COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, travel diaries, official documents, and photographs. Letters from Andrews to his family from Italy, Greece, Crete, and Egypt describing the progress of his archaeological work, personal matters, travels, and activities; an account of the Olympic Games, material pertaining to the Cornell Class of 1895, a gift of Tiffany Favrile glass to the university, the University chimes, and athletics. Correspondents include Alfred Emerson, Willard Straight, Hendrik Willem van Loon, and Bejamin Ide Wheeler.
Also, correspondence, notes, archaeological squeezes, sketches, and photographs relating to Andrews' years in Athens as a student at the American School of Classical Studies. Includes descriptions of duels at the University of Heidelberg, and trips in Switzerland, Sicily, and the Middle East with his wife Helen Putnam Andrews. Also, letters and sketches from van Loon, and notes, programs, tickets, and a newspaper relating to the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens.
Dates
- 1895-1956.
Creator
- Andrews, Eugene Plumb, 1866-1957. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of archaeology, Cornell University.
Extent
.6 cubic feet. (.6 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, travel diaries, official documents, and photographs. Letters from Andrews to his family from Italy, Greece, Crete, and Egypt describing the progress of his archaeological work, personal matters, travels, and activities.
Physical Description
Correspondence, diaries, photographs, squeezes, sketches, and ephemera.
NOTES
Consists of collections #14-6-912, #14-6-412, and #14-6-546.
- American School of Classical Studies (Athens, Greece)
- Andrews, Helen Putnam.
- Archaeology -- Study and teaching.
- Architecture, Classical.
- Classical literature -- Study and teaching.
- Cornell University -- : Athletics.
- Cornell University. Class of 1895
- Crete (Greece) -- Description and travel.
- Diaries.
- Egypt -- Description and travel.
- Emerson, Alfred.
- Greece -- Athens -- Description and travel.
- Greece -- Description and travel.
- Italy -- Description and travel.
- Olympic Games -- 1896 -- Greece -- Athens.
- Parthenon.
- Photographs.
- Sicily (Italy) -- Description and travel
- Straight, Willard.
- Switzerland -- Description and travel.
- Universitat Heidelberg
- Wheeler, Benjamin Ide.
- van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- May 2016
- 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
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