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New York (State) -- History.

 Subject
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Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

100 years ago in the Finger Lakes region

 Collection — Manuscript box 43 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065249447]
Identifier: 1951m
Scope and content

Typescript copy of Mary Hinman Abel's story, "A Country Schoolmistress of 1834," as published in the Sunday Telegram, December 28, 1930, preceded by a biographical sketch on the author. The story is fiction but gives a detailed account of what life in the Finger Lakes region would have been like for white settlers in the 1830s.

Dates: 1930.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 100 years ago in the Finger Lakes region

Albert Hazen Wright pamphlets

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-26-494
Scope and content Pamphlets by Wright on herpetological terminology and on New York State history, including two pamphlets coauthored by him and Anna Allen Wright. Several of the pamphlets are from the series Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell, which in turn was part of the series Studies in History. Includes issues 5-8, 15-21, 23-30, 32, and 35. Also, Christmas newsletters by Anna Allen Wright in the form of manuscript essays on Ezra Cornell (1962), and "Cornell Firsts in Academic Achievements" (1958). Studies...
Dates: 1943-1962.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Albert Hazen Wright pamphlets

Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938396]
Identifier: 65
Scope and content Correspondence (chiefly business and financial dealings) concerning transportation in central New York State, including Ithaca, Syracuse, Owego, Elmira, and Albany. Topics include the Ithaca and Owego Rail Road, the New York and Erie Railroad, land purchases, steamboats to Ithaca and Owego, a mill owned by Francis A. Bloodgood, the Chemung Canal, Ithaca canals and streams, a proposed turnpike road from the head of Seneca Lake to Elmira, and public opinion and politics in Ithaca. Also...
Dates: 1678-1683 and 1823-1934,-1823-1866 (bulk).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

Eastern New York State miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937604]
Identifier: 1066
Scope and content Pamphlets on legal, social, and commercial matters, published in cities including Albany, Utica, and New York City. Included are the Annual address delivered before the Medical Society of the State of New York by Laurens Hull (Albany, 1840); An introductory address to the course of lectures, before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement in the City of Albany, by Thomas E. Vermilye (Albany, 1837); the Second annual report of the New-York State Society for the Promotion of...
Dates: 1830-1896.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Eastern New York State miscellany

Edith M. Fox papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1093
Scope and content Professional papers; articles and speeches about New York State history, Cornell University history, and archival topics; course materials from a Summer Session course in New York State history; certificate as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists; and publications. Also, a story she wrote as a student, published in the Cornell student magazine, The Columns, Dec. 1929; typed lecture notes for English course taught by Professor J. C. Adams, 1931; student papers for William E....
Dates: 1929-1962.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edith M. Fox papers

Erl Bates papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-24-790
Abstract

Papers include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the background and passage of a state bill (1920) appropriating $10,000 to the College of Agriculture for Indian extension work and to the early progress of this work; correspondence and printed, mimeographed, and typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets pertaining to the Cornell Indian Boards, Six Nations' Agricultural Society, Indian Farmers' Schools.

Dates: [ca. 1920-1960].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Erl Bates papers

Madison County Historical Society publications

 Collection — Manuscript box 62 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257036]
Identifier: 3823
Scope and content

Publications concerning traditional American crafts.

Dates: 1973-1982.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Madison County Historical Society publications

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Miscellaneous autographs, New York State

New York State miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938560]
Identifier: 397
Scope and content Approximately 50 items including Indentures, receipts, letters, a school attendance register, and a membership badge, from various places in New York State. Letters include a circular signed by William Randolph Hearst, eliciting support for his candidacy for Governor (dated 1906), and two letters on House of Representatives letterhead, from Congressman J. W. Dwight to John Kelly, concerning how to obtain an appointment to a position (1880). Indentures include a document selling land in...
Dates: 1804-1921.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York State miscellany

New York State pamphlet collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1439
Abstract

Pamphlets mainly about or issued in New York State, on political, historical, religious, and engineering topics.

Dates: circa 1800-1946-(bulk 1820-1900).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York State pamphlet collection

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