Summary Information

Title: William I. Myers papers,
Creator: William Irving, Myers 1891-1976.
Inclusive dates: 1892-1977.
83.3 cubic ft.

Abstract::

Papers include correspondence with Cornell Faculty and administrators, agricultural experts including the National Agricultural Advisory Commission, state and national politicians, state and federal agencies, and other universities concerning administrative matters, courses of study, budgets, and the building program at the New York State College of Agriculture, general agricultural programs and problems, and the aims and activities of national, state, and Tompkins County committees, commissions, and college and company boards on which he served; also included are Myers' student notebooks, 1910-1919; lecture notes and teaching materials, 1910-1934; financial records, 1915-1971; newspaper clippings in bound volumes, 1921-1959; scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1924-1966; diaries, 1931-1975; related reports, copies of Myers' addresses, minutes of meetings, and other printed material in bound volumes, 1921-1959; and an Oral History Interview (by Cornell Program in Oral History), 1964-1969. Also, a five volume set of survey records and analyses from his study of the use of farm tractors, 1920; and tabulation sheets on milk cow production, used for his Ph.D. thesis

Call number: 21-2-466
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library