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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:
 
Subject Strengths:
New York State
2.
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:
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)
Subject Strengths:
New York State
Business and Industry
3.
Collection Title:
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:
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.
Subject Strengths:
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Civil War (U.S.)