Abstract

Reports and studies, including plans, blueprints, photographs, publications, contracts, and drawings pertaining to transportation, parkways, and city planning projects in Queens, Westchester County, Long Island, Buffalo, and New York, New York; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and other places. Also, includes planning material pertaining to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City and a report prepared for Cornell University on Cornell Heights, 1987.

Scope and content

Includes minutes of meetings, University Senate legislation, violations and appeals, studies, correspondence, drafts and proposals, maps and other records concerning parking and transportation on the Cornell University campus. Box 8, in part, includes files of Professor William Rea Keast as Chairman of the Board on Traffic Control in the 1950s, as well as a 1939 Police Department parking ticket.

Scope and content Copy of letter from Dickinson of Denver, Colorado, to John G. Morrison, Bemidji, Minnesota including reminiscences concerning timber stands and logging operations, transportation by steamboat, stagecoach, and sleigh, railroad construction, and living conditions in northern Minnesota (late 1890s to early 1900s) after the Chippewa Reservation was opened to settlement with tributes to Jay P. Kinney, Addison C. Goddard, and Morrison for their work on Indian timber lands; also Kinney's comments...

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.

Scope and content

Publications of Rodney Engelen, and reports of Barton-Aschman Associates, primarily concerning urban transportation, regional transportation development, land valuation and other aspects of city and regional planning.

Abstract

Includes records related to housing planning and redevelopment; recreation; land use; organizational materials; social policy; and transportation.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory correspondence; pamphlets, correspondence, photographs, reports, and clippings concerning aviation; and other papers reflecting Wright's career in aviation and at Cornell University. Also, four bound volumes of Theodore P. Wright's articles and addresses, 1918-1970.