Willard Winfield Rowlee papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, reports, photographs, and other miscellaneous printed material pertaining to Rowlee's activities at Cornell University and elsewhere, including photographs of a botany trip to McLean, New York; a report on the improvement of Dryden Cemetery; faculty communications; minutes of the Alumni Athletic Field Committee pertaining to Alumni Field and Schoellkopf Field House; an athletics and student affairs file concerning expenses and athletics at Cornell; and material relating to the Semi-Centennial Celebration at Cornell. Correspondents include Daniel Alden Reed, Willard Beahan, Franks S. Porter, Henry Schoellkopf, and others.
Also, correspondence, reports, and other material deriving from Rowlee's investigation of balsa wood in the Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and of the American Balsa Corporation and its evolution into the American International Corporation and the American Balsa Company; also includes specifications for balsa and its characteristics for such uses as life preservers, insulation, and airplane construction
Also, papers relating to the collection and identification of plants, the administration of the Department of Botany at Cornell, and Cornell alumni activities.
Dates
- 1905-1923.
Creator
- Rowlee, Willard Winfield, 1861-1923. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Cornell University professor and botanist.
Cornell University Class of 1888, PhD. 1893.
Extent
1.1 cubic feet. (1.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, reports, photographs, and other miscellaneous printed material pertaining to Rowlee's activities at Cornell University and elsewhere.
Physical Description
Correspondence, reports, photographs, meeting minutes.
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:
- J. Parker
- Date completed:
- June 2000
- EAD encoding:
- Ann Hubert, Sept. 2003
- Airplanes -- Materials.
- Airplanes, wooden.
- American Balsa Company
- American Balsa Corporation
- American International Corporation
- Balsa wood craft.
- Balsa wood.
- Beahan, Willard.
- Botanists.
- Botany -- Study and teaching.
- Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- Dryden.
- College teachers.
- Cornell University. Alumni Athletic Field Committee
- Cornell University. Department of Botany
- Cornell University. Schoellkopf Field House
- Cornell University. Semi-Centennial Committee
- Dryden Cemetery (Dryden, N.Y.)
- Education -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Photographs.
- Porter, Frank S.
- Reed, Daniel A. (Daniel Alden), 1875-1959.
- Schoellkopf, Henry.
- Wood -- Canal Zone.
- Wood -- Costa Rica.
- Wood -- Guatemala.
- Wood -- Honduras.
- Wood -- Nicaragua.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by J. Parker
- Date
- Sept. 2003
- 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