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Cornell United Religious Work records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 39-2-1468

Scope and content

Records of the Cornell University Christian Association include minutes of the Board of Directors, business meetings, the Executive Committee, and other committees; constitution and bylaws; officers and members; financial records; scrapbooks; and office files of Richard Henry Edwards, Director. Records of Cornell United Religious Work include minutes of the Board of Control; office files of Richard H. Edwards, Director, 1930-1939, James A. G. Moore, Acting Director, 1937-1939, and William W. Mendenhall, 1939-1943; scrapbooks; and correspondence relating to the functions and activities of CURW, 1932-1933. Also, tape recordings of the National Association of College Chaplains Conference, 1965; portraits; memorabilia; and miscellaneous reports, books, clippings, pamphlets, photograph albums, and periodicals relating to CURW activities.

Scope and content

Includes records of the East Harlem Project (1965-68), POWER Project files (1968), and the Cornell in Central America Project (1953-1969); and a report on the Brazil '65 Project, designed to interest North American students in the development issues of Latin America.

Dates

  • 1869 - 1972
  • Majority of material found within 1965 - 1972

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access Restrictions:

Access to collections #39-2-1267, "Power" Project 1968 files and #39-2-1268, East Harlem Project, 1965-1968 files restricted to the permission of the office of origin.

Extent

184 cubic feet. (184 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Records of the Cornell University Christian Association.

Related Materials

See also Cornell United Religious Work. Sage Chapel Records, #39-2-1300 for programs, sermons, and other relateid items.

Physical Description

Correspondence, Manuscripts,Photographs, Printed Materials, Publications, Scrapbooks

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:
November 2010
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, November 2010
Date modified:
Marcie Farwell, September 2018

NOTES

Includes collection #39-2-668, #39-2-1267, 39-2-1268 and 39-2-1604.

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
November 2010
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)