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United States -- Description and travel.

 Subject
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Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Alice Cecilia Sanderson Rivoire papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2129
Abstract

Papers include scrapbooks (1925-1945), reports, notes, and miscellaneous manuscript and printed items concerning Mrs. Rivoire's education in Ithaca, New York and at Cornell, travel in the United States and abroad, and her later teaching career.

Dates: 1925-1948.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Alice Cecilia Sanderson Rivoire papers

Charles Clinton Covell diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065217535]
Identifier: 2213
Scope and content

Diaries concern family life, jobs held, visits with friends, and travel and work experiences in New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and South Dakota.

Dates: 1894-[ca. 1930]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles Clinton Covell diaries

David Fay Edwards papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064714433]
Identifier: 1209
Scope and content

Letters and journals of David Fay Edwards of Lisle, New York, describing experiences as a seminary student and later as a teacher in Illinois, a trip to California, family matters and genealogical notes. Also, two copies of VALIANT FOR TRUTH: LIFE, LETTERS AND DIARIES OF DAVID FAY EDWARDS by his nephew, Richard Henry Edwards (1952), and notes regarding Edwards's biography.

Dates: 1843-1952.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / David Fay Edwards papers

Floyd R. Newman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-1619
Abstract

Floyd R. Newman was born in Casnovia, Michigan in 1890 and grew up in Churchville, New York. Newman's papers document his Cornell experience as a student and alumnus, his professional career, family and travels dating 1893-1990. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, programs, menus, broadsides, clippings, pamphlets, Cornell memorabilia and World War I artifacts.

Dates: 1893-1990.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Floyd R. Newman papers

George Burr Upton papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065172961]
Identifier: 16-5-268
Scope and content Included are excerpts and copies of letters written by Upton's mother relating incidents of Upton's boyhood and describing life in the Colorado grain country of the 1880s and 1890s; genealogical notes on the Burr family; two family bibles; a letter (2 pp.) to Upton's uncle, George Lincoln Burr; a poem written by Mrs. Upton; and a travelogue in the form of letters, including observations on animal life, botanical subjects, and geological features on a coast-to-coast automobile trip taken by...
Dates: 1845-1942.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George Burr Upton papers

Helen Bullard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6501
Abstract

The collection contains original files of H.E. Bullard containing both personal correspondence and memorabilia (music programs, tax records, and Sunday school materials) and professional project papers and blueprints.

Dates: 1920-1950.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Helen Bullard papers

Hugh Olmsted papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064920360]
Identifier: 3200
Scope and content Included is correspondence between Captain William Fancher and Lydia Fancher during his enlistment in the Union Army, 1861-62; childhood correspondence of Everett Ward Olmsted and Bula Hubbell; correspondence of Silas Olmsted, Emily Ward Olmsted, and Everett Ward Olmsted; photocopied wills of Nicholas Olmsted, 1863, and Richard Olmsted, 1864; Silas Olmsted notebook, 1826; Silas Olmsted Jr. journal of a trip west, 1835; photographs of members of the Olmsted family, as well as Lydia Fancher,...
Dates: 1683-1971,-1832-1911 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hugh Olmsted papers

Jack and Inger Gilbert papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6964
Abstract

Thirty-five scrapbooks documenting trips taken by the Gilberts.

Dates: 1963-2009.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Jack and Inger Gilbert papers

James Hyndford Rawlins papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 42 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065248738]
Identifier: 1814
Scope and content Journal of a paper mill owner describing his travels in the United States and Canada, including his visits to schools, paper mills, factories, museums, scenic sights, and visits with friends in Ithaca, Batavia, Niagara Falls, in New York, and Toronto, Cleveland, and elsewhere; extensive comments on the quality of teaching in the public schools, technological advances, transportation, and architecture; account of a visit to Cornell University. Also, letters from Harriette, James, and Richard...
Dates: 1846-1873.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James Hyndford Rawlins papers

James Tobin letter : Canandaigua, N.Y.

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239919]
Identifier: 466
Scope and content

Letter to a friend in Ireland describing economic, agricultural, political, and social conditions and activities in the Canandaigua region in particular and in the United States in general, with comments on immigration, the development of transportation, and other aspects of American life.

Dates: 1834 Feb. 13.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James Tobin letter : Canandaigua, N.Y.

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