Note: Institutional records are closed for research until 25 years after their date of creation.
Below is a partial list of archival holdings:
Administrative Records
Board of Overseers, 1980-
Board of Trustees (Cornell University), 1936-1982
Office of Alumni Relations, 1958-
Office of Alumni Relations, 1958-1990
Office of the Dean, 1898-
Office of the Dean (William Polk, G. Canby Robinson, Walter Niles), 1903-1934
Office of the Dean (William Ladd and Joseph Hinsey), 1893-1956
Office of the Dean (John Dietrick), 1936-1973
Executive Faculty Council, 1932-1977
General Faculty Council, 1972-
Departmental Records
Department of Anatomy, 1910-1937, 1975-1977, 1985-1988
Department of Anesthesiology, 1949-
Department of Anesthesiology, 1949-1972
Department of Bacteriology, 1935-1943
Department of Biochemistry, 1928-1937, 1967-1975, 1986, 2004-
Deparment of Biochemistry (Vincent Du Vigneaud), 1938-1969
Department of Chemistry, 1918, 1928
Comprehensive Care and Teaching Program, 1952-1974
Comprehensive Care and Teaching Program, 1952-1974
Cornell Clinic, 1913, 1922-1932
Cornell University Medical College Library (later Samuel J. Wood Library), 1917-
Crash Injury Research Project, 1942-1968
Department of Dermatology, 1936-
Department of Dermatology, 1935-1985
Department of Medicine, 1907-
Department of Medicine, 1907-1990
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 1960, 1979-
Department of Neurology, 1904-1930, 1968-
Divsion of Human Ecology, 1956-1974
Department of Ob/Gyn, 1932-1995
Department of Ob/Gyn, 1932-1979
Department of Ophthalmology, 1980s
Department of Pathology, 1899-1953, 1971-1988
Cytology Laboratory, 1947-1971
Department of Pediatrics, 1921-1970, 1974-
Department of Pediatrics, 1961-1980
Department of Pharmacology, 1914-1978, 1982-
Department of Physiology, 1907-1940s, 1960s-
Department of Psychiatry, 1915, 1921, 1926-
Department of Psychiatry, 1932-1989
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 1922-
Russell Sage Institute Pathology, 1915-1916
Department of Surgery, 1916-1978, 1986-1995, 2002-
Department of Surgery (Paul Ebert), 1932-1975
Division of Plastic Surgery, 1960-1968
Department of Urology, 1927, 1929-1935, 1964-1998
Other Records
Affirmative Action Committee, 1970-1987f
Alumni Association, 1899-
Cornell University Medical College Alumni Association, 1928-1978
Announcements (Catalogs), 1898-
Cornell University Medical College Bulletin, 1911-1932
Crash Injury Research Project, 1942-1960
Navajo Cornell Field Health Project, 1922-1997
Student Records (including yearbooks, commencements, prizes), 1898-