Penn Yan (N.Y.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fred S. Hollowell papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065198016]
Identifier: 3913
Scope and content
Material concerning "Blue Laws" and opposition to alcohol sales in New York State, 1948-1952; yellow margarine legislation; and a Federal World government, 1949-1952. Also, correspondence concerning the opposition to establishment of a Northwestern New York Water Authority, 1950; and material concerning "Operation Understanding," a series of activities including Thanksgiving Dinner, for foreign students in Penn Yan, Yates County, New York.
Dates:
1948-1955.
Jane Lightfoot Beaumont papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3224
Scope and content
Correspondence, clippings, postcards, trade cards and scrapbooks of Jane Lightfoot Beaumont and the Lightfoot family, Penn Yan, Yates County, New York. Correspondents include Winifred Graville and Sidney Clarke. Also, typescript "American Descendents of John and Ann Lightfoot of Foggathorpe, England"; phrenological head; shoulder yoke used by the Universal Friend; timber measuring can; fire company badges; scrapbook of Luella D. Everett; material concerning Edson S. Lott; and Jane Beaumont's...
Dates:
[ca. 1872-1971]
Verdi Burtch papers
Collection
Identifier: 3288
Abstract
Scrapbooks, photographs, and volumes of bird observation notes. Also, 18 notebooks of Verdi Burtch's and Clarence Stone's bird observations and a catalog of bird and plant photographs arranged by species.
Dates:
[ca.1894]-1943.