Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Subject
- Diary and cash accounts. Includes notes on Cornell family history and genealogy, business notes, and Western Union and Albany Agricultural Works financial statistics.1
- Diary and cash accounts. Includes notes on Western Union business statistics, notes on railroad business and on Cornell University.1
- Diary and cash accounts. Includes records of telegraph stock and various financial records. Note in back of diary to "enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges in the Old World -- How many graduates do they send out, and c.".1
- Diary and cash accounts. Includes work in the New York State Legislature, interest in agricultural machinery, and a proposal to rescue the agricultural school and start an agricultural and military school. Also includes some detail of trip to England and Europe.1
- Diary of 1841 trip to New England to visit mills, observe uses of waterpower, and promote Ithaca as a manufacturing center. Includes detailed description of Boston and many New England mills and factories. Daily entries in 1848 and 1851 concern telegraph business and travels through New York and New England checking and repairing lines1
- Diary of Cornell as the Superintendent of the New York and Western Union Telegraph Company. Includes details of travel, line repairs, and line overhauls.1
- Diary of Cornell as the Superintendent of the New York, Albany and Buffalo Magnetic Telegraph Company. Includes details of travel, directives given, and repairs made on lines. Diary ends with resignation submitted to Theodore Faxton.1
- Diary of travels in England, herds inspected and animals purchased.1
- Diary of trip to England, with details of the crossing from New York to Liverpool, travels in England and herds of pedigreed shorthorns visited. Also includes an alphabetical listing of Cornells in the United States with addresses and dates.1
- Diary of trip to Pennsylvania to examine the coal mines near Towanda.1
- Diary of work in the telegraph business in New York and the west. Includes the consolidation with the House Company, Cornell's work as superintendent of part of the Union line (responsible for the Erie and Michigan line from Buffalo to Milwaukee and also of the circuit west of Cleveland), and a description of Hughes printing telegraph. Also includes details of travel and some family news.1
- Diary of work in the telegraph business. Includes travels in New York, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, the leasing of the Ohio, Indiana and Illinois line, and sales of telegraph stock.1
- Diary of work on New York telegraph lines. Includes details of line maintenance and operations.1
- Diary of work on New York telegraph lines. Includes details of travel, line repair, building of lines, conflicts with Smith, purchase of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Telegraph Company, and other telegraph business. Also includes some family news.1
- Diary with daily entries from journey through the South selling plows and plow patent rights. Provides description of travel by railroad, steamboat and foot, reports on personal health and treatments, and details of meals, including "a real log cabin supper." Diary includes observations of Southern businesses and descriptions of Monticello and Mount Vernon.1
- Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.6
- Ezra Cornell's broken arm.1
- Farmers Club (Ithaca)1
- Forest Park farm14
- House Company1