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New York (State) -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Annie E. Finch and W.D. St. John autograph books

 Collection — Manuscript box 49 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251096]
Identifier: 2489m
Scope and content

Autograph books which belonged to Annie E. Finch and W.D. St. John, containing inscriptions from their friends and relatives. Many of the inscribers are from Corning or Albany, New York.

Dates: 1879-1884.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Annie E. Finch and W.D. St. John autograph books

Berry family letters and photographs

 Collection — Manuscript box 44 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065249694]
Identifier: 2032m
Scope and content Letters from William (Will) B. Berry and J. Romeyn Berry to their wives, children, and grandchildren, mainly Lizzie Gould, Harriet E. Berry, and Harriet Berry Tyson; and one typewritten letter from "Lid" to the family (January 16, 1960). Also includes two letters to John Stanton Gould, one from Andrew Dickson White and one from Ezra Cornell (1873). Most of the letters are from towns in upstate New York. Photographs are of children in the family: Lizzie and Annie Gould, Harriet B. Tyson, and...
Dates: 1699-1960-(bulk 1873-1890)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Berry family letters and photographs

Boody and Mowers family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065177689]
Identifier: 788
Scope and content

Civil war letters of Hezekiah Mowers, 117th Regiment, New York Volunteers (1863) and letters about farm life and family affairs in upstate New York and Midwestern towns. Also, eight Civil War printed items.

Dates: 1856-1915.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Boody and Mowers family papers

Charles Clinton Covell diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065217535]
Identifier: 2213
Scope and content

Diaries concern family life, jobs held, visits with friends, and travel and work experiences in New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and South Dakota.

Dates: 1894-[ca. 1930]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles Clinton Covell diaries

Charles Wesley MacCarthy papers

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6191
Scope and content

Journal and personal diary (1878, 1902); sermons (1868-1877); letter to fiancee (1867)

Dates: 1867-1902.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles Wesley MacCarthy papers

Gifford family papers

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6028
Abstract

Twenty seven letters, most addressed to Rowland S. Gifford from relatives and friends discussing a cholera epidemic in Albany, family news, the annexation of Texas, the dissolution of the Union, winter shipping on canals, land speculation, farming and buying a farm. Also miscellaneous legal documents including deeds, affidavits and a receipt.

Dates: 1811-1857.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gifford family papers

Henry Kendall papers

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6163
Scope and content

Journal from trip to Boston as delegate from the Western Education Society (May 23-June 14, 1854); a diary (April 9, 1855-September 19, 1881); an academic notebook called an "index rerun"; his 1851 New Year's sermon; his 1855 Thanksgiving sermon; an historical sketch of the First Congregational Church of East Bloomfield, New York.

Dates: 1851-1881.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Henry Kendall papers

Kappa Xi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha

 Collection
Identifier: 8763
Content Description

Photographs of members and events

Dates: 2010 - 2019
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Kappa Xi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha

Letters and notes from prominent New Yorkers

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239372]
Identifier: 161m
Scope and content

Routine letters and notes on business and social matters from prominent people who hailed from New York State, including William Henry Seward (writing to painter Jocelyn Nathaniel), Oliver Phelps, Gideon Granger (writing to Justin Ely, a former representative to the Massachusetts General Court), Antoinette L. Brown, and Moses Coit Tyler.

Dates: 1794-1897.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters and notes from prominent New Yorkers

Letters from New York State public figures

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239711]
Identifier: 285m
Scope and content Routine letters: from John C. Spencer to Weare C. Little, written in Albany (New York), April 17, 1845, asking Little to ask the publisher to supply some pages missing from Spencer's copy of Peters' Digest of Cases in the Courts of the United States; from Amos Hall to Nathaniel Gorham in Canandaigua, June 30, 1793, about looking over a piece of land owned by Captain Taft; from Daniel S. Dickinson to W. B. Donlon (?), Albany, March 24, 1862, complying with Donlon's request for an autograph;...
Dates: 1793-1862.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters from New York State public figures

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