Cornell University Campus
- Title (English):
- Cornell University Campus
- Collection:
- Historical Campus Maps of Cornell University
- Sponsor:
- Cornell University
- Creation Date:
- 1900
- Coordinates:
- 42.4475,-76.485
- Latitude:
- 42.4475
- Longitude:
- -76.485
- Location:
- Ithaca, NY
- ID Number:
- RMA02788_b01_f01_005
- Collection Number:
- 47-1-2788
- File Name:
- RMA02788_b01_f01_005.jpg
- Work Type:
- maps (documents)
- Subject:
- Cornell University
Maps
Cornell University Buildings - Measurement:
- unknown:100 (scale)
- Description:
- A map of Cornell Campus buildings and roads in the year 1900. Roads and footpaths are depicted as parallel lines and vary widths in accordance with real-world measurements. Streets are labeled with capitalized letters either on the inside or directly outside their parallel lines. An electric railway, indicated as a solid line with perpendicular bars along its length, crosses Cascadilla Creek at the southern edge of campus and follows East Avenue north before crossing Fall Creek on the Northern edge, following Thurston Avenue, and then crossing Fall Creek again to continue along Stewart Avenue. Cascadilla Creek and Fall Creek and their gorges are illustrated at the southern and northern areas of the map, respectively, illustrated by hashmarks pointing towards the bottom of the gorge. The rivers and other small water features are illustrated by concentric lines within their boundaries. The footprints of 50 university buildings, shaded by diagonal lines, and 46 private residences are drawn on the map. University buildings are labelled with capitalized letters in the spaces directly outside the shaded footprints. 43 of the residences are labelled with numbers that correspond with a key along the margin of the map, which lists the professors and fraternities occupying those houses at the time. The extent of map stretches from Thurston Avenue in the north to Dryden Road in the south, and Stewart Avenue in the west to Garden Avenue in the east.
- Cite As:
- Cornell University maps, 1870-1995, #47-1-2788. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Cornell University Maps
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 1
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This item is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of publication or creation date, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright). Digitization was performed in 2023 from materials held by Cornell University Library. For more information about these volumes, please contact Cornell Rare Books and Manuscripts Reference at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.