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Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Allyn A. Packard scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065210878]
Identifier: 37-5-447
Scope and content

Scrapbooks of student activities at Cornell University, local Ithaca entertainments, and New York State events and travel.

Dates: 1885-1888.

Andrew Curtis White family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112443258]
Identifier: 6841
Scope and content

Correspondence of various members of the White family, primarily from the 1890s to the 1940s, includes letters to and between Minnie White, Marion White, and Ruth White from family and friends. Also some miscellaneous clippings and documents.

Dates: 1862-1972.

Benjamin Cornell family letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088370402]
Identifier: 6598
Scope and content

Letters from Benjamin Cornell to his parents and brother; from his son, Benjamin F. Cornell to various family members; and other family correspondence.



Dates: 1835-1876.

Charles Henry Hull papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-249
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, regarding his professional career and financial accounts pertaining to Ithaca, N.Y. organizations. Additional records include deeds, mortgage and survey (1733-1803) on lands in Albany and Montgomery Counties and newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about the early Ithaca "Moral Society". One box of lantern slides.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1850-1945.

Cynthia Morgan St. John scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113964609]
Identifier: 3248
Scope and content

Newspaper clippings dating from 1857 to 1920 concerning Ithaca, New York. Also, photograph "The Wordsworth Alcove in the Library of Mrs. Henry St. John."

Dates: 1906-1909.

Edith Cook scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064916509]
Identifier: 6631
Scope and content

Scrapbook documenting social events at Cornell and in Ithaca, including programs, photographs, dance cards, telegrams, invitations, and other memorabilia. Includes photographs of student rooms.

Dates: 1901-1902.

Edwin D. and Alice Burtt Shurter scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-2456
Scope and content

Scrapbook of Alice Burtt about social life and teaching in Ithaca and Brooktondale, N.Y., and student life at Vassar College; picture and trade card scrapbooks of Alice Burtt; Cornell student scrapbook of Edwin D. Shurter; and scrapbooks of Alice and Edwin Shurter after their marriage, including life at the University of Texas.

Dates: 1882-1905.

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates: 1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870

Galvin family papers

 Collection — Mu 1022: [Barcode: 31924027053309]
Identifier: 4933
Abstract

Correspondence, passports, photographs, certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other papers of an upstate New York physician and college professor. Includes correspondence, accounts, historical descriptions, constitution and by-laws, and other papers pertaining to Cornell University's African-American fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha.

Dates: 1906-1987.

Harwick family letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 54 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252128]
Identifier: 2992m
Scope and content Letters mainly to and from members of the Harwick family, including Jeremiah Harwick in Clarendon, New York and A.C. Harwick in Ithaca, New York. Also, a letter from James Laird in Juniata, Nebraska to his grandfather, Cornelius Wood, in Bloomingburgh, New York; a letter from George Cax in Bushwick to his brother, Guy C. Niel; and a letter from H.E. Blake in Ithaca to A.C. Harwick. Topics covered in the letters include news of family and friends, living expenses, prospects for a...
Dates: 1854-1874.