COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Three albums of photographs taken primarily by Emma McDivitt, but also containing John P. Troy and Ernest Abbe photographs, of Cornell University students and campus scenes, family gatherings, as well as scenes from her travels in Europe and East Asia. Includes photographs of the Bowers, Linson, Phillips, Reynolds, Snook and Westervelt families and the Horton family of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, at weddings and other family gatherings; also of rural and urban street scenes. Other subjects include the solar eclipse of January 1925; the unveiling of the Ezra Cornell statue at Cornell University; Long Island College Hospital; U.S. Marine Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; and various views in Ithaca, Tompkins County, Watkins Glen, Schuyler County and Sullivan County, New York. Also, photographs of Brooklyn, New York; Dumont and Trenton, New Jersey; the Philippine Islands; Seoul, Korea; the Ming tombs in China; and other views of the Far East and Western Europe; and photographs of individuals, some Cornell staff and students, including Harding Fred Horton (Cornell University Class of 1917) in his freshman beanie; Clarence Dagnall (Cornell University M.S. 1922); Lucretia Hinkley Ferguson (Cornell University Class of 1919); Charles Evans Hughes; Merton Jones (Cornell University Class of 1921); Marcus Aurelius McMaster (Cornell University Class of 1921); Merrill H. Moore; George H. Rekate (Cornell University Class of 1907); Alfred Emmanuel Smith;
Wilmer Cressman Swartly (Cornell University Class of 1930); and McDivitt's husband John McDivitt.
Dates
- [ca.1900-1926].
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Emma L. Phillips of Dumont, New Jersey married Dr. John McDivitt, who died in 1911. Following his death, Mrs. McDivitt moved to Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, where her cousin, Jennie Sewell Linson Horton lived in an area called Forest Home. McDivitt was employed at the New York State Extension Office, Roberts Hall, Cornell University, from 1919 to 1930.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Three albums of photographs taken primarily by Emma McDivitt, but also containing John P. Troy and Ernest Abbe photographs, of Cornell University students and campus scenes, family gatherings, as well as scenes from her travels in Europe and East Asia. Other subjects include the solar eclipse of January 1925 and the unveiling of the Ezra Cornell statue at Cornell University.
SERIES LIST
Physical Description
Photograph albums
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:
- K. Jacklin
- Date completed:
- January 1984
- EAD encoding:
- Daniel J. Keeley, October 2002
- Abbe, Ernest.
- Bowers family.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- China.
- Cities and towns.
- Cornell University. Cooperative Extension
- Dagnall, Clarence.
- Dumont (N.J.).
- East Asia.
- Europe.
- Families.
- Farm life.
- Ferguson, Lucretia Hinckley.
- Horton family.
- Horton, Harding Fred, -1918.
- Horton, Jennie Sewell Linson.
- Hughes, Charles Evans.
- Ithaca (N.Y.).
- Jones, Merton.
- Linson family.
- Long Island College Hospital
- McDivitt, John, -1911.
- McMaster, Marcus Aurelius.
- Moore, Merrill H.
- Philippines.
- Phillips family.
- Photographs.
- Rekate, George H.
- Reynolds family.
- Schuyler County (N.Y.)
- Seoul (Korea).
- Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944.
- Snook family.
- Solar eclipses -- 1925.
- Sullivan County (N.Y.)
- Swartly, Wilmer Cressman.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.)
- Trenton (N.J.).
- Troy, John P.
- U.S. Marine Hospital (Detroit, Mich.)
- Watkins Glen (N.Y.).
- Weddings.
- Westervelt family.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by K. Jacklin
- Date
- October 2002
- 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