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Newspaper clippings; manuscript items, 1790 - 1905

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 19
Scope and Contents Vol. 19 (formerly Harris 5135 G119); Early Reminiscences and Recollections by W. T. Eddy and others (Ithaca Journal columns); "Free whites" data from 1790 Census of Ulster County, NY (New Burgh, Marbletown; Charles Deniston); [Description/ account of] Lansing, NY (Spring 1791); Petition of the towns of Caroline, Danby, and Newfield to become part of Tompkins County (in the N.Y. Senate Journal, 1822); Plan for emigrating to the Territory of Michigan, by John Mulks, Wm. R. Collins, and Ira...
Dates: 1790 - 1905

Newspaper clippings, almost entirely political cartoons from the Owego Gazette, the Elmira Telegram, and other regional newspapers, 1888 - 1895

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 14
Scope and Contents

Vol. 14 (formerly Harris 5135 G114); Includes Ithaca politics; cartoon by Judge Jason P. Merrill in the Elmira Telegram; references by Merrill to the Ben Mintz store, to the "Cornell Library Rostrum" (1892); photo of Judge Merrill; picture of the Senate with Vice President Stevenson in the Owego Gazette (Dec. 3, 1895)

Dates: 1888 - 1895

Newspaper clippings; manuscripts; legal documents; trade cards; political and social notices, announcements, etc., 1819 - 1892

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 15
Scope and Contents Vol. 15 (formerly Harris 5135 G115); Map of N.Y. State; Caroline political party tickets (1881, 1882); Caroline town officers majorities, Feb. (1884); Owego-Bath Mail Stage (March 1819); Caroline Temperance Society (1831); Rep. Jeremiah W. Dwight, speech on canals in Congress (1892); MIchigan Gov. Austin Blair (Caroline native) spoke at Eaton County, Michigan Pioneers picnic (June 1882); Speedsville Post Office Financial Report (April 1 -June 30, 1853); Application for widow's pension by...
Dates: 1819 - 1892

Newspaper clippings; manuscripts; trade cards, 1808 - 1883

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 16
Scope and Contents Vol. 16 (formerly Harris 5135 G116); Dist. No. 2 Caroline School Report by Jro.[Jethro?] Mulks (March 3, 1821); List of all candidates for Caroline Town offices, three parties (1881); List of elderly people living in Danby, Groton, and Dryden (1881); Silas Richards, of Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn., appointed administrator of Nathaniel Richard's estate (Sept. 30, 1808); Silas Richards's accounts in Caroline; Notices from the Owego Gazette (Tues., July 6, 1819); Notice of Fourth of...
Dates: 1808 - 1883

Newspaper clippings, various, 1888 - 1895

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 17
Scope and Contents

Vol. 17 (formerly Harris 5135 G117); Caroline Supervisorship, in the Ithaca Democrat (Nov. 8, 1892); the Bates case; "Ithaca Eligibles" - list of bachelors, Ithaca Journal (Feb. 4, 1888)

Dates: 1888 - 1895

Newspaper clippings; bills and receipts; political cartoons; market price quotations; broadsides, 1890 - 1895

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 18
Scope and Contents

Vol. 18 (formerly Harris 5135 G118); Contemporary life of Indians; Ithaca Land Company map showing both existing and proposed street car lines; Ithaca Land Company map showing development on South Hill; Marriage of Henry G. Norwood to Hattie Lounsbery, a Cantine descendant, Ithaca Journal (Sept. 26, 1884); Picture of Cornell University

Dates: 1890 - 1895

Newspaper clippings; various; many from Ithaca newspapers, 1808 - 1900

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 20
Scope and Contents

Vol. 20 (formerly Harris 5135 G120); Early Masonry in Tompkins County, by Murray Poole: first meetings held (1808-181?) at the Luther Gee Inn, Aurora & Seneca Streets, Ithaca, and at the John Cantine ("Mansion") House, Brookton; Ithaca Merchants (1859); History of the Presbyterian Church; Tompkins County Infant Heir Fund; List of New buildings and houses, Ithaca (1899); Dewitt Historical Society officers and committees (Apr. 5, 1900)

Dates: 1808 - 1900

Newspaper clippings, almost entirely poetry, 1869 - 1870

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 21
Scope and Contents

Vol. 21 (formerly Harris 5135 D41); Clippings mostly undated and without byline; some historical incidents

Dates: 1869 - 1870

Newspaper clippings, almost entirely from central NY papers, 1900 - 1901

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 22
Scope and Contents Vol. 22 (formerly Harris 5135 D42); Simeon DeWitt, stories about (Ithaca Democrat, May 9, 1901); "Where Dewitt died," Ithaca Daily News, with picture of the Clinton House); Death notices and obits.: Miss Cornelia Ackley (Jan. 18, 1896); Jesse Whitlock (June 6, 1901); Bush vs. D. L. and W. [Delaware, Lackawanna and Western] R.R.: Mrs. Bush awarded damages due to her husband's death from bridge collapse; Onondaga Board of Supervisors, First Meeting, May 27, 1794), undated story about;...
Dates: 1900 - 1901