Rare and Manuscript Collections - An Exhibition Celebrating the Wine and Grape Archive
Cornell University Library celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Eastern Wine and Grape Archive (EWGA) with an exhibition devoted to the story of wine making. Formed in 1998 as a cooperative venture between Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, and the Frank A. Lee Library at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, New York, the archive was established to preserve the records of grape growers, wine makers, and associated industry participants. The number of wineries in the United States has doubled during the past eight years, and wine is now produced in all 50 states. Cornell University has made a commitment to preserving the history of American viticulture to ensure that current and future generations of students, scholars, industry members, and anyone with a passion for wine will be able to study the growth and development of America’s grape and wine industries.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - Part of the university’s year-long celebration of the birth of Ezra Cornell, this exhibition features documents, letters, diaries, and photographs from the University Archives. Highlights include the original telegraph receiver, the Cornell University Charter, family letters, patent applications, and Ezra’s letter “to the coming man and woman.”
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Mann - Today it's hard to imagine a nationwide effort where most Americans voluntarily restricted their diets to free up food to send overseas. But after the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, millions of men, women and children participated in "Meatless Mondays" and "Wheatless Wednesdays." This exhibit examines the role of home economists in creating volunteer networks and educating Americans about food conservation and preservation, growing vegetables, and healthful dietary practices.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - A celebration of the contributions from dedicated collectors and donors who have enriched Cornell University Library’s spectacular rare book and manuscript collections.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has worked to garner political influence and leverage it on behalf of greater equality for lesbian, gay male, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans since 1980. The historic records of the Human Rights Campaign are now open for research in Cornell University Library’s Human Sexuality Collection.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - During repairs to the Baldwin Memorial Stairway, Cornell masonry workers found a copper cornerstone box that had been interred in 1925. See what was inside the box.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - This exhibit celebrates one of America’s greatest writers and the achievements of a superb collector. Susan Jaffe Tane's extraordinary collection documents Poe’s remarkable life and work through the artifacts of his own hand in his own time. The exhibition features many of Poe’s unique manuscripts and letters, scarce copies of his first editions, rare examples of the original newspapers and magazines in which much of his work first appeared, and editions of his most famous poem, “The Raven.”
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - In 2004 Cornell acquired one of the nation’s most distinguished collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, and other unique materials on the history of the native peoples of North and South America. This exhibit celebrates the great range and depth of the Native American Collection and reaffirms Cornell’s commitment to dialogue and learning centered on native cultures.
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Mann - The dream of a home of one's own is an enduring one; the image of a house powerful and iconic. For the upper crust, achieving this dream has rarely been a problem—for America's working classes, it has always been a struggle. Toward this end, philanthropists, social reformers, public policy makers, builders, architects and engineers have also had a dream—a dream that affordable housing could be prefabricated by the efficient mass production methods found in factories.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - Sixteen years after the first African American students graduated from Cornell, the nation’s first intercollegiate black Greek-letter fraternity was founded here in 1906. The seven Cornell students who formed the fraternity, known as the “Seven Jewels,” launched a brotherhood that would achieve great success in leadership and influence in the African American community and beyond.
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Asia collections - Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this digital collection of 17th- to early-20th-century European travel accounts of Southeast Asia is drawn from Cornell's renowned Echols Collection.
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Industrial and Labor Relations - This database of 1,000 images drawn from the archives of the Kheel Center at Cornell's Catherwood Library documents 100 years of union activities and working-class history.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - For the first time in thirty years, the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will exhibit highlights from its spectacular collection of letters, manuscripts and books documenting the life and work of James Joyce. The Cornell Joyce Collection is one of the richest in the world covering the Irish novelist's early life and writing career.
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Mann - In October 1804 a former political refugee from Scotland, destined to become America's first scientific ornithologist, began a heroic journey. Alexander Wilson and two companions left Philadelphia and began walking to Niagara Falls, 600 miles away on the far edge of the American frontier. Following this adventure, Wilson wrote a book-length poem, The Foresters, which described an untouched American wilderness "stamped with the traits of majesty sublime."
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - Willard Fiske was Cornell's first librarian and one of the most fascinating and important figures in the early history of the university. An avid bibliophile, he not only acquired many important collections for the library but bequeathed his own extensive collections on Iceland, Dante, Petrarch, and Rhaeto-Romance languages to Cornell.
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None - What was happening in America 200+ years ago? See what your ancestors were reading as you browse this full-text database of 19th-century serial publications with more than 900,000 pages from 22 titles such as Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Scribner's, and Scientific American.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - This exhibit highlights rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and other documents among Cornell Library's renowned Asia collections - the Echols Collection on Southeast Asia, the Wason East Asia Collection, and the South Asia Collection.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - An opportunity to view some of Cornell Library's oldest treasures, this exhibit charts the diverse forms of the written word in medieval Europe.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954), the first dean of the NYS College of Agriculture at Cornell, was a botanist, horticulturalist, plant breeder, teacher, administrator, environmentalist, philosopher, rural sociologist, writer and poet. As the college celebrates its 100th anniversary, this exhibition highlights Bailey's accomplishments and enduring vision.
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Engineering - An open-access, multimedia resource for learning and teaching about kinematics--the geometry of pure motion--and the history and theory of machines. This digital collection has been developed with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library. The Web site is designed for use by teachers and researchers, as well as students at a range of educational levels, and other learners, young and adult. The core of KMODDL is the Reuleaux Collection of Mechanisms and Machines, an important collection of 19th-century machine elements held by Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
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Mann - Complementing Cornell’s distinguished programs in mycology and plant pathology, Mann Library holds one of the nation’s three most important collections of rare mycological books. “Marvels” has a double meaning in this exhibit, referring to the fascinating world of fungi and also to the extraordinary selection of mycological books found in the Mann special collections.
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Mann - With their luscious arrays of gardening dreams, seed catalogs have stoked gardner's passions for generations. Seen from a historical perspective, they reflect cultural and social values, alterations in language, demographics, and changing technologies, both in agriculture and printing.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - Celebrates the book art of Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) and features books and fine prints from his Gehenna Press, including wood engravings, woodcuts, and etchings. A cornerstone of CUL's fine press printing collection, Baskin’s books represent the apex of contemporary letterpress printing.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - This exhibition explores Gothic themes through rare books and photographs from the library’s A. D. White Architectural Photographs Collection and etchings from the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - A digital archive of more than 1,200 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of European and American architecture, decorative arts, and sculpture. A. D. White (1832-1918), the first president of Cornell University, established the collection by donating several thousand images from his personal architectural library.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - Featuring material from Cornell's preeminent anti-slavery and Civil War collections, this exhibit documents our nation's intellectual, moral, and political struggle to achieve freedom for all Americans.
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Industrial and Labor Relations - Drawn from the resources of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, this extensive online exhibit includes original newspaper articles, oral histories, photographs and other materials that document the tragic 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.
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Rare and Manuscript Collections - Drawn from Cornell's extensive Lafayette Collection, the largest of its kind in America, this exhibition celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of the famous 18th-century French general. Best known for his role in the American and French revolutions, the marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834) belongs to American and French history alike. His ideals were formed both by the French Enlightenment and his exposure to America’s culture of civic equality. As a result, he viewed himself as a "citizen of two worlds" and described himself that way on more than one occasion.
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