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Household, farm, and general store accounts; numerous items relating to the church and business activities of the Rhodes and Smiley families of Groton and Dryden, N.Y.; printed materials pertaining to Tompkins County. Included is correspondence of or about John W. Dwight, H. Hopkins, Dana Rhodes, A.L. Smiley, E. Smiley, Joseph Smiley, Mary J. Smiley; First Universal Society of McLean, Groton Carriage Company, New York State Militia.

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Papers of Clarence L. Houghton, an Ithaca newspaperman, pertaining to local events and organizations.

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Papers include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the background and passage of a state bill (1920) appropriating $10,000 to the College of Agriculture for Indian extension work and to the early progress of this work; correspondence and printed, mimeographed, and typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets pertaining to the Cornell Indian Boards, Six Nations' Agricultural Society, Indian Farmers' Schools.

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Photocopy of manuscript volume, "Expense of building H. Camp's Brick House; and out Houses, Fences, Lawns, Drives etc. commenced in May 1845."Also, correspondence, ca.1845-1855.

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Newspaper clippings and handwritten notes on the history of Speedsville in Tompkins County, New York, compiled by local historian Mary Legg.

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Includes personal and professional correspondence of Coville; personal bills and receipts, 1895-1915; notes and correspondence pertaining to the history of Ithaca; and a 1903 report on the Cornell Infirmary.

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7 clippings (mounted on 2 sheets of paper) concerning A. C. Flagg's sale of Ithaca & Owego, Catskill & Canajoharie Railroads at a loss of half a million dollars to the state. The clippings are from Albany, Westchester, Chenango, and Norwich newspapers.

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Files of Herbert Finch, a member of the Temporary Historic Advisory Committee, Tompkins County, New York, including material on the Boardman House.

Abstract Election and campaign files in Tompkins County, NY, including candidate literature, instructions, and rules, lists of volunteers, voters, and petitions, newspaper clippings, memoranda, correspondence, handwritten notes, annotated material related to candidates from Democratic Party, Working Families, and Green Parties; Democratic Party County, City and Ward Committee work, the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign (1988) and files from School Board elections (1986-2010), collected by Theresa...

Scope and content 133 pages including typescript copy of a list of deeds, arranged alphabetically by buyer's name. Buyers from Beach to Bell were inadvertently omitted from their proper place in the alphabetical order; their entries are inserted on pages 49-51. Compiled by Edna Gross, Chairman of Genealogical Records, Cayuga Chapter, N.S.D.A.R. (National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution), Ithaca, New York. The deeds recorded date from 1794-1822. Photocopies of selected pages of the manuscript are...