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Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Letters between Ithaca and Trumansburg, New York

 Collection — Manuscript box 49 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250932]
Identifier: 2444m
Scope and content

Manuscript letter from Theresa in Ithaca, New York to Charlie in Trumansburg, with Charlie's reply. The letters focus on social matters and the weather.

Dates: 1878 June.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters between Ithaca and Trumansburg, New York

Lottie Mae Eddy papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924091539738]
Identifier: 6676
Scope and content Over 200 letters to Lottie Eddy from a variety of female friends, including cousin Lulu who lived in Watkins Glen and took a streetcar to work in Elmira; Pearl H. Vann and Maud H. Vann of Willow Creek; Minnie of Willow Creek who had a baby Helen in 1905; Cassie; cousin Addie in Riverdale, Michigan; Maud Newman of Ithaca; her sister Kathryne [sic] who wrote from Owego; her sister Jessie in Jacksonville; and also her brother Fred. The letters indicate Lottie was a teacher, and a fair amount...
Dates: 1894-1906.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lottie Mae Eddy papers

Louis Agassiz Fuertes Council records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065182812]
Identifier: 4030
Scope and content

Financial records of the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Council, a Boy Scout group in Tompkins County, New York. Includes material concerning fund raising and Camp Barton, a Boy Scout Camp on Cayuga Lake.

Dates: 1965-1972.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Louis Agassiz Fuertes Council records

Moses Lyon papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065196440]
Identifier: 1295
Scope and content Papers, primarily correspondence, of Moses Lyon and his six children, most of which concern his son Lewis' activities at Cortland Academy, Homer, N.Y., and at Auburn, N.Y., where he was a merchant; other letter to William Dada, a Protestant clergyman, and to the religious attitudes of 1850s and 1860s in Cayuga, Cortland, and Tompkins Counties. The collection also contain eleven family photographs, receipts, menues, a funeral discourse by Rev. W.S. Jerome of King Ferry, and family history...
Dates: 1813-1894, 1813-1864 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Moses Lyon papers

Open House (Ithaca, N.Y.) records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065231312]
Identifier: 3713
Scope and content

Funding proposals, newsletters, notes, and binder of photocopied material entitled "Open House" by Barbara Hanna, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1971-1977.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Open House (Ithaca, N.Y.) records

President's Council of Cornell Women records

 Collection — Box 5: [Barcode: 31924092811771]
Identifier: 41-9-3922
Abstract

Includes meeting minutes, bylaws, membership information, publicity photographs, DVDs, CDs and videotapes.

Dates: 1990-2015.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / President's Council of Cornell Women records

Reminiscences of Forest Home

 Collection — Manuscript box 4 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240057]
Identifier: 552m
Scope and content

William Edwards describes all the buildings and their occupants in Forest Home, 1947.

Dates: 1947.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Reminiscences of Forest Home

Smelzer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1184
Abstract Family and business correspondence; diaries, bills, notes, receipts; deeds and other legal documents; farm, general store, personal. church, and other accounts of various members of the Crisfield, Gulick, Hall, Halsey, Lott, Marsh, Miller, Mount, Sanford, Smelzer, Teeter, and Townsend families, chiefly of Seneca and Tompkins Counties; also included are a substantial compilation of genealogical data concerning the above families, numerous photographs, recipes, pamphlets, programs for church...
Dates: 1811-1941.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Smelzer family papers

Stanton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3930
Abstract

Includes letters, clippings, account books, and other papers of the Walter Stanton family.

Dates: 1782-1979.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Stanton family papers

"They were not well to do people, but having a piano was important": interviews with Hungarian immigrants by Eniko Farkas and Betty Whipple

 Collection — Manuscript box 65 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257960]
Identifier: 4280
Scope and content

Interviews with Hungarian immigrants conducted by Eniko Farkas and Betty Whipple.

Dates: 1987.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / "They were not well to do people, but having a piano was important": interviews with Hungarian immigrants by Eniko Farkas and Betty Whipple

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