Dates: 1915-1966.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Elizabeth Faith Genung miscellany

Elmer L. Mattox papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4283
Abstract

Pamphlets, brochures, and other materials relating to Hangchow Christian College and other colleges and universities in China, including a typescript history of the college by Mattox, 1952; Presbyterian missions in Hainan and Yunan; religious education in general; and other topics relating to China.

Dates: 1905-1954.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Elmer L. Mattox papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Floyd R. Newman papers

Gould family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2033
Abstract Diaries, 1799-1832, of Stephen Wanton Gould, concerned with meetings of the Society of Friends, the activities of his family members and friends as well as several public events; extracts from the records of monthly meetings, 1676-1707, held by Rhode Island Quakers; letters, 1862-1868, from John Stanton Gould to his daughter Mary (Gould) Baldwin, relating to the Goulds and the related families, Gould's early life, his interests, and other personal matters; journal, 1866-1869, showing Gould's...
Dates: 1799-[ca. 1869]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gould family papers

Gussie Gaskill pamphlet collection, 1849, 1920-1946.

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927050]
Identifier: 4282
Scope and content

Includes pamphlets and other printed material concerning war, education, art, government, and Japanese aggression in China and throughout Asia.

Dates: 1849 - 1946; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gussie Gaskill pamphlet collection, 1849, 1920-1946.

James G. Needham papers

 Collection — Box 1 (unprocessed)
Identifier: 21-23-479
Abstract

Correspondence and documents describing the career of James G. Needham.

Dates: 1884-1957.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James G. Needham papers

Kathleen Jacklin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1470
Scope and content Papers include research files on Anna Botsford Comstock; research files on manuscript collections relating to China and Chinese students at Cornell; research files on Sarah Cooper; checklists of manuscript collections at Cornell relating to the West Indies, to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, to temperance, to architecture, and to Theodore Roosevelt; and information about cataloging and processing guidelines for the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Also photographs of...
Dates: 1861-2004.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Kathleen Jacklin papers

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