Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, clippings and background information, scrapbooks, photographs, awards, and other material of the personal life and professional career of a writer, historian, and director of Historic Ithaca. Subject files compile research on subjects of local interest and local history. Family papers of Sisler's parents, Eleanor and Frederick Untiedt.

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Scrapbooks containing pamphlets; tickets; exams; clippings; programs from Cornell University, 1875-1880; and articles on the local history of Ithaca and Tompkins County, New York, written by Poole, ca. 1880-1910.

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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.

Scope and content Mainly papers of Arlington Mapes concerning his school days in Rushville (1870-78) and at Cornell University, the latter including notes taken at Professor William Dexter Wilson's lectures in the philosophy of history, his undergraduate scrapbook, correspondence (including one letter from Moses Coit Tyler), and his senior essay on American history, 1883; and records concerning his activities in later life, including two Republican Party canvass books (1890s), accounts (5 v., 1890-1925), a...

Scope and content A specially-printed register of Cornell students and alumni visiting Bement's store. Includes name, address, profession, messages, impressions of the old town, and other remarks. It contains the signatures and sentiments of more than 2,000 Cornellians The first name in the register is Kenneth L. Roberts '08, who designated his profession as "some journalist!"; Frank E. Gannett '98 labelled himself on June 12, 1915 as "newsboy."; and Hendrik Willem Van Loon provided an illustrated entry...