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 ...
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By Ed Cobb, SIPS history committee chair One notable example of Ezra Cornell’s “… any person … any study” vision is Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877-1978). Born in Maryland to a family of sharecroppers, Turner ...
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Floral decoration for Sage Chapel by Edward A White, Easter 1923. White was Horticulture chair from 1913 until 1939.
The original Roberts Hall faced Tower Rd. near the corner of Garden Ave.
Original location of Minns Garden at the corner of Garden Ave. and Tower Rd. Assistant Professor Lua Alice Minns is fifth from right.
Department of Plant Breeding’s Nanking Project works with Chinese scientists in the 1920s and 1930s to improve wheat, rice, soybean and other crop varieties.
Harvesting wheat breeding trials, 1920.
Two future Nobel Laureates, George Beadle (kneeling) and Barbara McClintock (right) in 1929.
Click image for larger view. We’re still researching this one. Donald Horowitz ’77 (Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture) purchased this panorama on eBay and allowed us to scan it. Shot from near what is now ...
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