College of Agriculture "Dean's Hat" items, 1903-1972.

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College of Agriculture "Dean's Hat" items, 1903-1972.

Silk top hat. Documentation includes ten letters relating to the "Dean's Hat"; correspondents include Liberty Hyde Bailey, Carl E. Ladd, Mary Roberts Coolidge, William I. Myers, C. E. Palm, W. Keith Kennedy, Beverly T. Galloway, I. P. Roberts, and Alfred R. Mann. Also, a scroll describing the tradition of the hat. Photographs of the "Passing of the Hat" ceremony with the incoming Dean of the Colleg of Agriculture and Life Sciences Kathryn Boor and former Dean Susan Henry, Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7909624

Cornell University Library

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Roberts, Isaac Phillips, 1833-1928

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Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-1947

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Cornell University Class of 1904; assistant professor of dairy industry, secretary to the director, professor of agricultural editing, acting dean, and dean of the New York State College of Agriculture, 1917-1931. From the description of Albert R. Mann papers, 1916-1931. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63537802 ...

Boor, Kathryn.

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Galloway, B. T.

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Beverly Thomas Galloway (1863-1938) was appointed as plant pathologist in 1887 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The following year he became Chief of the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology. In 1900, he became chief of the Division of Gardens and Grounds, was the leader in planning the consolidation of several divisions into what soon became the Bureau of Plant Industry, and moved into position of Chief of this new bureau. For two years (1913-1914), he served as Assistan...

Ladd, C. E. 1888.

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Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit. Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany. After working with the renowned botanist Asa Gray at Harvard, he returned to Michigan to teach horticulture and landscape gardening. In 1888, he came to Cornell to build a new curriculum in practical and experimental horticulture. In 1904, ...

Cornell University

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Coolidge, Mary Roberts, 1860-1945

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New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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In 2004, CALS celebrated the 100th anniversary of the passage of the New York State legislation founding the college. From the description of New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, CALS Centennial Celebration Collection 2004-2005. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64057057 The "Dean's Hat" is a silk top hat handed down to new deans of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. From the description of Coll...

Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976

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Business executive. From the description of Reminiscences of William I. Myers : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131761 Dean, New York State College of Agriculture. William I. Myers, Cornell University Class of 1914, Ph.D. 1918, was born December 18, 1891 in New York City. After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1918, he taught farm finance and farm management at Cornell. He headed ...

Kennedy, Wilber Keith, 1919-

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Palm, Charles Edmund, 1911-1996

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Dean, New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University. From the description of Charles E. Palm papers, 1956-1986. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64068261 ...

Henry, Susan, 1947-

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Documents operation of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Transportation Company (ET & WNC). The ET & WNC Transportation Company was originally chartered by the Tennessee General Assembly as the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad on May 24, 1866 for the purpose of constructing a railroad to aid in the importing of iron ore from Cranberry, N.C., to Johnson City, Tenn. The mineral had been discovered in 1780, and the Cranberry Iron Company, later Cranberry Iron a...