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New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243358]
Identifier: 115m
Scope and content Routine letters and notes signed by famous New Yorkers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, William Henry Seward, Russell Sage, Moses Coit Tyler, Jacob Gould Schurman, and Edward Eggleston. The letter from Stanton and one of the notes from Schurman is a fragment. Stanton's letter expresses her reaction to the tributes received on her 70th birthday. The letter from Seward (1864), written on Department of State letterhead, is addressed to Charles Sumner, Chairman of the...
Dates: circa 1851-1902.

Miscellaneous autographs, New York State

 Collection
Identifier: 120
Abstract

Letters, legal documents, and other official communications, mainly concerning business transactions with signatures.

Dates: 1785-1907.

New York State miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 77 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254249]
Identifier: 417m
Scope and content Newspaper clipping from the Ithaca Daily Journal, October 29, 1874, concerning a speech by Judge (Edwards) Pierrepont on the presidential election campaign of 1874; clipping from the Albany Journal, January 7, 1863, containing the text of a major speech by Horatio Seymour, Governor of New York; a printed document issued by the United States Treasury to explain the 1870 act to authorize the issuing of bonds to reduce the national debt; a printed list of banks of New York State, with the names...
Dates: 1839-1874.

Social issues pamphlet collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1220
Abstract Pamphlets on social issues at the local, state, and national levels in the United States, with local and state pamphlets focused mainly but not exclusively on New York State or its localities. Topics include education, religion and moral issues, politics (especially surrounding the issue of slavery and the Civil War), temperance, agriculture, and railroads. Also included are pamphlets relating to libraries, historical societies, and history, as well as literary pamphlets (literary essays,...
Dates: 1806-1960-(bulk 1840-1880).

William C. Bouck papers

 Collection — Mapcase item 1
Identifier: 2206
Abstract

Correspondence, appointment papers, official documents, and other papers chiefly relating to Bouck's political career.

Dates: 1727-1866.