Guide to the Shackleton Family Collection,
1914-1921

Collection Number: 37-05-3133

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Laura Finkel and Kerry Gilfillan
Date completed:
July 2004
EAD encoding:
Laura Finkel and Kerry Gilfillan, 2004

© 2008 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Shackleton Family Collection, 1914-1921
Collection Number:
37-05-3133
Creator:
Shackleton Family
Quantity:
3.0 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Scrapbooks, photographs, film, classnotes.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Scrapbooks, photos and films from Mary E. Moore Shackleton and Horace Shackleton. Most material relates to their experiences as students at Cornell University but there is also material related to the Shackleton/Moore families
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Mary Eastman Moore (Cornell University Class of 1920) was the daughter of Veranus A. Moore, dean of the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine. She graduated from Cornell in 1920 and married Horace E. Shackleton who graduated from Cornell in 1919. Horace Shackleton was an employee of the Grange League Federation and Mary Shackleton worked in Statler Hall.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Two scrapbooks of Mary E. Moore from Ithaca High School and Cornell University including photographs, programs, memorabilia, and clippings. Several notebooks from Mary E. Moore's classwork at Cornell, many from classes at the New York State College of Home Economics. Two Cornell University scrapbooks of Horace E. Shackleton and his photograph album of Cornell scenes. Also 35 reels of 8 mm. movie film, primarily of Cornell athletic events, but also some family home movies and one copy of an "Our Gang" film.

PROVENANCE

The scrapbooks and film were given to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections by the DeWitt Historical Society in 2001. Mary Moore's class notes were separated from the Veranus Moore papers in 2004.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Shackleton, Mary Moore.
Shackleton, Horace E.
Cornell University. Class of 1919.
Cornell University. Class of 1920.
Cornell University--Pictorial works.
New York State College of Home Economics.

Subjects:
Women college students--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Motion pictures (visual works)


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Shackleton Family Collection, #37-05-3133. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIAL

RMC Collection #51-01-1368. Norman Moore papers, 1919-1994.
RMC Collection #24-01-119. Veranus A. Moore papers, 1836-1958.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Photographs
Series II. Scrapbooks
Series III. Mary Moore's Class Notes
Series IV. Films and Ephemera

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Horace Shackleton photo album
Box 1
Photos of New York City, including Bellevue Hospital
Box 1
Long landscape picture, including Veranus Moore, of the "American Veterinary Association at Panama Pacific International Expedition, San Francisco, Cal, Sept 3, 1915"
Box 3
1915-1917
Horace Shackleton's Stunt Book # 11
Box 2
1917-1919
Horace Shackleton's Stunt Book # 12
Box 2
Mary Moore's "High School and College Days" Scrapbook
Box 4
Mary Moore's Cornell Stunt Book
Box 4
1917
Bacteriology
Box 5 Folder 1
1918
Biochemistry
Box 5 Folder 2
ca. 1918
Chemistry 92?
Box 5 Folder 3
1918
Chemistry 93
Box 5 Folder 4
1918 - 1919
Design
Box 6 Folder 1
1915 - 1916
Dressmaking and Millinary
Box 6 Folder 2
n.d.
English History
Box 6 Folder 3
1916
First Term
Box 6 Folder 4
1917
H.E. 2
Box 6 Folder 5
1920
H.E. 9
Box 6 Folder 6
1915
H.E. 15
Box 6 Folder 7
1919 - 1920
H.E. 70
Box 6 Folder 8
1920
Health in the Home
Box 6 Folder 9
1915
History
Box 6 Folder 10
n.d.
History
Box 6 Folder 11
1918 - 1919
House Planning
Box 6 Folder 12
1919
Household Management
Box 6 Folder 13
1916
Household Bacteriology
Box 6 Folder 14
1917
Human Physiology VI
Box 6 Folder 15
1917 - 1918
Human Physiology VII
Box 6 Folder 16
1912 - 1914
Inorganic Chemistry
Box 6 Folder 17
1918
Political Science
Box 6 Folder 18
ca. 1920
Qualitative Analysis
Box 6 Folder 19
n.d.
Recipes
Box 6 Folder 20
1920
Rural Organization
Box 6 Folder 21
1920
Rural Organization
Box 6 Folder 22
1906 - 1908
Sixth Grade Sewing
Box 6 Folder 23
1918
Textiles
Box 6 Folder 24
1917 - 1918
Zoology
Box 6 Folder 25
1918
Zoology
Box 6 Folder 26
Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 27
1917
Chemistry Exam Books
Box 6 Folder 28
Films
Box 3
2 copies of The Cornell Era from 1919
Box 1
Clipping picturing Veranus Moore, Norman Moore, and Erwin Moore
Box 1
Clipping of 1925 Rotarians
Box 1
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