Cornell United Religious Work records
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.
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
- Cornell United Religious Work (Organization)
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.
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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu