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Autobiographies (literary genre)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Raymond family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918349]
Identifier: 741
Scope and content Correspondence includes letters between Aaron Weeks Raymond and business associates, friends, his son Charles H. Raymond, and other relatives concerning the oil industry and the Raymond oil wells; Raymond investments and the value of family holdings; the bankruptcy of Culver, Penn and Company, in which Aaron Raymond had invested; proposals from Jay Cook for the purchase of land; the construction of a railroad to Oil City, Pennsylvania; the anthracite industry in Raymilton, Pennsylvania;...
Dates: 1823-1889.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Raymond family papers

Robert Martin Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-3182
Abstract

Manuscripts include: "Winter Arches, a private book," an autobiographical account of his life until World War II; "Machiavelli without the Prince," in two manuscript versions; "Montaigne Incisions," an essay; and "Sun Goes Down Tide Goes Out," writings at the end of his life. Also, teaching materials, including ditto sheets given to students and a short play about the English Department.

Dates: [ca. 1950-1966]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Robert Martin Adams papers

Samuel Beach Bradley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 733
Scope and content Included among Bradley's papers are materials relating to his student days; notebooks of cures and remedies (1815+); a list of infants delivered (1818-1876); an alphabetically arranged listing of proper names in Dr. Bradley's diaries compiled by Grace Goodell Witty; sermons and religious experiences; fragmentary diaries; an autobiography (44 pp.); genealogical notes; a description of Eaton, New York, with recordings of weather and plant growth (1818); a manuscript speech against abolition...
Dates: 1789-1890.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Beach Bradley papers

Signe Toksvig papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3796
Scope and content

Collection includes Toksvig's scrapbook from her student years at Cornell University; and her husband, Francis Hackett's correspondence with Hendrik Willem van Loon (Cornell University Class of 1905). Also, a 438-page manuscript autobiography by Signe Kirstine Toksvig entitled "Free Lances," ca.1976, and a taped interview with her by Sarah Elbert, taped in Aarhus, Denmark in 1978.

Dates: 1912-1960.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Signe Toksvig papers

Stuyvesant Morris Pell papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3459
Abstract

Includes lab and lecture notes taken by Pell while at Cornell University, sketches and drawings, thesis and monographs.

Dates: [ca.1917-1945].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Stuyvesant Morris Pell papers

Wheeler family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3878
Abstract

Includes family Bible and genealogical records, financial and legal records and drafts of George Downs Wheeler's autobiography.

Dates: 1811-1934.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Wheeler family papers

Whitney and Karen Eastman papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941283]
Identifier: 2680
Scope and content

Mimeographed and printed matter concerning ornithology, primarily written by Whitney and Karen Eastman. Includes a photocopy of "The Advantage of Being Born Poor, Autobiography of Whitney Eastman," 1966.

Dates: 1959-1968.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Whitney and Karen Eastman papers

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