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China -- Description and travel.

 Subject
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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Knight Biggerstaff papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-629
Scope and content Includes administrative correspondence of both departments and correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, and other items concerning his participation in the American Council of Learned Societies and its Committee on Far Eastern Studies, American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, and Institute of Pacific Relations, of which he was a trustee of the American branch; some of the IPR records relate to the McCarran Subcommittee investigation of that organization. ...
Dates: 1923-2000,-1944-1961 (bulk).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Knight Biggerstaff papers

Marion S. Halsey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4905
Scope and content

Letters, scrapbook, annotated photograph albums and negatives documenting Halsey's work in China at the Peking Union Medical College. Also, a volume depicting Peking shop signs.

Dates: 1921-1925
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Marion S. Halsey papers

Nicholas C. Bodman papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-13-3031
Abstract

Papers include personal and autobiographical material and materials relating to his work as a linguist in China and other parts of Asia.

Dates: 1945-ca. 1980
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Nicholas C. Bodman papers

North family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1226
Scope and content Correspondence, deeds, indentures, miscellaneous pamphlets, commemorative booklets, and other papers. Includes papers (1752-1800) of Joshua Pine, Platt Townsend, Gerard Walton, and William Walton concerning land divisions at Hempstead, New York; material relating to the organization of Walton, New York, and to the first settlers there; Civil War letters written by Joshua Pine and Daniel Patrick, 38th Regiment, New York Volunteers (1861-1862); papers concerning Arthur North, lawyer,...
Dates: 1752-1943.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / North family papers

Poate family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4417
Abstract

Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association.

Dates: 1935-1993.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Poate family papers

Price family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4082
Abstract

Published and unpublished stories and articles by Edgar Price and genealogical material concerning the Price family. Correspondence from between family members. Typescript field notes by David Price on Nambiquara (Satones) Indian groups in Brazil. Notes, tape recordings, memos, published and unpublished reports used to prepare book about Nambicuara Indians of Brazil; and autobiographical writing by David Price.

Dates: 1881-1982.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Price family papers

Prize essay collection

 Collection
Identifier: 7-9-1317
Abstract

Prize-winning student essays from Cornell University contests in creative writing, poetry, social sciences, and humanities. Includes an essay on China by Pearl S. Buck.

Dates: 1872-2017.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Prize essay collection

Romyn Hitchcock papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2174
Abstract

Papers of Romyn Hitchcock, a chemist and lecturer on the Orient, include correspondence, lecture notes, monographs, government bulletins and other pamphlet material, newspaper clippings, and maps. Collection is primarily concerned with Chinese-American diplomatic relations; spheres of influence; problems of Chinese immigration, including low wages, tong societies, and the Chinese Exclusion Act; and the geography, art, religion, and customs of China and Japan.

Dates: 1841-1900,-1882-1900 (bulk).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Romyn Hitchcock papers

Ruth Neuhart miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 45 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924112457316]
Identifier: 37-5-3799m
Scope and content

Three letters from a friend, Lee, from Shanghai describing life in China, 1930, 1931, 1932. Also admission notice; Delta Gamma initiation materials, 1929; Freshman Handbook, 1929; Baccalaurate Service program, 1933; and "Souvenier of Niagara Falls to Delta Gammas Attending the 1936 Convention at Lake Placid," Buffalo Alumnae Chapter, June 21, 1936.

Dates: 1929-1936.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ruth Neuhart miscellany

Severinghaus family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4240
Abstract

Subject files, correspondence, photographs, movie films, audiotapes, ephemera, and other material pertaining to the personal life and professional career of Leslie Severinghaus and his family (particularly his wife Emmavail Luce Severinghaus). Chief topics include the Peking Union Medical College, travel and work in China, education, the Haverford School in Pennsylvania, and Wellesley College.

Dates: 1922 - 1994
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Severinghaus family papers

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