Albert Hazen Wright papers, 1820-1960.

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Albert Hazen Wright papers, 1820-1960.

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Correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, study notes, typescripts of articles, genealogies of the Wright family and of Noah Downs, negatives, slides, photographs, clippings, drawings, census reports, maps, Cornell Univerity and Ithaca, New York publications and printed material, transcripts of oral history interviews with Wright, manuscripts of his scientific books, and other material pertaining to his career as a zoologist, university professor, lecturer, and author. Other subjects include the Cornell University Natural History Society, the Zoology Department, and the Gamma Alpha Scientific Society; also, study and research notes pertaining to the Okefenokee Swamp, Sullivan's Expedition in New York State, lizards, snakes, frogs, and other herpetological subjects and issues. Also research materials including correspondence, notes, outlines, typewritten and photo copies of newspaper articles, directories, court and census records, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, and other items used in the writing of Wright's histories of the New York State Agricultural College at Ovid, New York, the New York Central College at McGraw, New York, and the People's College at Havana (now Montour Falls), New York, as they pertained to the early history of Cornell University. Also, notes, transcripts from contemporary journals, narratives, autobiographies, orderly books, muster rolls and other sources pertaining to Wright's study of Sullivan's Expedition in New York State, 1779.

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