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New York (State) -- Description and travel.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Allyn A. Packard scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065210878]
Identifier: 37-5-447
Scope and content

Scrapbooks of student activities at Cornell University, local Ithaca entertainments, and New York State events and travel.

Dates: 1885-1888.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Allyn A. Packard scrapbook

Cora A. Chapman Richardson papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 6 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240495]
Identifier: 841
Scope and content

Included are an account of a trip to Washington, D.C. from Hornellsville, New York in April 1906 and accounts of Mrs. Richardson's travels in the summer of 1910 (to Rochester and several New York villages, Montreal, Quebec, and Kingston, Ontario), and through Canada and New York State in 1913. Also, a speech made before the Girls' Friendly Society, November 1914.

Dates: 1906-1914.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cora A. Chapman Richardson papers

George W. Baird collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065187498]
Identifier: 37-5-1810
Scope and content

Scrapbook of programs, clippings, and other items from Baird's student days at Cornell University, including photos of campus scences and Baird's motor boat journey from Southampton to Ithaca with Alan Hildreth.

Dates: 1913-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George W. Baird collection

Hawkins family letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239265]
Identifier: 81
Scope and content

Letters by Henry Hawkins refer to senatorial duties in Albany, trips by stage, canal, and Hudson River packet to various parts of the state; other letters refer to the death of Henry Hawkins due to smallpox; also, the Articles of Association of the Exchange Bank of Alexander, with a list of first director and subscribers.

Dates: 1826-1840.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hawkins family letters

Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 6749
Abstract

Printed and manuscript ephemera relating to canals, commerce and banking, education, politics and elections, religion, smoking, theater, travel and transportation, and technical equipment, primarily in Ithaca and Tompkins County.

Dates: 1823-1976.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera

James Hyndford Rawlins papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 42 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065248738]
Identifier: 1814
Scope and content Journal of a paper mill owner describing his travels in the United States and Canada, including his visits to schools, paper mills, factories, museums, scenic sights, and visits with friends in Ithaca, Batavia, Niagara Falls, in New York, and Toronto, Cleveland, and elsewhere; extensive comments on the quality of teaching in the public schools, technological advances, transportation, and architecture; account of a visit to Cornell University. Also, letters from Harriette, James, and Richard...
Dates: 1846-1873.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James Hyndford Rawlins papers

Lovina Smith papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241337]
Identifier: 1743
Scope and content

Letters from Mrs. Smith to her husband, Joseph H. Smith, and from him to her, chiefly concerning family matters, the weather, and comments on the difficulty of travel between Western New York and other states; also, newspaper clippings (1841) in which Lovina Brayman's marriage to Dr. George W. Force was announced, and which was later declared a hoax.

Dates: 1841-1853.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lovina Smith papers

McElheny family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064939550]
Identifier: 2589
Scope and content Includes diaries (2 vols., 1853-63) kept jointly by Thomas J. McElheny and his wife Adelaide (Ada) Taber, concerning daily activities in Dryden, news of their cousins, the John McGraws, and other relatives and friends, travel within the state, church attendance, and containing many comments on political and social events. Also, correspondence between Thomas and Ada McElheny, their daughters, relatives, and friends (1851-88), a letter (1878) from Jennie McGraw (Fiske) to her cousin Thomas...
Dates: 1846-1907.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / McElheny family papers

Michigan diaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 51 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251500]
Identifier: 2670m
Scope and content

Diary of E. L. Brown on a trip to the Michigan territory from Plymouth, Vermont through Albany, NY, across New York State, sailing over Lake Erie to Ann Arbor, Michigan and back to Vermont, 1830 (10 page typescript copy).



Dates: 1830, 1832.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Michigan diaries

Stebbins family correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239323]
Identifier: 124
Scope and content

11 letters.



Dates: 1832-1840.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Stebbins family correspondence

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