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 Health and nutrition work in one-room, white frame school near Ithaca, around 1920

  

 Health and nutrition work in one-room, white frame school near Ithaca, around 1920

  

 Local children on hayrack ride, 1910-18

  

 The ''Health Fairy,'' who appeared at Ithaca High School in 1920 

under the co-sponsorship of the Child Health Organization and local groups

  

Women performing on a stage

 

Source: Cornell University Library

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Hotel Ezra Cornell

From the Cornell University website, "Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) is an annual weekend-long educational conference, a 90-year tradition at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, put on by the students for hospitality industry leaders." The 90th Hotel Ezra Cornell took place in March of this year. Here are some photographic mementos from earlier ones.

 Hotel Ezra Cornell. Six newly-married couples 

standing near Willard Straight Hall, May 9, 1934

  

 Waiters' Derby, 13th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, 1938

  

 Twelve waitresses, with one mannikin, who will serve at 

13th annual opening of Hotel Ezra Cornell, May 13, 1938

  

 14th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, May 12, 1939

  

Waitresses' Derby, Hotel Admin, 1944

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 Professor Hiram Corson in his study

The study of English at Cornell came into its own with the arrival in 1870 of Hiram Corson (1828-1911), one of the more colorful figures of Cornell’s early history. Corson soon gained notoriety for his insistence that the only proper way to teach literature was by reading it aloud, with all the “vocal cultivation” at one’s command. Accordingly, Corson’s classes consisted mainly of his own recitations to an audience that, by varying accounts, was sometimes rapt and sometimes rowdy. [Cornell University English Department]

  

 Students and dog on a toboggan post-slide

  

 Swimming, Beebe Lake, 1920

  

 The first field day at the Sanctuary, May 7, 1915

  

Three women with Puzzle of Progress poster, October 1961

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These uncaptioned photos look like they may be of student residences (dormitory rooms?). My guess is they date to the late 1800s. There is a lot of interesting detail in these pictures!

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 Advanced class in Life Drawing, 1940

  

 Booze raid on Dryden Road

  

 Canned food storage, 1940

  

 Nature Study School faculty and students, ca. 1898

  

Roadster

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 Frosh Prom, February 11, 1924

  

 Freshman-Sophomore "Mud-Rush" Parade

  

 Mud Rush crowd

  

 Mud Rush on the Ag Quad, 1922

  

Mud Rush

Spring Day

Spring Day was an annual celebration at Cornell University. It's now called something else (see history of Spring Day here).

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 1916

 

 1920s

  

 1921

  

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 Classes and class activities, 1905

  

 Cornell University Commencement procession leading to Libe Slope, ca. 1912

  

 Crew from above

  

 Delta Gamma sorority sisters, 1895

  

First colored women voters, 1921

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Here are some from the Cornell University archives.

 Anna Botsford Comstock with friends

[Anna Botsford Comstock was the first female professor at Cornell, starting in 1897]

  

 Camp, Soblolly Bay, 1921-22

  

 Cattle show on Tower Road

  

Centipede, Central Avenue, 1898

  

Children eating ice cream