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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 1269 Collections and/or Records:

Portraits and pictures collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8415
Scope and content Portraits of significant European and American literary and historical figures, and pictures of various theatres in England, France, Germany, and the United States. Subjects include Otto von Bismarck, William Blake, Anne Boleyn, Daniel Boone, Joseph Brant, Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oliver Cromwell, astronomer Johannes Mayr (or Major; image dated 1610), President James Garfield, General James Oglethorpe (shown at the posthumous sale of Dr. Johnson's books in 1785), and many...
Dates: 1610-1900.

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)

Prentice Gray papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065487955]
Identifier: 4974
Scope and content

Photographs, negatives, and letters received by Gray concerning the Gray Africa Expedition to Kenya, and to Eastern and Western Africa, under the sponsorship of the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Dates: 1929-1930.

Prescott Winson and Daphne Showalter Townsend papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4232
Scope and content Student papers from Middletown High School and Cornell University; genealogical information; writings by Daphne and Prescott Townsend on historical subjects and personal reminiscences; correspondence, primarily personal; financial records including correspondence with stockbrokers; estate papers, including documents relating to the Townsends' role as benefactors of Cornell; certificates; Cornell student scrapbook, 1912-1916; family photograph album, Middletown, N.Y. (?), ca.1917; and...
Dates: [ca. 1869-1977]

Preserving the Past oral history project transcripts and tapes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-2-2934
Scope and content

Transcripts and audio tapes of interviews with members of the Classes of 1922-1941 and conducted by members of the Class of 1966 and 1997 at Cornell's annual reunions in 1996 and 1997. Also includes videotapes of interviews conducted in 2002-2003. Digital versions of some of these interviews as well as some additional interviews and transcripts are also included.

Dates: 1996-2003.

President's Council of Cornell Women records

 Collection — Box 5: [Barcode: 31924092811771]
Identifier: 41-9-3922
Abstract

Includes meeting minutes, bylaws, membership information, publicity photographs, DVDs, CDs and videotapes.

Dates: 1990-2015.

Press photographs of events in Bolivia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070572783]
Identifier: 8726
Content Description Press photographs of civil unrest, government takeovers, and the like in Bolivia, mainly in the city of La Paz. Most of the photos have captions glued to the back or the front margins. Events documented include the border dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay, December 1928; the overthrow of president Enrique Penaranda, December 1943; an uprising of Inca native people, August 1927; a general strike attended by riots, May 1950; riots in protest of a visit by Adlai Stevenson, President...
Dates: 1927 - 1961

Price family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4082
Abstract

Published and unpublished stories and articles by Edgar Price and genealogical material concerning the Price family. Correspondence from between family members. Typescript field notes by David Price on Nambiquara (Satones) Indian groups in Brazil. Notes, tape recordings, memos, published and unpublished reports used to prepare book about Nambicuara Indians of Brazil; and autobiographical writing by David Price.

Dates: 1881-1982.

Pro-Fac Cooperative records

 Collection
Identifier: 8431
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, publications, audiotapes, slides, videotapes and photographs, documenting the history of the cooperative.

Dates: 1960-2010.

Psi Upsilon, Chi chapter records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-4-2060
Scope and content

Five bound volumes of "Letters and Documents relating to the Psi Upsilon being chiefly the Correspondence of W. F." (Willard Fiske), 1875-1877. The letterbooks contain correspondence relating to the founding of the Chi, the Convention of 1876 and 1878 at the Xi, the song book of 1877 and catalog of 1878 amongst other Fiske correspondence.





Dates: 1875-1913.