COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers include correspondence, news releases, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, and pamphlets concerning FEG's youth, his student days at Cornell, editorial policies of the Gannett Newspapers and the establishment of the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation in 1935, temperance and liquor advertising, and newspaper and professional organizations in which FEG was active.
Also the Cornell University Board of Trustees and School of Nutrition, the gold standard and the U.S. economy, the 1937 Supreme Court "Packing plan," the 1938 Executive Reorganization Bill and the Wages and Hours Bill, the St. Lawrence Seaway, air travel, Germany and Europe during the 1930s and 1940s, the 1943 National Food Conference of Consumers and Producers organized by Gannett, presidential campaigns of 1936 and 1940,
Republican National Committee chairmanship and Congressional elections (1942), the proposed National Coalition Party (1944-1945), the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, World War II finance, the role of aircraft in wartime, Red Cross War Fund Drive, Navy Relief Society, Rochester's United Negro College Fund Drive, FEG's Department of Peace proposal, donation of the Gannett Medical Clinic to Cornell, and other topics.
Other items include family letters, autograph albums, genealogy, and memorabilia; Gannett's notebooks (1899) concerning his work for the First U.S. Commission to the Philippines; loose and mounted photographs; diaries, notebooks, and account books; a few financial and legal papers; audio disks of radio broadcasts; certificates; memorials; and newspaper clippings and other printed material.
Major correspondents include Raymond N. Ball, Jerome D. Barnum, Lord Beaverbrook, Neal Dow Becker, William E. Borah, Winston Churchill, John L. Collyer, George W. Crane, Edmund Ezra Day, Thomas E. Dewey, Anthony Eden, Mark Ellingson, James A. Farley, Edwin S. Friendly, Earl Harding, William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, Harold Ickes, Alfred M. Landon, Herbert Lehman, Norman Vincent Peale, Westbrook Pegler, Raymond S. Richmond, Nelson Rockefeller, Carlos P. Romulo, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Edward A. Rumely, Jacob Gould Schurman, Harry G. Stutz, Robert A. Taft, Walter L. Todd, Frank E. Tripp, Arthur Vandenberg, David Rhys Williams, and Wendell Willkie.
Dates
- [ca. 1859]-1958.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
32 cubic feet. (32 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers include correspondence, news releases, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, and pamphlets concerning FEG's youth, his student days at Cornell, editorial policies of the Gannett Newspapers and the establishment of the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation in 1935, temperance and liquor advertising, and newspaper and professional organizations in which FEG was active.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
I. Correspondence, 1900-1958; II. Speeches, 1908-1954; III. News Releases, 1928-1957; IV. Volumes (Manuscript), 1889-1957; V. Scrapbooks, 1876-1957; VI. Photographs, ca. 1859-1957; VII. Financial and Legal Documents, 1903-1958; VIII. Printed Material, 1898-1986; IX. Family Papers and Genealogy, 1864-1957; X. Certificates and Memorials, 1865-1958; XI. Memorabilia, ca. 1898-1957.
Physical Description
Correspondence, printed materials, publications, research materials
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:
- Compiled by Tamberly A. Gobert Alexandra C. Lipsky Elaine D. Engst
- Date completed:
- 1987
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, December 2006
- Updated:
- Margaret Nichols, February 2017
General
See also the Caroline Werner Gannett Papers, Collection number 2475.
- Advertising, Newspaper.
- Agricultural administration.
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
- Alcoholism -- Press coverage.
- American National Red Cross
- Autographs (manuscripts).
- Ball, Raymond N.
- Barnum, Jerome D.
- Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964.
- Becker, Neal Dow.
- Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940.
- Charities.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- Collyer, John Lyon, 1893-
- Community newspapers.
- Constitutions -- United States.
- Cornell University. Board of Trustees
- Crane, George W.
- Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
- Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund,d1902-1971.)
- Diaries.
- Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-
- Ellingson, Mark.
- Farley, James A.
- Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation
- Freedom of the press.
- Friendly, Edwin S.
- Gannett Company
- Gannett Medical Clinic (Cornell University)
- Gannett, Caroline Werner, 1894-1979.
- Genealogies.
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
- Harding, Earl.
- Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951.
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952.
- Journalism -- Political aspects.
- Journalism, Educational.
- Journalistic ethics.
- Journalists.
- Landon, Alfred M.
- Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
- Malott, Deane W. (Deane Waldo), 1898-1996.
- National Coalition Party (U.S.)
- National Committee to Uphold the Constitution (U.S.)
- Navy Relief Society
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Newspaper publishing.
- Newspapers -- Ownership.
- Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-
- Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969.
- Philippines -- Description and travel.
- Philippines -- Politics and government.
- Photographs.
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1936.
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1940.
- Press and politics.
- Republican National Committee (U.S.)
- Richmond, Raymond S.
- Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
- Romulo, Carlos P. (Carlos Peña), 1899-1985.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Rumely, Edward A.
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
- Stutz, Harry G.
- Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953.
- Todd, Walter L., 1886-1971.
- Tripp, Frank E.
- United Negro Fund (Rochester, N.Y.)
- United States -- Politics and government.
- United States. Supreme Court
- Wadsworth, James W.
- Williams, David Rhys.
- Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Compiled by Tamberly A. Gobert Alexandra C. Lipsky Elaine D. Engst
- Date
- 1987
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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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