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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Alpheus W. Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3695
Scope and content Includes military correspondence, reports, and talks; photographs of Cornell University; Cornell publications; research on Ezra Cornell and on early Cornell history; correspondence with George L. Burr; manuscripts and verses of Ruby Green Smith and Albert W. Smith; letter (1915) from Harper Sibley in Rochester and from Jacob Gould Schurman (1918); scrapbook of newspaper clippings, June 1945-March 1946; leaflets from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations; and other papers of...
Dates: [ca.1915-1947].

ATHM Textile Industry Film

 Collection
Identifier: 6524/009 F
Scope and Contents Although this volume contains listings labeled cotton manufacturing accounts, woolen manufacturing accounts, gristmill, and store, as well as Northboro Manufacturing Co., it is thought to be a journal of that company. The entries show evidence of the barter system in practice at this time, listing sums due for dressing cloth, carding, weaving, repairing a spinning jenny, etc. The names of workers or customers are listed for each entry. Goods sold include corn, barley, straw, gin, candles,...
Dates: undated

Barbara Everitt Bryant scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3325
Scope and content

Scrapbooks, including programs, letters, clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia, documenting her student experiences at Cornell; her family, especially her father, William L. Everitt; and national events, including newspapers about the end of World War II (V-E Day and V-J Day). Also, "Biographical Memorandum," an account of her life after Cornell, with a vita and a copy of the Class History that she wrote for the 1947 Cornellian.



Dates: 1943-2004.

Beattie Manufacturing Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6534 P
Abstract

Photographs of textile machinery, textile workers, and carpet samples.

Dates: 1950-1975

Beattie Manufacturing Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6534

Carl Irving Wheat correspondence

 Collection — Box 1 : [Barcode: 31924113901718]
Identifier: 8811
Abstract

California historian and lawyer Carl Irving Wheat (1892-1966) was born in Holliston, Massachusetts on December 5, 1892. The Carl Irving Wheat correspondence (1938-1945) contains correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera related to the publication of Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih's speech, "China, too, is Fighting to Defend a Way of Life."

Dates: 1938 - 1945

Charlotte Holmes Crawford papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2235
Scope and content

Includes tapes and transcripts of an interview with Charlotte Crawford conducted by Edith M. Fox in 1966.

Dates: 1908-1966.

Civil Service Reform Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 549
Scope and content Files of the New York State Civil Service Reform Association and the National Civil Service Reform League relate to the organization, development, history, and activities of these associations. They include correspondence, briefs, extracts, reports, clippings, pamphlets, and other material relating to appointments, examinations, investigations, prosecutions, and removals, finances and membership campaigns, Civil Service laws, assembly and senate bills, congressional activities, the views on...
Dates: 1880-1947.

Draper Corporation Graphics

 Collection
Identifier: 6612 G
Abstract

Collection of graphics created by and relating to the Draper Corporations machinery.

Dates: undated

Draper Corporation Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6612 P
Abstract

Photographs of the Draper Corporations buildings, executives, employees, and the machinery built by the company, as well as photographs of Hopedale, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1882-1920