Mary Merritt Crawford papers, 1903-1964.

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Mary Merritt Crawford papers, 1903-1964.

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Includes campaign material and reports to the Cornell Alumni Corporation (1932-37) upon completion of each of her terms as alumni trustee; tape recordings and a partial transcript of interviews with Dr. Crawford (1962, 1964) concerning her life as a Cornell co-ed, her career as a doctor, and her service on the Board of Trustees. Also, correspondence, notes, photographs, and printed material concerning alumni affairs, including lists of Cornell women graduates (1873-88) and biographical and bibliographical data compiled by Bessie Bell DeWitt (Mrs. Willard Beahan) and printed material compiled by Simon Henry Gage, Professor of Histology and Embryology, on Susanna Phelps Gage ('80), Mary Hannah Gage-Day, M.D., Theobald Smith ('81), Professor of Histology and Embryology, and the first faculty of the Veterinary College. Medical hood worn by Dr. Crawford as a Cornell Trustee. Papers of Mary Merritt Crawford include student scrapbook, 1900-1904; diaries; photographs; and extensive correspondence, 1887-1973, between Mary and other family members especially her parents; her sisters, Charlotte, Lucy, and Caroline; her husband Edward Schuster; and her daughter Mary Schuster Jaffe. Of particular interest are the letters she wrote to her family while she was serving in the Ambulance Corps in France during World War I. Many have typescript copies.

2 tape recordings.

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