Cornell University athletics records
Scope and content
Athletic event programs and booklets, photographs, annual reports, advertisements, plaques, cups, films and clippings concerning various Cornell athletic events including women's athletics, and a certificate of incorporation of the Cornell Athletic Association. Also Cornell Victorious, the Cornell Campaign for Athletics, ca. 1990, V-790; Design plans for the Bartels Hall (formerly Alberding Field House), V-6028; Illini Reflections, ca. 1990 overview of past University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign events and life as presented by past university alumni. Included are Judi Ford-Johnson '73, Roger Ebert '64, Roger Plummer '84, Lester Leutwiler '29, Tom Haller '58, Ray Nitschke '58, and Dick Butkus '64, V-6029. Films include: Here We Are Again, 2 copies, ca. 1985, film about the history of Cornell athletics, F-478, 479; Stanford Today, 1985, film about Stanford University and its athletic programs, F-480. Also a film of a Cornell Soccer game ca. 1958-1960, F-390. Also slides from the 1974 Cornell and Cornellians presentation by Laurence Koplik.
Dates
- 1874-2016.
Creator
- Cornell University (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Restrictions on Access
Folders for individual athletes and coaches may contain personally identifiable information or other sensative items and need to be reviewed before being made available.
Restrictions on Use:
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage. Audio visual media that has been digitized: F-390.
Extent
50.6 cubic feet. (50.6 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Athletic event programs, photographs, annual reports, advertisements, plaques, cups, films and clippings concerning various Cornell athletic events, including women's athletics, and a certificate of incorporation of the Cornell Athletic Association.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Sports Programs and Team Booklets Boxes 1-4, 7, 9, 10
Series II. Reports and Handbooks Boxes 5, 6
Series III. Notes, Memos, and Brochures Box 6
Series IV. Articles and Clippings Boxes 5, 6, 8
Series V. Correspondence Box 6
Series VI. Budget Box 6
Series VII. Movie Films, Videos and other media Box 9
Series VIII. Plaques and cups Museum items (MU)
Physical Description
Programs, photographs, advertisements, clippings, reports, and a certificate.
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:
- Maria Keating, et al
- Date completed:
- May 2004
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2003 Maria Keating, May 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2018
Processing Information
April 2022: All material relating to Ice Hockey was transferred to the Cornell University Ice Hockey collection, #40-4-3590. This includes box 44, as well as various folders in other boxes. See Finding Aid for more information.
October 2023: All material relating to Football was transferred to the Cornell University Football Collection, #40-2-2205. This includes box 40, as well as various folders in other boxes.
Material in boxes 1, 2, 3, and 4 were dispersed into related athletics collections.
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- May 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
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