COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, diaries, clippings, photographs, and other material relating largely to the engineering interests of John Cresson Trautwine, Sr. (1810-83), II (1850-1924), and III (1878-1949). Papers concern railroad promotion and construction (1844-49); experiences of Trautwine, Sr., while he worked in New Granada, and conditions in that province (1844-49); engineering matters; student letters; papers relating to Samuel Ashbridge, former mayor of Philadelphia (1906), the 1912 presidential campaign, the League to Enforce Peace (1916-18), and a letter (1887) from Oliver Wendell Holmes to Mrs. Trautwine. Correspondents include William H. Balch, Clinton Lathrop Bogert, John Ripley Freeman, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Philadelphia Bureau of Water.
Dates
- 1834-1947.
Creator
- Trautwine family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
7.1 cubic feet. (7.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, clippings, photographs, and other material relating largely to the engineering interests of John Cresson Trautwine, Sr., II, and III.
Physical Description
Correspondence, diaries, clippings, photographs, and other material.
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:
- M.E. Warren
- Date completed:
- August 1997
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, July 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2016
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Ashbridge, Samuel.
- Balch, William H.
- Bogert, Clinton Lathrop.
- Colombia -- Description and travel.
- Colombia -- Surveys.
- Diaries.
- Engineering.
- Engineers.
- Freeman, John Ripley.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- League to Enforce Peace (U.S.)
- Philadelphia Bureau of Water
- Photographs.
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1912.
- Railroads -- Construction.
- Railroads.
- Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883.
- Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1850-1924.
- Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1878-1949.
- Trautwine, John C., -- Mrs.
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- March 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