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Alpha Phi Alpha records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-2509

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence between Cornell Alumni News editor John Marcham and Mrs. Donald B. Saunders, September 30, 1968 and October 11, 1968; photographs of Robert H. Ogle, Vertner W. Tandy, George B. Kelley, and Henry A. Callis (chapter officers), and of meeting places and ceremonies; clippings and articles; and posters, handbills, brochures, and other miscellaneous items of Alpha Phi Alpha at Cornell University. Includes Round-Up Banquet programs. Early records from 1910-1929 include minutes of meetings, Annual Convention Reports, committee reports, scrapbook, and correspondence.

Contains materials related to the fraternity's Cornell pilgrimage (2005) and centennial celebration (2006), including a November 19, 2005 album signed by past presidents and members who attended the event and a poster signed by brothers who were present at the December 4, 2006 meeting of the New York Association of Chapters of Alpha.

Complete digitized set of the Sphinx Magazine available on a hard drive.

Master/raw video footage filmed by Rubicon Production, Inc. related to the production of the centennial documentary film entitled Alpha Phi Alpha: A Century of Leadership. Includes 95 Betacam SP Videocassette tapes; 4 DVM 60 Mini digital videocassette tapes; and 4 hard disk drives. The footage includes extensive interviews with many Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers, as well as non-fraternity members; professionally staged re-enactments of historical moments and scenes from the Fraternity's history; and footage from events and activities at the General Conventions in Detroit and Philadelphia. Also an MP3 file containing an interview conducted with brother Dr. Donald Graham.

Dates

  • 1907-2021.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access Restrictions:

Access to Box 2 restricted to members of any chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha with current fraternity ID card (fraternity provides list of members) or by permission from current members of Alpha Chapter, Iota Iota Lambda Chapter, Alpha Chapter Alumni, or the National Historian, either in person or by signed letter.

Use Restrictions:

Due to the nature of electronic records, use of all born digital content on physical media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, zip disks, and external hard drives is limited to digital copies.

Conditions Governing Use

Discretion should be used when reproducing items from Box 2 regarding placing digital images online.

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Alpha Phi Alpha was established at Cornell University in 1906. It was the first black fraternity at Cornell, founded by Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy. Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha chapter is still active at Cornell.

Extent

6.3 cubic feet. (6.3 cubic feet.)

5.8956 terabytes. (5.8956 terabytes.)

Abstract

Files regarding Alpha Phi Alpha and its history, particularly the Cornell chapter.

RELATED MATERIAL

View the online exhibition on Alpha Phi Alpha here: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/alpha

Additional digitized publications, including the Sphinx are online here: https://issuu.com/apa1906network

Physical Description

Correspondence, Publications, Memorabilia, Financial Records

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:
Petrina Jackson
Date completed:
September 2006
EAD encoding:
Ariel Joy Conant, September 2006
Date modified:
Fredrika Loew, September 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Petrina Jackson
Date
September 2006
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

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)