Newark Valley (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George Lincoln Burr papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203709]
Identifier: 14-17-22
Abstract
Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...
Dates:
1861-1942.
Newark Valley (New York) and other items
Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239984]
Identifier: 530m
Scope and content
10 items, mainly from Newark Valley, New York, with some from unidentified places and one from Albany. Included are a manuscript recording the words to an American revolutionary song, "Sir Robert Peel" (undated); recipe for making a half barrel of beer (undated); printed handbill offering a reward for the capture of escaped convict William S. Gleason of Dalton, Massachusetts, issued at Albany, with a manuscript note on the back (May 11, 1849); certificate admitting Mrs. C. Elwell to the...
Dates:
circa 1770s-1885.