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Department of Forestry records

 Collection
Identifier: 20-1-287

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Records include routine college and interdepartmental administrative correspondence; correspondence pertaining to commercial forestry, government regulation of forest products industries, conservation, and professional forestry associations; also, correspondence pertaining to the formal exercises at the opening of the Forestry Building at the N.Y.S. College of Agriculture (1914). Included is correspondence of Alfred W. Abrams, Robert Judson Aley, Philip Wheelock Ayres, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Hugh Potter Baker, John Bentley, Jr., Robert C. Bryant, Herman Haupt Chapman, Earle Hart Clapp, John Henry Comstock, Samuel Trask Dana, Henry Sturgis Drinker, Beverly Thomas Galloway, Royal Gilkey, Jay P. Kinney, Lewis Knudson, Clyde Leavitt, Ora Miner Leland, Albert Russell Mann, Alice G. McCloskey, Franklin Frederick Moon, Veranus Alva Moore, Walter Mulford, Clyde Hadley Myers, Charles Lathrop Pack, George W. Parker, Gustav Adolph Pearson, Clifford Robert Pettis, Gifford Pinchot, James Edward Rice, P. S. Ridsdale, Howard Wait Riley, Samuel Newton Spring, William Alonzo Stocking, Jr., Charles Henry Tuck, Edward M. Tuttle, Ottomar H. Van Norden, Martha Van Rensselaer, Edward Albert White, Karl McKay Wiegand, Charles Scoon Wilson, Paul Work.

Dates

  • 1912-1915, 1950.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

1.3 cubic feet. (1.3 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Records include routine college and interdepartmental administrative correspondence; correspondence pertaining to commercial forestry, government regulation of forest products industries, conservation, and professional forestry associations; also, correspondence pertaining to the formal exercises at the opening of the Forestry Building at the N.Y.S. College of Agriculture (1914).

Physical Description

Correspondence

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
EAD encoding:
2008
Date modified:
RMC Staff, June 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
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)