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Genealogies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:

Frank Ernest Gannett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1900
Abstract

Papers include correspondence, news releases, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, and pamphlets concerning FEG's youth, his student days at Cornell, editorial policies of the Gannett Newspapers and the establishment of the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation in 1935, temperance and liquor advertising, and newspaper and professional organizations in which FEG was active.

Dates: [ca. 1859]-1958.

Frank Norton Decker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 335
Scope and content Correspondence, accounts, labor records, deeds, farm leases, articles, speeches, pamphlets, photographs, memoranda, briefs and other legal papers relating to Decker's dairy farm and cattle breeding, and to the New York State dairy industry generally, and specifically the Albany movement, the fight in the New York milkshed against the Dairymen's League, and other dairy issues of the 1920s and 1930s. Political materials include correpondence about Decker's managing the campaign of former...
Dates: 1832-1961,-1920-1961 (bulk)

Fred D. Rumsey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2827
Scope and content

Papers of Fred D. Rumsey and his family include a Rumsey family genealogy; Dean family genealogy; correspondence; broadsides; accounts; certificates; speeches and notes; material on agriculture, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and the New York State Grange; photographs; diaries; Bibles with family history; publications; clippings; and memorabilia.

Dates: 1779-1967.

Frederick Law Olmsted collection

 Collection — Tube 1
Identifier: 462
Abstract

Copies of sketches, planting plans, maps, and general plans of gardens, parks, private estates, and portions of cities with material from various firms. Also "Ancestral Register of Frederick Law Olmsted, c. 1592-1878," and reports and brochures dealing with Olmsted.

Dates: 1877-1939.

Garnsey-Guernsey genealogy and 1995 supplement

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078883646]
Identifier: 6379
Scope and content The Garnsey-Guernsey Genealogy: An Account of Thirteen Generations of Descendants from Henry Garnsey (---1692) of Dorchester, Mass. and Joseph Guernsie-Garnsey (---1688) of Stamford, Conn. Second Edition, Originally compiled by Eva Garnsey Card and Howard Abram Guernsey, 1962. Revised with additions and corrections by Judith L. Young-Thayer, 1979. Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1979. Also, The Garnsey-Guernsey Genealogy 1995 Supplement (to the 1979, second edition, by Eva Garnsey Card and...
Dates: 1963-1995.

Gauntlett family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 150
Scope and content Business correspondence and personal papers of Gauntlett and others engaged in real estate and business in New York and New Jersey. Gauntlett real estate transactions pertaining to the McGraw family, Cornell University, and others in western lands, including letters, legal documents, blueprints, and account books from Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Letters, account books, and legal documents pertaining to the household, will, and the administration of the estate...
Dates: 1843-1928.

Gauntlett family record book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918968]
Identifier: 2446
Scope and content

Record book of the John C. Gauntlett family and related McGraw family contains autographs, messages, and genealogical data.

Dates: 1889-1898.

George Burr Upton papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065172961]
Identifier: 16-5-268
Scope and content Included are excerpts and copies of letters written by Upton's mother relating incidents of Upton's boyhood and describing life in the Colorado grain country of the 1880s and 1890s; genealogical notes on the Burr family; two family bibles; a letter (2 pp.) to Upton's uncle, George Lincoln Burr; a poem written by Mrs. Upton; and a travelogue in the form of letters, including observations on animal life, botanical subjects, and geological features on a coast-to-coast automobile trip taken by...
Dates: 1845-1942.

George E. Goodrich papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065197810]
Identifier: 3712
Scope and content

Includes photocopies of letters to George E. Goodrich relating details pertinent to the pioneers of Dryden, New York. Goodrich used some of this material for THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF DRYDEN, published in 1898. Also, genealogies, biographies, and early Dryden papers including receipts, license, work orders, list of town clock subscribers, indenture, and deed.

Dates: 1818-1915,-1897-1899 (bulk).

George Washington Schuyler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 923
Scope and content Collection consists largely of genealogical and historical notes, many of which were used by Schuyler in his COLONIAL NEW-YORK. Included are notes, copies of baptismal, marriage, and other certificates, and wills for the Schuyler, Van Cortlandt, Bleeker, Livingston, Cuyler, Wessels, and other families of New Netherlands and the Province of New York, translations by Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer of Dutch manuscripts, a number of copies of papers relating to the dispute between Nicholas Van...
Dates: 1776-1777, 1845-1885.