Cornell Cooperative Extension Teaching and Information Department recordings
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
183 twelve and sixteen inch records of speeches, interviews, and informal talks by such figures in the field of agriculture and related professions as Bristow Adams, Howard E. Babcock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cornelius Betton, Louis Bromfield, Thomas E. Dewey, Edward R. Eastman, Glen W. Herrick, Carl Ladd, Clyde Moore, William I. Myers, Edward O'Neal, E. Lawrence Palmer, James E. Rice, James B. Sumner, and Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.; recordings made by well-known personalities in other fields such as Hans Bethe talking on atomic energy (1945), Edward R. Murrow on V-J Day (1945), and Anthony Eden and Bidault on V-E Day; recordings of important Cornell programs such as the Thurston Memorial Celebration (1939), and the launching of the victory ship CORNELL VICTORY (1945); recordings of other events of regional interest in New York State such as the inaugural program radio station WENY (Elmira), and two recorded programs of the New York State Historical Plays Series; recordings concerning the Nature Study Program at Cornell; numerous agricultural and home economics technical extension programs; and a number of recorded performances of Cornell University choral and instrumental groups.
Dates
- [ca. 1937-1955]
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
7 audiotape reels. (7 audiotape reels. 7 tape recordings.,)
Abstract
183 twelve and sixteen inch records of speeches, interviews, and informal talks by such figures in the field of agriculture and related professions.
Physical Description
Audio Recordings
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:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- July 2010
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, July 2010
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, May 2016
- Adams, Bristow, 1875-1957.
- Agricultural extension work -- New York (State)
- Agriculture -- New York (State)
- Babcock, H. E. (Howard Edward), 1889-1950.
- Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005.
- Betten, Cornelius.
- Bidault, Georges.
- Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956.
- Cornell University. Nature Study Program
- Cornell Victory (ship)
- Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
- Eastman, Edward R.
- Herrick, Glenn W. (Glenn Washington), 1870-1965.
- Home economics extension work -- New York (State)
- Ladd, C. E. (Carl Edwin), 1888-1943.
- Moore, Clyde.
- Murrow, Edward R.
- Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976.
- Nature study.
- New York State College of Agriculture
- Nuclear energy.
- O\'Neal, Edward Asbury.
- Palmer, E. Laurence (Ephraim Laurence), 1888-1970.
- Rice, James E.
- Sumner, James B. (James Batcheller), 1887-1955.
- Van Wagenen, Jared, Jr.
- WENY (Radio station : Elmira, N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- July 2010
- 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