This collection includes family papers for the Bedlow, Corpron, and McRae families, who were related through marriage and adoption. The Bedlow family was originally from Massachusetts before settling in Plattsburgh, then Champlain, New York. The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, personal papers, ephemera, and photographs.
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Clarence Hamilton Corning was born in 1834. A nephew of Erastus Corning, Clarence eventually became an iron merchant in Albany, New York. Corning fought for the Union during the Civil War, and was eventually wounded at Cold Harbor. Following the war’s end, he married Mary Catherine Libby in June 1866. They had one child, Howard. Clarence Corning died in Albany in July 1879. This collection contains military materials and ephemera.
De Forest, Henry Pelouze, 1864-1948
Correspondence, alumni lists, invitations, programs, and other printed material documenting reunions and other alumni activities compiled into bound volumes by Henry Pelouze de Forest, 1890 class secretary for the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
On November 21, 1868, under the guidance of Dr. Ebell, sixty-two people, mostly teachers, alumni, and students from the Albany Female Academy (known today as the Albany Academy for Girls) met in the school to form the Albany Chapter of the Dana Natural History Society. The Society was named in honor of Dr. James Dwight Dana a famous geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist from Yale College. This collection contains materials such as newspaper clippings, member written articles, histories, documents from meetings and proceedings, scrapbooks, photographs, letters, awards, and other ephemera.
Hannah Arendt Ephemera Collection, ca. 1950-2006, bulk ca. 1950-1976 4 gray document boxes
Bard College
Hannah Arendt was among the most influential political thinkers of the 20th century. She and her husband Heinrich Blücher lived in NYC and near Bard College where Blücher taught from 1952 to 1971. After Arendt’s death in 1975, Bard College acquired her personal library of approximately 4000 volumes from her last apartment in New York City. The bulk of the Hannah Arendt Ephemera Collection is made up of paper ephemera found in these books while they were being cataloged. This collection also includes papers from the 1976 Memorial Colloquium, “An Intellectual Appreciation of Hannah Arendt,” and the 2006 Conference, “Thinking in Dark times: A Legacy of Hannah Arendt.” In addition, there are some press clippings and a small collection of correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Alex Bazelow regarding the transcribing of Heinrich Blücher’s lectures.
Hendrickson was born in Albany, in 1866, and spent the majority of his years living and working as a professional photographer in and around the downstate city of Yonkers. This collection includes material relating to the photographer’s artistic and commercial work rather than his personal life.
The collection contains photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, trade publications, press releases, promotional material, price catalogs, receipts, and other ephemera related to the Hudson Valley Paper Company during its time of operation from 1875-2011.
Jared Holt opened his leather store in Albany, New York, in 1834. The company eventually grew to become well-known in the shoe wax industry and closed in 1992.
John Dunn Murphy worked at the Municipal Gas & Light Company, the Albany Fire Department, the New York State Civil Service Commission, and was an Albany County Court attendant until 1997. This collection contains correspondence, clippings, publications, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums.
The collection includes photographs from the two locations of Madison Liquor and Wine (1060 Madison Avenue and 1078 Madison Avenue), documentation for construction work done in 1954 to the 1078 Madison Avenue location, receipts pertaining to the construction, Madison Liquor and Wine ephemera like business cards, matchbooks and newspaper articles.