COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, passports, photographs, certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other papers of an upstate New York physician and college professor. Includes correspondence, accounts, historical descriptions, constitution and by-laws, and other papers pertaining to Cornell University's African-American fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, including a paddle.
Dates
- 1906-1987.
Creator
- Galvin family. (Family)
- Galvin, Gregory Alexander, 1907-. (Person)
- Galvin, Corinne Brown, 1907-. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Family members include Gregory Alexander Galvin, M.D., Meharry Medical College, and Corinne Brown Galvin, Ph.D., Ithaca College professor.
Extent
.8 cubic feet. (.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, passports, photographs, certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other papers of an upstate New York physician and college professor. Includes correspondence, accounts, historical descriptions, constitution and by-laws, and other papers pertaining to Cornell University's African-American fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha.
Physical Description
Correspondence, passports, photographs, certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other papers.
- African American students -- Social life and customs -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- African Americans -- Education.
- African Americans -- Socieites, etc.
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Alpha Chapter (Cornell University)
- Cornell University -- : Students.
- Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Ithaca College -- : Faculty.
- Meharry Medical College
- Photographs.
- Physicians (General practice) -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by H. Finch
- 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