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Ithaca (N.Y.)

 Subject
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Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Jared Treman Newman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2157
Abstract

Jared Treman Newman was an Ithaca, New York attorney, 1893-1896, and mayor, 1907-1908; Cornell University Trustee, 1895-1903 and 1907-1933; and a bank official.

Dates: 1803-1953,-1803-1937 (bulk)

Karl Butler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2678
Scope and content Includes correspondence, reports and memoranda, drafts and final copies of speeches given before farm and business organizations, articles written for the SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD and agricultural journals, press releases, pamphlets, statistical data, clippings, biographies, charts, and miscellaneous items, pertaining mainly to Butler's role as an American farm leader and dealing with agricultural policies and problems from the local to the international level, but also referring to his work...
Dates: 1931-1999; -ca.1964 (bulk)

Ladies Union Benevolent Society records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1410
Scope and content

Papers consist chiefly of financial records, including two volumes of expenditures and receipts (1923-44); three books of check stubs (1927-45); one volume of records pertaining to stocks, bonds, and mortgages held by the home (1929-44); scattered expense accounts, mortgages, and stock certificates (1928-42); and letters pertaining to investments in real estate and securities (1928-44). Includes bound Articles of Incorporation and Constitution, 1921.

Dates: 1921-1947.

Mayor's Ad Hoc Committee on the Collegetown Disorder. Records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064942620]
Identifier: 3305
Scope and content

Letters and draft reports of the Committee's findings and recommendations. Includes "An Examination of the Events of May 13, 1972" by Mary Beth Norton; letters to the Committee from the chairman, Matthew F. McHugh; and clippings from the ITHACA JOURNAL covering the committee's work. Also, tape recordings of hearings held to investigate the event, including a statement by then Mayor Edward J. Conley.

Dates: 1972.

McGraw records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1229
Scope and content Papers concerning the John McGraw Company which in 1878 became Thomas McGraw and Company, Rough and Dressed Lumber, Shingles, Lath and Salt, Portsmouth, Michigan. Includes financial, legal, and other papers relating to the lumber industry, including timber inspection and cutting reports, and two letter books of Charles Curtiss, McGraw's partner. Also, two series of letters to Cornelia Curtiss from Mrs. D.W. Fiske (Jennie McGraw Fiske) and Mrs. Caroline Corson, containing detailed...
Dates: 1870-1901.

Mitchell and Barnes families papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3785
Abstract

Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks, photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of land in central and eastern New York.

Dates: 1791-1999.

Morse family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2394
Scope and content Includes a letter (Syracuse, 1910) to Effie Dallas Morse (Mrs. Virgil D. Morse) from Ellen M. Mitchell; a typescript copy of a letter (Copenhagen, 1915) to Mrs. Morse from her son, Robert V. Morse (Cornell University Class of 1911, LL.B. 1915) concerning the anti-American attitude in Germany; a letter (Albany, 1930) from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to Virgil D. Morse expressing his regrets at being unable to attend the opening of the Ithaca Reconstruction Home; a scrapbook (1903-1909) of...
Dates: 1880-1945.

Mrs. William B. Cornell miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246286]
Identifier: 1097m
Scope and content

Map of the city of Rochester, 1889; pamphlet A half century sermon preached in the Presbyterian Church, in Ithaca, February 4, 1866, by Rev. Wm. Wisner (Ithaca: Andrus, McChain & Company, 1866); and Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tompkins, for the year 1864 (Ithaca: Ithaca Journal Power Press, 1864).

Dates: 1864-1889.

New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology surveys

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-33-1485
Abstract

Collection includes schedules, interviewers' notes, correspondence, and other records containing information on individuals, households, farms, neighborhoods, and organizations gathered during the following projects in New York and elsewhere.

Dates: 1938-1966.