Skip to main content

Delta Chi records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-734

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Minutes and membership lists, 1899-1988; completed chapter and house meeting report forms (typescript carbon copies, 1951-1964); personnel records, 1957-1964; purchasing records, 1956-1957; rushing books, bylaws, and other pamphlets; scrapbook by William Duke, Jr., 1905; group photographs of fraternity members and Fall, Spring, and Interfraternity Council Weekend events; photograph albums, 1970-1973; "The Chronology of Delta Chi"; abstract of title for 102 The Knoll; materials relating to the sale of the house; and blueprints. Also newsletter, "Cornell Delt," various years 1965-2009 and brochure, "Delta Chi: The Knoll," ca. 1968; Honor Roll of Donors, 1984-85, 1997-98.

Law books from the original Delta Chi library include Miscellaneous Reports New-York, no. 41 Scherer 20, June to November 1903; Miscellaneous Reports New-York, Lester 6 February to April 1907; Miscellaneous Reports New-York, no. 62 (missing title page); A Selection of Cases on the Law of Suretyship, James Barr Ames, Cambridge, 1901; and Cases on the Law of Sales of Goods, Frederick Campbell Woodward, American Case Book Series, St. Paul, West Publishing Co., 1913. Some are signed by students.

Dates

  • 1899-2012.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

6.8 cubic feet. (6.8 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Minutes and membership lists, and other chapter history.

Physical Description

Correspondence, Memorabilia, Manuscripts, Photographs, Printed Materials, Publications, Scrapbooks

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:
David Weber
Date completed:
Summer 2003
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, June 2010
Date Modified:
Marcie Farwell, December 2018

Processing Information

Box 10, which contained construction documents and related financial papers was deaccessioned and removed from the collection in 2012

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by David Weber
Date
June 2010
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)