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Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.

 Subject
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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Boyhood memories of early Ithaca interviews

 Collection — Tr 621
Identifier: 3238
Scope and content

Taped interviews (May 23 and 24, 1969) with James Bailey and William B. Wilkinson in which Norris, Bailey, and Wilkinson discuss their childhoods.

Dates: 1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Boyhood memories of early Ithaca interviews

Cornell student organizations publications

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-6-3879
Scope and content Constitutions of the Cornell Cross Country Club, 1899; the Graduate Club, 1907-1909; the Agricultural Association, 1909; and the Cornell men's honorary society Aleph Samach, circa 1939. Other publications include two pamphlets from the German Club: "The Causes of the European Conflict" by John W. Burgess and "How Germany Was Forced into War," by Raymond E. Swing,1914. Other publications from the Cornell Boating Association, 1920; "Spring Tournement and Horse Fair" from the Cornell Field...
Dates: 1899-1950.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell student organizations publications

Exhibit catalogs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926094]
Identifier: 2902
Scope and content

Catalog, "Henry Walton: 19th Century American Artist," from an exhibit held at the Ithaca College Museum of Art, 1968-1969; catalog, "Artist of Ithaca: Henry Walton and his Odyssey," from an exhibit at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1988. Both catalogs compiled by Leigh Rehner Jones. Also, clippings relating to the exhibits.

Dates: 1968, 1988.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Exhibit catalogs

Fall Creek Gorge improvement and preservation program items

 Collection — Manuscript box 13 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065303350]
Identifier: 41-6-m.283
Scope and content

Correspondence, plans, and pictures relating to the improvement of the Fall Creek Gorge at Ithaca, N.Y., by the Cornell Association of Brooklyn. Includes correspondence of James M. Gorman (Class of 1890), John L. Moffat (Class of 1873), W. W. Rowlee (Class of 1888, Ph.D. 1893), and Herbert D. Schenk (Class of 1882).

Dates: 1905-1909.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Fall Creek Gorge improvement and preservation program items

Frank Asa Darrow miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 63 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256640]
Identifier: 3965
Scope and content Two letters from Andrew Dickson White to Frank A. Darrow of Orwell, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The letter dated December 19, 1870 concerns consent to Darrow's request to practice on the Cornell University chimes; the letter dated December 7, 1874 is White's affirmative reply to Darrow's readmission inquiry. Also, typescript copy of "Franklin Asa Darrow, 1849-1922, A Biographical Sketch," by John M. Parker III, 1986 and excerpts from Darrow's diary entries relating to Cornell University...
Dates: 1870-1874, 1986.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frank Asa Darrow miscellany

George L. White letter

 Collection — Manuscript box 18 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065306007]
Identifier: 47-1-m.638
Scope and content Letter to Miss Rhoda E. Mead of Waterbury, Connecticut, in which George White describes the beauties of the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, New York, and Cayuga Lake, and the work that he and Mrs. White did to assist her brother, E.P. Gilbert, in the management of Sage College for Women, and the electrification of the building. White adds that he would not want his daughter, Georgia Laura, then a student at Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio, to enter Cornell as an undergraduate...
Dates: 1891.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George L. White letter

Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 6749
Abstract

Printed and manuscript ephemera relating to canals, commerce and banking, education, politics and elections, religion, smoking, theater, travel and transportation, and technical equipment, primarily in Ithaca and Tompkins County.

Dates: 1823-1976.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera

Hiram Corson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-12-449
Abstract The contents of thirty former scrapbooks containing letters, clippings, photographs, and printed materials relating to Corson's travels, life, and career; correspondence exchanged between Corson and colleagues on Shakespeare, Chaucer, Tennyson, Browning, and other figures of English literature; reviews of books and articles by Corson and other scholars; announcements, programs, letters, notes, and reviews pertaining to Corson's activities as public lecturer and reader; letters from friends...
Dates: 1842-1956.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hiram Corson papers

Ithaca Centennial Commission and Great Ithaca Write-In records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4415
Scope and content

Forms completed by individuals as part of the Great Ithaca Write-In as well as records pertaining to the event. Also, permission sheets, typescript, and paperback edition of ONE DAY IN ITHACA. Also, an Ithaca 100 coffee mug. Also, one DVD entitled "April 9, 1988 Ithaca Centennial Opening Celebration." Also one DVD entitled "They Made a Movie in Ithaca," showing the making of the movie on the previous DVD.

Dates: 1988.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ithaca Centennial Commission and Great Ithaca Write-In records

James Hyndford Rawlins papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 42 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065248738]
Identifier: 1814
Scope and content Journal of a paper mill owner describing his travels in the United States and Canada, including his visits to schools, paper mills, factories, museums, scenic sights, and visits with friends in Ithaca, Batavia, Niagara Falls, in New York, and Toronto, Cleveland, and elsewhere; extensive comments on the quality of teaching in the public schools, technological advances, transportation, and architecture; account of a visit to Cornell University. Also, letters from Harriette, James, and Richard...
Dates: 1846-1873.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James Hyndford Rawlins papers

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