Creator:
Thompson, Calvin M.
Inclusive Dates:
1924- 1962
Abstract:
Baptist clergyman in Syracuse, New York. Collection includes correspondence, printed material, manuscripts, subject files and clippings.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Clergy.
Church and clergy
New York State
Baptists -- Clergy.
Creator:
New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund
Inclusive Dates:
1843- 1874
Abstract:
Two letters concerning New York canal issues
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York State Canal System (N.Y.)
Erie Canal (N.Y.)
New York State
Canals -- New York (State) -- History.
Transportation -- New York (State)
Creator:
Davis, Carrie, fl. 1870.
Inclusive Dates:
1860- 1880
Abstract:
Incoming letters from friends and family, to a Miss Carrie (or Cara) Davis, resident of Central New York.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Hannibal (N.Y.)
Jamesville (N.Y.)
Savannah (N.Y.)
New York State
Creator:
Wilson, Celestia.
Inclusive Dates:
1847- 1849
Abstract:
Letters from Ms. Wilson in Syracuse to her friend Caroline Stewart. The first letter mentions having heard a sermon from Rev. Samuel J. May.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York State
Women Authors
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1805- 2002
Abstract:
Miscellaneous printed material and correspondence relating to cultural life in Central New York. Theatres, clubs, musical performances, academic commencements, local politics, sporting events, etc.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Membership cards.
Photographs.
Posters.
Programs (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Tickets.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Societies and clubs.
Cortland (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Utica (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York State
Dance and theatre
Freemasons -- New York (State)
Fraternal organizations -- United States.
United States -- Religious life and customs.
Local government -- New York (State) -- Onondaga County.
Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1795- 1952
Abstract:
Letters, programs, photographs, posters, and other ephemera about and from towns and villages in Central New York. Includes clippings and printed material about Hill Top House (Pompey, N.Y.).
Type of Material:
Court decisions.
Correspondence.
Ephemera.
Indentures.
Newspapers.
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Onondaga Hollow (N.Y.) -- History.
Auburn (N.Y.) -- History.
Geneva (N.Y.) -- History.
Marcellus (N.Y.) -- History.
Mexico (N.Y.) -- History.
Cortland (N.Y.) -- History.
Salina (N.Y.) -- History.
New York State
Middle class -- New York (State) -- Social life and customs.
Creator:
Special Collections Research Center
Inclusive Dates:
1816- 1900
Abstract:
Collection of catalogs, trade cards, merchants' scrip, letterhead, photographs, and other ephemera from businesses in and around Syracuse, New York. Towns represented include Elbridge. Syracuse, Marcellus, Litchfield, Morristown, Scipio, and others. Also includes records and ledgers from some businesses, including L. C. Smith Typewriter (forerunner of Smith-Corona).
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Brochures.
Correspondence.
Fliers (printed matter)
Letterheads.
Printed ephemera.
Receipts (financial records)
Scrip.
Trade cards.
Trade catalogs.
Subject:
Elbridge (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Utica (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Boyd's Syracuse Guide.
Commercial businesses.
New York State
Business and Industry
Business enterprises -- New York (State) -- History.
Commercial catalogs.
Liquor laws -- New York (State)
License system -- New York (State)
Retail trade -- Law and legislation -- New York (State)
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1801- 1906
Abstract:
Collection of ephemera relating to transportation in and around central New York (Erie Canal, railroads, etc)
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Minutes (administrative records)
Newspapers.
Petitions.
Stock certificates.
Stereographs.
Photographs.
Subject:
Albion (Orleans County, N.Y.) -- History.
Camden (N.Y.) -- History.
Chenango (N.Y.) -- History.
Rochester (N.Y.) -- History.
New York State
Railroads
Canals -- New York (State)
Chenango Turnpike Road (N.Y.)
Roads -- New York (State)
Tariff -- Law and legislation.
Toll roads -- New York (State)
Transportation -- New York (State)
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.
Creator:
Osborne, Charles Devens.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Mayor of Auburn, New York; son of prison reformer Thomas Mott Osborne. Collection includes correspondence, clippings, diaries, memorabilia, artwork, printed material and much more.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Paintings (visual works)
Subject:
New York (State) -- History.
New York State
Creator:
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948.
Inclusive Dates:
1894- 1934
Abstract:
Papers of the Lawyer, New York State governor, presidential candidate, U.S. Secretary of State. Outgoing correspondence, with the exception of two incoming letters from Horatio C. King and George B. McClellan. Most of the letters are responses to recommendations for various appointments and speaking invitations. Letters to John Barrett, Princess Bibesco, Joseph Buffington, Samuel P. Cadman, Samuel M. Cavert, Edward Fallows, Bert M. Fernald, Roy G. Fitzgerald, Julius Frank, Robert H. Fuller, Martin H. Glynn, Paul Hickok, Hamilton Holt, R. U. Johnson, Winfield Jones, William A. Nash, Clarence Owens, Robert Paine, Amasa J. Parker, George Pratt, Palmer Ricketts, E. Quincy Smith, Robert E. Speer, Frederic J. Stimson, Charles Vrooman, Albert H. Walker, Henry Wallace, George W. Wickersham, and Sidney Woodward.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Governors.
Politicians.
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Governors -- New York (State)
Politicians -- United States.
Creator:
Johnson, Charles F., 1887-1959.
Inclusive Dates:
1899- 1959
Abstract:
Papers of the American business executive. Collection includes
Correspondence, including notices and memorandums to workers and staff (1918-1959);
manuscripts (1934-1956); material relating to the George F. Johnson, Jr., Memorial
Fund (1948-1951); photographs and photograph albums (1899-1958); plaques (1935-1957);
clippings of the Workers' Pages from the Binghamton Sun (1948-1956); petitions signed
by the workers (1946-1956); clippings, press releases, articles, advertisements, and
brochures (1916-1959); and scrapbooks (1947-1957).
Type of Material:
Advertising fliers.
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Memorandums.
Minutes (administrative records)
Notes (documents)
Pamphlets.
Petitions.
Photographs.
Plaques (flat objects)
Press releases.
Publications.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Binghamton sun (Binghamton, N.Y. : Daily)
Chief executive officers.
Executives.
Business and Industry
New York State
Chief executive officers -- New York (State)
Employee morale.
Industries, New York (State) -- Endicott.
Executives, New York (State)
Footwear industry -- New York (State)
Shoe industry -- Employees.
Shoe industry -- New York (State)
Creator:
Snyder, Charles R.
Inclusive Dates:
1811- 1937
Abstract:
American lawyer, apparently specializing in railroads and utilities.
Collection includes correspondence, corporate records, letterbooks, more.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Letter books.
Subject:
Lawyers.
New York State
Railroads
Lawyers -- United States.
Public utilities -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Railroad law -- United States.
Creator:
Van Devander, Charles.
Inclusive Dates:
1956- 1958
Abstract:
Papers of Charles Van Devander, former journalist and Executive Assistant to Governor Averell Harriman. Contains press releases from the New York State Governor's Office, and some correspondence.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York (State) -- Politics and government,
New York (State) -- History.
Governors.
Press secretaries.
Journalism
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1861- 1928
Abstract:
Charles Wesley Snow was a Syracuse-area entrepreneur and active member of the community. Correspondence to and from members of hisfamily, also including some clippings and a few "seance letters."
Type of Material:
Automatic writing.
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
New York State
Businessmen -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
Freemasons -- New York (State)
Spirit writings.
Creator:
Page, Charlotte Browning, 1868-1950.
Inclusive Dates:
1878- 1946
Abstract:
Papers of the American teacher. Collection includes correspondence (1878-1941), household records,
genealogical material, photographs, and a postcard scrapbook.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Genealogies (histories)
Photographs.
Postcard albums.
Subject:
New York (State) -- Social life and customs -- Sources.
Educators.
Teachers.
New York State
Educators -- United States.
Women teachers -- United States.
Creator:
Gillette, Chester.
Inclusive Dates:
1905- 1939
Abstract:
Materials relating to the trial and execution of Chester Gillette for the
murder of Grace Brown in 1905, including photocopies of correspondence, autopsy reports, court records, hotel records, a
judgement of the appeal to the Supreme Court, judges remarks, a prison statement about Gillette's execution, trial description,
list of witnesses, love letters of Gillette and Grace Brown, newspapers clippings, and a telegram to Judge Ward. This case
served as the basis of Theodore Dreiser's novel, American tragedy.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Judicial records.
Subject:
New York State
Murder, New York (State)
Trials (Murder) -- New York (State)
Creator:
Yates, Christopher, 1737-1785.
Inclusive Dates:
1677- 1936
Abstract:
Christopher Yates was Quartermaster-General during the American Revolution. Collection includes correspondence, 1728-1848; financial records, 1732-1841; legal records, 1677-1898; military records, 1777-81; and miscellany. Correspondents include John De Lancey, Elizabeth De Lancey Yates, Joseph Yates, and Judge Robert Morris of New Jersey. Financial records of John Butler, Peter Van Benthuysen, and Christopher Yates family are included. Also includes a journal by Captain Thomas Butler, 1756.
Type of Material:
Public records.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Subject:
Quartermasters.
Military history
New York State
United States. -- Continental Army.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1911- 1912
Abstract:
Notebook documenting "good citizen" activities of students at the Bennett School for Girls in Millbrook, New York; laid in are a few items, including a note to a "Miss Abbott" and two photographs
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Journals (accounts)
Student projects.
Subject:
Millbrook (N.Y.)
New York (State)
New York State
Women Authors
Girls' schools -- United States.
Girls -- Education.
Girls -- Social conditions.
Women -- Education.
Women -- Social conditions.
Creator:
Clark Music Company (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Inclusive Dates:
1889- 1960
Abstract:
Records of the musical instrument retail business in Syracuse, New York; founded in 1889. Correspondence (1889-1960); memoranda (1921-1960); and merchandising and financial records (1894-1960), including bank statements, inventories, ledgers, price lists and catalogs, repairs records, and marketing information.
Type of Material:
Bank statements.
Correspondence.
Inventories.
Ledgers (account books)
Memorandums.
Price lists.
Sales catalogs.
Subject:
Business and Industry
Music
New York State
Music -- 20th century.
Music trade -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
Musical instruments -- Manufacturers' catalogs.
Musical instruments -- Marketing.