Autobiographies (literary genre)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Albert Hazen Wright research materials
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1692
Abstract
Correspondence, notes, outlines, typewritten and photo copies of newspaper articles, directories, court and census records, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, and other items used in the writing of Wright's histories of the New York State Agricultural College at Ovid, New York, the New York Central College at McGraw, New York, and the People's College at Havana (now Montour Falls) New York, as they pertained to the early history of Cornell University. Also sources pertaining to...
Dates:
1779-1960.
Anatole James autobiography
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065349288]
Identifier: 7660
Scope and content
Author's typescript (164 pages) of unpublished autobiography that begins "When I'm grown up I shall marry a man." Manuscript has alterations and corrections. With a letter from Timothy d'Arch Smith to H. Montgomery Hyde about James's death in 1979.
Dates:
1900-1910.
Benjamin Russell papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2181
Scope and content
Contains one volume of autobiographical material and diary entries and correspondence. Volume contains an autobiographical sketch of Russell's youth, dealing mainly with his earnest desire to become a minister despite poor health and poverty and his efforts to educated himself, and diary entries (1833-1842) concerning his theological studies, work as the Chautauqua County agent of the American Bible Society,lectures on temperance, preaching in Western New York both before and after his...
Dates:
1833-1891.
Charles Harold Riley the first ninety years
Collection — Manuscript box 64 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257747]
Identifier: 4194
Scope and content
Privately published autobiography, one folder of published photographs.
Dates:
1984.
Dwight Sanderson student projects
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-33-598
Scope and content
Student autobiographies (1927-35) and analyses of rural communities throughout the world (1921-43) written by sociology students of Professor Sanderson.
Dates:
1921-1943.
Edward M. Bassett papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2708
Abstract
Correspondence, books, articles, reports, legal briefs transcripts, and scrapbooks dealing with Bassett's tenure as a U.S. Congressman, 1902-1905, and his membership on committees and boards including the Public Service Commission of New York, the Brooklyn Committee on City Plan, the Zoning Committee of the City of New York, and the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs Committee. Papers deal primarily with zoning and city planning in New York City. Also includes many articles, reports...
Dates:
1892-1948.
Edwin Becker autobiography
Collection — Manuscript box 42 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065248753]
Identifier: 1824
Scope and content
Manuscript autobiography describing Becker's family background and connections, his attempts at self-education, and his interests in science and invention, natural history, sports, and floriculture; he concludes with an account of how he began to write poetry at the age of more than fifty years; Geneva, New York.
Dates:
1957.
Elfrieda Hochbaum papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2606
Scope and content
Manuscript copies of Hochbaum's published and unpublished novels and short stories, including Burning Arrows, her autobiography; The Deer, a semi-fictional account of Zina Dusenberry, a farmer who lived in Dusenberry Hollow, Dryden, New York, including an epilogue by Hochbaum's daughter, Elfrieda Pope Bestelmeyer; and other works. Also, 36 notebooks of Elfrieda Hochbaum (1913-54); photographs of Dusenberry family members; articles, including some concerning women's suffrage; and a microfilm...
Dates:
[ca. 1906-1963]
Eudorus Catlin Kenney papers
Collection
Identifier: 2116
Abstract
Incoming letters concerning Kenney's writings; religious, ethical, and scientific questions; Cornell University alumni affairs; and personal and family matters.
Dates:
1876-1916.