COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Minutes, correspondence, financial records, clippings, photographs, and printed material concerning the Cayuga Bird Club. Includes the club's constitution (ca. 1913) and papers of incorporation (1914); Arthur Allen's article "Cayuga Bird Club," which provides an early history of the Club and was probably published in Bird Lore; and correspondence of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the club's first president, including letters to him from Jared T. Newman concerning Renwick Woodland improvement. Also, newsletters, 1989-1997, by-laws, newspaper clippings, membership lists, and receipts.
Dates
- 1913-1997.
Creator
- Cayuga Bird Club (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
The Cayuga Bird Club was founded ca. 1913. Its first secretary was Arthur A. Allen; Louis Agassiz Fuertes served as the first president. Charter members included Liberty Hyde Bailey, Martha Van Rensselaer, Prof. William A. Stocking, Mynderse Van Cleef, and Prof. Walter F. Willcox.
Extent
1.4 cubic feet. (1.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Minutes, correspondence, financial records, clippings, photographs, and printed material concerning the Cayuga Bird Club. Includes the club's constitution (ca. 1913) and papers of incorporation (1914); Arthur Allen's article "Cayuga Bird Club"; and correspondence of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the club's first president, including letters to him from Jared T. Newman concerning Renwick Woodland improvement.
PROVENANCE
The papers of the Cayuga Bird Club were part of the original Arthur A. Allen accession.
Physical Description
Minutes, correspondence, financial records, clippings, photographs, and printed material.
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:
- Janet Hodgson
- Date completed:
- July 1973
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, January 2002
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, October 2012
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Janet Hodgson
- Date
- January 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
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