COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence; photographs and negatives; maps, blueprints, and specifications; clippings; addresses and lectures; printed material; reports; constitution, by-laws, and amendments; financial records; applications; minutes; and other papers documenting the career of Lucien L. Nunn, his founding and direction of the Telluride Association, and the development of the electrical power industry in the United States, including information concerning the Telluride Motor Company, Telluride Power Company, and Ontario Power Company. Also, manuscript history of Telluride by Orville Sweeting. Black and white photographs of Telluride Association Conventions, 1911-1960 and CD with pdf copies of photographs. DVD titled "Hydro Power" from the Rocky Mountain PBS series Colorado Experience, season 2 (2014).
Letters from L.L. Nunn to Wallace Cook.
Family letters, primarily to L. L. Nunn,1863-1938, 1881-1882 (bulk) include original letters, many with typescript transcripts, as well as photocopies. Correspondents include his mother, Miriam Kendall Nunn, his brothers Josiah J. Nunn and Frederick Thomas Nunn, and especially his sister Nellie. 1846 Bible given to L. L. Nunn by his grandmother, Mary Towler Kendall and an 1867 Concordance owned by Nunn. Also, Nunn family genealogy sheets, copies of "snippets" from the diaries of Alice Bird (L. L. Nunn's niece), and three photographs.
Group photographs of members of the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, 1910-1960.
Dates
- 1863-1971.
Creator
- Nunn, L. L. (Lucien Lucius), 1853-1925. (Person)
- Bird, Alice. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Electrical engineer. Lucien L. Nunn founded the Telluride Power Company in Telluride, Colorado, and the Telluride Association, a student-managed organization which provides housing and other assistance for intellectually gifted high school and college students at Cornell University and at Deep Springs, California.
Extent
53 cubic feet.
Abstract
Papers documenting the career of Lucien L. Nunn.
SERIES LIST
Series I. L.L. Nunn-Personal Boxes: 1-3, 29, 30, 61, 68
Biographical Information Correspondence and Documents Financial and Legal Records Publications Belonging to Nunn Photographs Miscellany and Nunn's Personal Effects
Series II. Carroll Whitman Box: 3
Correspondence Financial Records Miscellany
Series III. Telluride Power Company and the Power Industry Boxes: 4-10, 31, 32
Correspondence and Related Documents Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes Legal Documents Papers, Addresses, & Reports News Clippings, Articles & Other Publications Maps, Drawings, Blueprints, Graphs, Charts etc. Photographs, Illustrations, & Negatives Miscellany Beaver River Power Company Big Springs Power Company Ontario Power Company The Power Company, Norris Montana Wyoming Electric Its Predecessor - San Miguel Consolidated Gold Mining Company Its Successor - Utah Power & Light Company Telluride Institute Other Power Industry Companies Power Industry Publications Power Industry Miscellany
Series IV. Telluride Association Boxes: 12-18, 20-21, 63-67, 5 loose volumes
Alumni Committees Conventions Corporation Correspondence and Documents Custodians Financial and Legal Records Lectureships Reports Miscellany Branches Publications
Series V. Deep Springs Boxes: 18-19
Correspondence and Documents Financial Records Student Body Minutes Miscellany Photographs Publications
Series VI. Photographs Boxes: 26-28, 43, 62,71
Places: Survey Photography, Landscapes, Interiors, etc. Electrical, Mining, and Mill Interests Deep Springs Telluride Association and House Miscellaneous and Unidentified Photograph Negatives People: Portraiture, Individual, and Group Photographs Electrical, Mining, and Mill Interests Deep Springs Telluride Association and House Miscellaneous and Unidentified Technical Nunn Personal
Series VII. Miscellany Boxes: 10-11, 64, 65, 71, 1 loose volume
Series VIII. Orville Sweeting Boxes: 22-25
General Correspondence Research Material Sweeting Photo Project Manuscript
Physical Description
Extent is approximate.
Physical Description
Correspondence; photographs and negatives; maps, blueprints, and specifications; clippings; addresses and lectures; printed material; reports; constitution, by-laws, and amendments; financial records; applications; minutes; and other papers.
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:
- Malinda Rae AllenAmanda Littauer
- Date completed:
- August 1997
- EAD encoding:
- Mireille Lee, August 2000
- Date modified:
- Fredrika Loew, October 2018
General
Some Telluride Association newsletters and photographs from this collection are available online here: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/29989
General
An extensive amount of additional digitized material, compiled by Denis Clark, regarding Nunn, Telluride Power, Deep Springs and the Telluride Association is available on DVD #809 within this collection. Some of the material is from Cornell, but the DVD also contains files from other sources.
- Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
- Blueprints.
- Education -- Societies, etc.
- Electric utilities.
- Hydroelectric power plants.
- Maps.
- Negatives.
- Nunn family.
- Nunn, Charles Robert.
- Nunn, Ellen.
- Nunn, Frederick L.
- Nunn, Josiah J.
- Nunn, Miriam Kendall.
- Nunn, Urban.
- Ontario Power Company
- Photographs.
- Specifications.
- Sweeting, Orville.
- Telluride Association
- Telluride Motor Company
- Telluride Power Company
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Malinda Rae Allen, Amanda Littauer
- Date
- August 2000
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
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