‘Lost’ Vintage Video of Famous Cornellians from circa 1925 to 1935

From unofficial SIPS historian Ed Cobb, this video features vintage film clips of famous Cornell faculty, including Anna Botsford Comstock, John Henry Comstock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Herbert Hice Whetzel. Also, footage of David Starr Jordan, former Cornell botany student and first president of Stanford University. (Original clips were filmed by friends of the Comstocks.)

Locations include:

  • Anna B. Comstock outside of Fernow Hall
  • Anna B. and John H. Comstock in their garden on Roberts Place
  • David S. Jordan at Stanford University
  • Memorial rampart for Luis Agassiz Fuertes at Stewart Park
  • Lua A. Minns Garden and L. H. Bailey Hall
  • Liberty H. Bailey in his herbarium and garden at Sage Place
  • Herbert H. Whetzel in Plant Science