Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1480
Size: 2 cubic ft. Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, receipts, insurance policies, photographs, school records, and miscellaneous papers.
Subject: Life Sciences
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, receipts, insurance policies, photographs, and miscellaneous papers of the Abell family of Cazenovia. Papers of Dr. William Abell, a general practitioner (d.1835), include diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and loose notes on medical cases, travel; the status of the medical profession in Louisiana and secret societies in Cazenovia. Other papers include school records, instructions from the Commissioners of Roads of Cazenovia and genealogical and other correspondence and papers.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1538
Size: 17.7 cubic feet
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Brother membership files contain information about each named Acacia fraternity member. Some of the materials include correspondence with the chapter or other brothers, essays written prior to initiation about expectations for the event, and announcements of birth, marriage, and death. Alumni dues notices are included. Some of the original folders were empty and in the case of the empty folders, a list of these additional Acacia members is provided after Series XI
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3205
Size: 15.1 cubic ft; 18 drawings. Correspondence, published and unpublished articles, press releases, illustrations, newspapers, pamphlets, clippings, posters, periodicals, drawings, paintings, lecture notes, essays, college memorabilia, photographs, creative writings, and other materials.
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Consists of papers of Bristow Adams, journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Various materials document his journalistic career, including early work with a paper in D.C.; his editorial responsibilities on Stanford University publications; and his work as publications program director for the College of Agriculture at Cornell. From his student years are sketches of fur seals; college memorabilia; and many letters to his mother. Also, photographs from work for the US Forest Service; photographs of the Cornell track team; Cornell student publications; and creative writings. Also, various materials chronicling his life, including his acting mayor of Ithaca. This collection also contains papers of Adams' father, primarily concerning his Civil War service
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1255
Size: 65.8 cubic ft. Audio Recordings, Correspondence, Movie Film, Photographs, Publications, Research Materials
Subject: Ornithology
Subject: Photographic Collections
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers consist largely of professional correspondence, his notes as a student, course and departmental files, field notes and bird observation charts, manuscripts of his articles and books, unpublished papers and reprints by other ornithologists, tape recordings, phonograph records and recordmasters, slides, glass plate negatives, half-tone printing blocks, lantern slides, photographs and films; topics documented include bird-banding, bird identification, slide and record sales, advice to prospective and former graduate students, lecture engagements and tours, professional meetings of organizations such as the American Ornithologists' Union and the American Game Association (American Game Protective and Propogation Association), his expeditions to Panama, Hudson Bay, Labrador, Mexico and Alaska, wildlife conservation and game management, his friendship with Louis Agassiz Fuertes, his fifteen-year study of the raising of the ruffed grouse in captivity, his study of the ivory-billed woodpecker, and the acquisition, design, building, and operation of the Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University. Also included are personal papers, primarily correspondence with Elsa Guerdrum, whom he married in 1913, as well as correspondence with other family members, and genealogical tables of the Allen family
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4007
Size: 83.2 cubic ft. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, bylaws, policy statements, contracts, proposals, bills and receipts, publications, drafts, articles, reviews, surveys, and other materials.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Primarily files of American Institute of Planners executive offices, departments, and committees, this collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, bylaws, policy statements, contracts, proposals, bills and receipts, publications by AIP and other organizations, drafts, articles, reviews, surveys, and other materials relating to the activities of AIP and its local chapters. Subjects represented include educational and career opportunites for women and minorities in planning; grants and fellowships; continuing education; planning awards; AIP annual meetings; AIP conferences (including talks as well as files); AIP's 50th anniversary; AIP membership standards, registration, and role in the planning profession; certification of educational institutions offering degrees in planning; professional development; professional ethics; housing; regional planning; environmental issues; and related topics
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1724
Size: ca. 35 cubic ft Journals, trial balances, ledgers, inventories, account books, and catalogs.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Journals, trial balances, ledgers, inventories, cashbooks, daybooks, and other account books of the Arnold Lumber Company at Poughkeepsie; catalogs of furniture, lumber, and building supplies; also accounts pertaining to the Howard Hose Company, 1846; S.B. Rickard Boots and Shoes, 1864-67; Frost and West Furniture, 1850; and other Poughkeepsie firms
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3634
Size: 103 cubic ft. Correspondence, subject files, constituent bills, reports, case files, estates, wills, and income tax files.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, subject files, constituent bills, reports and case files of Raymond Ashbery from his tenure as New York State Assemblyman. Also, correspondence, case files, estates, wills, and income tax files from Ashberry's private law practice in Trumansburg, N.Y.
Abstract: Records of AGEC include articles of incorporation; contract agreements between AGEC and its subsidiaries and banks regarding corporate stock, bonds, and debentures, mergers, real estate and facilities transactions, and electricity distribution; annual financial reports to securities holders; Federal Trade Commission accounting reports; 211 volumes of stock and bond ownership certificates; AGEC audits, 1906-1939; indentures; Board of Directors and Executive Committee minute books of operating companies, service companies, holding companies, and trusts; 88 volumes of scrapbooks, including letters, circulars, sales brochures, clippings, and reports; U.S. District Court records of litigation concerning the reorganization of AGEC, including testimony, proceedings, judges' opinions and rulings, and reports of court-appointed trustees, 1930s; histories of AGEC and its associated properties, and biographical information on Howard C. Hopson; lists of companies and mergers, 1919-1933; Securities and Exchange Commission legal forms and hearings, 1941-1944; copies of and AGEC company magazine, 1927-1938; and related records. Also included are journals, ledgers, cashbooks, payroll vouchers, stock certificate books, and other items concerning Howard C. Hopson's business interests, including trusts, service companies, and investment and management firms; also, records concerning the Rural Electrification Administration. Includes Manila Electric Company records on microfilm
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3601
Size: 14.5 cubic ft. Correspondence, photographs, diaries, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, articles, a typescript, and sketchbooks.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes research material on Elizabeth Baker Wells' biography of Albert W. Force and other material relating to Cornell history, as well as papers of the Baker and Wells families.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6090
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Three record books (1825-1839, 1839-1858, 1853-1874) which record regular covenant, special and annual meeting minutes and lists of members, male and female. The church had several revivals and passed resolutions against secret societies and for open seating.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6095
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of annual meeting minutes (1854-1924) containing a subscription list (1874); a volume of membership records showing attendance (1866-1886) and a register of baptisms and members and covenant meeting minutes (1855-1890).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6009
Size: 1 reel microfilm, 1 folder. Microfilm, record book.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume record book (1830-1843) containing the church covenant, a list of members (1831) and covenant, minutes, extracts from church records (1843-1865) prepared by Virginia Moscrip (June 1966), a list of those buried at the Old Village Cemetery in Clyde prepared by Mrs. H.T. Jeffry
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6074
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Covenant and annual meeting minutes interspersed with membership records. Subjects discussed include revivals, the appointment of pastors, and church discipline.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6073
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes conference, covenant, and special meeting minutes which record church membership, discipline, elections, appointments and finances.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6075
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Membership lists for male and female members (1860, 1866); church covenant and special meeting minutes (1848-1872) which deal with discipline and the appointment of pastors.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1859
Size: .3 cubic ft. Account books, correspondence, deeds, a justice dockett, trade cards, and other papers.
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers of the Charles H. Barry family of Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York, include family, store, and blacksmith account books, 1806-79; a few personal letters and deeds; justice dockett, 1841-63; report on the condition of the Troy Turnpike, ca.1867; trade cards; and miscellaneous papers.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0790
Size: 1.6 cubic ft. Correspondance, printed material, typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets.
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the background and passage of a state bill (1920) appropriating $10,000 to the College of Agriculture for Indian extension work and to the early progress of this work; correspondence and printed, mimeographed, and typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets pertaining to the Cornell Indian Boards, Six Nations' Agricultural Society, Indian Farmers' Schools.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0721m
Size: 1 item. Printed Materials
Subject: College of Human Ecology
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Recollections (13 pp. typescript) based on
dictation that Cornelius Betten, dean of the Cornell University faculty
(1932-45), gave to Mrs. Argetsinger while she was his secretary or on
statements that he made following their marriage
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1892
Size: 1.3 cubic
ft Manuscripts, Publications
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes records from Cornell University on
academic and administrative staff, library planning and services, and other
topics; and agenda, minutes, personnel records, and other records of the South
Central Research Library Council, of which Bitner was a director
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1622
Size: 8.3 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters concerning the appointment of the original faculty of the Cornell Law School. Correspondents include Henry Williams Sage, Charles Kendall Adams, Charles Avery Collin, Francis Miles Finch, Harry Burns Hutchins, Robert Henry Thurston, Daniel L. Follett, Lucien A. Wait, Herbert Tuttle, Arthur M. Curtis, Alfred C. Coxe, and H. J. Heath. Also, an Introductory lecture by Boardman, 1890
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4752
Size: 1.3 cubic
feet Correspondence, Memorabilia, Printed
Material
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes records pertaining to various track
and cross-country skiing races and events, including meet results, workout
schedules and memorabilia
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6037
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Cash book (1860-1864); a ledger of monthly accounts (1861-1863); and a monthly transaction and account book (1854-1858), the latter covering the years surrounding the bank's incorporation in 1856 in Wayne County.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0381
Size: .3 cubic ft.; 4 v. Deeds, bonds, accounts, lists, scrapbooks, letters, and other papers.
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Abstract: Deeds, bonds, accounts, lists, scrapbooks, and letters pertaining to the Irvine family and Albany, Rensselaer and Washington Counties, New York. Deeds from Alexander and Cadwallader Colden. Also, papers pertaining to the Lourie family, of Washington County, including lists from "The Old Town" book (1773-1816) including slave owners, school districts, fire wardens, and town meetings of Albany County. Scrapbooks of John S. Crocker, Warden of the United States Jail in Washington, D. C., relating to President Garfield, Guiteau, the Jail, Washington, D. C. and other topics; letters from Crocker to his wife from Albany, Rikers Island, Libby Prison, Salisbury Prison, and from his stations with McClellan's and Burnside's armies, describing in detail the problems of his commands, his capture, a number of campaigns, and the Battle of Fredericksburg
Abstract: The collection contains galley proofs including original drawings for publications, photographs, subject files, course files, correspondence, notebooks, field books, and metal-etched blocks used in illustrations used in publications.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2371
Size: 4.2 cubic ft. Legal Documents, Correspondence, Photographs, Financial Records.
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Photographic Collections
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Discharge and other papers of James Hann Campbell of the 50th Pennsylvania Volunteers; deeds for land in Fox Township, Sullivan Co., Pennsylvania, 1866-1912; historical data on Shunk and Clairton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, by H. E. Campbell; family letters, 1904-09; photographs of Campbell, Ferguson, Hoagland, and Wilcox families in Allegheny, Bradford, and Sullivan Counties in Pennsylvania, and Delaware and Yates Counties in New York; copies of surrogate's records and documents, 1790, on estates of Anthony McMillen, a sea captain, and his wife. Also, a family album and many loose photographs mostly of family, some of lumbering at Shunk; clippings, pamphlets, and over 1000 postcards.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0696
Size: 7.2 cubic ft.; 9 v. Correspondence; accounts; contracts; leases; surveys; bonds; deeds; receipts; other land, legal, and business papers; political broadsides; pamphlets; editorials; handbills; and speeches.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers pertaining to the early history of Jefferson County, New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1152
Size: .1 cubic ft. Catalogues, a prospectus, a yearbook, and pictures.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Catalogues (1887, 1893-1894, 1896-1897, 1923-1924, 1924-1925, 1931-1932), prospectus and yearbook (ca. 1900), and pictures of the school (ca. 1900).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3240
Size: 40.3 cubic ft. Correspondence, Financial Records, Publication
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes document files, financial materials, evaluation materials, committee minutes, proposals for funding from health programs and projects, project files, librarian files, historical files and grant applications of the Central New York Regional Medical Program
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6050
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes containing copies of the constitution and lists of baptisms, communicants, confirmations and deaths for their respective periods (1813-1832, 1835-1852). Volume 3 contains miscellaneous trustee records including minutes (1847-1941), subscription lists, treasurer's reports, and a copy of the church's constitution. Item 4 is a group of loose papers including a deed (1837), correspondence (1898), lists of furniture and two copies of the "Every Member Canvas". The volumes are in German and English with English used exclusively after 1863.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6077
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Register containing parishioners, baptisms, confirmations, mariages, communicants, burials and church offerings. Also included is a certificate of incorporation (1841).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6057
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume (1854-1920) of church records which contain minutes of Quarterly Fellowship and Annual Meetings; accounts of church services (including marriages and funerals), and socials; and annual reports to the conference which include membership and financial information. Of note is the number of women who preached to the congregation.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3430
Size: 2 cubic ft. Memorabilia, Photographs
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Photograph albums documenting reunions of the Class of 1935; slides of class activities, 1976-1981; and movie films. Also records relating to Reunions and to the Class of 1935 Walk.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6088
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: The journal records the travels and work of William Colbert as a Methodist circuit rider with lengthy and detailed descriptions of towns and settlements visited, texts delivered in sermons, travel and weather conditions, Colbert's health, opinions regarding the progress of Methodism in New York, conferences and general meetings attended, and reflections on his own spiritual progress as a Methodist minister, size and spiritual condition of classes and congregations visited and baptisms, marriages and funerals attended or served.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0698
Size: 2.8 cubic ft. Correspondence, diaries, indentures, poems, genealogies, photo album, letterbook, notebook, and scrapbooks.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries (1912-36), indentures, poems, genealogies, photo album, and other materials on the early and contemporary history of Salem, Washington County, New York, including papers relating to the raising of regiments for the Revolutionary War and compensation for the same; a general history of Washington Academy; a Salem letterbook (1794-1882); a notebook of outlines of theological studies kept by Henry M. Davis; two scrapbooks of Albany clippings; and diaries and correspondence of Harry Cole
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0608
Size: .8 cubic ft. Survey records, field books, survey maps, and deeds.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Survey records, field books, survey maps, and deeds pertaining to the Constable Purchase, under the direction of Benjamin Wright; deeds for Constable and Alexander Macomb in Jefferson, St. Lawrence, and Franklin Counties, New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6030
Size: 7 items. Letters.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Contains letters sent or received by members of the Chester Cook family. Topics include sin and temptation, a request for a loan, a cabin, information about the village of Orleans (N.Y.), a lyceum meeting, a baptism, views on marriage and recipes, a wedding and local and family news. Correspondents include Sally Wicks, J.W. Sheriff, Samuel Sheriff, William Cook, Sarah Cook, Chester Cook, Caroline Cook, M.J. Edgerton and Elisabeth Paris.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0773
Size: 6 cubic ft. Correspondence and manuscripts.
Subject: Ezra Cornell
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters and manuscripts of recollections and memorials concerning Ezra Cornell, solicited by his son, Alonzo B. Cornell, via form letters dated November 30 and December 9, 1887.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1058
Size: 17 cubic ft Correspondence, Financial Records, Report
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, membership records, minutes, scholarship information, reports, plans, dues and financial information, and other records of various Cornell Clubs (Women's and Men's). Also, invitations, programs, videotapes, and DVDs from the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Awards (FHTR), 2001-2011. Also large felt banner with Cornell Alumni Federation name and logo used at board meetings and at the Rhodes Award Dinner
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0950
Size: 183 phonograph
albums Audio Recordings
Subject: College of Human Ecology
Subject: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Social Sciences
Abstract: 183 twelve and sixteen inch records of
speeches, interviews, and informal talks by such figures in the field of
agriculture and related professions
Abstract: Reports, legal documents, memos, articles, leaflets, posters, publications, and other items, all relating to the movement for Cornell divestment in South Africa.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3624
Size: .9 cubic ft. Audio Recordings, Research Materials, Scrapbooks
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes a scrapbook of Cornell's radio station, WESG (operated within the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), and oversize LPs of specific programs concerning farming.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3351
Size: 62 boxes Printed Materials, Publications, Reports, Research Materials,Correspondenc
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, proposals, budget material, photographs, Project Ezra and Project Mandarin records, John Rudan's files and other records that document the history of computing at Cornell University
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3582
Size: 48.5 cubic feet Audio Recordings, Correspondence, Photographs, Printed Material
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes correspondence, reports, research studies, publicity, slides, tapes, 40 oral histories (conducted by Neil Schwartzbach of the Community and Rural Development Institute), and subject files documenting the Cornell campus migrant program and other farmworker-oriented organizations, not generally available from other sources
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3120
Size: 21 cubic ft. Movie Film
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Sports
Abstract: Films, video cassettes, and video reels of Cornell basketball games. Includes games with Air Force, Bowling Green, Broome Tech, Brown, Bucknell, Canisius, Carlton, Cleveland State, Clemson, Colgate, Columbia, Dartmouth, Fordham, Harvard, Hofstra, Manhattanville, Niagara, the University of Northern Iowa, Northeastern, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, the University of Pennsylvania, Portugal, Princeton, Rensselaer Polytech, Robert Morris, Rochester, St. Bonaventure, St. Joseph's, Syracuse, Utica, Vermont, and Yale. Includes films of basketball tournaments.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0956
Size: 12 cubic ft. Maps/Charts, Research Materials
Subject: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Land survey maps drawn by Cornell Civil Engineering students during summer surveying camps at various locations in New York State, including Cayuga, Cayuta, Canandaigua, Keuka, Owasco, and Skaneateles Lakes; an index showing the location of the camp each year; surveyor's field book, 1934; diary of the Cayuga Lake Survey kept by successive groups of students, 1874-1879; and a "Camp Cascadilla" kitchen inventory, 1908.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1573
Size: 14.2 cubic ft.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: History department correspondence, memoranda, catalogs, inventories, reports, and minutes; financial records including payrolls, accounts, budgets, invoices, and vouchers; materials pertaining to the department's move from Boardman to West Sibley Hall, and later to McGraw Hall; student records including correspondence, gradebooks, course evaluations, draft deferment requests, applications, and other materials pertaining to study abroad, curriculum, fellowships, scholarships, assistantships, the Admissions Advisory Committee, advanced placement, honors program, prizes, quotas, and graduate study; Summer Session; teaching applications and faculty appointments; department chairman's records of L. Pearce Williams, Paul W. Gates, and others; personnel files; items regarding the Messenger Lecture Series; and related materials.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0705
Size: 29 cubic ft. Correspondence, accession volumes, fund books, and a catalog.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the Acquisitions Dept. include correspondence of Felix Reichmann and Arthur Sweet; miscellaneous correspondence; general correspondence and fund books (1898-1948); accession volumes (1874-1948); Chemistry Library accession books (7 vols., 1927-1962); Latin Seminary accession book, (1892-1914); catalog of the Franz Bopp collection; correspondence with vendors, 1985-1986.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1598ARP
Size: 12 Printed Materials,
Publication
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Architecture and Planning
Subject: Regional History
Subject: College of Veterinary Medicine
Abstract: Catch all collection of various booklets,
brochures, and other publications produced by Cornell University. Includes
items from different colleges, departments and organizations from across the
University
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1948
Size:Memorabili
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: East Asia
Subject: Europe
Subject: Ezra Cornell
Subject: Visual Arts
Subject: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Sports
Abstract: Includes two Cornell plaques, one ca.1907, depicting Ezra
Cornell; a red cap bearing a "C" with the initials "UFBT"; an original Uris Library
Reading Room chair; a rubber mold for the Cornell Seal; and a bronze medallion
bearing a likeness of Ezra Cornell. A set of twelve rose-colored Wedgwood plates
depicting Cornell University buildings; scenes depicted are McGraw Tower (Library
Tower), Willard Straight Hall, the War Memorial, Baker Laboratory of Chemistry, Sage
Chapel, McGraw Hall, the Schoellkopf Crescent, Ezra Cornell Statue, Balch Hall,
Myron Taylor Hall, Goldwin Smith Hall and Sibley Dome. A Class of 1958 cloth badge;
a Class of 1921 scarf; five caps, two from the Class of 1929, one from the Class of
1921, one from the Class of 1923, one undated; straw hat from the Class of 1934;
nine reunion jackets, three from the Class of 1929, two from the Class of 1921, and
one each from the Classes of 1916, 1923, 1925 (red, white and blue), and 1927; one
polo shirt from 1923; a Cornell spoon; four Cornell service pins, ca. 1955-1970; two
mugs from 1912; a 14" Cornell pencil; a 3"x4" "Cornell Library Club" printing plate;
a cigarette case belonging to Ralph Gordon; a trowel wielded by President Edmund
Ezra Day June 22 1946 on the Day Hall cornerstone
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0015
Size: ca. 200 cubic ft. ; 2265 tape
recordings Photographs, Printed material
Subject: Photographic Collections
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes correspondence, news press releases, notes,
publicity material, newspaper clippings, distribution lists, administrative files,
photographs, biographies, and other records of events at Cornell
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0884
Size: 13.9 cubic ft. Minutes, reports, financial and other records, videocassettes, films, slides, photographs, and other material.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Minutes, reports, financial records, fund raising records, reunion records, and other records of the Cornell Alumni Corporation, Associate Alumni, Cornell Alumni News, Alumni Trustees, Committee on Cornell Alumni Trustee Nominations (1968-1990), Alumni Holidays, Inc., Cornell University Alumni Association, and the Office of Alumni Affairs. Includes videocassettes of fund raising projects, movie films, slides, photographs of alumni affairs, and other material. Also, responses to the Presidential Search Committee's request of alumni and Cornell friends for advice and nominations on the presidential successor to Frank Rhodes.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0876
Size: .2 cubic ft. Correspondence, annual reports, and printed material.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Collection includes a summary of both undergraduate and graduate annual degree awards from the first commencement in 1869 to 1966 and annual fall enrollment statistics (1868-1968) compiled by Registrar Herbert H. Williams; correspondence (1963-64) between Williams, Cornell President James A. Perkins, and Elwood Hunter of Josten's-E.A. Wright Company of Philadelphia, diploma suppliers, concerning planning and preparation of the new form of diploma, 1963-64, Williams' report (1963) to the Ad Hoc Diploma Revision Committee, and twelve sample diplomas; a letter and postcard from David F. Hoy, 1919; and annual reports of the registrar (1962-68).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1555
Size: 23 cubic ft., Correspondence, minutes, reports, rosters, legislation, tape recordings, and other records.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, rosters, and legislation of the Senate; correspondence of the speaker of the Senate; correspondence, minutes, reports, and legislation of the Campus Life Committee, the Executive Committee, and other Senate committees; file concerning the establishment of the Senate; tape recordings of sessions of the Senate and of the Executive Committee; and records of the Senate's predecessor organization, the Constituent Assembly.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0365
Size: 69.2 cubic ft. Financial materials and correspondence.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Financial records of various University departments, and correspondence with students, faculty, and staff; includes correspondence relating to student loans.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2750
Size: 5.5 cubic ft., Minutes, financial records, correspondence, audiotape, transcript, microfilm, and other materials.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Minutes of annual meetings, committee files and financial records, correspondence, membership lists of the Council of School Superintendents. Also, tape and transcript of round table discussion conducted by Sam Bishop, January 17, 1967; and one reel of negative microfilm of Enna Smith Burdick's "Edward Smith, Syracuse Schoolmaster," M.S. thesis, 1940, Syracuse University.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2614
Size: 456.3 linear ft.; 27 v.; 1 film. Correspondence, Financial Records, Publications, Research Materials
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the Dairymen's League and predecessor companies in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania include general ledgers; journal entries, records of the Accounting, Cost, Sales, Pooling, Traffic, Health Education, and Home Service Departments; library files and correspondence; membership files; miscellaneous crop and market reports, 1930-1940; transcripts of hearing before the New York State Public Service Commission and the Federal Trade Commission; annual reports of the Legal and Traffic Departments; reports on milk distribution; files of Seward A. Miller, attorney for the League; and extensive correspondence, briefs, reports, and other papers pertaining to League relations with various United States and New York State agencies, cooperatives, employees, and other groups. Special topics include relations with local milk plants, the drought of the 1930s, establishment of milk price support system, campaign against oleomargarine, left wing and labor union influence in the New York milkshed region in the early 1942s, and Teamsters' Union activity among dairy farmers, 1958. Additional records include executive files of correspondence, reports, minutes, sales information, production figures, promotional materials, budgets, copies of bills affecting the milk industry, and speeches by League officials. There are also orders issued by milk control boards in northeastern states and photographs of League officials and other groups
Abstract: Correspondence, accounts, deeds, mortgages, tax statements, wills, bonds, stock certificates, bills, receipts, business and legal papers, maps, photographs, and movie films of the Davenport family of Angelica, Allegany County, New York and Bath, Steuben County, and of related Cameron, Waterman, French, and other families. Featured most prominently are Charles and Ira Davenport, and their agent, J. W. Waterman. The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates. Includes papers of the Davenport Home for Girls (also known as the Davenport Home for Female Orphan Children), Bath, New York, and the Bath Presbyterian Church
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1173
Size: 41.2 cubic ft; 29 v.; 2 reels movie film; 3 oversize folders. Correspondence, accounts, deeds, mortgages, tax statements, wills, bonds, stock certificates, bills, receipts, business and legal papers, maps, photographs, and movie films.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3204
Size: 24 cubic ft. Research Materials
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Annual reports, correspondence, budgets, course lectures, syllabi, labs, exams, and problem sets of the Dept. of Biometrics, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2535
Size: 4.5 cubic ft. {comma separted list of material formats; end with period.}
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Historical material relating to the Chemistry Dept. includes photographs (including prints, and glass and film slides), memorabilia, correspondence, tape recordings, programs, and announcements.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2926
Size: 20.4 cubic ft. Correspondence, Manuscripts, Printed Materials
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, committee minutes, President's Fund files, program
files, subject files, and other records relating to student and academic services and
academic programs, including material from the Academic Affairs and Campus Life
Committee
Abstract: Collection consists of project files, correspondence,
meeting notes, architectural drawings, specifications, photographs, photographic
negatives, and slides related to Downing's architectural practice
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1600
Size: 4.5 cubic ft. Correspondence, an autograph album, an account book, a recipe book, a photograph album, photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, and other materials.
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Regional History
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 Tompkins County; autograph album, account and recipe book, and photograph album of Llewellyn Elsbree; many family and other photographs; broadsides and pamphlets; and much miscellaneous material on local history and genealogy
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1461
Size: 1.3 cubic ft Correspondence, Research Material
Subject: Entomology
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the department; includes subject files, correspondence, and other material; also includes mss. and notes by George C. Embody, 1909, 1930-ca. 1945; and mss. by C. McC. Mottley, ca. 1940 on fisheries research
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0659
Size: 2.2 cubic ft.
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes abstracts of titles, agreements of sale and articles of trust, copies of the deeds and the contract schedules used to transfer title, detailed maps of townships where the transfers took place, resolutions by officers of the company, powers of attorney to company agents, schedules of land and of mortgage foreclosures, bills of cost, accounts of cattle received in payments on mortgages, and other material relating to the business. Also, accounts for the Batavia and Buffalo Land Offices, land tables for the Batavia Land Office, and other material pertaining to Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, New York. Microfilm covers correspondence of the presidents of the company; correspondents include Horatio Seymour, Erastus Corning, James S. Wadsworth, August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and many others.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6023
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Minute book of the Farmington Temperance Society (1833-1844); and the New Salem Branch of the Society (1870-1876); military roll of the town (1831); miscellaneous letters, and the farm and household account book of George S. Allen (1845-1874)
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6036
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ovid, N.Y. including histories of the church written in 1868, 1877, 1878 and 1880; lists of probationers, class members, members, pastors, baptisms, marriages and other church statistics; and a secretary's book of the church's Christian Endeavor Society. Records of the First Presbyterian Church of Ovid including session meeting minutes (1810-1832, 1832-1864); lists of members, baptisms, marriages, and deaths; and trustee records (1849-1897). Also records of the Federated Church in Ovid, formed in 1956 containing trustee records (1956-1965) and membership information.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1547
Size: .8 cubic ft. Correspondence, a diary, photographs, other papers, and assorted memorabilia.
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence of William R. Field, Pittstown, New York, and Mary Hyde (Field) of New York; diary of Mary Hyde; letter from James A. Garfield, Ohio, to Mary Maxon Hyde Field, acknowledging her recent letter and recalling his graduation from Williams College; autographed photograph of Garfield (1880); F.W. Field's notes on his family's acquaintance with President Garfield and on the Hyde and Field genealogies; daguerreotype (ca. 1860) of Mrs. William Field holding her infant daughter, Addie Hyde Field (later Mrs. Blinn); tintypes of Mary and William Hyde; and letter and sketch by A.B. Frost to Miss Blinn.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0433
Size: 6.8 cubic ft. Correspondence, legal documents, certificates, manuscripts, account book
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Legal and business documents and correspondence of Walbridge and Finch, Boardman and Finch, and Francis M. Finch; also, correspondence and accounts of the Finch family, including letters from Daniel Coit Gilman, Chauncey M. Depew, Hiram S. Sage, and others dealing with legal, personal, literary, and educational subjects. Trial testimony, instructions to the jury, and other material pertaining to the Edward H. Rulloff murder case. Also, gold Venetian ceremonial cufflink-coins presented to Finch by Andrew Dickson White; poetry, material pertaining to Cornell University Library, and diplomas. Francis M. Finch's handwritten dedication of the Ezra Cornell Library in downtown Ithaca, December 20, 1866, and his presentation of Jennie McGraw's chimes to the University on October 7, 1868. Songs, poems, and photographs
Abstract: Board meeting minutes, race results, photographs, and T-shirts from various local races, including
the Finger Lakes Marathon and Ithaca 5 & 10
Abstract: Includes correspondence, scrapbooks, and awards documenting Francille Firebaugh's career and records pertaining to her role on the Board of Trustees of Zamorano University in Honduras
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6078
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Church covenant, articles of faith, minutes of the council called upon to constitute the church, covenant, and annual meeting minutes (1842-1896) and membership lists.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6038
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Contains one volume of covenant meeting minutes recording cases of church discipline, subscribtion policy, anti-Masonry, temperance, heresy and the mission controversy, with a membership list in the back.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6003
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes records of the Baptist Society (1826-1830); records of the Board of Trustees of the first Baptist Society; constitution of the Social Aid Society (1855-1864); minutes of the Ontario Baptist Ministerial Conference (1852-1877); and the records of the Baptist Church (1826-1890).
Abstract: Materials from the Board of Trustees, boards of deacons and deaconesses, and church meetings; lists of members, baptisms, and funerals; records of women's and youth organizations; Sunday School materials; letters from donors to the church building fund. Tape recordings of services; plans for remodelling the church; records of the Danby Baptist Church and the First Baptist Church of Christ of Ithaca
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6062
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: This volume is divided among those of a church set off from Romulus in 1804 (1804-1821), the First Baptist Church in Lodi (1821-1900) and later when the church called itself the First Baptist Church of Valois (1900-1924). It contains covenant meeting minutes (1812-1821) and annual trustee meeting minutes (1830-1924).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6063
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes of quarterly church covenant and special meeting minutes (1804-1846, 1848-1893); one volume of trustee's minutes (1824-1893) which also contains treasurer's reports (1896-1904) and membership records; and meeting minutes and membership and dues lists for the church's Female Benevolent Society. Church discipline, revivals, anti-masonry, anti-slaveryand missionary activity figure prominently as subjects.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6021
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Minutes of the Twenty-seventh anniversary of the Wayne Baptist Association (1861) and minutes of church meetings, a history of the Marion Baptist Church, and a treasury report of Wayne County Baptist churches. Also Lockville Baptist Society (later called the Baptist Church of Arcadia) records (1835-1855), minutes (1835-1847) of church meetings and annual meetings (1847-1917).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6033
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Minutes of monthly covenant meetings, yearly election of trustees, and quarterly financial meetings (1835-1865), discussing church discipline, revival seasons, and church finances, including the construction of a new church.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6034
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Contains eight transcribed items arranged in chronological order including: two sets of church meeting minutes (1818-1846, 1847-1873); one set of covenant meeting minutes (1873-1898) and five membership lists (1826-1849, 1849-1880, 1861-1898, 1874-1888 and 1895).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6006
Size: 2 reels microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Articles of faith, church covenant and minutes of regular and special church meetings, dealing with church finances, abolition, temperance, and religious discipline. Also three unrelated items: a sermon entitled "The hard-shell Baptists" (n.d.) satirizing that type of group; "The Baptist church manual" (1853); and "The Sunday School receiving book" (1838-1850) which lists pupils, dates of entry, parents' names, occupations and characters, residences, classes and remarks
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6039
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Contains one volume of trustees' annual meeting minutes (1848-1892) and two volumes of covenant meeting minutes (1845-1891) containing accounts of church discipline.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6035
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Three volumes of records (1826-1878) include minutes of church covenant meetings, membership lists, church covenants and articles of faith. Minutes include discussions of church policy regarding Masonry and slavery, a vote to hold protracted meetings, a decision that male members should have closed prayer meetings, and documentation of the trial of the church pastor.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6055
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes of church meeting minutes which include Articles of Faith, Church covenant, disciplinary cases, founding of a Sabbath school, temperance resolutions, membership lists, baptismal records, church rules, and a decision to discontinue affiliation with the Ithaca Presbytery.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6064
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of annual meeting minutes (1808-1829, 1844-1946) and one volume of session minutes (1830-1844) and which include membership lists for this church its predecessor.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6085
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume congregation meeting minutes (1829-1898) dealing with membership and discipline, a pew rent and pledge book (1860-1873), the Church Manual (1869) and Sunday School Records (1820-1824).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6011
Size: 2 reels microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Minutes of annual meetings of male members of the church to elect trustees (1843-1927), a subscription list (1875), and a valuation of church property (1875).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6026
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the Port Gibson Charge (which included East Palmyra until 1853) including: minutes of stewards and leaders meetings (1841-1853, 1853-1865); trustees' account books (1834-1901); church register (1844-1868) and misccellaneous sheets. Also include financial records, membership lists, and meeting minutes.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6046
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two registers (1852-1874) which list baptisms, marriages, members, subscribers to periodicals, class leaders, preachers and probationers. A third volume contains trustee minutes (1850-1851, 1858-1861, 1890-1900) reporting on elections and repairs to church property.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6066
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two church registers (1841-1851, 1854-1866); two volumes Sabbath School Meeting Minutes (1846-1870, 1860-1904); one volume of Quarterly Conference Meeting minutes (1862-1881) for Trumansburg and one volume for the Ulysses Circuit (1831-1845) and one volume fo church meeting minutes (1860-1904) which also contain accounts for constructing a building.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6041
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Contains a volume of trustee records (1843-1872) which include monthly meeting minutes and financial records, and a membership register which lists members, probationers, marriages and baptisms.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6043
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Trustee book (1856-1889) which includes the election of trustees, board president and clerk, the hiring of the church sexton, and notes on church finance and maintenance.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6098
Size: 2 reels microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of annual meeting minutes (1799-1870); three volumes of session minutes (1809-1825, 1825-1840, 1840-1865) dealing heavily with discipline and pew rent and documenting increase in membership; one volume of treasurer's records (1826-1848) indexed to names; and a register of members, baptisms and marriages (1809-1946).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6081
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes (1834-1845, 1847-897) session meeting minutes, which deal predominately with discipline, temperance and administrative issues and one volume of trustee's records (1843-1915)
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6022
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes (1817-34 and 1834-1900) containing session minutes and some membership information. Revivals, temperance, and church discipline are issues.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6019
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records consist of two volumes of church records (1840-1896, 1838-1875) containing annual meeting minutes, minutes of special and session meetings, the Church Covenant and Confession of Faith. A third volume (1875-1895) is a register with lists of elders, deacons, pastors, communicants, baptisms, marriages and deaths.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6017
Size: 3 reels microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Fourteen volumes including one volume account book (1810-1811), records of the Geneva Examining Committee of the Western Executive Society of the Presbyterian Education Society (1832-1840); four volumes of minutes of session (1808-1865); two volumes of church members (1852-1854); a list of baptisms (1827-1851); receipts and expenses including those pertaining to the construction of the church (1813-1845); two volumes of memorabilia (1798-1877) and records of the First Congregational Church of Geneva (1845-1853).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6083
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Three volumes session meeting minutes (1829-1883) which include membership lists; one volume of trustee and annual meeting minutes (1829-1888); a subscription book (1841-1858) and a list (1853) and miscellaneous receipts, a program and a schedule.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4045
Size: 44.9 cubic ft. Publications, Reports, Movie Film
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Subjects include annual reports; births; baptisms; marriages; deaths; buildings and grounds; church finances, governance, history, library, manuals, membership, organizations, and publications; missionary work; pastors; special events; Sunday school; youth programs; Bibles; prayerbooks; music and hymnals; blueprints and maps; and other records of the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6008
Size: 1 folder. Photocopies.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Photocopy of the first record book of the church which contains membership information, session meeting minutes, the church covenant, and Articles of Faith.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6068
Size: 2 reels microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of covenant meeting minutes (1819-1894); one volume of annual meeting to elect trustees minutes (1825-1899); issues of the American Baptist Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer (Volume IV, no. 5; Volume III, no. 4); and minutes of the twentieth-seventh annual meeting of the Seneca Baptist Association (1848). Covenant meeting minutes document a split in 1828, accounts of revivals, church discipline and doctrine.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6020
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Mainly class leader records (1835-1869) including a decisions on when to hold a Love Feast and a discussion about an anti-slavery convention to be held in Rochester. Also records of the Quarterly Conference Meetings (April 1837-October 1899). Also included is a membership register (1836-1854).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6049
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Seven numbered volumes containing trustee meeting minutes (1843-1871, 1880-1913), proceedings of the church's monthly business meetings (1858- 1870), clerk's records (1874-1880) and several miscellaneous papers including receipts, certificates of dismission, and a subscription list. The records document the church's 1869 split, church discipline, finances, and reactions to the Women's Temperance Union and freemasonry.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0777
Size: 2.5 cubic ft
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers concerned with the interrelated Floyd, Ireland, and Sicard families. The Floyd items include the militia records (1824-1829) of Captain David Floyd, 157th Regiment, Rome, Oneida County, New York. The Ireland items include a plat book of the lands owned in New York City by the John Ireland Estate (1837). The bulk of the collection (1855-1873) relates to the activities of Montgomery Sicard, a U.S. Naval Officer, and includes notes, pamphlets, and other materials on navigation, naval discipline, and the care and use of naval guns; letters relating to the shipwreck of the U.S.S. Saginaw in the Pacific, November 1870; and letters relating to Sicard's duties at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (1870s)
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3646
Size: 38.4 cubic ft. Correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, field notes, glass slides, newsclippings, daguerrotypes, portraits, photograph albums, wallpaper samples, menus, invitations, stock certificates, and scrapbooks.
Subject: Life Sciences
Subject: Ornithology
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2304
Size: 9 cubic ft. {comma separted list of material formats; end with period.}
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the Dean include files on admissions, the Advisory Council, committees, convocations, dean's reports, directories, international legal studies, and student activities; files from the Law School's participation in University-wide groups, committees, and meetings; and files pertaining to the Law School's participation in state, national, and international organizations.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0263
Size: 1.4 cubic ft.; 5 v
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Scrapbooks of John Morgan Francis (1823-1897), his son Charles Spencer Francis (1853-1911), and his grandson John Morgan Francis (1879-1925), containing clippings and correspondence pertaining to Cornell University and the Cornell crews when Charles Spencer Francis and John Morgan Francis were students; copybook (Oct. 1884-Aug. 1885) of John Morgan Francis, containing copies of letters written to Francis by colleagues, friends, and family, gives insight into duties and problems of a diplomat; also comments on election of 1884; letters pertain to Cornell crew matters and the controversy between Francis and Charles E. Courtney
Abstract: Account books of various Groton, New York, firms and insurance companies, personal accounts, and prescriptions and recipes for medicines. Also, microfilm of a Groton Iron Bridge Company daybook, 1877-1885.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6010
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letter from Richard Fry Sr. to his son Jabez discussing family news; a letter from Jabez's widow, Clary, relating the hardships of her life and asking for assistance from her brother-in-law, Richard Fry Jr
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4933
Size: .8 cubic
ft Correspondence, passports,
photographs, certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other
papers
Subject: African-American Studies
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, passports, photographs,
certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other papers of an upstate
New York physician and college professor. Includes correspondence, accounts,
historical descriptions, constitution and by-laws, and other papers pertaining
to Cornell University's African-American fraternity, Alpha Phi
Alpha
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3685
Size: 1.5 cubic ft. Scrapbooks, correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, an organizational history, membership lists, annual reports, a constitution, and bylaws
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes scrapbooks, correspondence, minutes, and newspaper clippings related to various projects, and to the annual plant sale; also organization history, membership lists, annual reports, constitution and bylaws
Abstract: Collection contains extensive correspondence and other materials concerning William R. George and the founding of the George Junior Republic, the evolution of the Republic and its part in educational reform in the early twentieth century; and the establishment of other Junior Republics in the United State
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6028
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Twenty seven letters, most addressed to Rowland S. Gifford from relatives and friends discussing a cholera epidemic in Albany, family news, the annexation of Texas, the dissolution of the Union, winter shipping on canals, land speculation, farming and buying a farm. Also miscellaneous legal documents including deeds, affidavits and a receipt.
Abstract: Correspondence; accounts of purchases, payments, and unsold lands; surveys; tax receipts, contracts, notes, bonds, deeds, powers of attorney; and maps and field notes of the New York Military Tract and city lots of Rochester and Ontario County, New York. Papers relating to Greig's land interests include material on the Chenango Triangle, the Hornby Estate, the New York Military Tract, Cottringer Tract, Ogden Tract, and Pulteney Estate. Documenting his activities as a promoter of internal improvements are materials on the Charlotte to Rochester Railroad, Erie Canal, Rochester and Carthage Railroad, Rochester and Ontario Plank Road, Sodus Canal Association, and the Sodus Land Company. Also included is miscellaneous material on local history, papers concerning the settlement of Greig's estate, and extensive correspondence and other papers of family members and friends in the United States, Scotland and England discussing American political and economic issues and internal British politics. Correspondents include Thomas Morris, John and Eunice Tryon, John and John L. Phelps, Joseph Fellows, Elias Kane, Eliza Greig, Alexander Greig, Alexander Duncan, George W. Kirkland, John Rankine, and William Jeffrey
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0882
Size: 53 items
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers of the Snow family (1782-1865) of Truro, Massachusetts, include letters, land contracts, and a poem. Papers of the Gross family (1861-1884) include letters pertaining to the Civil War, a water cure, and life in Washington and Oregon
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2139
Size: 6.5 cubic ft., 126 v. Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Research Materials
Subject: Labor History
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: The bulk of these papers consist of grocery and general merchandise daybooks, cashbooks, customers' ledgers, inventories, order books, checkbooks and other accounts (80 v., 1851-1854, 1872-1916) mainly of Hammond Brothers (John and Thomas), the Hammond Store, and [E.J.] Barker and [Wallace] Wyman, successors (1871) to the Hammonds; also cashbooks, payroll records and board bills for furnace, furnace store, and company railroad employees, canal and lake steamer shipping accounts, and journals (7 v., 1858-1880) of the Crown Point Iron Company; accounts for the furnace company store, which include daybooks, customers' ledgers, and a cashbook (11 v., 1874-1886); miscellaneous accounts (11 v., 1847-1889) of Hammond & Company, Charles Franklin Hammond, the Sugar Hill Company, and others; bankbooks (10 v., 1835-1866) and checkbook stubs (13 v., 1855-1883), covering accounts which C. F. Hammond and Hammond & Company had with banks in Whitehall and Troy; and one daybook of Allen Penfield (1845-1861). In addition to bound account books, the papers also include correspondence, financial statements, orders, invoices, vouchers, board and freight bills, boat operation receipts, general store bills and receipts, and memoranda notebooks. Essex County
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 8405
Size: .4 cubic feet. Printed material
Subject: Humanities
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Menus from restaurants including the Stock Yard Inn in
Chicago; Ernie's San Francisco; Jules Podell's Copacabana; The Plantations in
Moline, Illinois; Hotel Emporio; Martinetti's; Trader Vic's in Oakland, CA; and La
Cage in the British Colonial Hotel, Nassau, Bahamas
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3291
Size: 5 cubic ft. Manuscript sermons, correspondence, a scrapbook, a manuscript, printed materials, and other items.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers of Martin D. Hardin, a Presbyterian clergyman, lecturer, and portrait artist. He seved as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, New York, 1920-1935.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4751
Size: 3.4 cubic
feet Correspondence, Memorabilia, Printed
Material
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes correspondence and records
pertaining to various track meets and events, including track meet results,
workout schedules and memorabilia
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2407
Size: 38.5 cubic ft. Correspondence, Maps/Charts, Newspapers, Printed Materials, Publications
Subject: Architecture and Planning
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, blueprints, whiteprints, maps, pamphlets, monographs, and newspaper clippings mainly concerning his association (1922-1937) with John Nolen.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6016
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Church book of the First Baptist Church of Hector (1837-1887); minutes of the Ladies Benevolent Society of the First Baptist Church and Society of Hector (1842-1857); records of the Bennettsburg Sociable (1861-1862); a letter from the Thomas Allen family to Mrs. Allen's father, Mr. Smith (1820); a solicitor's bill; and thirteen compositions by elementary students.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3604
Size: 3 cubic feet. Correspondence, Publications, Research Materials
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Collection consits of papers from his work at the NYSAES in Geneva, NY. Most are related to wine and grapes. Areas covered include New York, California, Germany, and others. Contains research materials, presentations, brochures, and slides.
Abstract: Includes accounts, correspondence, banking records, broadsides, prices current, market guides and other materials relating to the development of the essential oils industry.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6749
Size: .3 cubic ft. Manuscripts, Printed Materials
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Printed and manuscript ephemera relating to canals, commerce and banking, education, politics and elections, religion, smoking, theater, travel and transportation, and technical equipment, primarily in Ithaca and Tompkins County.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3602
Size: 18 volumes. Scrapbooks
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Annotated student scrapbooks, compiled by students in Professor Carol Kammen's History 126 course for Spring 2007, documenting the Cornell experience especially the freshman experience. Compilers include Ariana Almeida, Leslie Chae, Peter Franz, Lisa Han, Nicole Handy, Emma Herzog, Edward Kim, Jr., Jen Koh, Samantha Krotz, Sora Lee, Scott Marrett, Natalie McClain, Kaitlyn McKeown, Ryan McNamara, Kate Morris, Alyssa Padover, Leif Paulson, and Liz Peters.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1641
Size: 30 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correpondence, letter books, order books, accounts, sales catalogs, and other business records of the Ninevah carriage factory established in 1844 by Joseph W. Hobbs and operated by his two sons, George and Charles; daybook of George W. Hobbs (1908-1909); personal accounts and diaries kept by Joseph W. Hobbs (1875-1903) and George W. Hobbs (1868-1894); papers pertaining to Joseph W. Hobbs' law practice, his local political activities (ca. 1868-1900), and his investments, and to the Hobbs brothers' later activities as area real estate brokers and general insurance agents (ca. 1910-1929); and family correspondence. Other papers consist of records of the Afton School District No. 15 (ca. 1850-1930), the Ninevah Sons of Temperance (ca. 1867), the New York Road Hone Company (ca. 1910-1917), the Susquehanna Valley Telephone Company (ca. 1905-1917); and personal, financial, and business papers of Mrs. S.F. Humphreys, who was associated with the Hobbs brothers in their insurance service and other local enterprises
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0383
Size: 41 volumes, 2 cubic ft., 33 reels microfilm
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Account books for the Ellicottville Office in Cattaraugus County; correspondence and records including amounts paid on principal and interest, general expenditures, notes on improvements, and other material including land contracts and deed books for Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, and Wyoming Counties. Includes records kept by purchasers of Holland Land Company holdings Nicholas Devereux and Co., Utica, N.Y. and the Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., New York City
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2077
Size: 105.8 cubic
ft Audio Recordings, Correspondence,
Manuscripts, Movie Film Photographs, Printed Materials, Reports, Research
Material
Subject: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: The papers of Solomon Cady Hollister include
correspondence, typescripts, reports, drafts, publications, engineering
studies, specifications and computations, blueprints, photographs, tape
recordings, slides, and movie films concerning Hollister's work as a civil
engineer prior to his academic career
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1799
Size: 2 cubic ft. Legal papers, correspondence, and other papers.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Primarily legal papers pertaining to various cases over which Judge Horton presided while Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District or as a private attorney; also, correspondence and papers (1917-1919) relating to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, of which Horton was a trustee, mainly in connection with its going into receivership and with its dissolution.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6005
Size: .4 cubic ft. Diaries, typescript.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Diaries and accounts of a markedly religious woman in Mecklenburg, Schuyler County, New York; she describes her concern with the irreligious soul of her husband and the spiritual well-being of her family, buys the drafts of her sons in the Civil War, and otherwise reflects on her life as a Christian woman. Also, grocery and household accounts. Includes typed transcript of diary.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3774
Size: 3.6 cubic
feet Correspondence, Photographs, Printed
Materials, Research Material
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes correpondence, photographs, memos,
programs, and other research files used in the writing of the book Hospitality
Leadership: The Cornell Hotel School
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3345
Size: 2 cubic ft. Business and personal correspondence; account books; deeds; estate settlements and maps.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers consist of business and personal correspondence; account books; deeds; estate settlements; land and title searches with accompanying maps of areas in Tompkins, Allegheny, Broome, Cattaraugus, Schuyler and Wayne Counties. Includes material concerning the acquisition of lands for Allegheny State Park, Adirondack Park and the Connecticut Hill Fish and Game Refuge. Game refuge files contain deeds and papers pertaining to Cornell University
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0448
Size: 4.9 cubic ft. Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, sketches, and other records and material.
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Abstract: Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, and other records and material pertaining to the activities of the Hulce family in Deposit, Delaware County, New York. Subjects include their lumbering interests along the Delaware River, the making of potash, a general store business, land speculation and real estate in New York, Pennsylvania, and the west, saw-mills, labor matters, waterpower, and brick-kilning. Areas of their especial interest include education, religion, politics (with particular reference to "Black Republicanism" and the Democratic Party), and temperance. Also included are historical sketches by Martial Hulce describing the early settlement of Deposit and vicinity.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0249
Size: 5.1 cubic ft
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Social Sciences
Abstract: Correspondence of Hull relating to his studies in Germany in the 1890's, to his work as professor and dean at Cornell University, to his research as an historian, and to the professional organizations to which he belonged, particularly the American Historical Association; also manuscript and printed materials, correspondence and financial accounts pertaining to Ithaca, N.Y. organizations such as the Cornell Public Library, the Cornell Heights Land Company, the Fall Creek Milling Company, the Ithaca Children's Home, the Ithaca Band, and the Ladies Union Benevolent Society. Additional records include deeds, mortgage and survey (1733-1803) on lands in Albany and Montgomery Counties and newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about the early Ithaca "Moral Society"; a few letters and other papers of Miss Mary J. Hull, sister of Professor Hull; English documents(1607-1725). Also included is correspondence of William A. Dunning, Max Farrand, Charles Homer Haskins, J. Franklin Jameson, Waldo G. Leland, Andrew C. McLaughlin, Isaac P. Roberts, Henry Morse Stephens, Willard Straight, James Sullivan, Hendrik Willem Van Loon. One box of lantern slides
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1670
Size: 3.6 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Largely correspondence and other papers of Florence Elise Hyde of Ithaca, New York, relating to her literary activities, her support of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (1926-32), and her interest in national politics and American foreign policy (1932-53). The remainder of the collection consists of clippings of reviews of her books, brochures used in advertising hem, and printed or typescript copies of her plays and novels; scattered correspondence and other papers of Miss Hyde's father, Orange Percy Hyde, chiefly concerning Ithaca social and civic life, and various public issues; and family correspondence of her brother, Walter Woodburn Hyde (Cornell Class of 1893), much of it from the years he taught at Northampton High School (Massachusetts) and Princeton University, travelled in Great Britain, or studied in Athens, Rome, Halle, and other European cities. Correspondents include George Lincoln Burr, George Washington Cable, A. Stanley Copeland, Luigi Criscuolo, George De Grassi, Lewis E. Dofflemeyer, John S. Fine, Frederick Treman Johnson, Alfred M. Landon, Clark S. Northrup, Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, Pauline Morton Sabin, Grace Alvana Seeley, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Stanley Shaw, Jouett Shouse, John Taber, Robert A. Taft, Jessie M. Thilly, James W. Wadsworth, Jr., Andrew D. White, and William Allen White
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3169
Size: 1.6 cubic ft. Correspondence, cancelled checks, deposit slips, notes, mortgages, cancelled stock certificates, invoices, ledger books, cashbooks, checkbooks, receipt books, bank books, a daybook, training forms, maps, notes, exams, pamphlets, an atlas, logbooks, personal papers, and other materials.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of Ithaca Airways, which was founded by Herbert M. Peters in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. It later became Ithaca Flying Service Inc.
Abstract: Included are photographs, maps, brochures, booklets, programs, broadsides, invitations, historical outlines, and other printed items pertaining to subjects including local politics and government, urban renewal, religion, civic and social events and organizations, musical and dramatic productions, transportation, educational institutions, and geology of the region
Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes,
annual reports, newsletters and other printed matter, publications, photographs, and
architectural plans reflecting the activities of the organization.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2643
Size: 4.5 cubic
ft Correspondence, Manuscripts,
Newspapers, Printed Materials, Report
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Women's Studies
Abstract: Collection includes correspondence,
preliminary sketches, and bluprints concerning the construction of the Women's
Community Building in Ithaca, New York
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6483
Size: 33.2 cubic ft. Audiotapes, studio and meeting notes, correspondence, articles.
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Women's Studies
Abstract: Audiotapes of "Being Ourselves," a program that was produced by the Ithaca Feminist Radio Collective and broadcast in Ithaca, NY, on Sunday mornings. Also, notes and files from collective meetings and relating to producing the show.
Abstract: Yearbooks, scrapbooks, albums containing
clippings and programs from events, executive board files, and civic
development project folders from the Ithaca Garden Club
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3067
Size: 24.4 cubic
ft Correspondence, publications,
photographs, videotapes, phonographs, CD's, DVD's, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and
artifacts
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records created or assembled by the Rotary
Club of Ithaca, New York. Including correspondence, publications, and material
related to the functioning and activities of the club
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2743
Size: .3 cubic ft. Manuscript volumes, receipts, programs, historical summaries, news clippings, and a scrapbook
Subject: College of Human Ecology
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Women's Studies
Abstract: Records include three manuscript volumes containing constitution, by-laws, list of charter members; treasurers' records (1897-1909); and minutes of the Home Economic Section of the Ithaca Woman's Club (1902). Also miscellaneous items including receipts, programs, historical summaries, news clippings. One scrapbook containing a history of the club, lists of charter and early members, photographs of club presidents and copies of presidents' speeches and club brochures (1897-1949)
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4928
Size: 1.9 cubic feet. Correspondence, wills, diplomas, a field book, an examination, obituaries, marriage certificates, photographs, a book of autographs, pay rolls, land grant certificates, military documents, genealogical notes, family histories and records, books, and other documents of the Johnson family.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: The Johnson Family Papers consist of correspondence, wills, diplomas, marriage certificates, obituaries, photographs, genealogical notes and family histories, land grant certificates, military documents, a book of autographs, and other papers and documents of the Johnson and related families, direct descendants of the Presidential Adams family. The family was located chiefly in Utica, New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1200
Size: 5 cubic ft. Deeds, bills, accounts, correspondence, membership papers, cathedral rubbings, maps, and other papers.
Subject: Labor History
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds; bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance (1880); numerous letters written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson, a grandson of the first Benjamin, from Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, and elsewhere in the West (1883-1896), where he was employed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad; some correspondence of his brother, Frederic Treman Johnson (1886-1890); cathedral rubbings made while the latter was in England (1907), and bills, accounts and maps for that trip.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6014
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Diary of Arad Joy (1812-1813) discusses events during his service in the War of 1812 including punishment of deserters, living conditions, a visit to Niagra Falls, a skirmish, and duties as paymaster. The travel journals of Henry Joy (1844) relate details of his trip through the Midwest, including accommodations, a meeting with a former senator from Ohio, Mr. Spaulding, and a sermon by Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband, Dr. Calvin Stowe, discussion of the Pennsylvania Dutch and their farming methods, description of an iron works, a glass works and a nail factory, drawings of historical sites, descriptions of various towns including Chicago, Milwaukee, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Michigan, and descriptions of Indians he saw canoeing on the upper Mississippi
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1962
Size: 3.3 cubic ft. Broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, brochures, photographs, and other items.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, brochures, photographs and other items pertaining chiefly to Cornell University and the Tompkins County region.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0772
Size: 517 boxes. Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Research Materials
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters, clippings, speeches, and miscellaneous items relating to the activities of the Kernan family of Utica. Also, included are genealogical records of the Hyde, Butler, Avery, and Clapp families.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1316
Size: 60 cubic ft. {comma separted list of material formats; end with period.}
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Personal and professional papers of Bath, New York, lawyers Charles Freeman Kingsley and his son Carter Robie Kingsley; records pertaining to their work in the western land mortgage business; and papers of various members of the Kingsley and Bull families.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2065
Size: .7 cubic ft. Accounts, cashbooks, wage records, correspondence, and other records.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Customers' accounts, cashbooks, and wage records (6 vols.); also, letters and accounts concerning the tailoring business, the settlement of the Kohm estate, and other matters.
Abstract: Legal documents include wills, estate
inventories, indentures and other land documents, summonses and other court
documents, and accounts. Many relate to the ownership of slaves
Abstract: Last will and testament of Colonel Pierre
Benjamin Faneuil, Boston, Mass., 1877; ALS Revolutionary War pension request
for Tyler Porter, with list of battles, Mass., 1818; New York State Militia
Return of Officers... under Command of Brigadier-General Lyman Curtiss, 1834;
Beebee & Co. Bullion Exchange Bankers, N.Y. financial statement, 1851; will
of Christian Gingery of Warwick, Lancaster County, Pa., includes mention of
"mulato Girl," 1778; will of Jacob Rubsamen (?) of Philadelphia, Pa., includes
manumission of three slaves, 1792; and will of Brigadier General Christian
Febiger, Philadelphia, Pa., 1796. Also clipping with poem about slavery, "The
Auction-Block Again - Who Bids?" from the New York Tribune, n.d
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6508
Size: ca. 70 cubic
ft Correspondence
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Personal and professional papers of Jack
Lewis relating to his career as a chaplain and minister; the Christian Faith
and Life Community; Cornell United Religious Work (CURW) and many community
based social support programs
Abstract: Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). Also included are papers (1803-1849) of Ward's father, Seba Loomis, among them deeds for lands in Coventry, Connecticut, and Cazenovia, New York; a survey of his farm in Road Township, Madison County, New York; debtors' writs from Tolland County, Connecticut; a blacksmith's apprenticeship indenture from Windham County, Connecticut; and his will.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2238
Size: 3.6 cubic ft. Correspondence, legal documents, financial records
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Abstract: Papers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and financial papers pertaining to a case involving the Geneva & Rushville Plank Road Company (1849-50) and other lawsuits, to the settlement of the estates of the Brackett and James families, Orpha Gates, Oren Green, John Lee, Nathan Pratt, and Royal Stearns, and to Loomis's interest in Geneva College (1827-38), now Hobart College; also, a deed (1813) for land in the town of Gorham from Ann Ellice and her children; bills and tuition and board receipts (1832-34) from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingston County, New York, for Loomis's daughter, Amanda; thirty-three Civil War letters (162-64) written from various camps by his son, Charles, Morris O'Connell, Fayette Green, and other area men serving in the Union Army. Other correspondents include the Ontario County Antislavery Society, Skaneateles Antislavery Society, William Ansley, Samuel Colt, William T. Crittenden, Richard Gilbert, James Loomis, Congressman Meredith Mallory, and Augustus Torrey
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6087
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Begins as a memoir containing reminiscences of Lovejoy's boyhood, adolescence and young adulthood including memories of family, the town of Benton, Methodist Episcopal church members and activities including revivals and personal spiritual growth. Diary entries (1-5 per year) record activities and opinions as a religious leader in the Methodist Episcopal church; births and deaths of family members and friends; quarter meetings and district conferences attended; sermons heard and prayers for spiritual growth.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1934
Size: .4 cubic ft.
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Alphabetized tombstone inscriptions for cemeteries in the Towns of Locke, Genoa, Moravia, Niles, Scipio, Sempronius, Summer Hill, and Venice in Cayuga County and for the Van Etten Cemetery in the Town of Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York; scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1921-58), sketches, and notes concerning people, events, and churches and other institutions in central New York (1794); genealogical data on the Alley (Allee), Luther, Spafford, Sparks, Youngs, Thayer, and Sawyer families; and a copy of a journal (1824) kept by William Slade during a journey from Sempronius to Swansea, Massachusetts
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3601
Size: 4.5 cubic ft. Printed Materials, Publications, Photographs.
Subject: Life Sciences
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Division exhibit items, records and related material. The collection contains text, book lists and materials used in exhibits displayed at Mann Library from 1994-2007.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3618
Size: 2 cubic
ft Correspondence, Research
Material
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Contents include: Activities of the Faculty,
committee reports, correspondence, Full Text Project reports, CALS 75th
Anniversary information, user surveys, user statistics, including SWIG
(Simplified Wrapped Interface Generator), reference stats, a doorbell system
for reference patrons, and collection guidelines for academic departments in
CALS
Abstract: Collection development records, vendor correspondence, and permanent records of the library of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Also old Mann Library plaque
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1935
Size: .4 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, deeds and other legal documents, accounts, certificates, printed material, and miscellaneous papers of the Chatfield, Foster, and McCray families, mainly concerning the sale of land and lumber
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1943
Size: 1 folder
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Microfilm of letters, speeches, and newspaper clippings dealing with New York State and Chautauqua County politics, mainly during the years McGinnies was a member of the Assembly. Also, one undated photograph of McGinnies in the company of Mayor James J. Walker, and two programs for a Chautauqua County testimonial dinner held in McGinnies' honor
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0754
Size: 2.1 cubic ft. Land accounts, deeds, wills, merchandising statements, school records, correspondence, recipes, contracts, bills, and other papers.
Subject: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Women's Studies
Abstract: Families papers from Washington County, New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0318
Size:Sermons and correspondence
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Sermons and correspondence relating to Ives Seminary, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York and Kirkville, Onondaga County, New York; correspondence relating to the National Accident Society of New York City, to inventions and a water-filter business, to the Seneca Chief Vineyard Co., Denver real estate, and from the Remington brothers of Ilion, New York. Also, correspondence and other material relating to land speculation in Harris County, Texas, with settlers drawn from Nebraska, by La Porte Investment Company, Syracuse, with E. W. Bliss, and F. W. Clark
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6082
Size: 1 reel microfilm Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of quarterly conference minutes for the Catharine Circuit (1819-1847), a class book for the first class in Johnson's Settlement (1833-1839) listing members' attendance, and a record book (1852-1882) of the Catharine Sunday School Association
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6079
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the Painted Post Circuit quarterly conference meeting (1832-1839) and the Painted Post Church (1832-1833); records of the leader's minutes for the Corning circuit, and quarterly conference meeting minutes for the Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning. Also Class Number One's class leader's records (1839-1844), Trustee's annual meeting minutes (1857-1897) and a register listing the history of, statistics about and a subscription list for the church built in 1861; marriage, probationer's, membership and class lists. Subjects discussed include slavery, temperance, a missionary society, revivals and church discipline.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6056
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of Trustees' Annual Meeting minutes (1831-1915), one volume of Steward's Quarterly Conference meeting minutes (1831-1885), and a Register (1856-1906) listing members, baptisms and marriages.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6071
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Register listing baptisms, marriages, probationers, ministers and members for all three churches (which were charges on one circuit) and class lists for the West Dryden and Asbury societies.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6047
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of steward's quarterly conference meeting minutes (1851-1887) and one volume of class leader's meeting minutes. Central issues in the church are the Sunday school, church finances, and during the 1870-80s, revival activity and the lyceum.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6054
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Three volumes which include a quarterly conference meeting minutes of the Mecklenburg charge and the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mecklenburg (1849-1893); a church membership register (1863-1883) containing lists of baptisms, marriages, probationers, members in full and class members, with removals, deaths and dismission; and a "Comprehensive Church Record of th Methodist Episcopal Church" (1882-1963) with much information on early Mecklenburg, the McIntyre settlement, area churches, circuits and villages.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6060
Size: 1 reel microfilm Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Register which lists members and probationers; pastors and trustees; class members, leaders and elders; baptisms, marriages, expulsions and deaths; and annual reports (1850-1855).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1822
Size: 1.2 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Business and personal papers of the North and related families of Walton and Unadilla, New York; included are correspondence and accounts of Mary North (1814-66) and her first husband, Roswell Wright (1816-30); estate and guardianship papers; and personal correspondence (1833-56). Papers of Dr. Henry E. Bartlett, Mary North's second husband, a physician and Democratic politician, include letters, resolutions, and reports concerning his chairmanship of the New York State Senate railroad committee; correspondence, notices, reports, monthly statements, landing permits, immigrants' bonds, quarantine instructions, and other papers relating to his appointment as Health Officer of the Port of New York (1854-55); reminiscences of Bartlett's early life in Massachusetts and Stanstead, Quebec, and his early years of medical study; his notes of Dr. Valentine Mott's medical lectures (1826); papers concerning business ventures in which the Wrights or Bartletts were interested; and numerous bills, accounts, and related items
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3785
Size: 3.8 cubic ft. Correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks, photographs, an autograph book, and clipping
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks, photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of land in central and eastern New York
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1460
Size: .6 cubic ft. Correspondence, essays, class notes, examinations, room and board receipts, a railway map, and memorabilia.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence between John and his parents, Dr. Reuben Curtis and Elizabeth Virginia Barcly Moffat, constitutes the bulk of this collection; there is also correspondence between Moffat and his brothers Edgar, George, and Burnham, and sister Ada, and several relatives and friends, including Aunt Liney (Adelaide Curtis) and her sons Gram, Frank, and Ernest. Moffat's letters discuss his experiences at Cornell University; letters from family and friends discuss life in Brooklyn, New York. Also included are essays, class notes, examinations, room and board receipts, an Appleton's Railway Map-U.S. and Canada, 1871, and memorabilia including reception invitations and dance cards.
Abstract: Records of Moosewood, Inc., including menus
from the restaurant and special events, work on cookbooks, files on publicity
and public recognition, restaurant policies and management, photographs, and
correspondence
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1146
Size: 3.3 cubic ft. Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, and other personal items
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, mainly relating to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the status of freed blacks, the tariff and international trade, passage of the Land Grant College Act, and other public questions
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3654
Size: 2.8 cubic ft.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes 24 scrapbooks and 12 notebooks compiled by Mulks, including notes on the settlement, migration, and treaties of Indians; Caroline, New York, slave population; local folklore; histories of many prominent families of Tompkins County, including the Ellis, Meddaugh (Middaugh), Mandeville, Mulks, Cornell, DeWitt, Speed, Thomas, and Cantine families; personal material; and notes on many other topics. Also, biographical sketch of Charles F. Mulks by Jane P. M. Vaughn (1975); photograph of Mulks; documents concerning the acqusition of land in the towns of Caroline (1800-38) and Ulysses (1833), New York; promissory notes, Dutchess County (1799, 1809); Erie Canal Directory and Rate Schedule (1847); internal revenue licenses (1860s); Phillips family estate settlement papers; and Thomas family genealogical data.
Abstract: Collection includes photographs, maps, charts; microfilm of 18th, 19th, and 20th century maps and charts of Nantucket Island; final report AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NANTUCKET: A BRIEF NARRATIVE HISTORY AND DOCUMENTARY SOURCE MATERIAL by Michael Hugo-Brunt; tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews (1968) of Parker W. Gray, Edouard A. Stackpole, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Orpin, and Grace B. Gardner conducted by Constance Werner, and of Charles C. Coffin interviewed by Michael Hugo-Brunt; and a tape and transcript of an informal discussion (gam) led by Edouard Stackpole (1968)
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6040
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Four letters written in 1863 and 1864. Three are from Philip Nearpass, a Union soldier, to his sister Libbie Nearpass of Arcadia (now Newark and Palmyra). The last is from Jacob Wentzel, also a Union soldier, to Libbie Nearpass, presumably after Philip's death.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3046
Size: 3 reels of microfilm Minutes, catalogues, records, proceedings, constitution, bylaws, a directory, a census book, a "death book," and periodicals
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Social Sciences
Subject: Women's Studies
Abstract: Minutes of the Newfield School Board, District 5, 8 and 18; Newfield Public Library minute book and catalogues, and Newfield Town Library Association, program; records and proceedings of the Town of Cayuta, Tioga County, New York; constitution, bylaws, and minutes of the Newfield Literary Society and Debating Club; constitution, by laws, minutes, and list of ex-presidents of the Newfield Ladies Monday Club; directory of the Newfield and Trumbull's Corners Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday School; undertaker's census book and "Death Book" (annual list of people buried); Grant's Petersburg Progress (Virginia), Vol. l, No. 4, April 10, 1965; and issues of the Newfield Tribune and the Newfield Home News
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1443
Size: 10.6 cubic ft.; 3 v.; 2 rolls
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Time tables, notices, circulars, employee agreements, material pertaining to the maintenance of equipment, freight and passenger account books, brass checks for non-English speaking employees, special passes, a typescript history of the two railroads, and other material for the New York and Oswego Railroad, its successor, the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, and many connecting lines
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2058
Size: 10.6 cubic ft.; 3 v.; 2 rolls
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Time tables, notices, circulars, employee agreements, material pertaining to the maintenance of equipment, freight and passenger account books, brass checks for non-English speaking employees, special passes, a typescript history of the two railroads, and other material for the New York and Oswego Railroad, its successor, the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, and many connecting lines
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1759
Size: 14.2 cubic ft. Correspondence, citations and resolutions, speeches, membership lists, a catalog, and proceedings and minutes.
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records include correspondence, citations and resolutions, speeches, membership lists, an 1859 catalog from the Society's museum, and printed and mimeographed copies of proceedings and minutes of annual meetings. Includes correspondence of Charles H. Baldwin, Perley M. Eastman, Joseph M. Hurley, and Van C. Whittemore.
Abstract: Curriculum material, including annual reports of the Association, slides and photographs, texts, old Regents examinations, newsletters, a President's Notebook, meeting minutes
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0544
Size: 14.9 cubic
ft Correspondence, Photographs,
Research Materials, Scrapbook
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes class rosters and grade books;
student grade reports; lists of course registrations and fees; reports and
results of experiments, etc
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2679
Size: 1.5 cubic ft. Manuscripts, Reports
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Minutes of meetings, membership lists, procedures of the council, Historians' reports, Executive Council Board minutes, and related records of the New York State Nutrition Council.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3381
Size: 261 cubic ft. Financial Records, Research Materials
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of defunct local Granges consist primarily of minute and roll books and treasurers' accounts, but also include drill manuals, program books, bylaws, degree records, quarterly reports to the State Grange, certificates, and records of a few Junior Granges. The records of about half of these Granges extend, usually continuously, over a period of fifty years or more; about ten percent extend, usually continuously, from the 1870s or 1880s to the 1960s or 1970s.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6714
Size: 4 cubic ft. Correspondence, Financial Records, Printed Materials, Research Materials
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records document the activities of the organization. Other items include, member files, grape prices, news items, legislation that pertains to the wine and grape, correspondence with legislators, marketing, Vinefresh, annual meeting items, press releases, and newsletters. Also included are the files of Monty Stamp as secretary to the organization these have meeting minutes, financial information, copies of mailings from the organization.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6015
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Contains three diaries of Chauncey Smith Nichols which report on social events, school attendance, family news and everyday activities (1860,1864, 1865). The 1864 volume includes financial records. Also included is a resolution to establish and a constitution for the Methodist Female Missionary Society on the Hector circuit (April 9, 1845).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1944
Size: 10 reels positive, 10 reels negative microfilm. Correspondence, scrapbooks, cartoons, broadsides, memorial resolutions, biographical sketches, and obituaries.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes correspondence from fellow political figures, constituents, special interest groups, and office-seekers concerning legislation under consideration in Albany; local and state politics, patronage, and other matters. Also, personal business correspondence; scrapbooks (4 volumes, 1895-1958) of clippings, cartoons, and broadsides, dealing chiefly with poitical events and issues during Nixon's public life; memorial resolutions, biographical sketches, and obituaries.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3794
Size: 26.5 cubic
feet Financial Records,
Report
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Budget reports (1952-2008); graduate school
reports; Operating Plans (1965-2002); fact books; various other surveys and
financial reports, and e-Cornell files (1997-2003), compiled by Michael Whalen,
Director of the Office of Planning Information and Policy Analysis
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1303
Size: 9 v. Publications.
Subject: Architecture and Planning
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Various publications concerning city and regional planning, history, architecture, archaeological sites, and historic preservation in the Finger Lakes Region.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6031
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Accounts of W.P.F.B. Pomeroy, an Ovid cabinet maker (1838-1856) and Rockwell Manning, a hosteler (1829-1835). In the Manning ledger are notes of Laverne Blackwell, a child, on curing horses and penmanship practice exercises.
Abstract: "The History of Oregon and the Pacific Coast and Its Especial Connection with Ithaca, New York," a handwritten account concerning the journey begun in 1835 by the author's father, Rev. Samuel Parker, from Ithaca to the Oregon Territory. Also, "Papers Relating to the History of the Presbyterian Church, Ithaca, N.Y.," by S. J. Parker and "A Picture of Ithaca, N.Y. as I Saw It in Childhood," 1895, by S. J. Parker.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2075
Size: 13.6 cubic ft
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Photographic Collections
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Included are legal files of Bath, New York, attorneys Guy Humphreys McMaster and his son-in-law, John Foster Parkhurst, which contain briefs, summonses, court orders, correspondence, memoranda, accounts, opinions, notebooks, and other papers, ca. 1850-1900. Also, deeds and related documents concerning land in Steuben County; legal papers of David McMaster; accounts of Dr. Andrew Baker, ca. 1828; family and personal letters; a clipping scrapbook; manuscript poetry of the McMaster family; and photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, maps, and local historical and genealogical materials
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0286
Size: 2.8 cubic ft. and 4 v
Subject: Life Sciences
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters and papers, mainly those of Chester Patterson and D. Williams Patterson Tioga County, New York; collection includes deeds, wills, bail bonds, bank notes, court documents, tax due lists and sales notices; also loose accounts and account books, and a bound volume of a doctor's journals. Collection includes a bound volume of mounted manuscripts (chiefly of Massachusetts origin), a copy of the will of James Patterson of Billerica, Massachusetts, and of Joseph Patterson; also, deeds, tax assessments, and newspaper clippings
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1138
Size: 1.5 cubic ft. Correspondence, scrapbooks, financial documents, academic papers
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and other material relating to the establishment of the college in Montour Falls (then Havana), Schuyler County, New York; includes correspondence of the founder, Harrison Howard. Also records relating to administration, finance, and construction, 1856-1880, including land transactions, articles of agreement, building plans, specifications, supplies, labor, costs, and receipts; and educational papers, 1850-1864, including letters, teachers' applications, recommendations, minutes, presidents' reports, resolutions, and lists of students, faculty, and trustees. Includes a letter from Horace Greeley dated February 26, 1859 to the Treasurer of People's College. Also, John Hay, Assistant Private Secretary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. to Charles Cooke, June 26, 1863, enclosing the Horace Greeley resolution relating to the People's College Convention. Also copy of the Horace Greeley resolution relating to The People's College Convention, November 1, 1852. Additional correspondents include Edward Hitchcock, Mark Hopkins, Theodore D. Woolsey, and the Geneva Medical College
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4379
Size: 3.5 cubic ft. Correspondence, certificates, photographs, leaflets, newsleters
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Records of the national organization. Includes flower judging contest records and photographs, 1978-1986, and copies of Lotus Leaflets (newsletter)
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1094
Size: 29 v.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Diaries contain day-to-day weather records and information concerning the sale of Pierrepont lands in Jefferson, Lewis, and Saint Lawrence Counties, the development of Pierrepont Manor, and periodic trips to New York City. Also, photocopies of Irving Parmeter's articles on the Pierrepont journals, 1830-1831. Includes Pierrepont's Journal THE TAMING OF THE WILDERNESS edited by Inez B. McConnell. Also, records of the Zion Episcopal Church, Pierrepont Manor, New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0195
Size: 8 cubic ft. Letters, clippings, pamphlets, financial records and newspapers.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Copies of a series of articles written by Platt for the Batavia Times called Human Behavior, which covered a variety of subjects from politics to travel; also included are editorials, articles submitted to other newspapers, speeches, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to Platt's numerous interests. The political correspondents include William Sulzer and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Documents pertaining to the operation of a drugstore. Newspapers include letters pertaining to the three papers with which Platt was associated. Historical documents concerning the Ithaca Unitarian Church, a suit brought against the Forest City Printing Company, some early letters, and accounts. Also, miscellaneous pamphlets, broadsides, and correspondence
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6599
Size: ca. 70 cubic ft Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Memorabilia, Newspapers, Printed Materials, Reports
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: This collection documents administrative and financial affairs of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company through its founding in 1860 through the 1950s. Included are grape growing and vineyard records, business ledgers, retail sales reports and statistics, correspondence from manufacturers, wholesalers and clients, advertising material, tax returns and other government correspondence. Correspondence with the company's traveling salesmen document the economic and social conditions of the time, especially in the period leading up to and during Prohibition. Government legislation, taxation, and regulation of alcohol is documented through legal forms, permits, and correspondence. Also included are various types of ephemera such as bottle labels, menus, advertising, and other promotional material, including a videotape, The Story of Wine, and a Betacam SP videotape, Pleasant Valley Wines. Also contains extensive business and personal correspondence of Champlin, Bauder, and Masson
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0223
Size: 3 folders. Letters, legal documents, financial records.
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Abstract: Letters received by Horace L. Edgar Pratt, a Protestant Episcopal rector on Staten Island, New York; also, a Civil War draft exemption certificate issued to John A Kernochan, Sept. 10, 1863; Queens County documents including a four year indenture apprenticing Joseph Lawrence to Effingham Lawrence; a bill of sale selling Joseph, a Negro boy; a receipt for a twelve pound bounty for William Aitken for New York militia service during the Revolutionary War; and a proclamation of Governor George Clinton
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0299
Size: 1.2 cubic ft. Letters, clippings, diaries, legal and financial records, manuscripts
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters, deeds, accounts, a manuscript arithmetic book, newspaper clippings, and an autograph book; also diaries (1842-1847, 1852-1891) of William B. Pratt; Steuben County (N.Y.).
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4264
Size: 1 cubic ft. Records, correspondence, clippings, photographs, papers.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence and real estate records relating to the sale of property at 250 Church Street, 42 Broadway and the "White Block" in New York City.
Abstract: Correspondence pertaining to Randall's interest in sheep raising and breeding, the sale of sheep, especially to raisers in Texas, the difficulty of transporting sheep over long distances, diseases, pedigrees, stock improvement, and exhibitions; also letters to Randall concerning his books on the sheep industry, and responding to his plea for a New York Wool Growers Convention to be called in 1864; also, a report on common school libraries, Cortland County.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0937
Size: 11.5 cubic ft. Correspondence, accounts, promissory notes, receipts, teachers' certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, photographs, essays, legal papers, minutes, and other papers.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, accounts of a general store, promissory notes, receipts, teachers' certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of a family living in Richford, Tioga County, New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6000
Size: 3.4 cubic ft. Office files, lists of contact persons, record files, and field inventory files.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Office files, lists of contact persons, record files, and field inventory files of the Ithaca College Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1580
Size: .9 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, manuscripts of articles, genealogical notes, clippings, and photographs pertaining to Reed's secretaryship of the Hobasco Masonic Lodge in Ithaca, New York; other correspondence pertains to the early history of Cornell University, and the city of Ithaca; also, genealogical material pertaining to the Stevenson and Dumont families
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6665
Size: 7 cubic ft. Correspondence, Publications, Research Materials
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, extensive grape breeding notes and notebooks, drawings of grape plants, drawings and sketches for wine labels for the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva Cellars. Includes rootstock and grape information from the U.S., Georgia (in the former U.S.S.R.), France, and Germany. Information about his Hammondsport vineyard.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2129
Size: 2 cubic ft. Correspondence, Diaries, Manuscripts, Photographs,
Scrapbook
Subject: College of Human Ecology
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers include scrapbooks (1925-1945), reports, notes, and
miscellaneous manuscript and printed items concerning Mrs. Rivoire's education in Ithaca,
New York and at Cornell, travel in the United States and abroad, and her later teaching
career
Abstract: Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale University, and while traveling to Washington, D.C.; a painting by F. E. Robertson (brother of Mary "Grandma" Moses). Robertson family genealogy; also material on related families, including Bishop, Brown, Houtz, King, Snyder, Teeter, and Wood.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1960
Size: 2 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers include correspondence, legal documents, and related papers dealing with the law practice of James Richards Robinson (1885-1953); letters from constituents and special interest groups, copies of bills and hearings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to his service as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly, 1923-1936; scattered letters and pamphlets relating to his early Pesbyterian pastorate at Weston, Schuyler County. A stock ledger, subscribers' list, and advertising cuts of the Danby Telephone Co., ca.1912-1926, and broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, and photographs from Ithaca, New York and elsewhere. Also papers, 1868-1881, of Mr. Robinson's father, James, Sr., principal of Southold Academy, Suffolk County, which include letters, a roll book, a student petition, school announcements and bills, manuscript orations and essays; personal and household accounts, 1868-1880; a scrapbook and estate settlement papers of Douglass Boardman, a distant relative of James Robinson; and blueprints (1922-1926) of the Masonic Temple in Ithaca
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3394
Size: 238 cubic ft., 23 tape recordings. Correspondence, invitations, and personal papers.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Personal papers and clippings from years in office as a member of the House of Representatives. Papers include files relating to campaigns and elections, constituent requests, general files, files relating to bills, invitations, files relating to military and social security cases, military academies, veterans, gun control, the Vietnam War and the draft, aging and senior citizens, and files relating to local issues such as post offices, local airports, floods, interns, federally-funded projects, and Cornell University.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0821
Size: 9.9 cubic ft. Correspondence, accounts, mortgages, notes, articles, papers.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, accounts, mortgages, notes, articles, and other papers largely relating to Rogers' interests in banking affairs, the industrial development of central New York, and land and railroad investments; also, letters and papers concerning his son and family.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2101
Size: 73 pieces. Articles of incorporation, a stock certificate, accounts, minutes, reports, programs, periodicals, newspaper clippings, a bibliography, and other papers.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes a typescript copy of the articles of incorporation (March 1863) of the Association, which succeeded the operation begun by Jesse Williams in 1851; a stock certificate and receipt for a stock subscription payment (2 35 mm. slides, 1863); photostats (1868-1888) of David Williams' accounts with the Rome Cheese Manufacturing Association for making and boxing cheeses, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and treasurer's reports; also programs, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and a bibliography concerning cheese manufacturing, the R.C.M.A. and the Cheese Centennial held in 1951.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3846
Size: 3.7 cubic ft. Ledgers, account books, legal documents.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes ledgers and account books (1914-1935) of customer orders and dealer invoices. The volumes dealing with customers frequently record the customers' tableware patterns and prices. Also, deeds and title abstracts and searches (1866-1957) for various properties in the city of Ithaca and two appraisals (1923-1933) of the Rothschild Brothers Building.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6025
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Bank notes, promissory notes, leases, legal documents, bills, and receipts from family business. Also a large group of receipts from Hubbel Rowland.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1636
Size: 1 cubic ft. Correspondence, notes and notebooks, printed material, and other documents.
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, notes and notebooks, printed material, and miscellany concerning the family affairs and genealogy of the Rudd, Porter, DeForest, and other related families and including information on the history of Norwich, Connecticut, where the family originated. Of particular interest are a copy of a letter (August 26, 1777) from Joseph Rudd, describing the battle at Bennington, Vermont; two letters (1827) about a religious revival in Huntington, Connecticut; and B. Rudd's book of sketches made in Italy (1891-1894)
Abstract: Paper ephemera, postcards, and photographs related to the Brooklyn Bridge and other New York landmarks. Includes booklet, program, invitation, and ticket to opening ceremony for bridge on May 24, 1883. Also includes receipt for the purchase of Randall's Island, as well as miscellany related to the Holland Tunnel and the Statue of Liberty
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3953
Size: 1.5 cubic ft. Maps, indexes, and directories.
Subject: Architecture and Planning
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: "Compass system" maps and rural indexes of New York State counties published by Rural Directories, Inc. Also, rural directories published by others.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3671
Size: 15.1 cubic ft. Financial Records, Manuscripts, Correspondence, Legal Documents
Subject: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Subject: Architecture and Planning
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Schickel family papers include correspondence, applications, a housing survey, inquiries and replies, licences, patents, financial records, payroll, blueprints, drawings, specifications, advertisements, brochures, trade catalogs, contracts, orders, political letters, progress reports, and other records pertaining to the business interests of Norbert H. Schickel, Sr., particularly relating to his involvement in Ithaca, New York housing and real estate development, engineering, investments, and the family owned motorcycle manufacturing company, Schickel Motor Co. Personal papers include bills, a broadside, theses, correspondence, income tax and insurance records, maps, notes, diaries, legal papers, and photographs of the Schickel family.
Abstract: The Schurman papers consist of correspondence, addresses, photographs, testimonials, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, printed material, and records of the New York Constitutional Convention (1915). The material listed covers Schurman's career as a teacher, college president, and diplomat; the majority of the papers involve his role in national and foreign affairs. His views on American imperialism are reflected in letters to President McKinley, David Starr Jordan, David J. Hill, and John Hay. Schurman's later correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt, Charles F. Adams, Carl Schurz, Charles W. Eliot, and Sergio Osmena show his interest in the Philippine Islands and their eventual independence. His active interest in politics, the problems of peace and the League of Nations, and his diplomatic activities are discussed in correspondence with William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, Henry Lane Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Wadsworth, Joseph Foraker, and Frank Kellogg, including comments on Gustav Stresemann, German politics, and the German economy. Includes addresses and other material on Germany, the Far East, and U.S. foreign policy after Schurman's retirement in 1930. Also personal and family correspondence including letters to Professor William John Alexander about his thoughts on religion and his stay at Heidelberg University; letters to his daughters, Helen and Barbara; and transcriptions and photocopies of other letters
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1737
Size: .8 cubic ft. Correspondence, Financial Records
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence (1862-1872), legal papers (1861-1875), memorandum books (1870-1875), and account books of Wiley H. Scott and family of Ninevah and Unadilla, N.Y. pertaining to business ventures such as the "Scott House," a hotel in Ninevah N.Y. and the Scott Brewery in Unadilla, N.Y.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0871
Size: 12.5 cubic ft. Printed material, constitution, bylaws, meeting minutes, financial records, construction plans and specifications, photographs and correspondence
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Materials relating to the Seal and Serpent, a local fraternity founded at Cornell in 1905
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6044
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Covenant meeting minute book (1832-1865), Wayne Baptist Association minutes for 1840, trustees' record book (1833-1866), church indenture (deed) of June, 1833, account book (1833-1834). Also covers church discipline, financial matters and temperance, slavery and anti-secret society resolutions.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6080
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Session minutes which document the acceptance and dismissal of members, selection of delegates to the Presbytery, selection of elders and trustees, and matters of church discipline. Lists of baptisms and members.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1655
Size: .3 cubic
ft Correspondence, Printed
Material
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Abstract: Personal correspondence of Selden family
mambers and additional letters and other papers of members of the related Gale,
Hitchcock, and Selden families
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0694
Size: 3.2 cubic ft.; 6 v. Financial Records, Legal Documents.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers are concerned chiefly with land holdings and business dealings of the Seymour family, and the related Bleecker family and Tibbits family; the development of business in the city of Utica, milling, banking, and iron manufacturing. Other topics include the Saint Mary's Ship Canal and connecting Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes.
Abstract: Records include correspondence, meeting
minutes, scrapbooks, membership lists, notes pertaining to induction
ceremonies, printed and mimeographed material, photographs, awards, and other
items pertaining to Sigma Gamma Rho
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4925
Size: 6.4 cubic ft. Correspondence, subject files, clippings and background information, scrapbooks, photographs and awards.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, subject files, clippings and background information, scrapbooks, photographs, awards, and other material of the personal life and professional career of a writer, historian, and director of Historic Ithaca. Subject files compile research on subjects of local interest and local history. Family papers of Sisler's parents, Eleanor and Frederick Untiedt.
Abstract: These papers, which consist of correspondence, reports, legal
papers, accounts, photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials,
pertaining to the Skilton Family. This guide combines the Julius A. Skilton papers, the
Frank A. Skilton papers, and the Cayuga County cemetery records collections
Abstract: Family and business correspondence; diaries, bills, notes, receipts; deeds and other legal documents; farm, general store, personal. church, and other accounts of various members of the Crisfield, Gulick, Hall, Halsey, Lott, Marsh, Miller, Mount, Sanford, Smelzer, Teeter, and Townsend families, chiefly of Seneca and Tompkins Counties; also included are a substantial compilation of genealogical data concerning the above families, numerous photographs, recipes, pamphlets, programs for church and social activities, broadsides, newspaper obituaries of Cornell professors and area residents, and other printed materials. Included are papers of and about E.P. Bodine, George Bristol, Ann Crisfield, John Crisfield, D.H. Denton, A.H. Dunbar, S.A. Elmore, Samuel Gulick, Calista Marsh Hall, Darius Hall, Martha Hall, Pliny Hall, Chauncey Halsey, J.H. Halsey, Emeline Marsh,J.W. Osgood, William Riley, Sanford O. Root, Emily Russell, Philip Smelzer, J.H. Stover, Gilbert Townsend, Jedediah Townsend
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6067
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Diaries kept by a young woman while whe tried to earn her living by teaching school in Schuyler County, N.Y. and after she returned to live with her family include comments on daily activities, marriages, deaths and illnesses of friends, church attendance and revivals and opinions on current events.
Abstract: Correspondence; scrapbooks; journals;
clippings; addresses; translations; drafts, manuscripts, and articles; printed
copies of works by or about Goldwin Smith
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3777
Size: 8 cubic ft. Manuscripts.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Manuscript, typed, mimeographed and printed material derived
from family and genealogical research; local, county, court, church and cemetery
records; and printed local and family history, primarily in southern and central New
York State and nearby Pennsylvania counties. Includes research notes and
correspondence concerning Cayuga, Schuyler, Tompkins, Madison, Chenango, Tioga and
Chemung Counties, New York
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1170
Size: 1.8 cubic ft
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Montgomery County indentures and other legal papers (1766-1876); correspondence concerning the Civil War and other matters (1860-1868); general store accounts (1881-1905); diaries and weather records of Jacob G. Snell, Ephrata, New York (1810-1916); and Snell genealogical data
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3919
Size: 1.9 cubic ft. Land deeds, mortgages, bonds, correspondence, ledgers, survey bills, lists of leases and purchases, letters patent, stock certificate books, checkbook, diary.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Financial records relating to land holdings, sales and leases by John Southworth in New York, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Indiana.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0908
Size: 43.4 cubic
ft Correspondence, Printed Materials
Report
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and
printed matter concerning economic aspects of pricing and distribution of milk,
especially in New York and New Jersey
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6027
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Five letters from John Stacy to his wife Dorothy in Port Gibson, N.Y. (1849-1850) discussing his trip to California during the Gold Rush and also Rio de Janeiro and four letters from Nancy Stacy, John's mother, to John and Dorothy from Nevada City, California.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6933
Size: .3 cubic
feet Correspondence, Printed
Material
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Miscellaneous letters and documents,
primarily stampless lettersheets, from New York State and elsewhere include
family letters, business letters, and legal documents. Also a few envelopes,
stampless and stamped
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4265
Size: .6 cubic ft. Correspondence, documents, clippings, publications, diaries.
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Primarily Civil War letters from Stanton to his wife. Also, family letters, certificates, pension files, clippings, publications, and diaries of John Crosby and Amos B. Stanton.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0142
Size: 575 pieces. Personal and business papers and letters, including patent rights, wills, notes, bills and receipts, land deed, school lists, land surveys, Civil War and War of 1812 material, indentures, account books, almanac, newspapers, broadsides, maps, material on local Democratic politics, items on estate management, recipes, and formulas.
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Personal and business papers and letters, including patent rights, wills, notes, bills and receipts, land deed, school lists, land surveys, Civil War and War of 1812 material, indentures, account books, almanac, newspapers, broadsides, maps, material on local Democratic politics, items on estate management, recipes, and formulas
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2443
Size: 63 cubic ft. Audio Recordings, Correspondence, Legal Documents, Movie Film, Printed Materials, Publications, Reports, Research Materials
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Social Sciences
Abstract: Papers deal almost entirely with Mrs. St. George's service in the U.S. House of Representatives and include correspondence with her constituents.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6058
Size: 1 reel microfilm Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two parish registers (1831-1837, 1843-1870) which list baptisms, confirmation, membership, marriage and burial records and one volume of vestry meeting minutes (1822-1906) which record the organizaiton of the church, vestrymen elected, and discussion of parish finances and affairs.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6086
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume register listing baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, members and deaths and one volume of congregational meeting minutes which document the temporal affairs of the church.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6045
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: One volume of vestry records (1850-1883) containing minutes of regular and special church meetings and some accounts, and a register (1850-1871) listing parishioners, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials and church offerings.
Abstract: Two diaries (1860, 1861); a poem and an essay book by Lucy Maria Stoddard, an account book by J.M. and Lucy Stoddard (1883-1899) and miscellaneous papers.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6084
Size: 1 reel microfilm.. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes of parish registers (1847-1918, 1848-1888), one volume of vestry meeting minutes (1856-1938), and miscellaneous papers including two affidavits certifying baptisms.
Abstract: Minutes of annual, warden's and vestry meetings, 1817-1878; a parish register containing membership, baptism, marriage, confirmation and pew subscription lists, 1817-1848; church and parish school cash book, and accounts, 1852-1892; and records of the Ladies Sewing Society, 1837-1838. Articles of incorporation, 1818. Also illustrated pamphlet called St. Paul's Church Review by Emma B. Becker, 1963.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3933
Size: 1 cubic ft. Correspondence, diaries, a scrapbook, photographs, genealogies, and other material
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Collection includes correspondence of and biographical material concerning Frank Strong; diaries, transcript of diaries, and a scrapbook kept by his mother, Mary Foote Strong, 1902-1918; photograph album of Frank Strong's daughter, Evelyn Strong Claassen; genealogies of Frank Strong's family and of his wife, Mary Evelyn Ranson. Also, printed material concerning the University of Kansas Chancellors; photographs of John Butler Strong, Mary Foote Strong and her two sons, Frank and Otis
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1997
Size: .6 cubic ft
Subject: Agriculture
Subject: Civil War
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence and other papers of several New York State families, discussing everyday events and problems, agriculture, religion, and prices; also, Civil War letters of the Carver brothers of Savannah, New York; other letters concern life in Montana and the Dakota territories and western Canada (1870s). Includes correspondence of the Barnhardt family, Luke Blodgett, D. Watson Davis, Henry Dean, and Aaron Lane; correspondents include Theodore and W. H. Allen, Lydia Barnhardt, George Boardman, John and George Coventry, Alex Vattemore, the Salina and Central Square Plank Road Company, and the Waterloo Woolen Manufacturing Company
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2607
Size: .4 cubic ft. Correspondence, photographs, clippings
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, awards and citations, photos of Stutz and other JOURNAL staff members, and newspaper clippings. Includes letters and telegrams from Frank E. Gannett praising Stutz' work and commenting on the 1920 election campaigns of Warren G. Harding, James Cox, and Alfred E. Smith, Gannett's own possible gubernatorial candidacy in New York State (1936), and other aspects of State, national, and world events; letters concerning JOURNAL editorial and articles and matters of local interest from Howard E. Babcock, Neal Dow Becker, Frank D. Boynton, Maurice C. Burritt, Anna Botsford Comstock, Hollis E. Dann, Edmund Ezra Day, Edward R. Eastman, Felix Frankfurter, Othon Guerlac, Robert J. Kane, Claude L. Kulp, Harry H. Love, Deane W. Malott, Veranus A. Moore, William I. Myers, Cuthbert Pound, Ruby Green Smith, James Sullivan, Frank Thilly, Robert E. Treman, Robert H. Treman, Hendrik Willem van Loon, and others; and letters from John Fr. Moakley and others concerning Stutz' selection as a member of the Gannett Foundation
Abstract: Includes personal and professional correspondence, material related to Swearingen's career as professor of history. Pamphlets, books, articles, research materials, essays, book reviews, photographs, cartoons, tapes, radio broadcasts, speeches, material concerning Vietnam and Turkey, journals, and other records. Also, genealogical material, and draft of Swearingen's unpublished book about Turkey. Correspondents include Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3727
Size: .5 cubic
foo Research Materials
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes Taietz's publications and results of a 1993
survey "Factors Associated with Continued Professional Productivity of Emeritus
Professors at Cornell University" and a 1998 study "Post-Retirement Productivity and Life Quality of
Emeritus Professors.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3039
Size: 26.7 cubic ft. Correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, printed materials, publication
Subject: Europe
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Files relating to student and alumni activities and campus governance including the Committee to Review the Dean of Students Office, Quill and Dagger, the Public Safety Advisory Board, the Campus Store Administrative Board, and the Budget Policies Committee, the Career Center of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, and fundraising efforts for the Johnson School and for the Campus Life Campaign Committee (with memorabilia from the campaign). Also, "Helping Cornell Begin its Journey Towards Legendary Service: Highways, Bumpy Roads and Potholes," by Kenneth Blanchard and Gligor Tashkovich. Program for 1984 memorial service for Erin Nieswand and Young Hee Suh, students murdered in 1983, 1984, with photographs of memorial trees and plaque dedicated to their memory. Folder with material concerning the Membership Solicitation Program. Clippings relating to the Cornell Board of Trustees and the Student Assembly
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0623
Size: 2.8 cubic
ft Correspondence,
Manuscript
Subject: Europe
Subject: Humanities
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence and lecture notes relating to
Thilly's career at the University of Missouri (1893-1904), Princeton
(1904-1906), and Cornell University (1906-1934); notes in German (ca.
1889-1890) taken by Thilly while studying at the Universities of Berlin and
Heidelberg
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1695
Size: 18.3 cubic ft. Correspondence, surveys, memoranda, applications, reports, announcements, financial records, and other materials.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Files of Gray Thoron include correspondence, surveys, memoranda, applications, reports, announcements, and other materials pertaining to Cornell Law School admissions, students, curricula, and examinations; personnel recruitment information and applications; budgets, endowments, fundraising, scholarships, and fellowships; alumni; the International Legal Studies Program; academic freedom and tenure; faculty members; policies; and other papers relating to Thoron's position as Law School dean.
Abstract: Includes correspondence, reports, histories of local health associations, newsletters, pamphlets, minutes, notebooks, annual reports, programs, personnel records, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper articles.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6042
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Diary kept by a 13 year old boy from Townsendville, Seneca County. Includes accounts of everyday life including school, church, visitors, weather, and chores, which consisted of threshing flax and caring for his own sheep. Much of December is used for itemized lists of goods with prices and there are five poems or notes written to him by friends and family in the memoranda section.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6591
Size: 6.0 cubic ft Maps/Charts, Printed Materials, Publication
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: The collection contains travel guides, road maps, brochures, leaflets, post cards, and souvenir publications relating to various states of the United States and foreign countries all around the world
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3612
Size: 2 cubic ft. Legal documents; letters; news clippings; photographs; slides; programs; scrapbooks; audiotapes and transcripts; and other materials.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes legal documents; letters; news clippings; photographs; slides; programs; scrapbooks, including one mostly concerning Robert H. Treman; maps; and material used in compiling As I Remember: Recollections of Allan H. Treman (ed. Joyce H. Finch), including news clippings, transcripts of tape recordings, nine tapes, and other items
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1303
Size: 19 cubic ft.
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers of the Treman family of Tompkins County, New York, contain business and family material, including correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and printed matter of Elias Treman and his wife Elizabeth Lovejoy Treman, Robert H. Treman, Charles E. Treman, Robert E. Treman, and Allan H. Treman. Papers of Robert H. (Cornell University Class of 1878) and Robert E. (Cornell University Class of 1909) Treman concerning Cornell, collected during their years as University Trustees, 1891-1953); also, Class of 1878 programs, correspondence, and other items. Account books of Treman Brothers Hardware, Trumansburg, 1838-1839, and miscellaneous business papers of Treman and King Hardware, Ithaca, 1845-1900; Renney family material, 1855-1869; Ithaca, New York memorabilia; Tornado Hook and Ladder Company items; diaries and scrapbooks of travel in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States; Presbyterian Church material; and Ithaca architect William Henry Miller's blueprints and specifications, ca. 1901, for the residence of Robert H. Treman
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4778
Size: .1 cubic
feet Manuscripts
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Waybills from Boston and Lowell to
Brattleborough and Keene; from Boston to Lexington, Concord, and Harvard; and
from Brattleborough and Keene to Lowell and Boston, 1839-1841
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6013
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two volumes (1805-1836 and 1836-1855) listing marriages, baptisms, confirmations, burials, communicants, individual parishioners and some financial records. Two volumes of vestry minutes (1806-1836 and 1836-1874) contain detailed entries concerning official church functions and brief notes on elections for various officers, pew allocation, construction of the church building, acquisition or sale of vaious accroutrements, and various functionary resolutions
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6002
Size: 3 reels microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Two registers, 1831-1886, list baptisms, confirmations, communicants, families, marriages, and burials. In addition, there is a soldier's prayer book from the Civil War period and a mite book for 1858.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4277
Size: .2 cubic ft. Correspondence, photographs, a picture book, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and personal documents.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters written by John B. Troy to his family in Spencer and Ithaca, N.Y. from Helena, Montana, Dawson City, Yukon Territory; and Skaguay, Alaska during the gold rush. His letters discuss a gold miner's life in the Klondike district and include descriptions of the gold mining process, harsh weather and working conditions, fluctuating wages, the high cost of living, medical care, gambling and lawlessness, and the difficulty of making a fortune. The collection also includes photographs, a picture book, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and several personal documents
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3990
Size: 5 cubic ft. Scrapbooks of clippings, telegrams, correspondence, and forms; photographs, an etching, a sketch, a guest book, and a tribute book.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes six scrapbooks of clippings, telegrams, and correspondence on his career at the Waldorf-Astoria, ca. 1897-1950; one scrapbook of forms used at the hotel; two published booklets on staff functions; photographs of Oscar and his wife Sophie Bertisch Tschirky; and an etching and a sketch of the Waldorf-Astoria. Also scrapbooks, a guest book, a scrapbook of congratulatory letters from many famous personalities, and a tribute book given to the Tschirkys on their golden wedding anniversity, 1937.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2604
Size: 8.6 cubic ft. Student papers, estate records, military records, correspondence, family papers, and other materials.
Subject: Europe
Subject: Regional History
Subject: World War I
Abstract: Includes papers written when he was a student at Cornell University; estate records with material relating to the F. P. Collins Company, Dey Brothers, Milmac, Inc., and the Mowat Company; military records of his activities in the Spanish-American War, the New York National Guard, and World War I; and correspondence, notes, and other items concerning his association with the American Foundation, the American Legion, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Cornell University Trustees, the Cornell Law Association, the Guards of Liberty, and the Young Workers League of America; also, family papers referring largely to the sale of the Tuck farm in Ogdensburg, New York, and three letters (1917-1918) from his brother Charles H. Tuck which describe the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Far Eastern affairs from his vantage point as an import agent in Harbin, Manchuria
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0689
Size: .8 cubic ft. Correspondence.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Abstract: Chiefly letters written by members of the related Turner, Baker, and Wheeler families, describing their activities as they moved southward and westward from Massachusetts and New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1974
Size: 4 v. Account books.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Blacksmith's accounts of Cortland Wheeler, Dryden, New York; Peruville, New York cheese factory lading accounts; general store accounts of E.B. Hill; and distillery accounts, owner unknown.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3088
Size: 34.6 cubic ft. Correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Business and personal correspondence, briefs, legal materials, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, daybooks and a variety of documentation
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0527
Size: 1 v.,
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters relating chiefly to the sale, leasing, and development of land, to lumbering, and to political and social life in Chenango County, New York. Correspondents include Colonel Cady, Obadiah German, Abraham R. Lawrence, Caleb Lawrence, W.T. Lawrence, Robert L. Livingston, Theodore Sill, John Sudam, Simon G. Throop, Gerrit Van Wagenen, and Marinus Willett.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0393
Size: .2 cubic ft. Correspondence, accounts, receipts, deeds, wills, inventory, and other papers.
Subject: Regional History
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Abstract: Correspondence, accounts, receipts, deeds (including deeds for the sale of slaves), wills, inventory, and other papers pertaining to land transactions and other activities of the van Schaick family, including Anna, Anthony, Christina, Gerrit, Jacob, John, Henry, and Gerard van Schaick. Also, a map for the village of Oswego, New York
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1588
Size: 20 cubic ft. Reports, correspondence, minutes, proposals, files, and other records.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Reports, correspondence, minutes, proposals, files, and other records of the Vice President for Administration pertaining to colleges, departments, committees, trustees, special projects, and administrative offices of Cornell University. Topics include funding and budgets; personnel, benefits, and labor relations; student affairs, admissions, and financial aid; buildings and properties; planning and development; housing; dining; transportation; computers; athletics; affirmative action; and other subjects related to Cornell University. Includes files of Vice President for Administration Samuel A. Lawrence.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1243
Size: 17.4 cubic ft. Records.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes records concerning research and research proposals in various academic departments and study centers at Cornell University, including the Center for International Studies, the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, and others; includes files of Franklin A. Long.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6419
Size: 13.1 cubic ft. Minutes, correspondence, records, files, newsletters.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: The collection contains minutes of the Board and their correspondence, records of the Care, Development, Coordinating, Finance and Site Committees, information about annual budgets and finance, operational records, personnel and student files, and newsletters.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6051
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Constitution, annual and quarterly meeting minutes and a membership list of the Society. Also in this volume are accounts from St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Waterloo.
Abstract: Miscellaneous papers pertaining to the operation of the company
and its previous and subsequent names, including Hinde and Dauch Paper Company
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1298
Size: 14.2 cubic ft.; 33 v
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers of E.I. White and his family consist largely of correspondence, leases and other legal agreements, accounts, receipts, inventories, surveys, and other items pertaining to the acquisition of property for the Onondaga Golf and Country Club and to such business matters as purchases of additional land, lease renewals, water supply, railroad right-of-way, and insurance (1899-1919); papers pertaining to the management of the White Farm at Fayetteville (1905-1942); correspondence and other items relating to the Memorial Prize in Oratory established at Syracuse University in honor of Horace Keep White (1916); newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed material
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6029
Size: 9 items. Letters, legal documents.
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Miscellaneous documents include two letters to Hiram White from Henry W. Sage (Ithaca) discussing payment of a note and for a horse, a liquor license granted to Hiram White and a receipt from a New York liquor dealer, and four letters from Civil War soldiers J. M. Brown, Royal S. White, Herman Sawyer and Captain G. V. White discussing war clothing allotment, duties, salary, souvenirs, battles, and recruits. Schuyler County.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0610
Size: 8.3 cubic ft.; 39 v. Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data, political papers, and other materials.
Subject: Commerce
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data and other papers pertaining chiefly to White's involvement in land in northern New York, particularly the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence; material concerning the cement business at Chittenango and Greenkills, New York. Also, political papers (1840-1867), which include material on the Whig Party, patronage, and national and local issues.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1988
Size: .3 cubic ft. A photograph album, scrapbooks, pamphlets, photographs, broadsides, postcards, and greeting cards.
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Includes a photograph album of officers and members of the 1870 New York State Assembly, scrapbooks, pamphlets, photographs, broadsides, postcards, and greeting cards.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2203
Size: 11.7 cubic ft. Correspondence, photographs, mimeographs, meeting minutes.
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Personal correspondence; correspondence, minutes, and bills relating to the University Senate and Constituent Assembly and the University Faculty, c.1968-1980; mimeographed Faculty and Senate records; and Board of Trustees correspondence and mimeographs, 1971-1976; also professional correspondence and work, and photographs.
Abstract: Carpenter-Mayhew papers include correspondence, pamphlets,
photographs, legal and estate papers, photographs, and clippings relating to Alvin
R. Carpenter, Alice Carpenter, Charles Mayhew, Eloise Carpenter Wickham, and Robert
Sloane Wickham. Charles Mayhew Carpenter papers include personal and business
correspondence, 1910-1918, including letters from his estranged wife
Mary
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0503
Size: 43.5 cubic ft. Correspondence, financial records, printed material
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Files of Cornell University's student union include files
relating to the creation of the student union, correspondence, financial records,
printed material, scrapbooks, guestbooks, and some Straight family
correspondence
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0652
Size: 2.8 cubic ft.; 2 v.; 1 folder
Subject: Cornell University
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Letters and other material relating to patronage and machine politics of the Democratic Party in Seneca County; other topics include draft exemptions, laws relating to the hiring of substitutes in the Civil War, pardons, Poor House investigations, canals and canal appointments, letters concerning Governor Tilden's policies, Horatio Seymour's stand on the subject of bounties, and actions taken by the Romulus Convention (1875). Also, papers relating to the German Reformed Church at Bearytown, Seneca County, New York
Abstract: Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 2082
Size: 50 items. Printed Materials
Subject: Architecture and Planning
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Pamphlets, broadsides, circulars, catalogues, and pictures issued by the Wood, Taber, and Morse Company and its predecessor, the A.N. Wood Company of Eaton, New York. The materials were designed to advertise their steam engines for sale. Also included are pamphlets from the Blizzard Manufacturing Company of Canton, Ohio; the Erie City Iron Works of Erie, Pennsylvania; and the Oneida Iron Works of Oneida, New York.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 1739
Size: 6.4 cubic ft. Correspondence, Memorabilia, Photographs,
Report
Subject: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Collection includes reports; letter; station log (1948-1951);
minutes of the Cornell Radio Guild, Inc. (1971); Board minutes (1968); published Program
Guides (1959-1965); and other materials pertaining to Cornell radio station WVBR
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 0820
Size: 1.8 cubic ft. Correspondance, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings.
Subject: Genealogy
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities; student notebooks; scrapbooks of photographs, programs, clippings, and other memorabilia from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning her sister, Sara Louise (Elmira Class of 1904).
Abstract: Correspondence, studies, and various programs conducted within the College of Human Ecology and the ones in New York State are arranged by counties.
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 6024
Size: 1 reel microfilm. Microfilm
Subject: Religion
Subject: Regional History
Abstract: Baptismal and membership records for 1823-1895, one volume of vestry minutes (1827-1917) with entries on official church functions, financial matters and elections, and a sreies of annual sermons (1852-1861).
