Shackleton family collection

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Identifier: 37-5-3133

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Two scrapbooks of Mary E. Moore from Ithaca High School and Cornell University including photographs, programs, memorabilia, and clippings. Several notebooks from Mary E. Moore's classwork at Cornell, many from classes at the New York State College of Home Economics. Two Cornell University scrapbooks of Horace E. Shackleton and his photograph album of Cornell scenes. Also 35 reels of 8 mm. movie film, primarily of Cornell athletic events, but also some family home movies and one copy of an "Our Gang" film.

Dates

1914-1921.

Creator

Shackleton family. (Family)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Mary Eastman Moore (Cornell University Class of 1920) was the daughter of Veranus A. Moore, dean of the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine. She graduated from Cornell in 1920 and married Horace E. Shackleton who graduated from Cornell in 1919. Horace Shackleton was an employee of the Grange League Federation and Mary Shackleton worked in Statler Hall.

Extent

3.0 cubic feet. (3.0 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Scrapbooks, photos and films from Mary E. Moore Shackleton and Horace Shackleton. Most material relates to their experiences as students at Cornell University but there is also material related to the Shackleton/Moore families

SERIES LIST

Series I. Photographs

Series II. Scrapbooks

Series III. Mary Moore's Class Notes

Series IV. Films and Ephemera

PROVENANCE

The scrapbooks and film were given to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections by the DeWitt Historical Society in 2001. Mary Moore's class notes were separated from the Veranus Moore papers in 2004.

RELATED MATERIAL

RMC Collection #51-01-1368. Norman Moore papers, 1919-1994.

RMC Collection #24-01-119. Veranus A. Moore papers, 1836-1958.

Physical Description

Scrapbooks, photographs, film, classnotes.

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:: Laura Finkel and Kerry Gilfillan
Date completed:: July 2004
EAD encoding:: Laura Finkel and Kerry Gilfillan, 2004