Adelaide Taber Young papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities; student notebooks; scrapbooks (4 vols., 1894-1904) of photographs, programs, clippings, and other memorabilia from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning her sister, Sara Louise (Elmira Class of 1904); a book of American history notes (1898); 53 photographs of trees identified by their Latin names, with a letter (1901) from Professor Willard W. Rowlee of the Cornell Botany Department concerning them, and 22 pressed and mounted botanical specimens (unidentified); a letter (1901) from George Lincoln Burr; correspondence (1890-1901) with family and friends; photographs of friends and relatives from her hometown, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, from Cornell and Ithaca, and from Elmira College.
Dates
- 1887-1911.
Creator
- Young, Adelaide Taber, 1877-1964. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
After graduation from Cornell University (Class of 1899), Adelaide Young taught biology and physiology at Elmira College, Elmira, New York. She married Dr. Farnham Horatio Shaw.
Extent
1.8 cubic feet. (1.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities; student notebooks; scrapbooks of photographs, programs, clippings, and other memorabilia from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning her sister, Sara Louise (Elmira Class of 1904).
Physical Description
Correspondance, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings.
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.B. Levine, N. Dean
- Date completed:
- December 1991
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2003
- Botanical specimens.
- Botany.
- Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.
- Elmira College -- : Students.
- Greek letter societies.
- Notebooks.
- Photographs.
- Rowlee, Willard W.
- Scrapbooks.
- Shaw, Adelaide Taber Young.
- Students -- Recreation.
- Trees.
- Women college students.
- Women college teachers.
- Young family.
- Young, Sara Louise.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by A.B. Levine, N. Dean
- Date
- May 2003
- 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