Box 1

"Epic verse" (including a poem, titled "Prologue," on the opening page and the four poems beginning with each season ["In Winter," "In Spring," etc.]) and the full page illustrations on the cover and for each month are by J.K. Fraser ('97); the pages are "[f]urther embellished by the work of Jay van Everen, '99 and W.D. Straight, '01;" copyright belongs to The Ezra Press, 1902; this calendar is the gift of "Miss M.J. Hull."

Cover, printed on a kind of thin, laminated wood, featuring the Cornell University seal with Ezra Cornell's profile in the center; a label on the back of the cover reads: "Gift of J.A. Skidmore in memory / of Charles Fleet Scudder '11, and / Marguerite Arthur Scudder Celley / May 16, 1972;" features BW photographs of the campus and the sports teams with titles underneath; includes a photograph of "President Schurman Dedicating Goldwin Smith Hall."

Calendar leaves have no binding; features BW photographs of the campus for each month with descriptions underneath, including one photograph of "President Shurman at 'Inspection,'" in which he is talking to several police officers.

Cover features a color illustration of an half-naked man leaning against a stump in the green woods with a pen in his right-hand and his eyes staring thoughtfully into an easel we cannot see, giving the illustration a very sylvan, "dales of Arcady" atmosphere--a vision of the Arts Quad appears in a silver frame in the center; features BW photographs of the campus for each month with titles underneath.

Features BW photographs for each month but without titles or descriptions; the photographs are printed onto scrapbook paper and roughly trimmed, then printed in reproduction form to give the calendar a very "cosy" appearance; additionally, the calendar months are handwritten for similar effect.

Cover features a BW photograph of the profile of Ezra Cornell; calendar leaves have no binding; features BW photographs of the campus for the months with titles underneath.

The calendar is "Donated / by Luther L. Emerson A.B. 1928 / property of Isabel Dolbier Emerson (Whitson) / my aunt (Class of 1902)" (handwritten on back of cover); features BW photographs for each month with descriptions on back of calendar; there is a (mendable) tear on the back of the calendar.

"Gift of Henry Cape Jr." handwritten in pencil (and almost illegible) on top left corner of cover; features colored-in photographs for the months and includes titles underneath.

The cover depicts a color reproduction of "Senior Singing," an oil painting designed and painted by Christian Midjo; features BW photographs of the campus for each month with descriptions on back of calendar.

Cover features the illustration of an open book with words reading: "I / would found / an / institution / where / any person / can find / instruction / in any study;" features BW photograhs for the months and includes titles emphasizing the dramatic weather of Ithaca (i.e. for the months of January and February, "The Gloom and Snow of January--Central Avenue").