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Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.)

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

'Big' Little Britain articles and Union College items

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940954]
Identifier: 2696
Scope and content Collection consists mainly of articles on the history of Little Britain by Margaret V.S. Wallace, published in the Orange County Post from 1967-1979. Also included are a commencement program from Union College (1850), an autograph book signed by various Union College students or alumni (mainly 1850), and a newspaper clipping on the old New Windsor Presbyterian Church (1958). The autograph book evidently belonged to R. Howard Wallace. Also included are two pamphlets on aspects of Orange...
Dates: 1850-1979-(bulk 1967-1979)

Bristow Adams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3205
Abstract Consists of papers of Bristow Adams, journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Various materials document his journalistic career, including early work with a paper in D.C.; his editorial responsibilities on Stanford University publications; and his work as publications program director for the College of Agriculture at Cornell. From his student years are sketches of fur seals; college memorabilia; and many letters to his mother. Also, photographs from work for the US Forest Service;...
Dates: 1853 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1957

Josiah Emery autobiography

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938172]
Identifier: 731
Scope and content Describes his early religious experiences and his Arminian leanings; his days at Dartmouth College; his study of medicine and his involvement in a grave robbery of a cadaver and the subsequent trial; his student days at Union College; his activities as a lawyer, district attorney, newspaper publisher, and politician in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; his interest in the Corning and Blossburg Railroad, and land speculation. In 1837, Horace Greeley approached Emery with the offer of a literary...
Dates: 1801-1891.

Robertson family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 852
Abstract Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale University, and while traveling to Washington, D.C.; a painting by F. E. Robertson (brother of Mary "Grandma" Moses). Robertson...
Dates: 1820-1907.

Samuel Beach Bradley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 733
Scope and content Included among Bradley's papers are materials relating to his student days; notebooks of cures and remedies (1815+); a list of infants delivered (1818-1876); an alphabetically arranged listing of proper names in Dr. Bradley's diaries compiled by Grace Goodell Witty; sermons and religious experiences; fragmentary diaries; an autobiography (44 pp.); genealogical notes; a description of Eaton, New York, with recordings of weather and plant growth (1818); a manuscript speech against abolition...
Dates: 1789-1890.

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Autobiographies (literary genre) 2
Arminianism. 1
Artists. 1
Athletics -- Pictorial works. 1
Burial. 1