Osborne, Charles Devens.

Mayor of Auburn, New York; son of prison reformer Thomas Mott Osborne. Collection includes correspondence, clippings, diaries, memorabilia, artwork, printed material and much more.

O'Geran, Graeme.

Autographs of the first 41 presidents of the United States (Washington through George H. W. Bush) and a few of other notable individuals (among them Edison, Ford, and Firestone). Signed items include letters, documents and photographs.

Osborne family.

Encompasses the records of three generations of the Osborne family of Auburn, N.Y. Thomas Mott Osborne, son of businessman David Munson Osborne, was associated with Democratic politics, philanthropy, and social reform, especially prison reform. He was a trustee and later president of the George Junior Republic in Freeville, New York. In 1913, he was appointed chairman of the New York State Commission on Prison Reform. His third son, Lithgow, served in the foreign service in Germany from 1914-1917, and later in Havana, Copenhagen, and Norway. He subsequently left government service to pursue a career in newspaper publishing with the Auburn Citizen-Advertiser. Collection includes correspondence (1812-1968); speeches (1895-1945); legal and financial papers (1786-1962); organizational records (1813-1967); memorabilia (1845-1965); diaries (1843-1946), and other material.

Osgood, Nathan, fl. 1787-1788.

Collection contains one ledger recording the purchase of staples from Osgood's General Store located near Hartford, Connecticut.

Oneida Community.

Community and personal records, biographical materials, and memorabilia pertaining to the Perfectionist community established by John Humphrey Noyes in Madison County, New York, its predecessor community in Putney, Vermont, and its branch communities in Wallingford, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York, and the successor joint stock organization, Oneida Community, Ltd.

Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880.

One letter from the German-born French composer composer, to a friend in Paris.

Oliphant, Laurence, 1829-1888.

One letter from the British journalist, satirist and adventurer to "My dear Mr. Ruxton," regarding Oliphant's having joined one of Thomas Lake Harris' religious communities in New York.

Onondaga Salt Company.

Miscellaneous financial material from the Salt Company of Ononondaga, in Syracuse, New York.

O'Geran, Graeme.

The Graeme O'Geran Papers contain materials documenting his personal and professional life, including his interests in economics, politics, history and American presidential ephemera.

Olson, Oscar Thomas, 1887-

Papers of the American clergyman, Cleveland Methodist minister. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1917-1959); manuscript addresses, essays, prayers, sermons (1911-1961); photographs; and printed material, including articles, booklets, newsletters, reports, sermons (1918-1961), and other printed items relating to the Epworth-Euclid Methodist Church of Cleveland (1934-1959).

O'Connor, William Douglas, 1832-1889.

Letter from William Douglas O'Connor, Assistant General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, to Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury, objecting to the proposed transfer of the U.S. Life-Saving Service from the Treasury Department to the Department of the Navy.

Olmstead, David Bunnell.

Eight large scrapbooks containing information on notable literary individuals -- novelists, poets, artists, physicians, politicians, jurists, theologians, professors, etc. -- compiled by David Bunnell Olmstead, plus an index volume.

Owen, David, 1911-1990.

The David Owen Papers contain correspondence, lecture notes, published and unpublished articles, recordings and transcriptions of lectures, and other materials.

Oppler family.

A family album from 1896 which includes family portraits and photographs of the Alsace-Lorraine region of France (then part of Germany).

O'Donnell, Thomas C. (Thomas Clay), 1881-1962.

Papers of the American editor, author of books on upstate New York folklore and children's literature. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1900-1962); notebooks (1920-1957); scrapbooks; manuscript books, essays, lectures, plays, and poems, as well as research material; published articles, books, and plays; and memorabilia, including photographs. Correspondents include Conrad Aiken, C.W. Anderson, Richard Atwater, Marjorie Barrows, Henry Bedford-Jones, Maxwell Bodenheim, Padraic Colum, Albert B. Corey, Homer Croy, James W. Earp, Walter D. Edmonds, and Vincent Starrett.

Odell, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Barker), 1854-1926.

Papers of the New York State Governor, 1901-1904. Both incoming and outgoing correspondence, three items of which concern the selection of Ray Brook as the proposed site of the State Hospital for consumptives. Correspondence with Horatio Collins King, Anson G. McCook, John G. McCullough, Nathan L. Miller, Henry Codman Potter, and others.

O'Brien, Margaret L.

Coursework, certificates, and personal materials for the O'Brien family at Syracuse University

Oak Street Methodist Church (Binghamton, N.Y.)

Methodist church in Binghamton, New York; in existence 1891-1976. Collection includes attendance records (1971), material pertaining to church history (1913-1974), reports (1968-1976), correspondence (1966-76), and financial records (1966-1976).

Obrist, Max.

Papers of the amateur photographer (1878-1961). Collection includes seventy-nine original glass stereoscopic photographs, a stereoscope, twenty-three single glass plate photographs and a holographic identification list. Photographs were taken in and around St. Gallen, Switzerland by Max Obrist between 1914 and 1923 and include family portraits, architectural shots, a train accident and his father's embroidery factory.

Orr, 1890-

Over 5,000 original editorial cartoons, color proofs and scrapbooks of published cartoons