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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Partridge, Bellamy, 1877-1960.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
American author and popular historian. Collection includes books, printed material, correspondence, one audiocassette.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Books.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Historians.
Historians
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors -- United States.
Historians -- United States.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Green, Belva
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Papers of the author, editor and comb collector.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Brochures.
Combs (hair ornaments)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Authors.
Women collectors.
Plastics
Ornamental combs.
Plastics -- History.
Plastic jewelry.
Plastics -- Research.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Putnam, Brenda, 1890-1975.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Collection contains six original pen and ink illustrations by American sculptor Brenda Putnam, done for an edition of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress adapted for children by Edgar White Burrill.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Subject:
Artists.
Sculptors.
Art -- Illustrators
Art -- Sculptors
Allegories -- Pictorial works.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Nine original drawings by Bruce Russell, dating to his time with the Los Angeles Times.
Type of Material:
Cartoons (humorous images)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Comic strips.
Editorial cartoons.
Illustrations.
Subject:
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cartoonists.
Art -- Cartoonists
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Editorial cartoons -- California -- Los Angeles.
Editorial cartoons -- United States.
World politics -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1760-1760
Abstract:
Small box or case made to look like a book of devotionals
Type of Material:
Accessory boxes.
Subject:
France -- 18th century.
Literature -- French
Publishing, printing and book arts
Books -- Specimens.
Books in art.
Fashion -- History.
Realism in art.

Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Inclusive Dates:
1782-1782
Abstract:
Promissory note printed and signed by Benjamin Franklin, recording a 1782 loan from the French government to the United States.
Type of Material:
Promissory notes.
Subject:
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, French.
United States -- Foreign relations -- France.
France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783.
16e Arrondissement (Paris, France) -- History.
Ambassadors.
Politics, government and public administration
Publishing, printing and book arts

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pease, Barzillai, 1773-
Inclusive Dates:
1789-1826
Abstract:
American seaman, pilot, ship's captain. Journals combining ship's logs and personal diaries concerning Pease's career as a merchant seaman and tenure as Commander of United States Transports on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Ships' logs.
Subject:
United States -- History -- War of 1812.
United States -- History -- Naval, To 1900.
Seamen.
Ship captains.
Military history
New York State
Merchant marine -- Officers.
Merchant mariners.
Navigation -- History.
Pilots and pilotage.
Sealing.
Sailors -- United States.
Ship captains -- United States.
Shipwrecks -- Archival resources.
Whaling -- Archival resources.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1790-1861
Abstract:
Assorted material related to the early days of the town of Brookfield in Madison County, New York; majority related to business transactions (ledgers, receipts, agreements, promises to pay, etc.)
Type of Material:
Agreements.
Financial records.
Ledgers (account books)
Legal instruments.
Promises to pay.
Receipts (financial records)
Subject:
Brookfield (N.Y. : Town) -- History.
Business and Industry
New York State
Business enterprises -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

Creator:
Baptist Society of Pompey, New York
Inclusive Dates:
1799-1943
Abstract:
Records of the church in Pompey, located in central New York. Collection includes financial, administrative, membership, legal, and printed material as well as three volumes of meeting minutes. Entire collection photocopies, no original documents.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Church registers.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Financial records.
Microfilms.
Minutes (administrative records)
Subject:
New York (State) -- Social life and customs.
New York State
Church and clergy
Baptists -- New York (State) -- Pompey.
Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- Pompey.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Brockway family.
Inclusive Dates:
1805-1962
Abstract:
Papers of the members of the Brockway family (of Central New York State, Syracuse, N.Y, and Fulton County, N.Y.). The collection consists of correspondence (largely incoming, to various family members), account books, church records, diaries, financial and legal papers, and memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Biographies.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Genealogies (histories)
Photographs.
Subject:
Broadalbin (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
New York State
Genealogy.

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bank of Newburgh (Newburgh, N.Y.)
Inclusive Dates:
1812-1836
Abstract:
Checks, promissory notes and correspondence from the Bank of Newburgh located in Newburgh, New York.
Type of Material:
Checks (bank checks)
Correspondence.
Promissory notes.
Subject:
Newburgh (N.Y.) -- History.
Bankers.
New York State
Business and Industry
Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1819-1867
Abstract:
Manuscript account books, inventory from various blacksmith shops.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Inventories.
Subject:
Colosse (N.Y.).
Blacksmiths.
Business and Industry
Blacksmithing -- New York -- 19th century.
Blacksmithing -- Vermont -- 19th century.
Blacksmithing -- Equipment and supplies -- Inventories.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Brisbane family.
Inclusive Dates:
1819-1965
Abstract:
The Brisbane Family Papers are a collection of documents, mostly correspondence dated 1819-1965, by and about the Brisbane family. The collection has been divided into three sections: items relating to social reformer Albert Brisbane (1809-1890); those of his journalist son, Arthur (1864-1936), and his descendents; and documents pertaining to journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman ("Nellie Bly") (1867-1922).
Type of Material:
Autobiographies (literary works)
Cartoons (humorous images)
Diaries.
Notebooks.
Obituaries.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
France -- Description and travel.
Italy -- Description and travel.
Journalists.
Social reformers.
Journalism
Activism and social reform
Fourierism.
Journalism.
Journalists -- United States.
Journalists -- Family relationships.
Newspaper editors -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Women journalists -- United States.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Burlingame family.
Inclusive Dates:
1821-1967
Abstract:
Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1856-1967); legal and financial records; memorabilia, including address books, clippings, genealogical records, and photographs; and writings, mostly of Roger Burlingame, including manuscript and/or published articles, books, book reviews, diaries, poems, short stories, and speeches. Family members represented include Anson Burlingame (1820-1870), a politician and diplomat; Edward L. Burlingame (1848-1922), author and editor; William Roger Burlingame (1889-1967), author, biographer, and novelist; and his wife, Angeline Whiton (d. 1967), a literary agent, known professionally as Ann Watkins. Notable correspondents include authors, poets, artists, etc.
Type of Material:
Address books.
Appointment books.
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Genealogies (histories)
Manuscripts for publication.
Obituaries.
Photographs.
Poems.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Biographers.
Literary agents.
Novelists.
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American.
Biographers -- United States.
Novelists, American.
Literary agents.

Creator:
Bank of the United States (1816-1836)
Inclusive Dates:
1827-1827
Abstract:
Bill in the amount of $1,136 for the transfer of five enslaved persons, three male and 2 female, to Edward R. Pinckney. Signed by Joseph Johnson, president of the bank's office in Charleston, South Carolina.
Type of Material:
Bills of sale.
Subject:
Slaveholders.
African Americans
Enslaved persons.
Slave bills of sale.
Slaveholders -- United States.
Slavery -- South Carolina.
Slavery -- United States -- History.

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Miller, Betty Albertus, 1933-2019.
Inclusive Dates:
1829-2020
Abstract:
Files, correspondence, photographs, printed material, posters, and artifacts (hair combs) relating to Betty Miller, the Miller Hair Comb Museum, and the Antique Comb Collectors Club International (AC3I)
Type of Material:
Combs (hair ornaments)
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Magazines (periodicals)
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Celluloid (cellulosic)
Ivory (material)
Jet (coal)
Tortoise-shell.
Administrative records.
Minutes (administrative records)
CD-ROMs.
Museum records.
Research notes.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Massachusetts -- Leominster.
Plastics
Ornamental combs -- History.
Ornamental combs -- Specimens.
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Celluloid.
Tortoiseshell.
Ivory.
Jet (Precious stone)
Clothing and dress.
Material culture.
Ornamental combs -- Societies and clubs.
Small museums -- Alaska.

17.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Considine, Bob, 1906-1975.
Inclusive Dates:
1834-1975
Abstract:
Papers of the American print and radio journalist, war correspondent, author. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, newspaper columns, photographs, scrapbooks, audio recordings, and films.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Articles.
Audiocassettes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Film reels.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Newspaper columns.
Phonograph records.
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Russia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Journalism
Astronautics -- United States.
Authors, American.
Journalists -- United States.
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
Radio journalists -- United States.
Reporters and reporting -- United States.
Sportswriters -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Press coverage.
War correspondents -- United States.
Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 -- Press coverage.

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Copeland, Benjamin.
Inclusive Dates:
1836-1940
Abstract:
Methodist minister and poet from Buffalo, N.Y. Scrapbook of manuscript poems, incoming letters, and clippings.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Poems.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Clergy.
Poets.
Church and clergy
New York State
American poetry.
Clergy -- United States.
Clergy as authors.
Methodist Church -- Clergy.
Methodists -- New York (State), Buffalo.
Poets, American.

Creator:
Bank of Monroe (Rochester, N.Y.)
Inclusive Dates:
1843-1844
Abstract:
Two satisfaction-of-judgment forms issued by the Supreme Court of Monroe County, N.Y., concerning the Bank of Monroe versus Stephen Charles (dated 10 January 1844) and John Allen (dated 17 May 1843)
Type of Material:
Legal documents.
Subject:
Rochester (N.Y.) -- History.
Business and Industry
New York State
Banks and banking -- New York State.

20.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891.
Inclusive Dates:
1843-1917
Abstract:
The Benson John Lossing Collection is an assortment of correspondence, drawings, writings, and memorabilia relating to the 19th century historian, illustrator, and editor of The American Historical Review (1813-1891). Predominantly correspondence, the collection centers around Lossing's information gathering for his popularizations of American history, while it also illuminates the early publishing industry in the United States.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Subject:
Correspondents.
Artists.
Editors.
Historians.
Illustrators.
Art -- Illustrators
Historians
Publishing, printing and book arts
Artists -- United States.
Editors -- United States.
Historians -- United States.
History publishing -- United States.
Illustrators -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.