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Newsletters, 1973-1975, and minutes of Board of Directors meetings of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce, 1918-1932. Also, photographs and printed material concerning the history of Auburn, New York, including a pamphlet marking the centennial of the Alaska Purchase, 1967.

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Correspondence, notes, account books, and legal papers of an Elmira family of lawyers and businessmen.

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Notebooks from courses at Cornell University in botany, taught by A. N. Prentiss; French, taught by William Channing Russell; political economy; moral philosophy, taught by William D. Wilson; and history, taught by Goldwin Smith and William Channing Russell. Also, a notebook on various subjects from lectures given outside Cornell University by Henry Ward Beecher, Leonard M. Bacon, William H. Seward, and Anna Dickinson.

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Papers concerned principally with elections in the 25th Congressional District of New York (Cayuga County) in 1850; Morgan's platform included high protectionism, free soil, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law; he was defeated by Thomas Y. How, the Loco-Foco candidate.

Scope and content Papers primarily relate to Emily Babcock's journey to England for her marriage to Dennis R. Alward, assistant secretary of the United States Legation in London, and the couple's life in diplomatic and court circles (1865-67). Mrs. Alward's papers consist of letters to her mother, Mary Potter Babcock, in which she describes her presentation to Queen Victoria, comments on the status, personality, appearance, and costumes of the Queen, members of the royal family, English noblewomen, and...

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The collection contains articles by C. Evan Stewart on historical and legal topics.

Abstract Includes the files of National Masters and other Grange officials, the Executive Committee, and the Diamond Jubilee Building Fund. Material concerning the administration of the national and state granges, other agricultural organizations, farm credit, insurance, bonding, prices and price control, parity, taxation, Grange history, conferences, the "National Grange Monthly", and the building of the National Grange headquarters. Also included are personal papers of William Saunders,...

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Scrapbook of postcards and other ephemera collected during a trip to coastal Alaska. Includes a narrative by Ms. Jones and various fact sheets and profiles on Alaska and its missions, as well as reverend biographies, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Items relateing to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Skagway, and Juneau, the First Presbyterian Church, the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, and other Alaskan political and religious figures. Also, a baby's Indian moccasin.

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Correspondence of Henry Tappen, Lucas Elmendorf, William Coventry H. Waddell and others, and other Revolutionary War documents of Captain Samuel Van Vechten's company of Colonel Wynkoop's regiment; also, later letters and bills of Ulster County residents. Autographs include DeWitt Clinton, Samuel L. Southard, George T. Boutwell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Simon Cameron, William H. Seward, and Governor Marcy.

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Estimates made by delegates to a Whig senatorial convention at Bath, New York, Oct. 3, as to Marcy and Seward strength in various counties.