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Boardinghouses -- New York (State) -- Ithaca

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Boarding house accounts

 Collection — Manuscript box 47 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070753367]
Identifier: 37-5-3932
Scope and content "Club Book 1873," boarding house accounts, with charges for groceries, individual accounts for board, and accounts for Mrs. James M. Pollay (possibly owner). Students listed include Charles Franklin Burt '75, Thomas Drummond Chantler ('73-'74 O), William Louis Cuddeback ('72-'74 O), Charles Sumner Harmon '75, Willis Gaylord McDowell, Thomas Archibald Murray '74, Godfrey Osterman ('73-'75), Elroy Delos Sherman '77, William Perry Sturges, '76, Willard Everett Yager '76, and Frank Oliver Young...
Dates: 1873.

Boarding house photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065338729]
Identifier: 37-5-3078
Scope and content

Photograph album documenting the activities of the students who lived at the boarding house, photographs of the house, and greeting cards and photographs sent by former students to Mrs. Heller.

Dates: 1935-1952.

Boarding house student scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065481172]
Identifier: 37-5-2857
Scope and content

Scrapbook documenting the activities of several Cornell University students who lived at the boarding house of Mrs. Lillian Heller at 122 Eddy Street; includes photographs with humorous annotations and captions, sketches and drawings, fanciful narrative text, and ephemeral and other items depicting life at the house.

Dates: 1944-1954