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New York State Grange

 Organization

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Charles E. Palm papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-2-1478
Abstract Correspondence, typescripts, reports, drafts, handwritten notes of telephone conversations, and publications pertaining to his deanship of the New York State College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and to his work as Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences beginning in 1972. The papers mainly document the administration and growth of the New York State College of Agriculture, its departments, committees, and related activities, including the New York State Agricultural...
Dates: 1956-1986.

Chauncey A. Drew miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 29 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065245809]
Identifier: 881m
Scope and content Collection includes 10 photographs, mostly of unidentified men and women in the mid-1800s, with one photograph each of Horatio Seymour, Tom Thumb, and an illustration depicting George Washington in a Masonic apron. Several of the photographs have postage stamps on the verso. Also included are four New York State Grange badges, 1879-1895, including references to Syracuse and Oneida County and the election of Grover Cleveland for president; and a copy of the book Historical sketches of Roswell...
Dates: 1839-1895.

Esther L. Ormsby historical sketch

 Collection — Manuscript box 63 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256830]
Identifier: 4035
Scope and content

13 page manuscript by Ormsby regarding the 1913 New York State Grange Convention.

Dates: 1913.

Fred D. Rumsey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2827
Scope and content

Papers of Fred D. Rumsey and his family include a Rumsey family genealogy; Dean family genealogy; correspondence; broadsides; accounts; certificates; speeches and notes; material on agriculture, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and the New York State Grange; photographs; diaries; Bibles with family history; publications; clippings; and memorabilia.

Dates: 1779-1967.

Harold L. Creal papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4326
Abstract Correspondence, notes, speeches, memoranda, certificates, clippings, financial records, photographs, and printed material concerning the American Agriculturist, Inc.; Century Farms in various New York counties; GLF and the New York State Grange; the New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Inc.; the New York State Fair; and the New York Farm Bureau. Personal papers include materials pertaining to the Cornell University Alumni Association, YMCA, church work, and the Homer, New York,...
Dates: [ca. 1916]-1986.

Henry Hiram Wing items

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065358420]
Identifier: 21-20-144
Scope and content

The collection contains Professor Wing's student course book; his MS thesis; one pamphlet entitled "Dedication Exercises: Henry Hiram Wing Coliseum," 1934; one volume of commendatory letters and clippings, 1928-1937; one leaflet containing faculty resolutions on his death; and one "Holstein-Friesian World," Vol. 33, No. 24, containing an obituary.

Dates: 1877-1937.

John C. Drake, Jr. miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 39 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065247813]
Identifier: 1594
Scope and content Bound typescript copies of excerpts from a diary kept by John Drake, Jr. of New Hamburg contain references to family matters, financial difficulties, imprisonment for debt, and local events; biographical and genealogical data on the Dearin, Drake, Flagler, and Graham families; and copies of four letters written by Drake in 1830 to Rev. Elphalet Price concerning his excommunication from the Presbyterian Church. Also, a pamphlet containing constitution and bylaws of the Pomona Grange, n.d.,...
Dates: 1827-1894.

Leland Gledhill and Hazel Hubbard Robison memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064935723]
Identifier: 3815
Scope and content

Scrapbook of news clippings and photographs concerning milk inspections; scrapbook also includes programs from New York State Grange annual meetings.

Dates: 1924-1957,-1924-1940 (bulk).

Louise McDowell collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 22 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243473]
Identifier: 174m
Scope and content

4 page manuscript "Bahia or Washington Naval Orange (copy): a report written by Mr. William Saunders and copied by his daughter in 1911; ". . .exact copy from my father's writing," B. C. Saunders, Feb. 28th. The report describes the introduction of the navel orange to the United States from Brazil.



Dates: 1911-circa 1928.

Morris Halladay papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4493
Scope and content

Correspondence, reports, minutes, position papers, brochures, and photographs relating to New York State Grange activities and interests, especially farm labor, highway use, and public policy.

Dates: 1952-1986.

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 3
Agriculture -- New York (State) 2
Agriculture -- Study and teaching. 2
Agriculture, Cooperative -- New York (State) 2
Agriculture. 2
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Diaries 2
Genealogies. 2
Agricultural education. 1
Agricultural engineering. 1
Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State) 1
Agricultural laborers -- New York (State) 1
Agricultural laborers. 1
Agriculture -- Economic aspects 1
Agriculture -- Economic aspects. 1
Agriculture -- International cooperation. 1
Agriculture -- Research. 1
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- Ontario County. 1
Agriculture -- Societies, etc. 1
Agriculture and politics -- New York (State) 1
Agriculture and state -- New York (State) 1
Agronomy. 1
American Agriculturist. 1
Apples -- Marketing. 1
Beef -- Marketing. 1
Botany 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brucellosis -- Control. 1
Cattle -- Breeding -- Study and teaching. 1
College administrators 1
Conservation of natural resources. 1
County agricultural agents. 1
Dairy inspection. 1
Dairying -- New York (State) 1
Debt, Imprisonment for. 1
Entomology -- Societies, etc. -- United States. 1
Excommunication. 1
Families 1
Farm management. 1
Farmers -- New York (State) 1
Food supply. 1
Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) 1
Fruit 1
Fruit -- Cooperative marketing 1
Fruit industry -- New York (State) 1
Fruit-culture -- California. 1
Highway planning -- New York (State) 1
Inspectors. 1
Livestock improvement -- Study and teaching. 1
Margarine. 1
Migrant agricultural laborers -- New York (State). 1
Milk trade -- New York (State) 1
New Hamburg (N.Y.) 1
New York (State) -- Economic conditions. 1
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 1
Onondaga County (N.Y.) 1
Ontario County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
Oral histories. 1
Oranges. 1
Poultry -- Marketing. 1
Presbyterians. 1
School lands. 1
Seeds. 1
Student movements. 1
Students -- Political activity. 1
Sugar beet industry -- New York (State). 1
Syracuse (N.Y.) 1
Tuberculosis in cattle -- Control. 1
Vegetables -- New York (State) 1
Water. 1
Wayne County (New York) 1
Wine and wine making. 1
Wine industry -- New York (State). 1
Young Men\'s Christian associations. 1
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