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Bond, Maurice C., 1897-. Maurice C. Bond oral histories, 1982.

Title: Maurice C. Bond oral histories, 1982.

Dr. Bond's personal history and observations of people and events that have shaped New York agriculture: growing up in Thetford, Vermont, including his childhood on a dairy and maple farm and attendance at Thetford Academy; college experiences; professional experiences as an Emergency Demonstration agent for the University of Vermont during World War I, as a teacher at Morrisville, as a secretary for the Holstein-Friesian Association, and as a professor and administrator at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, including criteria he used to allocate funds for the Cooperative Extension; observations of contributions made by the Department of Agricultural Economics to agricultural cooperatives and the study of land use, coordination between state, regional, and federal branches of Extension, reasons for and effects of separating the New York Cooperative Extension from the Farm and Home Bureaus, the relationship between agriculture, 4-H, and home economics in Extension, and the relationship between the New York State College of Agriculture and the Grange League Federation (Agway). Included are Bond's impressions of George F. Warren, William I. Myers, Leland Spencer, Frank Pearson, Lloyd R. Simons, Dean Worcester, Carl E. Ladd, Harry March, H.E. Babcock, Roy Park, Maurice C. Burritt, Paul V. Kepner, and Arthur H. Peterson.

ArchivalResource: 130 p. of transcripts.

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Carl E. Ladd papers, 1932-1943.

Title: Carl E. Ladd papers, 1932-1943.

Includes curricula, budgets, printed material, clippings, and memoranda and correspondence with Cornell faculty and administrators, students, county extension agents, agricultural club leaders, farmers, publishers, state and federal agricultural agencies, credit associations, and state and national politicians. Subjects include administration of the College of Agriculture; appointments, promotions, and resignations of faculty and administrators; Farm and Home Week at Cornell; construction of the Arboretum; the Bailey Hortorium; the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities; the Farm Credit Administration; GLF; USDA Extension Service; Dartington Hall and the South Devon cattle; the Emergency Food Commission; farm labor during World War II, wartime agricultural production, and wartime student enrollment; the "Farm Forum" broadcast on WGY; rural electrification, Dutch elm disease, and rural education. Major correspondents include Charles Poletti, Herbert H. Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Howard E. Babcock, Henry A. Wallace, Flora Rose, Edward Eastman, Leonard K. Elmhirst, and the Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York.

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Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939. Livingston Farrand papers, 1921-1939.

Title: Livingston Farrand papers, 1921-1939.

The Livingston Farrand Papers consist of correspondence, office files, reports, letters of transmittal, notices of appointment to committees, scrapbooks, cross reference sheets, clippings, diplomas, and certificates deriving from his presidency of Cornell University from 1921 to 1937. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, pertaining largely to the routine administration of the President's Office and the University. Subjects include student and faculty issues, student health, athletics, Cornell United Religious Work including arrangements for Sage Chapel preachers, alumni affairs, fraternities, the Cornell-in-China Program, and the University Faculty; also, relations with and the administration of the Law School, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Cornell University Medical College, the College of Engineering, Cornell University Library, the Office of the Comptroller, ROTC, the New York State College of Agriculture, and the New York State Veterinary College, and relations with New York Hospital, the city of Ithaca (N.Y.), the United States Office of Education, the New York State Department of Education, the American Council on Education, the Carnegie Corporation and Carnegie Foundation, the Heckscher Research Council, and the United States War Department. Other topics include instances of student malfeasance and scholastic failure, racial discrimination and anti-semitism on campus, concern with communist influence in the educational community, and Farrand's personal interests in eugenics and public health. Major correspondents include Arthur Allen, Howard E. Babcock, Carl Becker, Romeyn Berry, Cornelius Betten, Charles Bostwick, Charles K. Burdick, Foster M. Coffin, L. M. Dennis, R. Louise Fitch, Harold Flack, Frank E. Gannett, William A. Hammond, Frank H. Hiscock, Carl E. Ladd, Albert R. Mann, Archie Palmer, George Rogalsky, Flora Rose, Robert Treman, Allan H. Treman, Myron C. Taylor, Martha van Rensselaer, George F. Warren, and J. DuPratt White. Also included is a bound typewritten report on the state of Cornell University and its current financial needs as of 1924.

ArchivalResource: 40.7 cubic ft.

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Love, Harry H. (Harry Houser), 1880-1966. Harry H. Love papers, 1907-1964.

Title: Harry H. Love papers, 1907-1964.

Papers include correspondence, reports, photographs, plans, statistical data, notes, and scientific papers pertaining mainly to the work done in China and Thailand and at Cornell by Professor Love, a specialist in cereal breeding and the application of statistical methods to agricultural research; papers concerning China relate mainly to agricultural research, extension work, and reconstruction at the University of Nanking, the needs and problems of that university, particularly during the Japanese occupation, the studies of Nanking graduate students at Cornell, the field work and studies of Chinese trainees at Cornell and in American industry, and assistance Love gave to Chinese agronomists; also, speeches, radio talks, articles, and various papers, including the manuscript of "The Cornell-Nanking Story" by Love and John H. Reisner; and photographs and printed matter; also, correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to organizations in which Love participated, among them Rotary International, Agricultural Missions, Inc., the Advisory Committee for Foreign Students at Cornell, the Cosmopolitan Club at Cornell, the Ithaca Presbyterian Church, the American Society of Agronomy, Sigma Xi, and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, as Cornell chapter advisor and chairman (1934-1935) of its court of inquiry. Love's correspondence (1926-1949) contains numerous references to the military and political situation in China, in particular the looting of Nanking in 1927, the Japanese bombing of that city and its fall in 1937, the plight of refugees during World War II, and the rise of the Communists to power; post-war letters comment occasionally on the operation of American economic and technical assistance programs in underdeveloped countries; a few letters are concerned with the missionary work of American Protestants in China, Syria, and Thailand. Also, a two page record of a conversation between Love and Henry Munger regarding the application of statistics to plant breeding, 1962. Correspondents include S. Neale Alter, Sanford Atwood, A. J. Bowen, J. Lossing Buck, Pearl S. Buck, Y. G. Chen, Y. S. Chen, T. H. Chien, Owen L. Dawson, B. A. Garside, Burgoyne L. Griffing, J. B. Griffing, G. Weidman Groff, Raymond S. Hall, Margaret Higgins, Donald C. Kerr, J. R. King, Carl E. Ladd, Kung Ksiang Lin, Walter K. Lowdermilk, Albert R. Mann, Clyde H. Myers, William I. Myers, Jared T. Newman, Bill Pan, Robert L. Pendleton, R. H. Porter, Frank W. Price, Elsie M. Priest, John H. Reisner, George E. Ritchey, Horace W. Ryburn, Knowles A. Ryerson, T. H. Shen, K. S. Sie, Burl Alva Slocum, Louis C. Smythe, Sao-ke Alfred Sze, P. W. Tsou, and Roy W. Wiggans.

ArchivalResource: 15 cubic ft.

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Artificial Insemination Documentation Project. Artificial Insemination Documentation Project oral histories, 1962-1978.

Title: Artificial Insemination Documentation Project oral histories, 1962-1978.

ArchivalResource: 12 transcripts.

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Burritt, M. C. (Maurice Chase). Maurice C. Burritt papers, 1832-1959.

Title: Maurice C. Burritt papers, 1832-1959.

Correspondence, reports, budgets, and other materials relating to the Food Supply Commission; letters to Howard E. Babcock, general manager of G.L.F. and others; minutes of meetings, 1924-30. Correspondence and related papers pertaining to activities and policies of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, Cornell University Arboretum, Farm Credit Administration, Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Federal Farm Board, Gannett newspapers, New York State Department of Agriculture, New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, New York State Horticultural Society, and various other agencies and institutions of which he was a member. Correspondence with publishers; notes for and copies of Burritt's speeches and articles on public utilities and rural electification, 1930s, and other subjects. Also, diaries, 1897-1956 and 1959, journals, scrapbooks, and other items on his travels in the British Isles, Alaska, Mexico, India, and elsewhere; letters from his daughter, Helen Burritt Latif, describing her experiences travelling or teaching in Australia and India, 1935-1937; scrapbooks of articles and editorials he wrote; memoranda books; detailed accounts of Beechwood Farm, with related land papers; and crop production cost analyses including cost analyses for the Office of Farm Management, U.S.D.A., 1909-1914. Also, personal and family accounts; farm and household accounts of Burritt's parents, Stephen Day Burritt and Anna Chase Burritt; genealogical data on the Burritt, Phelps, and Barber families; records of School District #9, Parma, 1890-1948; Beechwood Farm photo album and other photographs; blueprints; manuscript and printed material relating to the history of Hilton and of agriculture in New York State; and other printed items. Correspondents include Howard E. Babcock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Edmund Ezra Day, Thomas E. Dewey, Edward R. Eastman, Livingston Farrand, Frank E. Gannett, Halsey B. Knapp, Carl E. Ladd, Herbert H. Lehman, Albert R. Mann, Henry Morganthau, Jr., William I. Myers, James E. Rice, Elmer S. Savage, Paul Taber, Edward H. Thomson, Martha Van Rensselaer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert F. Wagner, George F. Warren, Charles S. Wilson, and other public officials and Cornell University professors.

ArchivalResource: 21 cubic ft.

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Carl E. Ladd papers, 1932-1943.

Title: Carl E. Ladd papers, 1932-1943.

Includes curricula, budgets, printed material, clippings, and memoranda and correspondence with Cornell faculty and administrators, students, county extension agents, agricultural club leaders, farmers, publishers, state and federal agricultural agencies, credit associations, and state and national politicians. Subjects include administration of the College of Agriculture; appointments, promotions, and resignations of faculty and administrators; Farm and Home Week at Cornell; construction of the Arboretum; the Bailey Hortorium; the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities; the Farm Credit Administration; GLF; USDA Extension Service; Dartington Hall and the South Devon cattle; the Emergency Food Commission; farm labor during World War II, wartime agricultural production, and wartime student enrollment; the "Farm Forum" broadcast on WGY; rural electrification, Dutch elm disease, and rural education. Major correspondents include Charles Poletti, Herbert H. Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Howard E. Babcock, Henry A. Wallace, Flora Rose, Edward Eastman, Leonard K. Elmhirst, and the Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York.

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New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Economics records, 1908-1987

Title: New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Economics records, 1908-1987

Correspondence and other records concerning the Department of Agricultural Economics.

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Harry H. Love papers, 1907-1964.

Title: Harry H. Love papers, 1907-1964.

Papers include correspondence, reports, photographs, plans, statistical data, notes, and scientific papers pertaining mainly to the work done in China and Thailand and at Cornell by Professor Love, a specialist in cereal breeding and the application of statistical methods to agricultural research; papers concerning China relate mainly to agricultural research, extension work, and reconstruction at the University of Nanking, the needs and problems of that university, particularly during the Japanese occupation, the studies of Nanking graduate students at Cornell, the field work and studies of Chinese trainees at Cornell and in American industry, and assistance Love gave to Chinese agronomists; also, speeches, radio talks, articles, and various papers, including the manuscript of "The Cornell-Nanking Story" by Love and John H. Reisner.

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New York State College of Agriculture. Dept. of Floriculture. Department of Floriculture records, 1905-1940.

Title: Department of Floriculture records, 1905-1940.

Correspondence, 1907-1914, of the Dept. of Rural Art, largely that of E. Gorton Davis; correspondence, 1915-1917, of the Dept. of Landscape Art; also correspondence relating to extension, the development and growth of plants, landscaping and city planning, departmental budgets, allotments, and University regulations; departmental photographs and photographs of orchid studies; correspondence of E.A. White (personal and orchid studies); personal and lecture materials of L.H. MacDaniels; and departmental files, mostly relating to pomology. Correspondents include Bristow Adams, L.H. Bailey, Cornelius Betten, G.E. Burnap, E.O. Fippen, Bryant Fleming, Beverley Galloway, Carl Ladd, J. Horace McFarland, James E. Rice, Paul Stark, W.A. Stocking, A.D. Taylor, Helen Van Keulen, Martha Van Rensselaer, Booker T. Washington, and H.H. Whetzel.

ArchivalResource: 10 cubic ft.

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Livingston Farrand papers, 1921-1939.

Title: Livingston Farrand papers, 1921-1939.

The Livingston Farrand Papers consist of correspondence, office files, reports, letters of transmittal, notices of appointment to committees, scrapbooks, cross reference sheets, clippings, diplomas, and certificates deriving from his presidency of Cornell University from 1921 to 1937.

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Maurice C. Burritt papers, 1832-1959.

Title: Maurice C. Burritt papers, 1832-1959.

Correspondence, reports, budgets, and other materials relating to the Food Supply Commission; letters to Howard E. Babcock, general manager of G.L.F. and others; minutes of meetings, 1924-30. Correspondence and related papers pertaining to activities and policies of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, Cornell University Arboretum, Farm Credit Administration, Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Federal Farm Board, Gannett newspapers, New York State Department of Agriculture, New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, New York State Horticultural Society, and various other agencies and institutions of which he was a member. Correspondence with publishers; notes for and copies of Burritt's speeches and articles on public utilities and rural electification, 1930s, and other subjects. Also, diaries, 1897-1956 and 1959, journals, scrapbooks, and other items on his travels in the British Isles, Alaska, Mexico, India, and elsewhere; lettersfrom his daughter, Helen Burritt Latif, describing her experiences travelling or teaching in Australia and India, 1935-1937; scrapbooks of articles and editorials he wrote; memoranda books; detailed accounts of Beechwood Farm, with related land papers; and crop production cost analyses including cost analyses for the Office of Farm Management, U.S.D.A., 1909-1914.

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