Albert Hazen Wright research materials

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1692

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, notes, outlines, typewritten and photo copies of newspaper articles, directories, court and census records, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, and other items used in the writing of Wright's histories of the New York State Agricultural College at Ovid, New York, the New York Central College at McGraw, New York, and the People's College at Havana (now Montour Falls) New York, as they pertained to the early history of Cornell University. Also, notes, transcripts from contemporary journals, narratives, autobiographies, orderly books, muster rolls, and other sources pertaining to Wright's study of Sullivan's Expedition in New York State, 1779.

Dates

1779-1960.

Creator

Wright, Albert Hazen, 1879-1970 (Compiler, Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

2.4 cubic feet. (2.4 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Correspondence, notes, outlines, typewritten and photo copies of newspaper articles, directories, court and census records, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, and other items used in the writing of Wright's histories of the New York State Agricultural College at Ovid, New York, the New York Central College at McGraw, New York, and the People's College at Havana (now Montour Falls) New York, as they pertained to the early history of Cornell University. Also sources pertaining to Wright's study of Sullivan's Expedition in New York State.

Physical Description

Correspondence, research materials, legal documents, photographs, newspapers.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: April 2016
EAD encoding:: Marcie Farwell, April 2016
Date modified:: RMC Staff, April 2016