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Autobiographies (literary genre)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Frank Norton Decker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 335
Scope and content Correspondence, accounts, labor records, deeds, farm leases, articles, speeches, pamphlets, photographs, memoranda, briefs and other legal papers relating to Decker's dairy farm and cattle breeding, and to the New York State dairy industry generally, and specifically the Albany movement, the fight in the New York milkshed against the Dairymen's League, and other dairy issues of the 1920s and 1930s. Political materials include correpondence about Decker's managing the campaign of former...
Dates: 1832-1961,-1920-1961 (bulk)

Hervey DeWitt Griswold papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2124
Abstract

Dr. Griswold's "Autobiographical Notes, prepared for his descendants" (247 pp., 1938-40); two printed copies of Griswold's studies of Hinduism; five typed or printed items pertaining to his career as a missionary at Forman Christian College, Lahore, India (now Pakistan); pamphlet "Sketches of My Indian Childhood" by Frances Griswold Wooddell (116 pp., n.d.); genealogical pamphlet on the Griswold family of Dryden, New York; and typescript poems by Hervey De Witt Griswold (28 pp.).

Dates: 1897-1959.

Hugh Anderson Moran papers

 Collection
Identifier: 39-2-972
Abstract

Papers relating to Moran's career as a Presbyterian clergyman in Ithaca, N.Y. and his involvement in various local, national, and international organizations.

Dates: 1919-1947.

Japanese American relocation centers records

 Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 31924065229159]
Identifier: 3830
Abstract

Includes documentation collected by military sociologists on two World War II-era Japanese-American relocation centers, along with sociological observations and studies.

Dates: 1935-1953.

John Henry and Anna Botsford Comstock papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-23-25
Abstract Includes personal correspondence of Anna Botsford and Henry John professional correspondence; publications by or about the Comstocks; lecture and field notes; certificates and awards; typescript draft of an autobiography by Anna Comstock, published posthumously as The Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock; Botsford and Comstock family photographs; Anna Botsford diaries and poem; a scrapbook relating to the Botsford family, Phebe Irish Botsford, and Anna...
Dates: 1833-1955,-1874-1931 (bulk)

John P. Sanderson, Jr. autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1233
Scope and content

A typescript of the autobiography of John P. Sanderson, Jr. (1850-1920), a Congregational minister. Although primarily an account of his religious work in Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois, the volume also includes a detailed description of Sanderson's boyhood in Philadelphia, Washington, and Springfield, Ohio. Later chapters also include a description of a European tour he made in the summer of 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I.

Dates: 1850-1920.

Josiah Emery autobiography

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938172]
Identifier: 731
Scope and content Describes his early religious experiences and his Arminian leanings; his days at Dartmouth College; his study of medicine and his involvement in a grave robbery of a cadaver and the subsequent trial; his student days at Union College; his activities as a lawyer, district attorney, newspaper publisher, and politician in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; his interest in the Corning and Blossburg Railroad, and land speculation. In 1837, Horace Greeley approached Emery with the offer of a literary...
Dates: 1801-1891.

Lewis W. Sturtevant diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6392
Scope and content

Undated autobiographical fragment, which was begun by Lewis W. Sturtevant at age seven and continued for his sons, describes his childhood, education, and work as an accountant for his family's business. The account was never completed.

Dates: ca.1819.

Orville Theodore Fletcher papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064718582]
Identifier: 3674
Scope and content

Manuscript and typescript of Orville Fletcher's "From Plow to Pulpit: An Autobiography..." concerning his boyhood on a farm in McClure Settlement, New York, 1850-1890. Also, photographs of Fletcher farmhouse, 1893, and barn, 1930; the Fletcher children; Fletcher's parents, James and Laura Fletcher; and Patty and Benjamin Fletcher, Jr., 1859, his grandparents. Includes obituaries of James Fletcher, Orville Fletcher's father.

Dates: 1859-1935.

Raymond Clark Hitchings papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2580
Abstract

Accounts, correspondence, and financial and legal records relating to Hitchings's various positions as an officer and employee of the Co-operative Grange League Federation Exchange (ca. 1920-1928) and as a consultant and officer in various agricultural agencies; also, other personal and family papers.

Dates: 1808-1959,-1870-1945 (bulk)