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New York (State) -- Politics and government.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Thomas Andrews papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2180
Abstract

Annotated scrapbooks include correspondence, broadsides, pamphlets, historical sketches, addresses, clippings, and editorials relating to his positions, and to Republican and Progressive Party politics, conditions in Cuba and Puerto Rico, education and welfare of New York Indians, and genealogical data on Andrews and Clark families. Also, correspondence, addresses, manuscript essays, school newspapers, and other printed items.

Dates: 1840-1922.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles Thomas Andrews papers

Chester C. Platt papers

 Collection
Identifier: 195
Abstract Copies of a series of articles written by Platt for the Batavia Times called Human Behavior, which covered a variety of subjects from politics to travel; also included are editorials, articles submitted to other newspapers, speeches, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to Platt's numerous interests. The political correspondents include William Sulzer and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Documents pertaining to the operation of a drugstore. Newspapers include letters pertaining to the three...
Dates: 1869-1934.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Chester C. Platt papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Chester Loomis papers

Constance Cook papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2881
Abstract

Material relating to Constance Cook's tenure as a New York State Assemblyperson.

Dates: 1940-1984.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Constance Cook papers

Daniel S. Lamont papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 18
Scope and content

Correspondence with job seekers, business and politcal friends, and family; also includes political circulars and pamphlets and other printed material.

Dates: 1860-1877.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Daniel S. Lamont papers

Edith Anna Ellis scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 498
Scope and content

Two scrapbooks of correspondence, clippings, and miscellany relating to Edith A. Ellis' activities in the Democratic State Committee, the Democratic Union, New York Federation of Women's Clubs, and other organizations. Included are letters from James A. Farley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Herbert Lehman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Caroline (Mrs. David) O'Day, and others.

Dates: 1924-1933.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edith Anna Ellis scrapbooks

Edward C. Sturges, collector, International Order of Good Templars records

 Collection
Identifier: 2573
Abstract

Files of the International (originally "Independent") Order of Good Templars.

Dates: 1845-1978.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edward C. Sturges, collector, International Order of Good Templars records

Edwin Crowell Stewart scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 2098
Abstract Scrapbooks of Edwin Crowell Stewart of Ithaca, New York State assemblyman, 1894-1895, and senator, 1896-1898 and 1901-1904. Contain area newspaper clippings and cartoons, invitations and programs, telegrams, correspondence, and scattered handwritten commentary, pertaining to Stewart's political career with special references to Tompkins County and Ithaca city politics and to the passage of the legislation establishing the New York State Colledge of Forestry, the Veterinary College, and the...
Dates: 1894-1921.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edwin Crowell Stewart scrapbooks

Elias W. Cady papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2399
Abstract

Letters to Cady and deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems.

Dates: 1801-1857.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Elias W. Cady papers

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates: 1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ezra Cornell papers

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