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Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Walfred Albin Anderson papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065187910]
Identifier: 21-33-677
Scope and content The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence with colleagues, the Near East Foundation, students, and publishers concerning church and sociology conferences, book reviews, sociological studies, extension work, and applications for graduate school and positions at Cornell and elsewhere; also, MSS. notes and texts for sermons, lectures, speeches, and articles by Professor Anderson, who was also an ordained minister (1917); in addition, typescript and memeographed material pertaining...
Dates: 1914-ca.1961.

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.