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Cornell United Religious Work records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 39-2-1468

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.

Scope and content

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

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.

Related Materials

See also Cornell United Religious Work. Sage Chapel Records, #39-2-1300 for programs, sermons, and other relateid items.

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

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)