Miscellaneous records, [ca. 1819-1983].

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Miscellaneous records, [ca. 1819-1983].

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Correspondence, annual reports of library departments, budgets, minutes, printed material, and miscellaneous documents, 1952-1980, from the files of the library's director; vertical files, 1880-1968, containing printed and other materials kept by the library and relating to Teachers College; correspondence, notes, lists, tests, assignments, bibliographies, reports, and printed materials, 1932-1967, from courses in library instruction taught by Betty Jenkins, Ethel M. Feagley, and others; financial records, 1906-1967; periodicals lists, 1980s, and miscellaneous library reports, memoranda, staff manuals, 1970s-1980s. Also included are letters and documents, 1819-1961, by M. Adelaide Nutting, Edward L. Thorndike, William Heard Kilpatrick, and others prominent in education and/or members of the Teachers College faculty that were either written to or collected by Eleanor M. Witmer, Librarian at Teachers College, 1931-1961; correspondence of Teachers College Librarian Elizabeth G. Baldwin with trustee Grace Dodge, ca. 1897-1909, library supporter E.T. Bryson, 1896-1900, and James Earl Russell, Spencer Trask, Nicholas Murray Butler, George H. Baker, J.H. Canfield, W.H. Carpenter, S.P. Avery, M.O. Avery, Montrose J. Moses, and others, late 19th to early 20th century, relating to the library.

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Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904

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Carpenter, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1936

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Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949

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Baldwin, Elizabeth G.

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Nutting, M. Adelaide (Mary Adelaide), 1858-1948

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Nurse, nursing educator. Nutting was the Director of the Dept. of Nursing Education at Teachers College, and the first nurse to achieve the rank of professor. From the description of Papers, 1868-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122589078 ...

Feagley, Ethel M. 1894-

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Dodge, Grace H. (Grace Hoadley), 1856-1914

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Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

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Jenkins, Betty J.

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Trask, Spencer, 1844-1909

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Spencer Trask was an American banker and financier and his wife Katrina Trask was an American author. Together they established what became the artist colony Yaddo at Saratoga, N.Y. Stedman was an American poet and critic and good friend of the Trasks. From the description of [Letter] 1906 Dec. 13, Yaddo, Saratoga, [N.Y., to] Edmund C. Stedman / Spencer Trask. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 669631520 ...

Russell, James E. (James Earl), 1864-1945

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Baker, George H. 1850-1911.

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Kilpatrick, William Heard, 1871-1965

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Canfield, James Hulme, 1847-1909

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Witmer, Eleanor Montgomery

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Columbia University. Teachers College. Agnes Russell School.

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Avery, M. O.

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