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Archives at Cornell

Box 2

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

A.B. Cornell's Journal kept while he was with the Telegraph Office in New York City, 1857 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1857

Telegraph Office Personal Cash Receipt Book, 1856-1857 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1856-1857

Correspondence, promissory notes, calculations re: Steamboat purchase, Jan.-June 1862 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: Jan.-June 1862

Gold Mining Company Shares, 1865-1866 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1865-1866

Ulysses S. Grant for President, Republican Campaign Items, 1872 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1872

Miscellaneous Items, 1857-1890 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1857-1890

Autobiography of Alonzo B. Cornell - Manuscript copy, 1888 or 1889 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1888 or 1889

"Some Beginnings of Westchester County History" by Alonzo B. Cornell (including some genealogy of the Cornell family beginning with Thomas Cornell), 1890 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1890

Engraving of Alonzo B. Cornell, 1890 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: 1890

Printed pamphlet: "History of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph," a paper presented by Alonzo B. Cornell at Union College, Jan. 19, 1894 Request Item

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a...
Dates: Jan. 19, 1894