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Families

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Renwick letter

 Collection — Manuscript box 18 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924093382442]
Identifier: 6677
Scope and content

Handwritten stampless letter from Mary Renwick in Ithaca to her mother, Mrs. Rhinelander, in New York City. Renwick writes that it has been hard to write since she has been so tired from watching all of her children and the new baby, especially since the nurse left.

Dates: ca. 1834.

Mead family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6069
Scope and content The collection consists of 55 separate bound diaries (1850-1902, 1904-1905) written by Edwin Mead about his activities in the Presbyterian Church as an elder, trustee, and Sunday School superintendant; his observations concerning world, national, and local events; comments on lectures, social events, customs, religion, current issues, friends and relatives, and weather conditions. Also included are cash accounts in back of most of the diaries. There are also two bound diaries that were...
Dates: 1822-1905.

Price family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4082
Abstract

Published and unpublished stories and articles by Edgar Price and genealogical material concerning the Price family. Correspondence from between family members. Typescript field notes by David Price on Nambiquara (Satones) Indian groups in Brazil. Notes, tape recordings, memos, published and unpublished reports used to prepare book about Nambicuara Indians of Brazil; and autobiographical writing by David Price.

Dates: 1881-1982.

Shurger family papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240669]
Identifier: 1007
Scope and content

Genealogy of Simeon Shurrager [sic], a brief history of the Shurger family, and two clippings referring to Mrs. Louise C. Lockwood, a member of the family.

Dates: undated.

Sumner family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230645]
Identifier: 4174
Scope and content

Family letters describing 19th century Ithaca; chart and genealogical information on the Sumner family.

Dates: 1839-1925.

Susan Eschbach papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113879864]
Identifier: 7909
Content Description

Notes, flyers, newsletters, clippings, and other material relating to Eschbach’s involvement, along with her partner Harriet Alpert, with the Boston group Lesbians Choosing Children Network.

Dates: 1982-1990s

Thatcher family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3355
Scope and content Includes letters (in part, transcripts), genealogies, diaries, account books and receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the related families of Vorhis (van Voorhees), Purdy, Patchen, Thatcher, Barrett, and Williams. Letters (1832-1839) to Steven Vorhis from father Jotham, brother Joseph, and friend David M. Underwood touch on religious problems, abolition, friends, and farming in Spencer, New York; from Stephen Vorhis, who served as minister in Akron, Ohio, as pastor of the...
Dates: 1818-1957.

Tuke family papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240677]
Identifier: 1015
Scope and content Items relating to the activities of James Tuke (Tooke) and family include a letter, 1828, from London, Ontario concerning land, prices, immigrants, and farming and other conditions in London; a series of letters, 1852, relating to the acquisition of land in Lima, Indiana; a letter, 1866, describing a Republican victory rally in Elmira; and other correspondence. Also, naturalization papers from James Tuke, 1840; an account book of labor, cloth, and seamstress accounts, Eaton, Madison County,...
Dates: 1828-1867.

Walter McQuade papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6346
Scope and content

Correspondence, subject files, research papers, manuscripts, photographs, family correspondence, prose fiction, and other papers relating to McQuade's career as an architectural critic, New York City Planning Commission member, and author. McQuade also published articles relating to urban planning, art, business, food and restaurants, travel, and medicine.

Dates: (ca. 1943-1995)