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Women college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.

 Subject
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Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

Pi Beta Phi, New York Delta chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-3271
Abstract

Architectural drawings and abstract of title, history and pledge class scrapbooks. Also chapter bylaws, 2002.

Dates: 2002.

Polly Antell collection of Laura (Riding) Jackson letters and related materials

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937992]
Identifier: 6383
Scope and content

Laura (Riding) Jackson's letters to Polly Antell from 1943-1986 inclusive; James Matthias's letters to Polly Cohen, 1980-1983; student diary, photograph album, student paper which won the Woodford Prize in 1923, postcards and other Cornell memorabilia; collection also includes interview of Polly Antell by Elizabeth Friedmann, 1990.

Dates: 1916-1990.

Pratt family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-722
Scope and content Papers of Henry Valentine Pratt (Cornell University Class of 1890) include a letter (1885) from W.A. Randall of Rochester, advising him to join a college fraternity, letters (1885) from L.H. Barnum, School Commissioner at Bloods, Steuben County, New York, advising him against fraternities and introducing him to Professor John Lewis Morris at Cornell, where Pratt had won a Regents scholarship, and an essay (1887) written for a social science class on the Willard Asylum and other state...
Dates: 1885-1996,-1885-1935 (bulk)

Priscilla Gage Specht, collector. Sigma Kappa suspension papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 16 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065303855]
Identifier: 37-4-m.484
Scope and content

Letters and mimeographed material relating to the suspension of the Cornell chapter of Sigma Kappa by the national organization for pledging an African-American girl.

Dates: 1956.

Report of the University Faculty in regard to the Office of Adviser of Women

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065264024]
Identifier: 37-2-m.349
Scope and content

Includes memorandum for use in Faculty Meeting, May 3, 1912 on Adviser of Women; letter from Alice H. Bruere to Charles H. Hull, May 17, 1913, on women at Cornell; and Cornell Women's Club of New York, May 1913 with suggestions on the work of women at Cornell; and a printed report in which the faculty urge that the title of Adviser to Women be retained and Dean of Women not substituted, 1917.

Dates: 1912-1917.

Roberta Bandel Walcer scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092777550]
Identifier: 37-5-4212
Scope and content

2 Scrapbooks with programs, clippings and memorabilia documenting her student experience.

Dates: 1971-1974.

Ross Hanlin and Mary M. Bruckheiser McLean papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203501]
Identifier: 37-5-1769
Scope and content

Student notebooks of Ross H. McLean from courses taught by H. A. Sill and Benjamin Ide Wheeler at Cornell University; Cornell scrapbook kept by Ross McLean; Cornell scrapbook kept by McLean's wife Mary M. Bruckheiser McLean; photographs of the Cornell campus and student activities; programs; postcards; correspondence; invitations; and other items from the McLeans' student days at Cornell.

Dates: 1907-1920.

Ruby Ames Newman scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-1668
Scope and content

Includes calling cards, theater and concert programs, clippings, dance cards, photographs, sports programs, and other items from Newman's student days at Cornell University.

Dates: 1910-1913.

Ruth Neuhart miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 45 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924112457316]
Identifier: 37-5-3799m
Scope and content

Three letters from a friend, Lee, from Shanghai describing life in China, 1930, 1931, 1932. Also admission notice; Delta Gamma initiation materials, 1929; Freshman Handbook, 1929; Baccalaurate Service program, 1933; and "Souvenier of Niagara Falls to Delta Gammas Attending the 1936 Convention at Lake Placid," Buffalo Alumnae Chapter, June 21, 1936.

Dates: 1929-1936.

Sage College mock epic poem

 Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070593896]
Identifier: 37-5-3977m
Scope and content

Mock epic poem (partial) about a smallpox epidemic at Cornell University in January of 1883 describes the reactions of women students at Sage College, vaccination of students, and fumigation of people, clothing, and rooms.

Dates: 1883.