Creator:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1762- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York. Business, family and general correspondence; business and land records; writings; and maps. Notable correspondents include Susan B.
Anthony, John Jacob Astor, Henry Ward Beecher, Antoinette Blackwell, Caleb Calkins, Lydia Maria Child, Cassius Clay,
Alfred Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Charles A. Dana, Paulina W. Davis, Edward C. Delavan, Frederick
Douglass, Albert G. Finney, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady and Henry B. Stanton,
Louis Tappan, Sojourner Truth, and Theodore Weld.
Type of Material:
Agreements.
Bank statements.
Bonds (negotiable instruments)
Broadsides (notices)
Check stubs.
Correspondence.
Deeds.
Estate records.
Indentures.
Judicial records.
Land registers.
Land surveys.
Maps (documents)
Pamphlets.
Sermons.
Summonses.
Warrant books.
Wills.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Peterboro (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Temperance.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
Creator:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1793- 1906
Abstract:
Circulars, speeches, sermons, and tracts which deal with such topics as abolition, suffrage, temperance, transportation, and the postal system.
Type of Material:
Broadsides (notices)
Pamphlets.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Peterboro (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Temperance.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
Creator:
Syracuse University Libraries -- Special Collections Research Center
Inclusive Dates:
1929- 1994
Abstract:
Miscellaneous ephemera (fliers, brochures, posters, etc.) relating to various radical social movements in the U.S. including pro-labor movements, reproductive rights, anti-war activism, Communist and Socialist political organizations, and efforts to address systemic racism.
Type of Material:
Buttons (information artifacts)
Cartoons (humorous images)
Catalogs (documents)
Fliers (printed matter)
Newsletters.
Political cartoons.
Postcards.
Posters.
Pamphlets.
Subject:
Chicago (Ill.)
New York (State)
Syracuse (N.Y.)
United States -- History.
Maine.
San Francisco (Calif.)
Canada -- History.
Anvil.
Grass Roots.
Activism and social reform
Radicalism
Black Arts movement.
Black power.
Chicago Seven Trial, Chicago, Ill., 1969-1970.
Congress of Racial Equality.
Feminism -- United States.
Police brutality -- United States.
Prison violence -- United States.
Prisoners -- United States.
Prisons -- New York (State)
Prison riots.
Racism -- United States.
AIDS activists.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients.
Indigenous women -- Education.
Black Panthers Trial, New York, N.Y., 1970-1971.
Black people -- Study and teaching.
African American jazz musicians.
AIDS (Disease) and art.
Reiki (Healing system)
Abortion.
Reproductive rights.
Abortion -- Canada.
Abortion -- United States.
Drug abuse.
Drug control.
Radicalism -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Radicalism -- United States.
Radicals -- United States.
Right to housing.
Siete de la Raza Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1970.
Transgender people -- United States.
Transgender artists.