Cornell University class photograph album owned by Walter Douglas Young (1870-1945) with his portrait and his classmates. Young was born in 1870 in Aurora, New..... Read More about 1880s – 1890s Cornell University Class Photo Album owned by Walter Douglas Young of Aurora, New...
Journal with 14 handwritten pages. Short entries on each page record mortgage bonds, capital stock, and interest payments of the Canal Railroad Company of Elmira..... Read More about 1882–1889 manuscript journal of the Canal Railroad Company of Elmira, New York
A pencil inscription reads: “My great uncle Gus Herkenham Captain on the Hudson R. [River] for over 50 years.” This is Augustus “Gus” Herkenham (1830/31-1905)..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of Hudson River Ship Captain Augustus “Gus” Herkenham
“Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Speech and Free Men.” Albany pamphlet issued as a newspaper “Extra” of the Albany Atlas, publishing the anti-slavery..... Read More about Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention of Oct....
Sullivan was a prosecutor and an assistant district attorney “who owned property in Ossining, NY, the site of Sing Sing Prison. At one time he..... Read More about Sing Sing, Capital Punishment and “Honest-Graft”
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Co-author Frank Place, Jr.‘s copy with his illustrated bookplate inside the front cover and his signature and date of publication opposite, in pencil. A complimentary..... Read More about New York Walk Book. [Co-Author’s Copy; Mohawk Tribe
First edition. Scarce volume of self-published poetry by a retired schoolteacher and native of Sandy Creek, New York who removed to a farm in Gilboa..... Read More about Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems
Manuscript Minute Book of Elk Creek Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryland, New York. Recorded are the activities at the annual meetings of the Elk Creek..... Read More about 1855–1890, Manuscript Minute Book of Elk Creek Methodist Episcopal Church and Society in...
Orders for a recruiting officer to go to Utica with cash to find new recruitments. Military uniforms were to be shipped to Utica, but in..... Read More about War of 1812 Letter Signed by Peter Gansevoort as Brigadier General at Headquarters in Albany, New...
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A scarce photograph showing Company A of the 100th Infantry of the Albany Zouave Cadets at military attention and in full dress in front of..... Read More about Camp Townsend. Albany Zouave Cadets, A Co., 10th Infantry, N.G.S.N.Y. [1873 albumen photograph
An eighteenth century manuscript, a contemporary copy of the probated will of Rulef Deryea (c.1738-1766) which was dated February 8, 1763 and then proved December..... Read More about 1766 Manuscript Will of Rulef Deryea, i.e., Roelof Duryea, i.e., Rulof Duryee of Oyster Bay,...
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The Utica Convention of 1848 resulted in the formation of the Free Soil Party who opposed the expansion of slavery into Western territories. The pamphlet..... Read More about “Albany Atlas Extra—February, 1848.”] The Utica Convention. Voice of New-York!! Proceedings...
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Letter written during the American travels of British journalist James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), discussing an article to be published in the Albany Evening Journal, a...... Read More about 1838 ALS by James Silk Buckingham, British Journalist, Parliamentarian, and Traveler in America
President Van Buren addressing the “Patriot War” wherein Americans in 1838, aided Canadian patriots fighting the colonial government. For example, Samuel Snow and his fellow..... Read More about Northern Frontier. Message From the President of the United States, Upon the Subject of the...
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The steamer Caroline was burned in the Niagara River during the “Patriot War” or Canadian Rebellion of 1837–1838. [Washington, D.C.] House of Representatives Doc. 33..... Read More about Two House Documents on The Burning of The Caroline:] Burning of the Caroline. Message from the...
Gouverneur High School was incorporated in 1828 in St. Lawrence County, New York. Out of it grew Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, conducted by the Black River..... Read More about Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Gouverneur High School, for the Year ending July 10th,...
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Yonkers, Westchester County, New York tavern-keeper’s bond issued to Caleb Smith and John Williams. Smith is particularly enjoined to ensure that the inn or tavern..... Read More about 1832 Yonkers, New York Tavern-Keepers’s Bond; Partly Printed Document
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Scarce lithographic view book of resort locations and hotels mostly in New York State and the Adirondack Mountains. The view book’s 14 leaves fold out..... Read More about Adirondack Mountains:] Renowned Places in the United States. [cover title
Published by antiquary and bookseller William Gowans, an 1862 edition of this late 17th century description of New York City and New York Province and..... Read More about A Description of the Province and City of New York; with Plans of the City and Several Forts as...
Facsimile edition of this 1693 William Bradford imprint. With an Introductory Note by Adelaide R. Hasse. “This was Frontenac’s expedition against the Iroquois, during which..... Read More about A Narrative of an Attempt Made by the French of Canada Upon the Mohaque’s Country, Reproduced...
History of missionary outreach to Native Americans and African Americans by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in colonial New..... Read More about Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York
Diverse group of mid-Victorian scroll saw-related material including trade literature, marketing materials, and oversized pattern sheets for creating fretwork designs in the Queen Anne Revival..... Read More about C. 1877–1881 Scroll Saw Group: Trade Catalog, Chromolithographic Trade Cards, and Oversized...
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Archive of 21 loose photographs showing highway automobile accidents in Westchester County, New York as documented by New York State Troopers out of Troop K...... Read More about Twenty-one C.1940 Police Photographs Documenting Automobile Accidents in New York State
Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1850. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order..... Read More about Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New-York....
The Pennsylvania Railroad is trying to drum up business in 1883 and here make their appeal to the excursion committees of churches and societies. In..... Read More about Special Excursions to the Sea-Shore and Mountains. Season of 1883
