George Chapman Caldwell papers, 1853-1903.

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George Chapman Caldwell papers, 1853-1903.

Diaries, lecture notes, personal accounts, a thesis, photographs, and pamphlets. Includes diaries of Caldwell and his wife, and of George W. Chamberlain, his son-in-law who was a professor of architecture at Cornell; notes kept by Caldwell on Louis Agassiz's lectures; family photographs, clippings, and letters, and an elaborate set of financial accounts kept by Caldwell. Typescript of a vacation journal, 1855. Notebooks and lecture notes, and other Caldwell papers collected by Anna Elsbree consisting of correspondence with friends and relatives, and letters from families trying to locate soldiers hospitalized during the Civil War.

2 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7886862

Cornell University Library

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