Cornell University College of Engineering photographs
Scope and content
College of Engineering photographic negatives, ca. 1945-1965, unidentified; seven lantern slides of field trips, 1870-1900, identified; photographs of Physics Dept. apparatus, 1870s-1880s, identified; five glass negatives and photographs of the construction of the Hydraulic Laboratory; glass slides depicting College of Engineering equipment and facilities (1870-1900); and photographs of John McMullen with a McMullen Scholarship brochure and electrical engineering photos of equipment, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and Professor Victor Colby with his "EE Sculpture" that was installed in Phillips Hall. Includes carte-de-visite photographs of engineering students, 1888, 1893, 1898, 1900, and 1901.
Dates
- 1870-1990.
Creator
- Cornell University. College of Engineering (Organization)
- Colby, Victor (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
4.8 cubic feet. (4.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
College of Engineering photographic negatives, ca. 1945-1965, unidentified; seven lantern slides of field trips, 1870-1900, identified; photographs of Physics Dept. apparatus, 1870s-1880s, identified; five glass negatives and photographs of the construction of the Hydraulic Laboratory; glass slides depicting College of Engineering equipment and facilities (1870-1900); and photographs of John McMullen with a McMullen Scholarship brochure.
Physical Description
Photographs, Maps, Portraits, Negatives, Contact Sheets
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:
- Laura Linke
- Date completed:
- December 2007
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff. March 2008
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, May 2017
- Cornell University -- : Description -- : Views.
- Engineering -- Study and teaching.
- Lantern slides.
- McMullen, John, 1848-1921.
- Negatives.
- Photographs
- Physical instruments
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Laura Linke, December 2007
- Date
- March 2008
- 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)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
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