COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Ives's papers, which pertain chiefly to his service in the U.S. Senate, include correspondence, memoranda, and other material from constituents, fellow legislators, executive departments, and the general public concerning appointments, bills sponsored or co-sponsored by Ives, committee hearings, education, federal agencies, commissions, and departments, foreign affairs and foreign aid, labor and public welfare, international organizations, national defense and internal security, patronage, political campaigns, public utilities, private bills, Senate bills, social security, tariff and trade agreements, taxation, transportation, veterans' affairs, and numerous other subjects. Also included are records pertaining to his years as a New York State Assemblyman; his support of his Alma Mater, Hamilton College; family and personal papers; and materials relating to Ives's insurance and banking businesses.
Dates
- 1862-1958,-1933-1958 (bulk)
Creator
- Ives, Irving McNeil, 1896-1962. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Politician.
Irving McNeil Ives was a member of the New York State Assembly, 1933-46; author and sponsor of legislation creating the New York State Department of Commerce and the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University; co-author and co-sponsor of a New York State anti-discrimination law; Dean of the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell, 1945-47; United States senator, 1947-59; member of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare; vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor and Management Field, 1957; President of the International Labor Organization Conference, Geneva, 1953; Republican candidate for governor of New York, 1954.
Extent
248 cubic feet. (248 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Ives's papers, which pertain chiefly to his service in the U.S. Senate, include correspondence, memoranda, and other material from constituents, fellow legislators, executive departments, and the general public concerning appointments, bills sponsored or co-sponsored by Ives, committee hearings, education, federal agencies, commissions, and departments, foreign affairs and foreign aid, labor and public welfare, international organizations, national defense and internal security, patronage, political campaigns, public utilities, private bills, Senate bills, social security, tariff and trade agreements, taxation, transportation, veterans' affairs, and numerous other subjects. Also included are records pertaining to his years as a New York State Assemblyman; his support of his Alma Mater, Hamilton College; family and personal papers; and materials relating to Ives's insurance and banking businesses.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Correspondence and Legislation Boxes 1-149, 152-158, 164, 170-181
Series II. Campaigns Boxes 49, 70, 166, 169, 173-174, 188-190, 225, 230, 237, 239-248
Series III. Speeches Boxes 150-151, 165-166, 182, 187-188, 205, 228, 231, 236-239, 242, 245-246, 248, 251
Series IV. Honors/Awards Boxes 165, 170, 221, 251
Series V. Hamilton College Boxes 5, 24, 55, 188, 246-247
Series VI. Memorabilia Boxes 167-170, 249, 251-252
Series VII. Photographs Boxes 159-163, 166, 171, 251
Series VIII. Audio Tapes Box 249
Series IX. Motion Picture Films Box 250
Series X. Phonograph Records Box 250
Series XI. Drawings/Plans Mapcase
Series XII. Clippings Boxes 137, 188, 217, 224, 231, 241-243
Series XIII. Miscellany Boxes 8, 29, 43, 50, 61, 267, 176, 188, 249, 251
Physical Description
Correspondence, speeches, photographs, audio tapes, motion picture films, phonograph records, drawings, plans, clippings
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:
- Julia Parker
- Date completed:
- Feb. 2003
- EAD encoding:
- Julia ParkerPeter Martinez
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, September 2018
- Banks and banking.
- Bills (Legislative records).
- Cornell University. Board of Trustees
- Education -- United States.
- Foreign trade regulation -- United States.
- Industrial relations -- Research.
- Insurance.
- Legislation.
- Legislators.
- National security -- Law and legislation.
- New York (State). Department of Commerce
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
- New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
- Photographs.
- Political campaigns -- New York (State)
- Politicians.
- Politics, Practical.
- Public utilities -- Law and legislation.
- Public welfare -- Law and legislation.
- Social security -- Law and legislation.
- Tariff -- Law and legislation.
- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States.
- Transportation -- Law and legislation.
- United States -- Armed forces.
- United States. Congress. Senate
- Veterans -- United States.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Julia Parker
- Date
- Mar. 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
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