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Alvin Carpenter and Helen Worden Carpenter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-4360

Scope and content

Notebooks and other items relating to Cornell student life and classes, including Alvin Carpenter's a 1928 physiology lab report; signed 1979 photograph of F. Marcham; Helen Worden's notebooks on philosophy, cigar maker's union, and translations of the classics (1927); pamphlets.

Dates

  • 1919-1928.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Both students, class of 1928.

Extent

1 cubic feet. (1 cubic feet.)

SEPERATED MATERIALS

Volumes catalogued individually, What can make higher education religious? inscribed by the author Richard Henry Edwards to Helen Carpenter has been catalogued individually. At Cornell inscribed by the author, O. D. von Engeln, to Mary Kelly Allaben who, the book notes, along with her husband Charles Allaben were high school classmates of von Engeln's wife Maude. Book indicates that Charlie introduced them to each other at Cornell. Volumes not retained, Cornell University: Founders and Founding inscribed to Sunny Worden Carpenter by Foster Coffin.

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
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Script of description
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Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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