Scope and content
Dates
- 1854-1956.
Creator
- McGraw family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
4 folders.
Abstract
Business and family correspondence, relating to lumbering interests near Canadea, New York; McGraw family genealogy; diaries and accounts of travels in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Egypt; Jennie McGraw Fiske diaries refer to travels in England and on the Continent, and to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York. Other subjects include Cornell University faculty members, the settlement of the estate of John McGraw, and a memorial to McGraw by the Cornell University Board of Trustees. Major correspondents and persons figuring prominently in the collection include Douglass Boardman, J. W. Dwight, Willard Fiske, Mary Celestia McGraw, John Ellis Southworth, and Anna Gauntlett Whitcomb.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Correspondence Box: 1
Series II. Diaries Box: 1
Series III. Financial and Legal Documents Box: 1
Series IV. W.J. Young and Company Box: 1
Series V. Miscellaneous Box: 1
Series VI. Photographs Box: 1
Physical Description
Correspondence, financial and legal documents, diaries, photographs
- Boardman, Douglass, 1822-1891.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel.
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Cornell University. Board of Trustees
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Description and travel.
- Dwight, J. W.
- Egypt -- Description and travel.
- England -- Description and travel.
- Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Fiske, Jennie McGraw, 1840-1881.
- Fiske, Willard, 1831-1904.
- France -- Description and travel.
- Genealogy -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Germany -- Description and travel.
- H. W. Sage and Company
- Italy -- Description and travel.
- Lumber trade -- Minnesota.
- Lumber trade -- New York (State) -- Canadea.
- Lumber trade -- Ontario.
- Lumber trade -- Wisconsin.
- McGraw, John, 1815-1877.
- McGraw, Mary Celestia.
- Mills and mill-work -- Minnesota.
- Mills and mill-work -- Ontario.
- Mills and mill-work -- Wisconsin.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel.
- Russia -- Description and travel.
- Sage, Henry W. (Henry Williams), 1814-1897.
- Southworth, John Ellis.
- Stereoscopic photographs.
- Taylor, William E.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
- Whitcomb, Anna Gauntlett.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Katherine A. Talcott
- Date
- April 2005
- 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
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