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Martin P. Catherwood Letter to Joseph Raffel

 Collection
Identifier: /4292m

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a single letter written by Martin P. Catherwood, Industrial Commissioner for the New York State Department of Labor, to Joseph Raffel, Senior Industrial Investigator for the New York State Department of Labor, concerning Mr Raffel's completion of a staff development seminar at Cornell University. The original cover is included. The lack of a stamp or post mark on the cover indicates that the letter may have been hand delivered.



The donor, Mr Raffel's granddaughter, included one of Mr Raffel's business cards.

Dates

  • 1963

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

Martin P. Catherwood (January 28, 1904 November 23, 1978)

Few members of Cornell's faculty have served the University, New York State, and the Ithaca community with such

devotion and distinction as Martin P. Catherwood. To these employments he brought energy, probing Intelligence,

administrative skills, and close knowledge of industry, labor, and government.

As a result of the close working relationship that had developed between the State Planning Board and the Joint

Legislative Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions headed by Irving M. Ives, the majority leader of the

Assembly, the legislature created the Division of Commerce as of May 1, 1941. Governor Herbert H. Lehman

appointed Catherwood as the first commissioner of commerce and Governor Thomas E. Dewey continued him in

that office. In this important and pioneering post, Catherwood set the foundations and structure for the division

that it has retained ever since.

Extent

1 folders

Abstract

Letter from Martin P. Catherwood to Joseph Raffel, Senior Industrial Investigator for the New York State Department of Labor, March 13, 1963.

Quantity:

1 file folder.

Forms of Material:

Correspondence, manuscript (documents).

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
Compiled by:
R. Miles, October 15, 2013
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, October 05, 2016
Title
Catherwood, Martin P. Letter to Joseph Raffel
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by R. Miles
Date
October 05, 2016
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853