Creator:
Special Collections Research Center
Inclusive Dates:
1832- 1874
Abstract:
Collection of material to, from, or about
Gerrit Smith, American social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York.
Collection created by Special Collections Research Center through purchase and donation.
Type of Material:
Ballots.
Correspondence.
Indentures.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Activism and social reform
New York State
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- 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:
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:
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer.
Inclusive Dates:
2000- 2000
Abstract:
Charitable hospital founded in Deschapelles, Haiti in 1954.
Collection includes personal and business files of physicians and co-founders Gwen Grant Mellon and Larry Mellon,
as well as published and promotional material about the hospital and the Grant Foundation.
Type of Material:
Subject:
Physicians.
Religion and philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Humanitarianism.
Medicine in Haiti.
Missions, Medical -- Haiti.
Poor -- Medical care -- Haiti.
Voluntary hospitals -- Haiti.