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Ithaca (N.Y.)

 Subject
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Bicentennial celebration items

 Collection — Manuscript box 16 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065242566]
Identifier: 3692m
Scope and content 22 items relating to the celebration of the Bicentennial in New York State. Programs for Bicentennial celebrations in Trumansburg, New York and another, unnamed town, possibly King Ferry; sheet of publicity postcards for the Ithaca Bicentennial Barge Festival, August 20-22, 1976; leaflet on the New York Festival Barge, with a map of its route and schedule of stops; a program for the opening ceremonies of the barge's visit to Seneca Falls, New York, August 24, 1976; a calendar of Bicentennial...
Dates: 1976.

Cayuga Heights park and cemetery documents

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2232m
Scope and content

4 items including abstracts of title and deeds concerning the sale of land in Cayuga Heights to the Lake View Cemetery Company for what was to become Lake View Cemetery, and to Cayuga Heights Park Association for what was to become Sunset Park. The private owners selling the land included Jared T. and Jane E.W. Newman, Charles H. and Louise M. Blood, Herman and Adeline T. Bergholtz, Horace E. and Mary Mulford Hand, and Alfred and Helen E. Hand.

Dates: 1909-1921.

Chenango County and Tompkins County items

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243168]
Identifier: 43m
Scope and content

Two bills for medicine for paupers, Chenango County, N.Y., dated September 1822 and October 21, 1826. Also, a letter of recommendation from Andrus, Gauntlett & Co., Ithaca (Tompkins County), N.Y., December 28, 1852.

Dates: 1822-1852.

Ithaca concert ticket

 Collection — Manuscript box 29 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065245817]
Identifier: 886m
Scope and content

Ticket to a "grand gift concert" sponsored by the Tornado Hook and Ladder Company, No. 3, at the Wilgus Opera House, Ithaca, New York.

Dates: 1881 February 22.

Ithaca Festival planning records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064713369]
Identifier: 4-3-1534
Scope and content

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to the planning and fundraising for an expansion in scope of the Ithaca Festival, including planning for the construction of a new theater building. Correspondents include Walter J. Wiggins, Richard M. Ramin, Walter G. Bruska, and others. Also included is a report by Alvin H. Reiss on the state of the Ithaca Festival at the time.

Dates: 1965-1966.