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Auburn Chamber of Commerce records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2656

Scope and content

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.

Dates

1887-1975,-1918-1932 (bulk)

Creator

Chamber of Commerce (Auburn, N.Y.) (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

William Henry Seward, 1801-1872, as Secretary of State, purchased Alaska for the United States from Russia in 1867. Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, but spent most of his life in Auburn, New York.