Susie May Smith oral history, 1985.

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Susie May Smith oral history, 1985.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64075150

Tape and transcript of an interview with Miss Smith conducted by Naomi Tsuzuki Ewing, March 11, 1985. Subjects include her early life in Ithaca, New York; areas in and around Ithaca, including Taughannock Falls, Six Mile Creek, Ithaca Falls, Forest Home, Beebe Lake, and Cayuga Lake; sledding near the East Ithaca Station; horse-drawn fire equipment; Lake Forest College, 1926; Clifton Springs, New York; Wells College and Aurora, New York; Cornell University buildings, including Risley, Morse, Goldwin Smith, Willard Straight, and Bailey Halls, as well as Sage House, Uris Library, Schuyler House, and Sage Chapel; the Cornell infirmary; neighborhoods bordering on the Cornell campus; Cornell musical events; dogs on campus; and a fire at the Engineering School. Individuals discussed include Dr. Martin B. Tinker and his sons Martin and Alfred, Dr. Arthur Eames, Irene Castle, George Louis Coleman, Pastor Herbert Moore, Louis Agassiz Fuertes and his daughter, Mary Boynton, Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, Professor Oscar D. von Engeln, Professor Albert B. Faust, Dr. James K. Wilson, Hendrik W. Van Loon and his family, and performing artists Schuman Heick, Rosa Ponselle, and Rachmaninoff.

40 p. transcript.

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