Collection primarily consists of correspondence, legal documents and other papers. The second series chiefly pertains to Peter B. Porter, whom Bull represented.
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Albert Clements Papers, 1924 - 1962 1.27 linear feet
Averell Family Papers, 1773-1963, bulk 1790-1880 9.75 cubic feet
The Averell Family Papers consist primarily of the personal, business, and legal papers of William Holt Averell of Cooperstown, New York. The collection also includes a substantial number of papers relating to or written by James Averell, Jr., William Holt Averell's father. In addition, the collection includes papers relating to other members of the Averell family and genealogical information regarding the Averell, Carter, Slayton, and Waldby families. The date range is mostly from 1790 to 1880.
Burr - Hamilton Duel Collection, 1793-1828, bulk 1804 0.5 cubic foot
The Burr - Hamilton Duel Collection contains correspondence between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr and their seconds, Van Ness, and Pendleton, before the duel (June 18 - July 9, 1804); and correspondence and statements made after the duel, by Burr, Van Ness, and Pendleton including eye-witness accounts of the duel by Van Ness and Pendleton, the only living witnesses besides Burr himself (July 11, 1804 to Mar. 5, 1805). Also included are letters by Aaron Burr and documents pertaining to Burr (1793-1828). These items do not concern the duel.
Campbell Family Collection, 1780-1881 1.0 cubic foot
The Campbell Family Collection, 1790s -1870s, covers four generations and documents the history of the family in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, NY in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. The main focus of the collection is the correspondence of Judge William W. Campbell and his manuscript "Annals of Tryon County." Also included are papers of Cleveland J. Campbell, Helen S. Campbell, Douglas Campbell, William A. Campbell, Henry J. Campbell, Samuel Campbell, Samuel Starkweather, Harriet Bowers Paige Campbell, James S. Campbell, and other family members. Also included an early nineteenth century manuscript music book, survey maps of Cherry Valley and Belvedere, and the correspondence, medical observations, and financial records of William B. Campbell.
Carl Carmer Collection, 1908-1976, bulk 1940-1970 83 cubic feet
Contains Carl Carmer's literary manuscripts and other writings with related correspondence and research notes. This includes undated and unpublished manuscripts, school essays, speeches, early poems, CBS broadcast scripts, published articles, galleys, notebooks, publicity, reviews, and fan mail. The collection also contains financial records, newspaper clippings, writings of other authors, autobiography, pamphlets, family and other photographs, biographical data, greeting cards, songs and music, art books, sketch pads, illustrations in various stages for Carmer's manuscripts, and some family papers.
Charlotte Kreuger Papers, 1803-1880 1 manuscript box
Cheetham family correspondence, 1912-1917 .25 cubic foot
Christman Family Papers, 1885-1967 4.0 cubic feet
Contains correspondence, unpublished poems, and essays by William W. Christman, as well as pamphlets, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also includes research notes, final typescript, and galley proofs for Henry Christman's book.
College Archives - Onondaga Community College, 1961 - present 5787 cubic feet
Colonel Charles Stewart Papers, 1752-1818 6.25 cubic feet
Collection contains materials from Stewart's war career including letters, documents, reports, and returns with many references to the difficulties of obtaining, transporting, and paying for Army supplies. Also, materials from Stewart's pre- and post-war career including letters, memos, deeds, receipts, genealogical data, and accounts of land investments and surveys in NJ and PA, and the expulsion of Connecticut settlers from the Wyoming Valley, PA and their resettlement after the war. Correspondents include James Tilghman, Amos Ogden, John Penn, Alexander Patterson, family members, and many notable military figures.
Cooper Family Papers, 1786-1947, bulk 1786-1898 1.75 cubic feet
Papers of Judge William Cooper, the founder of Cooperstown, and of his children, Hannah, Isaac, James Fenimore, Samuel, and William. A large part of the collection concerns the land and financial transactions conducted by Judge Cooper and his direct descendants. Of particular interest are deeds, leases, bonds, and mortgages that document his involvement in the settling of Cooperstown and Otsego County, N.Y. His papers also include correspondence, land books, and bankbooks. Isaac Cooper's papers include the contract for building his home, Edgewater. James Fenimore Cooper's papers include correspondence and fragments of literary manuscripts. The collection also contains scattered letters from a few in-laws and grandchildren of Judge Cooper, such as Susan Fenimore Cooper, as well as three photograph albums.
Corbett and Stuart Records, 1850-1960 79 cubic feet
Cuthbert Collingwood Gordon. Correspondence, 1850-1883 .5 cubic foot
Donald B. Miller Papers, 1954 - 2011 6 linear feet
Frey Family Papers, 1790-1917 4.0 cubic feet
The collection consists of the papers of the Frey family and related Ludlow and Baldwin families of Kinderhook, Columbia County; Oswego, Oswego County; and Palatine Bridge, Montgomery County, N.Y. It includes family correspondence, diaries, farm and legal documents, letter books, daguerreotypes, photograph albums, historical manuscripts of Samuel Frey Ludlow, and a eulogy and picture of Fitz Hugh Ludlow.
George Andrus correspondence, 1820-1854 .25 cubic foot
Business correspondence of George Andurs of Adams, Jefferson County, NY in his several professional capacities. Topics include instructions to Farmers Fire Insurance and Loan Company agents with notes of rates for special premiums for various occupations and goods, list of un-insurables including brimstone works, malt houses, gun powder makers, snuff mills, varnish makers, and theaters. Some letters, pertaining to the general store and debt collection businesses are jointly addressed to him and his partner, Mr. Harter. George Andrus’ 1822 post masters appointment is noted in a letter signed by the Postmaster General, J. Neigs.
Pictures of and information about covered bridges in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and other states of the U.S., along with Canada and Europe. Photographs include many hundreds of prints and postcards, some 525 glass lantern slides, 1300 color slides, 165 stereoscopic views, and a few glass negatives. Historical data on covered bridges includes clippings, pamphlets, articles and lists; also correspondence and notes on the subject by Richard Sanders Allen (1917-2008.) There is material on bridge builders and bridge-building techniques, and photographs and pictures of other bridges and ferryboats. Also includes postcards of covered bridges collected by Belle S. Turner and several pieces (artifacts) of actual bridges.
Harry Thaw Collection, 1890-1914, bulk 1906-1908 0.25 cubic feet
Includes some of Thaw's letters to his lawyer, A. Russell Peabody, from the Tombs prison and Matteawan State Hospital; portions of the trial transcript; letters to Thaw; photographs of Peabody and letters by him; and a large scrapbook (45 x 33 x 10 cm.) of newspaper clippings about the murder and its aftermath, including extensive coverage of Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
Hill Family papers, 1817-1953 1 cubic foot
Jacob Morris correspondence, 1780-1814 .5 cubic foot
Contains forty-one affectionate letters from Jacob Morris to his older brother Lewis Morris of Charlestown, SC and New York, NY. Morris posts his letters from Philadelphia (1780-1784), New York (1783-1788, 1795, 1799), Charlestown (1786), Morrisania (1787), and various addresses in Otsego County (1787, 1790, 1794, 1795, 1801-1807).
James MacKillop Papers, 1962 - 2004 5.2 linear feet
Janice C. Neal papers, 1962-1964 .50 cubic foot
Contains 67 personal letters and 5 work books of genealogical notes. The bulk of the letters (45 in all) are written by Janice Neal to “Cousin Blanche” (possibly Mrs. Fred Wood) between 1961-1961. Neal writes of her activities at school, in organizations, and at church, of friends, nature, local news, and of the books she is reading and the genealogical research she is doing.
Jellis Fonda Papers, 1750-1791 0.75 cubic feet
Letters, invoices, accounts, and land, legal, and military papers of Jellis/Jelles Fonda of Montgomery County, N.Y. Also contains two ledgers of his general store in Caughnawaga (Fonda), Montogmery County, N.Y. Subjects of note include Fonda's trade with London markets and with Native Americans, many of whom were customers in the ledgers. Includes some photocopies.
Judge Alden Chester and family papers, 1864-1915 .25 cubic foot
This collection documents the youth and young adulthood of Lucy Medora Walker, 1848-1916 of East Springfield, Otsego County, NY throughcCorrespondence from friends and family, diaries, school papers, programs, and photographs. Topics of discussion in correspondence and diaries include household chores, school, hop harvesting, and church.
Contains letters from Maria Campbell Smith written to her son, Charles Evelyn Smith, while she lived in Europe, New York State, and Washington, DC. Letters discuss health, activities, marriages, and deaths of family members and friends, and social activities and gossip of the place she happens to be staying. She also comments on Charles’ attempts at business, his love affair, and his marriage to “Sue” and their eventual troubles. But the most consistent topic throughout is Charles’ gross mis-management of the money she has entrusted to him, her desperate need for him to send her money to live on, and real estate dealings he is supposed to be managing for her. Despite these difficulties, her letters are always addressed, “My dear Charley.”
Paul Wheeler Greene papers, 1838-1854, bulk 1851-1854 .25 cubic foot
Rev. Charles S. Stewart Papers, 1822-1862 1.5 cubic feet
Papers include journals and diaries of travel to, and residence in, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), 1822-25, 1829; correspondence of Stewart and his wife (Harriet Bradford Stewart), 1822-36; and printed items. Other items are journals of voyages on U.S.S. Guerriere and U.S.S. Vincennes to and from Hawaii, 1829-30; to British Isles, 1832; to the Mediterranean on U.S.S. United States, 1834; to Spain and Portugal on U.S.S. Brandywine, 1839-41, along with a sketch book from the latter. There are also letter books kept on voyages on U.S.S. Congress to South America, 1850-52, and on U.S.S. Niagara, 1860-62, around the world via Japan, China, Mozambique, Cape of Good Hope, Charleston, South Carolina, and Cuba.
Smalley Theatres records, 1912-1955 92.25 cubic feet
This collection consists of the records of Smalley Theatres, Inc., accumulated at its home office in Cooperstown, N.Y., 1912-1955. The daily and weekly statements, which constitute a significant portion of the records, were collected from the theaters in Camden, Cooperstown, Delhi, Dolgeville, Fort Plain, Hensonville, Johnstown, Norwich, Oxford, Sharon Springs, Sidney, St. Johnsville, Stamford, and Walton, N.Y., before coming to the home office. They provide excellent detail on attendance and box office receipts for films shown at each location.
Third Great Western Turnpike Records, 1803-1859 9.25 cubic feet
Minutes, stock transfers, and other papers, 1803-59; contracts, 1802-10; orders for dividends, 1810-13, 1823-27; dividend demand notes, 1821-59; receipts and bills for supplies and services, 1811-56; incomplete commuter lists, 1830-54; appointments of proxies, 1803-09; certificates, tables, and notices of elections, 1804-12; daybooks, 1811, 1832-35; and correspondence of Samuel S. Forman, 1829-35, and Sidney T. Fairchild, 1836-58, officers of the company. Also a photographic copy of a map of the road in Otsego, Herkimer, Madison, and Onondaga Counties, from near Richfield Springs to beyond Cazenovia.
Van Cleaf Bachman Papers, 1890-1977, bulk 1965-1977 5.5 cubic feet
This collection is the by-product of Van Cleaf Bachman's research into the Low Dutch language -- which he describes as a form of Holland Dutch spoken in parts of New York State and New Jersey by the early nineteenth century -- and the preparation of a Low Dutch dictionary.
Zabriskie Family Papers, 1790-1976 4 cubic feet
Family correspondence, deeds, wills, genealogical data, travel mementos, patents, clippings,and scrapbooks of Charles F. Zabriskie (CFZ) and his son Charles Lemaire Zabriskie (CLZ) of Cooperstown. Also documents of Jean LeMaire, an immigrant from France.