Cornell University pictorial works
Scope and content
Engravings of entrance to Willard Straight Hall on the Cornell University campus, by Albert Edward Milliken. Also engravings of Sage Chapel, the Library Tower, and the statue of Ezra Cornell, by Milliken, with poems by Albert W. Smith. Framed engravings of the Tower, Sage Chapel, and the statue by Milliken, and of the War Memorial by Kenneth Washburn.
Also photographs of artwork by Alex Close of Myron Taylor Hall and Uris Library from Libe Slope.
Early photolithographs of the Cornell campus, consisting of Morrill and McGraw Halls, "A.M. Photo-Lithographic Co., N.Y. (Osborne's Process), Geo. le B. Hartt, Del."
Photograph "In College Precincts," by O. D. Von Engeln, ca. 1917, of students walking on the Arts Quad.
Prints of Goldwin Smith Hall, Willard Straight Hall, "Lib" Tower, Sage Chapel, and "High Above Cayuga's Waters," by Carol Case Gaasch, ca. 2005.
Lithographs of "Libe Slope," "Winter," and "Triphammer Gorge," by Robert Brooks Childress (Childress Associates), 1969. Also, a reprint of an image of the clock tower by Robert Childress.
A pamphlet of steel etchings, no author, publisher, or date (1920s?), including the entrance to the Library (now Uris Library), Goldwin Smith Hall, Baker Laboratory, "the new dormitories for women," the Crescent, the hydraulics laboratory, Sage Chapel, Sibley College of Engineering, the Johnny Parsons Club, Baker Dormitories, Willard Straight Hall, and the entrance to James Law Hall.
Page from Harper's Weekly (1873) with steel engravings of scenes of Cornell University, based on photographs by J. Beardsley.
Four watercolors of campus scenes by Peter Swayer, an etching of Uris Library by Harold Breul, two reprinted samples of Elise Dinsmore Popkin's pastels of Libe Slope.
Dates
- ca. 1870-2005.
Creator
- no primary creator (Person)
- Milliken, Albert Edward. (Person)
- Smith, Albert W. (Albert William), 1856-1942. (Person)
- Close, Alex. (Person)
- Hartt, George le B. (Person)
- Gaasch, Carol Case. (Person)
- Childress, Robert Brooks. (Person)
- American Photo-Lithographic Company (N.Y.) (Organization)
- Childress Associates (Organization)
Extent
.2 cubic feet. (.2 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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