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

 Subject
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Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Walter Buckingham Carver papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-19-592
Scope and content

Correspondence with students and staff, drafts of published papers, notes, manuscript for a mathematics text, lecture notes, exams, roll books, grade lists, and theses. Includes faculty reports and by-laws, reprints, conference reports, and a collection of programs for concerts, plays, and sporting events in Ithaca, Corning, New York City, and Ohio.

Dates: 1906-1948.

Wieghardt-Brooks-Pertsch families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6614
Scope and content

Scrapbooks of Frederick William Brooks and Alice Winton Brooks relating to Ithaca local history; advertisements about Ithaca real estate; Cornell certificates, programs, and memorabilia of John Pertsch and Herman Wieghardt; and Wieghardt family photographs.

Dates: [ca. 1905-1945]

William Park Pew miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940772]
Identifier: 2431
Scope and content Includes correspondence between Professor Riley and Pew's daughter, Mary A. Pew Emmerich of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, regarding the Pew family that settled around 1800 in what is now Ithaca, N.Y., William Pew's marriage to Caroline Dix of Ithaca, and his work in early telegraphic construction, as principal (1838-c.1852) of a Lancasterian school in Ithaca, and as the operator (1863-c.1869) of a Pennsylvania coal mine; also, reminiscences, other biographical information, a Pew family genealogy,...
Dates: 1842-1955.

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Dates: 1778-1952.

Wilson family accounts

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065172581]
Identifier: 1468
Scope and content

Accounts of expenditures for groceries, clothing, medical and dental care, utilities, services, entertainment, and travel of the Wilson familyof Ithaca, New York.

Dates: 1917-1956.

Woodruff family letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938354]
Identifier: 98
Scope and content

Courtship letters of Charles F. Woodruff of Ithaca, and Minerva Pelton of Monticello, Sullivan County, New York.

Dates: 1838-1839.