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Architecture & City Planning

…broad range of architects and landscape architects, including, for example, the papers of landscape architect Ellen Shipman and materials related to the international architecture firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Complementing…

Phil Zwickler Memorial Grant News

…Queer Remains: Identity in the Political Present Jamie J. Hagen, Lecturer in International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for Gender in Politics, Queen’s University Belfast. British Academy Innovation Fellow….

Reproductions & Permissions

…take you to a request screen. If working with a boxed collection, select the box/folder numbers from which you want scans. From the drop-down menu choose the format and service…

Preserving Cornell University History

…organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, transactions or other activities. Records that have an institutional or legal necessity need to be retained for a certain number of years, and sometimes…

Finding Materials

…held, the collection number or call number, a brief description or abstract of the collection contents, creator of the materials, the size and extent of the collection, and language(s) represented…

The Cornell Wordsworth Collection

…Coleridge. Also worthy of special notice are a substantial number of literary manuscripts of both poets, a large number of letters written to and about them by their friends and…

Donating to the HSC

…their older records with us. The donations have lined the shelves in our climate-controlled vault with over 600 cubic feet of manuscripts, 100 international and 900 U.S. periodicals, and over…

Finding Transgender & Intersex In the Library

…1973; and Paris: J. Gay, 1862. Cowell, Roberta. Roberta Cowell’s Story: An Autobiography. NY: British Book Centre, 1954. International Foundation for Gender Education [networked resource]. Intersex Awakening. Decatur, Ga.: American…

25th Anniversary

…Kroch Library San Francisco–based antiquarian book dealer, collector and historian Gerard Koskovich discovered some of the gems of our current exhibition “Speaking of Sex” and is responsible for a number

European History & Culture

…that number in the thousands of volumes, along with a unique gathering of materials on the Rhaeto-Romance language. Fiske also established the library’s 37,000-volume Icelandic Collection. The collection contains virtually…