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Tompkins County (N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Eells and Young account books

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065175709]
Identifier: 952
Scope and content

Farm and labor accounts of W.S. Young, 1863-74, and personal accounts and recipes of Mrs. H.B. Eells, 1863-67, Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1863-1874.

Ellis Hollow Community Association records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230660]
Identifier: 4195
Scope and content

"Ellis Hollow Gazette," 1979-1984, and miscellaneous financial reports, 1980-1983.

Dates: 1979-1984.

Emma L. Phillips McDivitt photograph albums

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065197323]
Identifier: 4125
Abstract

Three albums of photographs taken primarily by Emma McDivitt, but also containing John P. Troy and Ernest Abbe photographs, of Cornell University students and campus scenes, family gatherings, as well as scenes from her travels in Europe and East Asia. Other subjects include the solar eclipse of January 1925 and the unveiling of the Ezra Cornell statue at Cornell University.

Dates: [ca.1900-1926].

Evangelical United Congregations records

 Collection — Manuscript box 61 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256962]
Identifier: 3787
Scope and content

Records (two typescripts with variations), including baptisms and membership lists of the Evangelical United Congregations, Lansing and Genoa, New York. Contains references to German settlers in the Lansing area of Tompkins County, and the Genoa and Scipio areas of Cayuga County, New York. Also, genealogical material concerning the Bauer (Bower) family.

Dates: 1800-1847.

Farlin family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938925]
Identifier: 2241
Scope and content

Papers include Tompkins County Medical Society certificates of Dr. Chauncy P. Farlin, 1838 and 1840; indentures for land in Ludlowville, New York, diaries of Lucien A. Farlin, 1882-1883, and other manuscript and printed items of other family members; ledger sheets of Farlin & Reynolds, a grocery firm of Geneva, New York; and information on the Ithaca Lyceum Theatre compiled from newspapers.

Dates: 1838-1953.

Farm and household papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064713302]
Identifier: 3680
Scope and content

Farm and household papers of the Jeremiah Dorn family, South Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, include recipes, cures and remedies, fragmentary diary entries, marriage and death dates, clippings, accounts, and inventories for farming and logging. Includes newspaper report of Abram Dorn's suicide. Volume contains several references to Luman A. Hill, who may have been Dorn's tenant, and later acquired the Dorn home.

Dates: 1869-1944.

File on housing improvement efforts in Ithaca

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064932944]
Identifier: 3630
Scope and content

Clippings, broadsides, newsletters, correspondence concerning housing at Cornell University and in Ithaca, New York. Includes pamphlets by Tompco Better Housing, Inc., the MOVE Housing Committee and the Students for a Democratic Society Joint Housing Committee.

Dates: 1966-1971.

First Baptist Church (Trumansburg, N.Y.) records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3631
Scope and content Photocopies of seven volumes and six unbound items including covenant meetings and regular and special church meetings; lists of baptisms, admissions, financial assessments and subscriptions; tabulations of votes cast in the election of church elders and pastors; and records of the appointment of special committees. Each volume also contains the church covenant, the articles of faith and practice as last revised, and a current membership list with details of the nature of each member's...
Dates: 1819-1938.

First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4045
Abstract

Subjects include annual reports; births; baptisms; marriages; deaths; buildings and grounds; church finances, governance, history, library, manuals, membership, organizations, and publications; missionary work; pastors; special events; Sunday school; youth programs; Bibles; prayerbooks; music and hymnals; blueprints and maps; and other records of the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1801-2010.

Garden Information Center of Ithaca records

 Collection
Identifier: 3685
Abstract

Includes scrapbooks, correspondence, minutes, and newspaper clippings related to various projects, and to the annual plant sale; also organization history, membership lists, annual reports, constitution and bylaws.

Dates: 1958-1973.