Temperance.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Charles Lindemuth letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947603]
Identifier: 37-5-117
Scope and content
Letters written by Arthur Charles Lindemuth and other Cornell students describing student activities, dedication of Sage Chapel, victories of crew, preaching of Henry Ward Beecher in Sage Chapel, improvement of university grounds, and condition of student rooms; letters from Lindemuth's family in Greenville, Ohio, relating to the temperance movement, public school affairs, fire companies, sending supplies to son at college, and the effect of the depression of 1873 on the picture frame...
Dates:
1873-1877.
Asa Fitch papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938180]
Identifier: 755
Scope and content
Miscellaneous papers of Asa Fitch of Washington County include notes on ornithology, 1837; undated notes on medicine, chemistry, astronomy, and entomology; drafts of Stillwater Lyceum lectures on temperance and other subjects, 1830s; address before the Executive Committee of the New York State Agricultural Society, 1843; and other notes on his agricultural interests. There is also a diary, 1863-65, of Fitch's daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Lemuel) Poates of Bolton, Mississippi, describing...
Dates:
[ca. 1831-1957]; -1831-1865 (bulk)
Berry family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 810
Scope and content
Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, genealogy, essays, photographs, accounts, church records, and other papers concerning the activities of the related Berry, Nearing, and Osborn families of Onondaga and Livingston Counties, New York. Includes correspondence relating to a smallpox epidemic, temperance meetings, prices of crops, farming conditions, the establishment of a barbed wire factory, politics, and emigration from New York to the Minnesota Territory. Also includes diaries of Mary...
Dates:
1812-1917.
Burt Green Wilder papers
Collection
Identifier: 14-26-95
Abstract
Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both...
Dates:
1841-1925.
Caleb Carr letters
Collection
Identifier: 2386
Abstract
Letters written to Caleb and Emily Pierce Carr of Hillsboro, Wisconsin, from family members in Genoa, Locke, and Elmira, New York.
Dates:
1856-1867.
Chester Loomis papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2238
Abstract
Papers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and...
Dates:
1813-1865.
Clarence L. Houghton papers
Collection
Identifier: 899
Abstract
Papers of Clarence L. Houghton, an Ithaca newspaperman, pertaining to local events and organizations.
Dates:
1883-1923.
Elias W. Cady papers
Collection
Identifier: 2399
Abstract
Letters to Cady and deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems.
Dates:
1801-1857.
Emily Howland papers
Collection
Identifier: 2681
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates:
1797-1938.
George A. Throop papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926631]
Identifier: 218
Scope and content
Correspondence between various members of the related Throop, Goldsmith, and Cole families, containing comments on a Fourierist colony in Madison County, New York, the Millerites, and the temperance movement. Also, a reprinted article from Antiques, "Deborah Goldsmith, Itinerant Portrait Painter" (1943, by Jean Lipman), concerning the work of Deborah Goldsmith, George Throop's wife.
Dates:
1803-1939.