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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Social issues pamphlet collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1220
Abstract Pamphlets on social issues at the local, state, and national levels in the United States, with local and state pamphlets focused mainly but not exclusively on New York State or its localities. Topics include education, religion and moral issues, politics (especially surrounding the issue of slavery and the Civil War), temperance, agriculture, and railroads. Also included are pamphlets relating to libraries, historical societies, and history, as well as literary pamphlets (literary essays,...
Dates: 1806-1960-(bulk 1840-1880).

Testimonial for giving Indians medals, engraved by Henry Dawkins

 Collection — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9100
Scope and content Reprint of a William Johnson Indian testimonial used for giving medals to Indians, printed from the original copper plate. The print is in a folder that states "On the occasion of the visit of the Walpole Society to the New York Historical Society on May 25, 1946 there were made from the original copperplate owned by the latter Society, fifty impressions of Sir William Johnson's Indian Testimonial, engraved by Henry Dawkins of Philadelphia in the month of April 1770 and originally designed...
Dates: 1946.

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Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State) -- Oneida County. 1
Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State) -- Queens County. 1
Agriculture -- United States. 1
Alcohol -- Law and legislation -- New York (State) 1
Alcohol -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1