Dept. of Food and Nutrition records, 1927-1970.

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Dept. of Food and Nutrition records, 1927-1970.

Correspondence, annual reports, minutes of meetings, plans of work, Purnell and Blackhead-Jones Research and 4-H Club material, and subject files concerning World War II. Also photographs (identified) of faculty and graduate students in the Dept. of Food and Nutrition, taken at Mt. Pleasant Lodge, of the Cornell Outing Club, and a notebook kept by Mary W. Meter Carter.

3 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7905011

Cornell University Library

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