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SONGS OF CORNELL, which includes football fight songs; and a letter from Frank's daughter, Evelyn Hibbard Stewart, reminiscing about the songbook. Also, campus photos and invitations, 1913-1916, of Frank Hibbard and Irma E. Powell Hibbard.

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Two letters to Nichols: from Liberty Hyde Bailey, May 17, 1904, and Theodore Stanton, April 21, 1915; three scrapbooks, including clippings, registration cards, programs, and announcements, especially concerning social and athletic events; NINETY-SEVEN STATISTICS BOOK belonging to Josephine Genung, Nichols' wife; manuscript and typescript speech read at Clas of 1892 10th Reunion; reunion photographs; songbook; and printed material relating to Nichols' student days at Cornell University.

Scope and content Valentine sent from Puerto Rico to Mary Geisler Phillips, circa 1898; valentine addressed "From H. to Mary," May 13, 1903, from Jamaica; and accompanying handmade heart-shaped arrangements of milkweed silk (?), lace, and dried flowers. Also, a child's writing notebook, containing exercises in copying out poems and spelling vocabulary words. Much of the notebook was later repurposed as a scrapbook for lyrics of sentimental popular songs, undated but probably from the turn of the 20th century,...

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Approximately 5,500 promotional and commemorative items in a variety of formats, including cartoons, prints, and posters; lapel buttons, ribbons, medals, textiles, hats, and other costume items; ballots, broadsides, leaflets, and other ephemera; pamphlets and other formal publications; sheet music and songbooks; scrapbooks; and three-dimensional items relating to United States presidential campaigns, as well as a small amount of material on candidates for other offices.

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Files relating to the Zonta club