Mary Merritt Crawford and Family papers
Abstract
Includes campaign material and reports to the Cornell Alumni Corporation (1932-37) upon completion of each of her terms as alumni trustee; tape recordings and a partial transcript of interviews with Dr. Crawford (1962, 1964) concerning her life as a Cornell co-ed, her career as a doctor, and her service on the Board of Trustees. Also, correspondence, notes, photographs, and printed material concerning alumni affairs, including lists of Cornell women graduates (1873-88) and biographical and bibliographical data compiled by Bessie Bell DeWitt (Mrs. Willard Beahan) and printed material compiled by Simon Henry Gage, Professor of Histology and Embryology, on Susanna Phelps Gage ('80), Mary Hannah Gage-Day, M.D., Theobald Smith ('81), Professor of Histology and Embryology, and the first faculty of the Veterinary College. Medical hood worn by Dr. Crawford as a Cornell Trustee.
Dates
- 1903-1964.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
10.2 cubic feet. (10.2 cubic feet.)
2 audiocassettes. (2 audiocassettes.)
SERIES LIST
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Fredrika Loew
- Date completed:
- March 2018
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, March 2018
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, September 2018
NOTES
Some letters by Mary Merritt Crawford written while she was a surgeon at the American Ambulance Hospital in France were published in Vol. I, No. 2-5 (1915-16) of the Cornell Women's Review.
- Ambulance service -- France.
- American Hospital of Paris
- Cornell Alumni Corporation
- Cornell University. Board of Trustees
- Crawford, Charlotte.
- Crawford, Lucy.
- DeWitt, Bessie Bell.
- Diaries.
- Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944.
- Gage, Susanna Phelps.
- Gage-Day, Mary Hannah.
- Jaffe, Mary Schuster.
- Photographs.
- Physicians.
- Schuster, Edward.
- Schuster, Mary Merritt Crawford, 1884-1972.
- Scrapbooks.
- Smith, Theobald, 1859-1934.
- Wolff, Caroline Crawford.
- Women college students.
- Women physicians.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- France.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- March 2018
- 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
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu