Scope and content
Manuscript materials include a Village map (ca. 1780), instructions for the celebration of the Fourth of July on the heights of Saratoga (1808), anti-British and anti-Federalist doggerel (1818), political speeches, fair copies of surveyors' notes taken from Commissioners of Highways records (1782-1819), notations concerning common school instruction and attendance (ca. 1850); also scattered letters, accounts, legal documents, and other papers of Laura B. Crane, Isaac Getty, C.W. Larmon, and members of the Boyd, Coon, Jay, McFarland, Maxwell, Mitchell, and Sherman families. Printed items include reminiscences, historical and biographicl sketches, programs for civic events, broadsides, photographs, and miscellany, some of which pertains to the Evergreen Cemetery Association, the Bancroft Memorial Library, the Salem Woman's Club, and Washington Academy.
Dates
- [ca. 1780-1959]
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Bancroft Memorial Library (Salem, N.Y.)
- Boyd family.
- Broadsides (notices)
- Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- Salem.
- Crane, Laura B.
- Evergreen Cemetery Association (Salem, N.Y.)
- Federal Party.
- Fourth of July.
- Getty, Isaac.
- Jay family.
- Kuhn family.
- Larmon, Charles W.
- Maxwell family.
- McFarland family.
- Mitchell family.
- Photographs
- Public libraries -- New York (State) -- Salem.
- Public schools -- New York (State) -- Salem.
- Roads -- New York (State) -- Salem.
- Salem (N.Y.) -- History.
- Salem Woman's Club (Salem, N.Y.)
- Sherman family.
- United States -- Politics and government.
- Washington Academy (Salem, N.Y.)
- Washington County (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
- Women -- Societies and clubs.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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