Stuyvesant Morris Pell papers

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Identifier: 3459

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes lab and lecture notes taken by Pell while at Cornell University with sketches and drawings related to various courses; thesis, monographs, and notes on the common snapping turtle, ca.1939; notebooks with photographs and commentary on wildlife including a "Log of the Pleasant Valley Beaver Colony," 1932, "Log of the Survey of Southern Sanctuaries," 1937, and others from Yosemite Field School, 1939, and from Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1940; broadsides, brochures, and pamphlets relating to wildlife sanctuaries; prepared biology slides, dissecting kit, and field magnifying lens; original manuscript, carbon copies, and galley proof of SCRIBBLINGS OF AN OUTDOOR BOY, an autobiography; sketches and sketchbooks, pen-and-ink drawings and original watercolor paintings, mostly of birds, wildlife, and camping scenes; also glass slides and photographs of Pell's watercolors, scenes, trips, and wildlife.

Dates

[ca.1917-1945].

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Stuyvesant Morris Pell was a specialist in conservation of natural resources and manager of the 16,000 acre range of the Huron Mountain Club in northern Michigan. He was born in New York City and received a B.S. from Cornell in 1939 and an M.S. in 1941. For five years he was warden of the Pleasant Valley Bird and Wild Flower Sanctuary in Lenox, Massachusetts, and he spent one summer as a naturalist and ranger in Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine.

Extent

4.4 cubic feet. (4.4 cubic feet.)

8 mapcase folders. (8 mapcase folders.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes lab and lecture notes taken by Pell while at Cornell University, sketches and drawings, thesis and monographs.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Student Papers Box 1 and Map case Coursework Lecture Notes Diplomas and Certificates

Series II. Field Work Boxes 1-2, 4 and Mapcase Folder 7 Field Notes and Notebooks Informational Materials

Series III. Manuscript and Reprints Boxes 3 and 4

Series IV. Photographic Materials Boxes 4-7

Series V. Artwork Box 4, 9, 10 and Mapcase Folder 1-6 and 8-9

Series VI. Scientific and Art Objects Box 3 and 8

Physical Description

{Manuscripts, research materials

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.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: May 2013
EAD encoding:: Marcie Farwell, May 2013
Date modified:: Jude Corina, February 2018