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Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Gerd Korman interviews

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3296
Scope and content

Tapes and transcripts of interviews with the following survivors of the Nazi Holocaust: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lenz, Sylvester Berki, Dr. and Mrs. J. Rothenberg, Zvi Yavetz. Gerd Korman conducted the interviews in 1967 and 1968.

Dates: 1967-1968.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gerd Korman interviews

Glenn Washington Herrick papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-23-844
Abstract Scientific addresses; lecture notes on spiders; articles and bulletins; page proofs and original drawings and illustrations for Insect Enemies of Shade Trees; bibliographies; lists of students and alumni; scientific drawings and photographs; diaries; correspondence concerning the Cornell Department of Entomology; travel papers; personal accounts; newspaper clippings; outline talks and short manuscript writings on politics, education, the Cornell campus, and the Cornell Entomology Department;...
Dates: 1872-1963.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Glenn Washington Herrick papers

Gustavus Hill Robinson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 18-2-2000
Scope and content

Includes four volumes of lecture notes (undated); and two letters to Gustavus Robinson (1946, 1949).



Dates: [ca.1946]-1971.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gustavus Hill Robinson papers

Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065186649]
Identifier: 14-22-2521
Scope and content Oral history interviews with Hans Bethe conducted by Charles Weiner and Jagdish Mehra on Oct. 27-28, 1966, Nov. 17, 1967, and May 8-9, 1972. Subjects include natural radioactivity; ideas of nuclear constitution, size in 1920s; Gamow-Condon-Gurney theory of alpha decay, 1928; discovery of the neutron, 1932; Cambridge as a center of research, 1933; early theories of nuclear forces; analysis of short-range nuclear forces, 1935-1940; reasons for writing Reviews of Modern Physics review...
Dates: 1966-1981.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories

History of the College of Engineering oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1858
Scope and content

Tape recordings and transcripts of interviews with Solomon C. Hollister by John McManus, 1968, and by Walter R. Lynn, 1979; and with Dale R. Corson by Walter R. Lynn, 1980. Also, two videocassettes of an interview with Hollister by Prof. O. Allan Gianniny, Jr., University of Virginia and Associate Dean John F. McManus, College of Engineering, Cornell University, August 14, 1979.

Dates: 1968-1980.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / History of the College of Engineering oral history project

History of the Family Medicine Program

 Collection — Transcript box 21 - trans. 1630-1631: [Barcode: 31924113547297]
Identifier: 3996
Scope and content

Two tape recordings, one of a discussion among Family Medicine physicians and Bonnie Howell, and one of a narration by Howell regarding development of the Family Medicine Program in Tompkins County, New York; also, volume of transcripts of the tapes.

Dates: 1974-1975/
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / History of the Family Medicine Program

Ithaca Festival records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2593
Abstract Records concerning the organization and development of the Festival include agendas and minutes of the Board of Trustees and the Executive; minutes and reports of various other committees; fund raising and public relations consultants' reports, the report on a space and accommodation program prepared by Fairchild and Dubois, Toronto architects, and a statement on the Festival by the Department of Speech and Drama at Cornell University; correspondence, memoranda, resolutions, financial...
Dates: 1962-1984.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ithaca Festival records

Jackson State College oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1630
Scope and content The Jackson State College oral history project contains 12 interviews conducted between July 7 and July 14, 1970, collected by Cleveland Donald, Jr., a graduate student in history at Cornell and a native of Jackson, about the events at Jackson State College during the protests in the spring of 1970. The interviewees include seven students from Jackson State College: Ferries C. Adams, II, a student; Roosevelt Kelley, a high school student and incoming freshman; Louis McLaurin, a senior; Gene...
Dates: 1970.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Jackson State College oral history project

Jay P. Kinney papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1791
Scope and content Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, memoranda, departmental directives, and other papers dealing chiefly with matters of policy and administration in the Forestry Branch of the Indian Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Papers relate to Kinney's conservation work and his services as an attorney for the Lands Division of the Department of Justice, to the management and policies of the Society of American Foresters, to awards made by the American Forest Fire Medal Board, and to...
Dates: 1855-1957,-1910-1957 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Jay P. Kinney papers

Joseph F. Daino oral history

 Collection — Tr 2365
Identifier: 2593 trsc. 2365
Scope and content

Tape and transcript of an interview with Joseph F. Daino conducted by Marian Hodges, April 13, 1966.



Dates: 1966.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Joseph F. Daino oral history

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