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Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History.

 Subject
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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

A history of the Jews in Ithaca

 Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241261]
Identifier: 1603
Scope and content

Three copies of a history of the Jewish community in Ithaca, New York, from ca. 1854 to the 1950s prepared for the Ithaca Jewish Tercentenary Committee including comments on the relationship between Jews in Ithaca and the Jewish student body at Cornell University, especially as it pertains to the work of the Hillel Foundation.

Dates: 1955.

Albert Hazen Wright papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-26-1382
Abstract Correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, study notes, typescripts of articles, genealogies of the Wright family and of Noah Downs, negatives, slides, photographs, clippings, drawings, census reports, maps, New York publications and printed material, transcripts of oral history interviews with Wright, manuscripts of his scientific books, and other material pertaining to his career as a zoologist, university professor, lecturer, and author. Other subjects include the Cornell Natural History...
Dates: 1779-1965.

Baker and Wells families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3601
Abstract

Includes research material on Elizabeth Baker Wells' biography of Albert W. Force and other material relating to Cornell history, as well as papers of the Baker and Wells families.

Dates: 1897-1990.

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.

Carol Sisler papers

 Collection — Box 8: [Barcode: 31924078888199]
Identifier: 4925
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, clippings and background information, scrapbooks, photographs, awards, and other material of the personal life and professional career of a writer, historian, and director of Historic Ithaca. Subject files compile research on subjects of local interest and local history. Family papers of Sisler's parents, Eleanor and Frederick Untiedt.

Dates: [circa 1944-1990].

Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938396]
Identifier: 65
Scope and content Correspondence (chiefly business and financial dealings) concerning transportation in central New York State, including Ithaca, Syracuse, Owego, Elmira, and Albany. Topics include the Ithaca and Owego Rail Road, the New York and Erie Railroad, land purchases, steamboats to Ithaca and Owego, a mill owned by Francis A. Bloodgood, the Chemung Canal, Ithaca canals and streams, a proposed turnpike road from the head of Seneca Lake to Elmira, and public opinion and politics in Ithaca. Also...
Dates: 1678-1683 and 1823-1934,-1823-1866 (bulk).

Charles F. Mulks papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3654
Abstract

Includes 24 scrapbooks and 12 notebooks compiled by Mulks with material relating to Tompkins County and nearby areas..

Dates: 1799-1905, 1975.

Chester C. Platt papers

 Collection
Identifier: 195
Abstract Copies of a series of articles written by Platt for the Batavia Times called Human Behavior, which covered a variety of subjects from politics to travel; also included are editorials, articles submitted to other newspapers, speeches, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to Platt's numerous interests. The political correspondents include William Sulzer and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Documents pertaining to the operation of a drugstore. Newspapers include letters pertaining to the three...
Dates: 1869-1934.

Erl Bates papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-24-790
Abstract

Papers include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the background and passage of a state bill (1920) appropriating $10,000 to the College of Agriculture for Indian extension work and to the early progress of this work; correspondence and printed, mimeographed, and typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets pertaining to the Cornell Indian Boards, Six Nations' Agricultural Society, Indian Farmers' Schools.

Dates: [ca. 1920-1960].

Eugenia Mitchell family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113441061]
Identifier: 8438
Scope and content

Bound volume of letters on her retirement, September 30, 1977. Photographs of Eugenia at work. Also family papers and genealogies. Printed pictures of John Mitchell and Samuel Mitchell, with biographical information from History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, New York, by H. B. Peirce and D. Hamilton Hurd, 1879.



Dates: 1879-1977.