COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, notes, speeches, memoranda, certificates, clippings, financial records, photographs, and printed material concerning the American Agriculturist, Inc.; Century Farms in various New York counties; GLF and the New York State Grange; the New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Inc.; the New York State Fair; and the New York Farm Bureau. Personal papers include materials pertaining to the Cornell University Alumni Association, YMCA, church work, and the Homer, New York, school and Planning Board.
Dates
- [ca. 1916]-1986.
Creator
- Creal, Harold L., 1896-1987. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Harold Leroy Creal graduated from Cornell University in 1921. He operated a dairy farm in Cortland County, New York. From 1932 to 1938, he served as Supervisor of the Town of Homer, New York. He also served in the New York State Assembly from 1939 to 1950, as Director of the New York State Fair from 1950 to 1955, as Director of the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association, and as Director of the Cooperative Grange League Federation.
Extent
2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, notes, speeches, memoranda, certificates, clippings, financial records, photographs, and printed material concerning the American Agriculturist, Inc.; Century Farms in various New York counties; GLF and the New York State Grange; the New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Inc.; the New York State Fair; and the New York Farm Bureau. Personal papers include materials pertaining to the Cornell University Alumni Association, YMCA, church work, and the Homer, New York, school and Planning Board.
Physical Description
Correspondence, notes, speeches, memoranda, certificates, clippings, financial records, photographs, and 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:
- A.C. Lipsky
- Date completed:
- February 1988
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2004
- Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State)
- Agriculture -- New York (State)
- Agriculture, Cooperative -- New York (State)
- American Agriculturist, Inc
- Cornell University Alumni Association
- Cornell University. Class of 1921
- Homer (N.Y. : Town). Planning Board
- National Grange
- New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives
- New York State Fair
- New York State Farm Bureau Federation
- New York State Grange
- Photographs.
- Young Men\'s Christian associations.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by A.C. Lipsky
- Date
- April 2004
- 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