Vladimir Karapetoff papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 16-6-564

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Largely biographical material, including a manuscript autobiography, and a miscellaneous collection of non-scientific writings including essays, poems, and original musical compositions. Includes scientific and popular publications, reprints, and manuscripts; photographs and slides; some personal and professional correspondence; clippings; an incomplete card file of Karapetoff's writings; travel accounts, an annotated first edition of EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, and ten scrapbooks. Also, nine phonograph records of Cornellians and others including J.F. Cooke, Nathaniel Schmidt, George Lincoln Burr, Albert W. Smith, and Simon Henry Gage, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Norman M. Thomas, Arthur Eddington, W. L. Bragg, and Mrs. Edward MacDowell.

Dates

[ca. 1904]-1948.

Creator

Karapetoff, Vladimir, 1876-1948. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University; writer; musician.

Extent

9.2 cubic feet. (9.2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Biographical material, scientific and popular publications, reprints, and manuscripts; photographs and slides; some correspondence; clippings; an annotated first edition of EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, ten scrapbooks and nine phonograph records.

Physical Description

Manuscript, printed material, scrapbooks, sound recordings, and photographs.

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:: RMC Staff, 2008
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, May 2016