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Patronage, Political.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Camp family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 891
Abstract

Includes papers of the related Osborn and Camp families.

Dates: 1817-1953.

Civil Service Reform Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 549
Scope and content Files of the New York State Civil Service Reform Association and the National Civil Service Reform League relate to the organization, development, history, and activities of these associations. They include correspondence, briefs, extracts, reports, clippings, pamphlets, and other material relating to appointments, examinations, investigations, prosecutions, and removals, finances and membership campaigns, Civil Service laws, assembly and senate bills, congressional activities, the views on...
Dates: 1880-1947.

Samuel Frederick Nixon papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1944
Abstract

Includes correspondence from fellow political figures, constituents, special interest groups, and office-seekers concerning legislation under consideration in Albany; local and state politics, patronage, and other matters. Also, personal business correspondence; scrapbooks (4 volumes, 1895-1958) of clippings, cartoons, and broadsides, dealing chiefly with poitical events and issues during Nixon's public life; memorial resolutions, biographical sketches, and obituaries.

Dates: 1887-1958,-1887-1905 (bulk)