Department of Soil, Crops, and Atmospheric Science records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records include a manuscript concerning the history of agronomy at Cornell University; eleven photograph albums pertaining to soils and crops, taken by Cornell professors E. O. Fippin, E. L. Worthen, Ernest VanAlstine, and others; correspondence and design material for Caldwell and Leland field houses, and Bradfield and Emerson Halls. Also, black and white photographs of department activities, 1950s and 1960s, and portraits of the faculty, 1920-1950. Also, photographic slides and photoprints and negatives (c.1905-1980), especially by Reeshon Feuer and Harry Kerr, of agronomic projects and tests; and Herbert B. Hartwig instructional materials for elementary agronomy.
Also, photographs, many well annotated, of 1930s and 1940s farm structures and equipment, soil conservation; framed print that served as a departmental registry of marriages; photograph of Chinese trainees; slides, and other papers and records.
Dates
- 1900-1996.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
3.8 cubic feet. (3.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Records include a manuscript concerning the history of agronomy at Cornell University.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Photographs, Research Materials
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:
- August 2009
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, August 2009
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2018
- Agriculture -- Study and teaching.
- Agronomy.
- Crops and soils.
- Feuer, Reeshon.
- Fippin, Elmer O. (Elmer Otterbein), 1879-1949.
- Hartwig, Herbert B.
- Kerr, Harry.
- Lucey, Robert
- New York State College of Agriculture -- : Buildings.
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agronomy -- : History.
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agronomy -- : Description -- : Views.
- Photographs.
- Soil management.
- VanAlstine, Ernest.
- Worthen, E. L.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- August 2009
- 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