Cornell United Religious Work records
Scope and content
Records of the Cornell University Christian Association include minutes of the Board of Directors, business meetings, the Executive Committee, and other committees; constitution and bylaws; officers and members; financial records; scrapbooks; and office files of Richard Henry Edwards, Director. Records of Cornell United Religious Work include minutes of the Board of Control; office files of Richard H. Edwards, Director, 1930-1939, James A. G. Moore, Acting Director, 1937-1939, and William W. Mendenhall, 1939-1943; scrapbooks; and correspondence relating to the functions and activities of CURW, 1932-1933. Also, tape recordings of the National Association of College Chaplains Conference, 1965; portraits; memorabilia; and miscellaneous reports, books, clippings, pamphlets, photograph albums, and periodicals relating to CURW activities.
Includes records of the East Harlem Project (1965-68), POWER Project files (1968), and the Cornell in Central America Project (1953-1969); and a report on the Brazil '65 Project, designed to interest North American students in the development issues of Latin America.
Dates
- 1869 - 2000
- Majority of material found within 1965 - 1972
Creator
- Cornell United Religious Work (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:
Access to collections #39-2-1267, "Power" Project 1968 files and #39-2-1268, East Harlem Project, 1965-1968 files restricted to the permission of the office of origin.
Extent
223 cubic feet. (223 cubic feet )
Abstract
Records of the Cornell University Christian Association.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Manuscripts,Photographs, Printed Materials, Publications, Scrapbooks
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- November 2010
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, November 2010
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, September 2018
NOTES
Includes collection #39-2-668, #39-2-1267, 39-2-1268 and 39-2-1604.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- November 2010
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu