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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell University Library catalog cards

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093407512]
Identifier: 13-4-3641
Scope and content

Sample cards from the original card catalog. Authors include: John James Audubon, Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Nabokov, William Shakespeare, Phillis Wheatley, Andrew Dickson White, and E. B. White. Subjects include: airplanes, slavery collection, and women.

Dates: 1900s.

Cornell University Library Catalog Department records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-4-1679
Scope and content Eighteen small volumes of library cataloging records of Cornell University; handwritten index slips, clipped on side, for British Parliamentary papers, titled "Index to British Blue Books, L-R," n.d.; records concerning department reorganization, 1969-1970; three loose-leaf volumes of typescript lists of subject headings used by the Cornell University Libraries in 1935; and "Manual of Cataloging Procedures," 1969. Cataloging department records include acquisitions procedures; time studies;...
Dates: 1885-1982.