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Letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell University Class of 1899 records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-4-497
Scope and content

Typewritten letters by alumni of the Class of 1899 in advance of the Class's 60th Reunion in 1959, describing their college experiences and their activities in the years since they graduated. Also includes a Howes and an Evans photograph of the Class Day, June 20, 1899, with graduates wearing regalia and including Theodore Roosevelt who was visiting that day, taken in front of the University Library.

Dates: 1899-1959.

David Williamson letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924131117131]
Identifier: 37-5-4620
Content Description

Collection contains letters written by Williamson to Barbara Henritze during his time at Cornell University, documenting his college experience.

Dates: 1973 - 1976

Harry Hoffman collection on the Cornell Class of 1883

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065186557]
Identifier: 41-4-70
Scope and content

Correspondence, programs, printed invitations, and dance cards for social events, most of them involving the Class of 1883 or members of Delta Upsilon fraternity. Correspondence of 1933 concerns the Class of 1883's 50th reunion.

Dates: 1880-1933.

Kellogg Logsdon World War I letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8122
Scope and content

Letters mainly written to his mother and sister describe Logsdon's experience preparing for war and the conditions upon arriving in France. He mentions living at the 15th century castle Countess d'Cadillac's Chateau, discusses transportation, food, the Spanish influenza, pay, stocks his family is invested in, and his fellow colleagues amongst other subjects. Also included are typed transcripts of the letters in physical and electronic format.

Dates: 1917-1919.

Krum family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 8647
Scope and content Krum Family material includes bibles, letters to Amelia A. Krum and Landon D. Krum, insurance policies and mortgages, newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents pertaining to the Krum family and Krum's Corners in Ulysses, Tompkins County, New York. The papers of Landon D. Krum and his daughter Amelia A. Krum are most prominently represented across the collection.Clippings and publications include newspaper articles from The Ithaca Journal...
Dates: 1837-1957

William T. Doty papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 751
Abstract

William T. Doty (1847-1936) was born in Sussex County, New Jersey. The William T. Doty papers (1842-1945, bulk 1864-1934) document William T. Doty’s career as a newspaper editor, journalist, agriculturist, historian, and politician. It contains manuscripts, notes and drafts, newspaper clippings, press releases, diaries, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera.

Dates: 1842 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1934