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Autographs (manuscripts).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

American theater collection of cabinet cards

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4678
Scope and content Photographic portraits of actors in American theatre from 1871-1907. Many of these cabinet cards are autographed and bear inscriptions. Portraits include Maude Adams, Viola Allen, Henry Clay Barnabee, Lawrence Barrett, Blanche Bates, Kyrle Bellow, Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Emma Calvé, Mrs Leslie Carter, Kate Claxton, Charlotte Crabtree, William H. Crane, Fanny Davenport, Henry E. Dixey, John Drew, Maxine Elliott, Mrs. G.H. Gilbert, William Gillette, Virginia Harned, De Wolfe Hopper,...
Dates: [1871-1907].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / American theater collection of cabinet cards

Andrew Strong White and Claire Howard White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2512
Scope and content Included are manuscripts of 16 essays (ca.1886) written by Mr. White while an undergraduate at Cornell; extracts from lectures on paleontologyand geology given by Professor Henry Shaler Williams, 1886-87; Junior Prize for Oratory medal, 1887; two candlesticks inscribed "Second Prize, Land and Water Contest"; record book pertaining to the Salina and Central Square Plank Road Company of Syracuse, a railroad company of which White was a stockholder and officer, including minutes of Board of...
Dates: 1886-1963.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Andrew Strong White and Claire Howard White papers

Anna Elsbree papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1600
Abstract Includes genealogical correspondence, 1922-53; mimeographed Elsbree family letters and other papers; letters and other papers of Jabez and Lewis Beers relating to the New Jerusalem Church of Danby, 1815-74, and to the Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company, 1810-20; attendance records and other papers of the Tornado Hook and Ladder Company, No. 3, Ithaca, 1843-1928; notes and clippings on history of Ithaca and Tompkins County; commencement ball in New Haven; invitations; cemetery records from...
Dates: 1788-1953.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Anna Elsbree papers

Coe and Burnham families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4064
Scope and content Includes correspondence, primarily of Isaac Rutherford Coe (1828-1883), as a student at Cazenovia Seminary, as an employee of Lake Erie Female Seminary, and as an agent for the United States Army, with family members, including mother, Nancy Barker Coe (1802-1885), and sister Sarah Maria, later Mrs. William Rockwell Burnham, (1826-1902); other letters, mostly to Nancy Coe, from relatives and friends; photographs and daguerreotypes of Burnham family members and others; diaries of William...
Dates: 1822-1980.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Coe and Burnham families papers

Dalley family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918059]
Identifier: 1777
Scope and content

Letters and other items pertaining to the law practice of Francis Kernan Dalley in Ithaca, New York; pension claim papers of Henry Terry, a black Civil War veteran; family letters from Dalley's brothers, C.J. Dalley of Baldwinsville and E.M. Dalley of Geneva, New York; autograph book of Gretta M. Dalley, 1883; photographs, form letters, and bills.

Dates: 1883-1908.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dalley family papers

David A. Burr papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1333
Abstract

Diary of journey from Washington, DC, to Utah Territory in 1855 in which Burr describes the steamboat trip, life on the trail, the appearance of the land, Indians, and horse thieves. Letters written from Utah discussing details of the conflict between the Mormons and the U.S. government. Also included is an autograph album containing approximately 350 signatures.

Dates: 1848-1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / David A. Burr papers

Frank Ernest Gannett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1900
Abstract

Papers include correspondence, news releases, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, and pamphlets concerning FEG's youth, his student days at Cornell, editorial policies of the Gannett Newspapers and the establishment of the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation in 1935, temperance and liquor advertising, and newspaper and professional organizations in which FEG was active.

Dates: [ca. 1859]-1958.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frank Ernest Gannett papers

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke autograph book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230207]
Identifier: 37-5-228
Scope and content

Autographs of Cornell University students, faculty and lecturers.

Dates: 1869-1878.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frank Wigglesworth Clarke autograph book

George G. Heye autograph collection

 Collection — Huntington box 1 - folder 2
Identifier: 9063
Abstract

Collection of autographs of individuals associated with George Gustav Heye, Frederick W. Hodge, and Indians of North America.

Dates: 1886-1928.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George G. Heye autograph collection

Great composers and musicians collection

 Collection — Bound manuscript 1++: [Barcode: 31924083687057]
Identifier: 4674
Abstract Autographs, brief music manuscripts, and/or portraits of famous and lesser-known Western European and American composers and performers, including Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Busoni, Elgar, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Paderewski, Paganini, Rossini, Anton Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Schubert, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Toscanini, Verdi, Wagner, Weber, and Hugo Wolf. The bound volume includes autographs, manuscript...
Dates: 1780 - 1910
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Great composers and musicians collection

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