COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Diaries, correspondence, and personal and professional files of Anne Julienne Russ, with the diaries and correspondence of some members of her family: her mother Doris Russ, her grandmother Persons, her grandmother Russ, and her great grandmother Lotridge. Doris Russ' diaries include passages about dealing with her cancer, and Anne's papers include personal reflections on the death of her mother. Also, several yearbooks, including: her high school yearbook, the Uptonian (Mount Upton, NY), where she was class president, plus the '54 Uptonian showing her mother, Doris Russ, an English teacher and librarian. The Anne Russ diaries include reflections on many aspects of her life, reading, work, and friends and her delight in her daughter.
Dates
- 1903-2000.
Creator
- Russ, Anne J. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of sociology and director of secondary education program at Wells College and mother of Dorinne Barbara Russ. Her teaching interests included the sociology of education, Latin America, and women's studies. She explored the ways ethnicity, class, and gender influcence organizations and institutions. Her education included a B.S., State University of New York at Cortland, M.A., Southern Methodist University, and Ph.D., Cornell University. Born July 21, 1937, Russ died from cancer on March 5, 2001.
Extent
3 cubic feet. (3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Diaries, correspondence, and personal and professional files of Anne Julienne Russ, with the diaries and correspondence of some members of her family: her mother Doris Russ, her grandmother Persons, her grandmother Russ, and her great grandmother Lotridge. Doris Russ' diaries include passages about dealing with her cancer, and Anne's papers include personal reflections on the death of her mother. Also, several yearbooks, including: her high school yearbook, the Uptonian (Mount Upton, NY), where she was class president, plus the '54 Uptonian showing her mother, Doris Russ, an English teacher and librarian. The Anne Russ diaries include reflections on many aspects of her life, reading, work, and friends and her delight in her daughter.
Physical Description
Letters, diaries, books
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:
- Kim Webster
- Date completed:
- October 2001
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, May 2004
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kim Webster
- Date
- May 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