COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, pamphlets, charts, speeches, reports, published and unpublished manuscripts, and other printed material relating to Philip Cornick's research and writings in the fields of land economics, taxation, land use, urban planning, and public works planning. Materials cover many areas across the country, including Tennessee, Ohio, Maine, Massachusetts, New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Also includes materials concerning Henry George's "single tax," forest taxation, the Regional Plan Association, the International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, and land assessment.
Dates
- 1922-1971.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Philip Cornick received his bachelors degree from the University of Tennessee in 1903, later becoming head of the land department of the Bank of Sonora, Mexico. During World War I he served as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers. After the war, he joined the faculty of Columbia University as a research specialist on the staff of the Institute of Public Administration. He remained with the institute when it became an independent research institution and served as a senior researcher until his retirement in 1947. Frequently on loan from the institute to the Federal Housing Authority and the Tennessee Valley Authority, he conducted a TVA study in the 1930s that led to many reforms in its administrative practices. Cornick also helped a number of states reform real estate taxes and develop land value taxation codes. He was an opponent of Richard T. Ely's land speculation theories; he led the Henry George movement for land value taxation and free trade. Member, International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, New York Chapter.
Extent
31 cubic feet. (31 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, pamphlets, charts, speeches, reports, published and unpublished manuscripts, and other printed material relating to Philip Cornick's research and writings in the fields of land economics, taxation, land use, urban planning, and public works planning. Materials cover many areas across the country, including Tennessee, Ohio, Maine, Massachusetts, New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Also includes materials concerning Henry George's "single tax," forest taxation, the Regional Plan Association, the International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, and land assessment.
Physical Description
Correspondence, pamphlets, charts, speeches, reports, published and unpublished manuscripts, and other printed material.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:
- J.B. Hodgson, G. Stamp
- Date completed:
- August 1974
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2002
- Charts.
- City planning.
- Economists.
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943.
- George, Henry.
- Lambda Alpha International. New York Chapter
- Land economics.
- Land use -- Economic aspects.
- Land use -- Effect of taxation on.
- Land use.
- Maine.
- Massachusetts.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Newark (N.J.)
- Ohio.
- Public works.
- Real property -- Valuation.
- Real property tax.
- Regional Plan Association
- Speeches.
- Taxation.
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Tennessee.
- Urban renewal.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by J.B. Hodgson, G. Stamp
- Date
- April 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