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Crosby family manuscripts and visual materials inventory

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Part Of
Crosby family fonds
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of textual & visual records of several members of the Crosby family.
Date Range
ca.1895-1975
Reference Code
M486 / V152 / Box 20
Description Level
7 / Unprocessed [inventory box list]
Part Of
Crosby family fonds
Description Level
7 / Unprocessed [inventory box list]
Series
Inventory listing only
Reference Code
M486 / V152 / Box 20
Date Range
ca.1895-1975
Physical Description
1 Box
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of textual & visual records of several members of the Crosby family.
Subject Access
Family
commercial
Education
sports & leisure
tourism
Mountaineering
Travel
Title Source
Title based on contents of fonds
Content Details
Inventory listing: Box 20 Crosby House Boy’s Room Black Landscape folder: hotel accounting handbook and ledgers. Publication – “The Little Hotel Problem” by John Courtney\ Practice hotel balance sheet for XYZ Hotel Company Black A5 ring binder: Hotel management lecture notes (printed) Loose handwritten notes Sheet hymn music Various insurance warrenties Wedding invitation fro Fred Crosby Publication: “Hotel Monthly”, Jan 1950 Publication: “Quick Frozen Foods” by F. Crosby Flaming Desserts menu by Statler Publication: “Cake Making at High Altitudes” recipe booklet Printed Course handouts from Cornell University Home Economics course: Home economics course book Weights and measurements Soup recipes Meat subsitutes Dressings, relishes and sauces Meat, liver and poultry recipes Meat exteneded, meatless and fish recipes for wartime use Desserts Sandwhices Salad and Salad Dressing Breads Suggestions for sugar saving Cakes, cookies, freostings and fillings Pie recipes. 2x recipe booklets, with missing covers Recipe for Rhubarb tart Business card from Havana Rum Distillery A4 Blank Ledger: Adverts/cuttings for gadgets and home improvements Booklet: “Instructions for building a moto-vator” Booklet:”Instuctions for building a electric organ” Typed letter from F.L. Crosby to Popular Science Magazine 2x letters from F.L. Crosby to Perrymobile Co. Typed letter from Phillips External Combustion engine to F.L.Crosby Cutting: “U.S. ‘Gestapo Tactics’ seen in arrest of B.C. vistor”, Jun 8th 1960 Cutting: “Students become ‘Witchers” (no date) Booklet: “Hotel Operations in 1943” Booklet: “Principal Operation Ratios of Hotels, 1940-45” 3x pages of handwrtten notes on hotel profits and admin 3 x bussiness law exam papers completed by Ruth M. Woods, 1944 Hotel accontancy exam papers completed by F.L. Crosby, 1944 7 x Cornell University Official Examination books, completed bt F.L. Crosby Newsletter: “The Handshake Press” (Cornell Hotel Association Newspaper), Dec 1945 Check in cards from The Little Hotel, Hotsville, NY. Booklet: “Short courses in Business Administration”, University of Alberta, 1952 Textbook: “Food and Beverage Control” by Charles Cladel. Brown evelope: Address list of Cornell Society of Hotelmen 1948 (alumni soc) High school jotter: Typed loose short story “The Sign of the Question” by Crosby Typed play “Deception Defeated” Handwritten draft of “Deception Defeated” Highschool exam paper, 1937 Cutting: “Miss Fox wins prize in Poetry contest (Fred Crosby wins playwriting contest)” Crag and Canyon Yearbook: The Royal Canadian College of Organists 1964-1965 Programme: “The National Convention of the Royal Canadian Colege of Organists”, Aug 1964. High School Notebook: composistions Publication: “Directory of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, 1957”
Processing Status
Unprocessed
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