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University Archives
Records that document the history of the University at Albany, SUNY and its predecessor schools.
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Course Materials, 1927-1992 6.2 cubic ft.
This series consists of both bound volumes (1927-1954) and folders (1963-1992) that each contain syllabi, assignment sheets, handouts, examinations, and other class material related to the courses taught by the Department of Information Studies and its various incarnations.
The formation and behavior of snow and ice crystals were a lifelong interest of Schaefer's, and in his time at General Electric he was able to focus on the subject during the World War II years as ice related to the safety of U.S. Air Force planes. Schaefer and Irving Langmuir's interest in that topic grew as a result of their World War II-era contract work with the military, and the experiments they conducted after the war's end led directly to their Project Cirrus contract in 1947—an undertaking so extensive that their work in that area merited its own series in this collection. Much of their foundational work in snow and ice composition and behavior was grounded in observations and experiments conducted on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Schaefer discovered during this time that ice crystals and snowflakes could be captured and observed using Formvar plastic. Using this method, he documented very specific data about ice and snow before creating some of the first replicas of specific snowflake shapes. The work of Schaefer and his colleagues regarding ice research includes handwritten notes, drawings, charts, photographs, reports, and correspondence specific to ice, snow, and Mount Washington.
Manuscript and Publication Notes, 1935-1979 11.75 cubic ft.
This series includes research materials maintained by Hopkins related to articles, monographs and book reviews that she published, as well as proposed manuscripts. Series focuses on several literary figures and topics that were of particular interest to Hopkins, including Dewitt Clinton, Delia Bacon, Francis Adrian Van Der Kamp, Francis Bacon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the portrayal of Satan in literature. Included are materials related to her works Prodigal Puritan: A Life of Delia Bacon (1940), Spires of Form: A Study of Emerson's Aesthetic Theory (1951), as well as a number of articles. Series includes typescripts, handwritten and typed notes, copies of scholarly journal articles by Hopkins, publications containing the work of her former student Naoshi Koriyama, and correspondence.