New York (State) -- Social life and customs.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Lottie Mae Eddy papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924091539738]
Identifier: 6676
Scope and content
Over 200 letters to Lottie Eddy from a variety of female friends, including cousin Lulu who lived in Watkins Glen and took a streetcar to work in Elmira; Pearl H. Vann and Maud H. Vann of Willow Creek; Minnie of Willow Creek who had a baby Helen in 1905; Cassie; cousin Addie in Riverdale, Michigan; Maud Newman of Ithaca; her sister Kathryne [sic] who wrote from Owego; her sister Jessie in Jacksonville; and also her brother Fred. The letters indicate Lottie was a teacher, and a fair amount...
Dates:
1894-1906.
Miscellaneous autographs, New York State
Collection
Identifier: 120
Abstract
Letters, legal documents, and other official communications, mainly concerning business transactions with signatures.
Dates:
1785-1907.
Paige Bartholomew papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944139]
Identifier: 404
Scope and content
Consists mainly of social and business letters written by various people, mainly in central New York State, interspersed with receipts and routine legal contracts. Included are many letters to former Dryden resident Paige Bartholomew from friends and relatives living in central New York and also in Litchfield, Minnesota (1884-1888). Correspondents include Paige's father D. Bartholomew and mother D. A. Bartholomew, his brothers David and Lee Bartholomew, friends Frank N. Wood and Warren P....
Dates:
1843-1919-(bulk 1884-1892).
Playbills
Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239653]
Identifier: 265m
Scope and content
Includes playbills of the Citizens Opera House, Oxford, New York, and a notice of the First Annual Ball of the Union Base Ball Club (1860). Most items are not dated.
Dates:
1860-1901.
Found in:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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Playbills
Political and social correspondence of prominent New Yorkers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065197034]
Identifier: 58
Scope and content
Approximately 400 items including olitical and social letters from James W. Wadsworth, R.H. Walworth, Christopher Morgan, Eli Perry, John V.L. Pruyn, W. McClay, Erastus Corning, G.M. Schuyler, W.E. Robinson, George Law, T.C. Platt, Charles Tracey, and many others.
Dates:
1822-1924.
Regional history broadsides
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6629
Scope and content
Broadsides (sizable sheets of paper printed on one side and sheets of paper printed on one or both sides and folded) mostly from New York State on a variety of topics. Major subject categories include: advertisements, agriculture, ballads, clothing, cures and remedies, education, elections, entertainment (circus, excursions, men's talks, minstrel show, wild animal show), farm equipment, fraternal organizations, government, investments, lands, military, music, politics, railroads, religion,...
Dates:
1730 - 1990
Samuel S. Mariner diary
Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6147
Scope and content
The diary of Samuel S. Mariner of Penn Yann, N.Y. is divided into two sections, the first section is an index of names, locations and subjects mentioned in the diary and a brief genealogy of the Mariner family. The second section is a record of Samuel's life from ages 23 to 26. Topics covered include work, travel, visitors, property, weather, agriculture, discourses on pastors and sermon topics, political observations, marriages, births, illnesses, deaths, concerts, fairs, and town...
Dates:
1854-1857.
Stoddard family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064932472]
Identifier: 6012
Abstract
Two diaries (1860, 1861); a poem and an essay book by Lucy Maria Stoddard, an account book by J.M. and Lucy Stoddard (1883-1899) and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1852-1899.