Creator:
Brockway family.
Inclusive Dates:
1805- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the members of the Brockway family (of Central New York State, Syracuse, N.Y,
and Fulton County, N.Y.). The collection consists of correspondence (largely incoming,
to various family members), account books, church records, diaries, financial and legal
papers, and memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Biographies.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Genealogies (histories)
Photographs.
Subject:
Broadalbin (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
New York State
Genealogy.
Creator:
Rice family.
Inclusive Dates:
1800- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the three generations of the Rice and collateral Kingston and Winter families, mostly centered in Western New York State. Victor Moreau Rice (1818-1869), son of William Rice, was the State's first Superintendent of Public Instruction; other family members were also active in education. Collection includes Correspondence (1823-1960), mostly between family members; genealogical material, including research notes, charts, and scrapbooks; legal and financial material (1812-1953), including household ledgers and muster rolls of the New York Volunteer Militia (1812, 1814, 1838); memorabilia (1810-1957); photographs; and writings (1800-1965), including notebooks and diaries.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Ledgers (account books)
Muster rolls.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
New York (State)
New York State
Education.
Education, Compulsory.
Genealogy.
Creator:
Vickery, Almeda Campbell.
Inclusive Dates:
1908- 1962
Abstract:
Daughter of Kate Campbell Vickery and
Charles Rowe Vickery, American Congregationalist missionaries to India and Singapore.
Includes photographs, writings, notes, and diaries, as well as Vickery family
genealogical material.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photograph albums.
Lecture notes.
Negatives (photographs)
Typescripts.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Diaries.
Subject:
Clergy.
Missionaries.
Church and clergy
Clergy -- United States.
Missionaries.
Genealogy.
India -- Missions.
South Asia -- Missions.
Singapore -- Missions.
Congregationalism -- Missions.
Congregational churches -- Clergy.
Creator:
Osborne family.
Inclusive Dates:
1786- 1925
Abstract:
Encompasses the records of three
generations of the Osborne family of Auburn, N.Y. Thomas Mott Osborne, son of
businessman David Munson Osborne, was associated with Democratic politics, philanthropy,
and social reform, especially prison reform. He was a trustee and later president of the
George Junior Republic in Freeville, New York. In 1913, he was appointed chairman of the
New York State Commission on Prison Reform. His third son, Lithgow, served in the
foreign service in Germany from 1914-1917, and later in Havana, Copenhagen, and Norway.
He subsequently left government service to pursue a career in newspaper publishing with
the Auburn Citizen-Advertiser. Collection includes correspondence (1812-1968); speeches
(1895-1945); legal and financial papers (1786-1962); organizational records (1813-1967);
memorabilia (1845-1965); diaries (1843-1946), and other material.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Financial records.
Letter books.
Photographs.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Auburn, N.Y. -- History.
Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
New York (State) -- History.
New York (State) -- Officials and employees.
New York (State) -- Politics and government.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Prison reformers.
Social reformers.
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Civil War (U.S.)
Capital punishment.
Genealogy.
Philanthropists -- United States.
Prison reformers -- United States.
Prison wardens -- New York (State)
Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State)
Social reformers -- United States.
Suffragists -- United States.
Upper class -- United States.
Women's rights.