COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Programs, articles, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials pertaining to local events and organizations, including material relating to the Ithaca Cycle Club (1896-1903), the Thomas School of Aviation, the League of American Wheelmen and its good road movement (1897-1901), the temperance movement, public schools, Masons Hobasco Lodge, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, Cornell University, and local churches; also, photographs of Ithaca including Rogues Harbor Inn Lansing, Cayuga Hose Company, Ithaca High School Band, Cornell University, and a murder case in Tompkins County; a letter regarding the sale of The Weekly Ithacan (1917), another describing St. Nazaire and the water-supply problems of the American Army (1919); and one from William H. Jessup, Poughkeepsie, to Houghton, telling of Edgar Apgar's role in recognizing the political potentialities of Grover Cleveland; and a diary fragment (1865), Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Dates
- 1883-1923.
Creator
- Houghton, Clarence L. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Newspaperman.
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers of Clarence L. Houghton, an Ithaca newspaperman, pertaining to local events and organizations.
Physical Description
Correspondence, photographs, a diary fragment, programs, articles, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials.
- Apgar, Edgar.
- Churches -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
- Cornell University -- : Description -- : Views.
- Cycling.
- Diaries.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Description -- Views.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Societies, etc.
- Ithaca Conservatory of Music -- : Description -- : Views.
- Ithaca Cycle Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Jessup, William H.
- League of American Wheelmen
- Murder -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Photographs.
- Schools -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Temperance.
- Thomas School of Aviation (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- History.
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Sanitary affairs.
- United States -- Politics and government.
- Weekly Ithacan.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M.E. Warren
- Date
- October 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