Scope and content Correspondence, financial reports, clippings, and other items relating to the Board of Supervisors, mostly 1939-51; the County Agricultural Society and its fairs, 1953-64; home front activities in World Wars I and II; forest conservation; the Salamanca Red Cross, the Lions Club, and the Little Valley Rod and Gun Club. There are also notes on Dorsey cheese and ice cream manufacturing interests and on Dorsey's local history publications; family records and genealogical data with related...

Abstract

Pamphlets, notes, and correspondence concerning World's Fairs and Expositions, ca.1894-1968; correspondence and pamphlets concerning Cornell University, ca.1931-1968; pamphlets, correspondence, notes, news clippings, typescripts of books, and a list of illustrations for a book; and five plaques of Frank Monaghan.

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Diaries written by Henry Cooley of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York, an itinerant farm hand, wood chopper, and small scale money lender. Mentioned are a trip to Muscoda, Wisconsin, town and camp meetings, the Geneseo fair, the election of 1876, and work on the State Line Railroad, in addition to accounts of weather, chores performed, recreational activities, and other subjects.