Westrup, Alfred B.

Letter from Alfred B. Westrup to Thaddeus B. Wakeham regarding anarchist philosophy.

Tappan, Arthur, 1786-1865.

Letter from the American abolitionist to Henry and Thomas Davis of Syracuse, New York.

Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883.

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.

Crusade for Opportunity (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Anti-poverty community action program in Syracuse, New York. Collection includes press releases, reports, correspondence, financial materials, newsletters, corporate office files, more.

Chaffee, Edmund Bigelow,1887-1936.

Papers of the American clergyman, educator. Chaffee was a Presbyterian minister in New York City. Correspondence, letters to magazines to which Chaffee contributed, notes, sermons, scrapbooks, diaries, and published material. Sermons (1914-1936) include such topics as religion, specifically Christianity, and its relationship to politics, labor, technocracy, war, pacifism, communism, and socialism.

Benjamin, Eliab C.

Diary of Eliab C. Benjamin of Rushford, New York, possibly minister or deacon. He was evidently much involved with the First Baptist Church of Rushford.

Trout, Elizabeth.

Reports, notes, printed material, clippings relating to the Oneida-Kenwood-Sherrill Migrant Committee's reading program, established and operated in central New York in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

Foundation for Change (New York, N.Y.)

Printed material from the New York City-based non-profit Foundation for Change, which advocated for and educated about ways to counter poverty and racism in the New York City area.

Special Collections Research Center

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.

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.

Circulars, speeches, sermons, and tracts which deal with such topics as abolition, suffrage, temperance, transportation, and the postal system.

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.

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.

Independent Order of Good Templars. -- Eureka Lodge No. 9 (Morganville, N.Y.)

Constitution and Recording Secretary's Book of the Eureka Lodge No. 9 of the Independent Order of Good Templars of the State of New York.

Hopper, Isaac.

Letter from Isaac Hopper of New York to Samuel Wilbur, regarding the fugitive slave James Hamlet and the Fugitive Slave Act.

Buffington, Kath, 1951 or 1952.

Correspondence, printed material and posters/memorabilia relating to non-violent direct action and war/tax resistance.

Reiner, Lillian

Spanning 1890 to 1991, the Lillian Reiner Collection comprises Correspondence/subject files, Writings, and Memorabilia relating to the Syracuse, New York teacher and political activist (1901-1987).

Carden, Maren Lockwood.

Notes, drafts and research material created or collected by Carden for her book on the Oneida Community.

Goldsmith, Margaret Noyes

Papers of the Oneida Community descendant and the Noyes family. Heavy focus on Gertrude Hayes Noyes, Margaret's mother and the daughter of John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community. Also papers and correspondence of Margaret's father, Charles Rutherford Noyes, general of the Ninth Infantry of the U.S. military. Description of Oneida Community experiences, and military family life in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Correspondence 1844-1991, both original and transcript. Also diaries, memoirs, writings, memorabilia, printed material and photographs.

Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919.

Papers of the physician, social reformer, native of Oswego, N.Y. Advocate of dress reform and women's suffrage. Collection includes correspondence (1833-1913), mainly from Dr. Walker's lecture tour of Britain in 1866-67 and from her Civil War service, 1862-65; legal and financial documents, including deeds, wills, and material concerning her divorce and employment at the Federal Pension Office; photographs; and writings, including material on the trial of Frank C. Almay in 1891, lectures, pamphlets, and reminiscences.

Lambright, Nathaniel Green.

Undergraduate thesis on the community action program in Syracuse, New York

New York State Council of Churches.

Correspondence, agendas, minutes, memoranda, reports, printed material, and other papers relating to the Council's positions on such legislative issues as abortion, church and state relations, civil rights, family relations, labor, pornography, and Christian education.