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Miscall, Leonard, 1897-1980. Leonard Miscall interviews, 1978-1979.

Title: Leonard Miscall interviews, 1978-1979.

Collection includes tape and 108 page transcript of an oral history interview with Miscall conducted December 6, 1978 and January 3, 1979 by Judith Horstman; also includes a three page index. Among those mentioned in the interview are Dean Acheson, Charles Blood, Irene Foote Castle, Ezra Cornell, Frank E. Gannett, J. A. Guggenheim, Herbert Hoover, Sid P. Kennedy, members of the Miscall family, Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, William Howard Taft, members of the Treman family, and others. Subjects include movie-making in Ithaca, New York; Cornell University; politics; the Great Depression; WPA; and many other topics.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft., 1 tape recording.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073780 View

Blood, Charles Hazen, 1866-1938. Charles Hazen Blood papers, 1889-1909.

Title: Charles Hazen Blood papers, 1889-1909.

Consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, depositions and other legal documents, statements of account, and memoranda, mainly concerning legal matters Blood handled in public office and in private practice, as well as his family and personal business affairs. Included are letters, photographs, and other papers dealing with liquor and gambling law violations; extradition proceedings and other aspects of civil and criminal cases; the settlement of estates, farm mortgage holdings and family properties in Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota and investments in Pitkin County, Colorado, bonds, and litigation over oil property in Titusville, Pennsylvania in which his father had invested; the visit of the Imperial Chinese Commissioners, 1906; his work as director and chairman of the executive committee of the Ithaca, New York, Telephone Company, much of which is concerned with its competition with the Bell System, and with the management of the Caroline Telephone Company and the Trumbull's Corners Telephone Company; his work as attorney for the Ithaca Street Railway, involving in part the choice of a route across the Cornell campus and the promotion of connecting electric lines; his interest in state and local Republican politics and such related matters as appointments and elections to the State Supreme Court and the selection of the site for a new post office building in Ithaca. Also documented are Blood's activities as a Cornell alumnus, mainly regarding the promotion and financing of Alumni Field and his candidacy for reelection as alumni trustee in 1906, as graduate treasurer of the Cornell Masque, and as an alumnus and supporter of Kappa Alpha fraternity; and his activities as an Ithaca landlord, developer of Cornell Heights and Cayuga Heights, supporter of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music (now Ithaca College), and Presbyterian layman. Includes papers of Charles F. Blood. Correspondents include George W. Bacon, Fred D. Barto, W. D. Barnard, Herman Bergholtz, Romeyn Berry, Charles D. Bostwick, Herman V. Bostwick, Charles D. Coburn, T. F. Crane, Hollis E. Dann, Harry F. Dixie, John Wilbur Dwight, Albert F. Gladding, Samuel Grumbine, Henry Gaines Hawn, Hervey C. Hazen, David N. Heller, Frank H. Hiscock, Bert G. Hubbell, Horace Mack, Burr Mattice, Jared T. Newman, Cuthbert W. Pound, George Priest, George W. Ray, Willard W. Rowlee, Henry W. Sackett, Jacob Gould Schurman, John L. Senior, Edwin C. Stewart, Charles M. Titus, Charles E. Treman, Sr., Robert H. Treman, Henry A. Van Alstyne, Mynderse Van Cleef, Andrew S. White, Ernest I. White, Frederick J. Whiton, Emmons L. Williams, George R. Williams, Roger B. Williams, Clarence F. Wyckoff, and Edward G. Wyckoff.

ArchivalResource: 3.8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072883 View

Ithaca Glass Works. Ithaca Glass Works records, 1878-1891.

Title: Ithaca Glass Works records, 1878-1891.

Collection includes outgoing correspondence (1 letter book, 1884-85) and incoming correspondence (1886-90), in part between the company president, Charles F. Blood, and O.E. Frazer, secretary of the New York State Window Glass Manufacturers Mutual Benefit Association, an organization created to meet western competition, concerning efforts to fix local prices and settle discounts and freight deductions; also, correspondence with customers, suppliers, and other glass manufacturers; a committee report (March 1886) recommending that area glass works organize a corporation to be known as the United Glass Company, with offices in Syracuse, to which members would sell their entire season's production of window glass, and the certificate of incorporation and bylaws (1889) of this company, of which Frazer became president; articles of agreement (July 1888) between the New York State Window Glass Manufacturers Mutual Benefit Association and the Window Glass Workers Wage Committee of the Northern District for the blast of 1888-89, concerning wages and other terms of work; operating and shipping records, timebooks, and accounts (29 vols., 1878-89); bills, receipts, inventories of raw materials and equipment, sales records, price lists, fire insurance policies, and printed circulars pertaining to the industry; and one photograph, apparently of the Ithaca plant.

ArchivalResource: .9 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934268 View