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Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Lena Lillian Hill Severence papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947553]
Identifier: 2790
Scope and content Letters to Lena Hill Severence, plus two pamphlets and a mimeographed item. Letters concern her efforts to secure pension legislation for teachers in New York State. Correspondents include New York State Normal School officials Myron T. Scudder, William J. Milne, and Isaac B. Poucher; university presidents Andrew D. White, Jacob Gould Schurman, James B. Angell, David Starr Jordan, and Charles W. Eliot; lawyer and politician Elihu Root; New York State legislator Jesse S. Phillips; and New...
Dates: 1903-1916.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lena Lillian Hill Severence papers

Lewis Mumford, collector, publications

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065185708]
Identifier: 3958
Scope and content Publications by Sir Patrick Geddes consist almost entirely of reprint articles from professional journals and pamphlets concerning his views on universities in Europe and in India; nature study and geographical education, ancient and modern graphic methods, cooperation versus socialism, classification of statistics, and sociology in relation to economics. Copies of printed speeches, papers, and lectures pertaining to the principles of economics, zoology, the origin of inland towns and...
Dates: 1880-1972,-1880-1932 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lewis Mumford, collector, publications

Livingston Farrand papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-5-7
Abstract The Livingston Farrand Papers consist of correspondence, office files, reports, letters of transmittal, notices of appointment to committees, scrapbooks, cross reference sheets, clippings, diplomas, and certificates deriving from his presidency of Cornell University from 1921 to 1937. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, pertaining largely to the routine administration of the President's Office and the University. Subjects include student and faculty issues, student health,...
Dates: 1921-1939.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Livingston Farrand papers

Mary Jane Church letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 50 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251245]
Identifier: 2559
Scope and content

Letters of Mary J. Church to her brother from New York City, where she was attending Rutgers' Female College, concerning family and friends, school work, notable places in the city, impressions of Henry Ward Beecher, comments on the Civil War, and the reaction to Lincoln's assassination.

Dates: 1864-1865.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mary Jane Church letters

Paul Wallace Gates, collector, railroad timetables and printed material

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3137
Scope and content

Included are pamphlets, timetables, advertisements (some photocopies), broadsides, maps, serials, photographs and negatives, alphabetical files, land laws, newsletters, newspapers, and reprints. Pamphlets concern the following topics: agriculture, art, government, history, politics, religion, social science, industry, transportation, and education; also, airline, bus, boat, and railroad timetables.

Dates: [ca. 1850]-1983.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Paul Wallace Gates, collector, railroad timetables and printed material

President's retreats records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065177879]
Identifier: 4-0-1580
Scope and content

Includes executive staff retreat reports, outlines, comments, plans, minutes, and other records concerning issues at Cornell, including material relating to the quality of undergraduate education; budgets; the State University of New York, its origin and funding; housing; admissions policies; graduate work; planning; buildings; minority education; faculty recruitment and tenure; fund raising; and student government.

Dates: 1964-1970.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / President's retreats records

Shelton family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064923802]
Identifier: 808
Scope and content Collection consists largely of letters between members of the interrelated Tappan, Brewster, Tomlinson, and Shelton families, and emphasizes religious, missionary, and educational experiences. Included are a letter (1821) from a female teacher at the Brainard Cherokee Mission School; letters (1827) from Anne Tappan at Catharine Beecher's School in Hartford, Connecticut; letters (1834) from Lucy Tappan, a teacher at a religious academy in Detroit, concerning local conditions, Miss Beecher,...
Dates: 1783-1934.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Shelton family papers

Student copybook

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240966]
Identifier: 1217
Scope and content

Copybook containing various mottoes and sayings, arithmetical work, and exercises in penmanship.

Dates: 1825-1826.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Student copybook

Van Cleef family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3088
Abstract

Business and personal correspondence, briefs, legal materials, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, daybooks and a variety of documentation

Dates: 1841-1935.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Van Cleef family papers

Vice President for Academic Affairs records

 Collection
Identifier: 4-7-1253
Scope and content

Includes material on education legislation; education research; scholarships and financial aid; academic departments and divisions of the University; admissions budgets and correspondence; University budgets; University libraries; R.O.T.C.; campus planning; academic associations; research grants; faculty and staff; minutes of meetings; Board of Trustees records; reports; and other records of the Vice President for Academic Affairs; includes files of Stuart M. Brown.

Dates: 1960-1970.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Vice President for Academic Affairs records

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