Creator:
Galloway, Leon J.
Inclusive Dates:
1711- 1962
Abstract:
Collection created by Leon Galloway of
Hicksville, New York, presumably based on his personal interests. Correspondence of military
members of the Confederate States of America and Civil War currency. Contracts, land
surveys, photo albums, and books about the Hicksite Quakers. Correspondence of the Saunders
family.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Paper money.
Autograph albums.
Correspondence.
Postage stamps.
Contracts.
Land surveys.
Marriage certificates.
Wills.
Manuscripts (documents)
War bonds.
Engravings (prints)
Subject:
United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, England)
Hicksville (N.Y.)
Oyster Bay (N.Y.)
Jericho (Nassau County, N.Y.)
Westbury (Nassau County, N.Y.)
Religion and philosophy
Civil War (U.S.)
Hicksites -- United States -- History.
Confederate States of America.
Society of Friends.
Quakers.
Creator:
Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883.
Inclusive Dates:
1814- 1891
Abstract:
Papers of the
New York State lawyer, U.S. Congressman (1859-1863),
abolitionist, born near Pompey, N.Y. Correspondence (1847-1891);
genealogical material; legal and financial records
(1814-1879); writings (1837-1884), including essays, speeches, and
published letters; and memorabilia. Largely family
correspondence with additional letters of Louis Agassiz, Samuel
Bowles, Salmon P. Chase, F.J. Child, James Freeman Clarke,
Roscoe Conkling, George W. Curtis, John A. Dahlgren, Richard H.
Dana, H.L. Dawes, Daniel S. Dickinson, J.T. Fields, John M.
Forbes, John C. Frémont, William Lloyd Garrison, George W. Geddes,
George F. Hoar, John Jay, Thomas Starr King, Samuel J.
May, Robert B. Minturn, Levi P. Morton, Charles Eliot Norton,
Elizabeth P. Peabody, Wendell Phillips, William H. Seward,
Gerrit Smith, Israel Washburn, R.S. Watson, Andrew D. White, and
others.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Genealogies (histories)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
New York (State) -- History.
Syracuse (N.Y.), History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Lawyers.
Social reformers.
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- United States.
Lawyers -- New York (State)
Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements.
Social reformers -- United States.