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Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883.
Papers of the New York State lawyer, U.S. Congressman (1859-1863), abolitionist, born near Pompey, N.Y. Correspondence (1847-1891); genealogical material; legal and financial records (1814-1879); writings (1837-1884), including essays, speeches, and published letters; and memorabilia. Largely family correspondence with additional letters of Louis Agassiz, Samuel Bowles, Salmon P. Chase, F.J. Child, James Freeman Clarke, Roscoe Conkling, George W. Curtis, John A. Dahlgren, Richard H. Dana, H.L. Dawes, Daniel S. Dickinson, J.T. Fields, John M. Forbes, John C. Frémont, William Lloyd Garrison, George W. Geddes, George F. Hoar, John Jay, Thomas Starr King, Samuel J. May, Robert B. Minturn, Levi P. Morton, Charles Eliot Norton, Elizabeth P. Peabody, Wendell Phillips, William H. Seward, Gerrit Smith, Israel Washburn, R.S. Watson, Andrew D. White, and others.
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Crusade for Opportunity (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Anti-poverty community action program in Syracuse, New York. Collection includes press releases, reports, correspondence, financial materials, newsletters, corporate office files, more.
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Chaffee, Edmund Bigelow,1887-1936.
Papers of the American clergyman, educator. Chaffee was a Presbyterian minister in New York City. Correspondence, letters to magazines to which Chaffee contributed, notes, sermons, scrapbooks, diaries, and published material. Sermons (1914-1936) include such topics as religion, specifically Christianity, and its relationship to politics, labor, technocracy, war, pacifism, communism, and socialism.
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Trout, Elizabeth.
Reports, notes, printed material, clippings relating to the Oneida-Kenwood-Sherrill Migrant Committee's reading program, established and operated in central New York in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
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Collection of material to, from, or about Gerrit Smith, American social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York. Collection created by &scrc_name; through purchase and donation.
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Hopper, Isaac.
Letter from Isaac Hopper of New York to Samuel Wilbur, regarding the fugitive slave James Hamlet and the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Reiner, Lillian
Spanning 1890 to 1991, the Lillian Reiner Collection comprises Correspondence/subject files, Writings, and Memorabilia relating to the Syracuse, New York teacher and political activist (1901-1987).
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Goldsmith, Margaret Noyes
Papers of the Oneida Community descendant and the Noyes family. Heavy focus on Gertrude Hayes Noyes, Margaret's mother and the daughter of John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community. Also papers and correspondence of Margaret's father, Charles Rutherford Noyes, general of the Ninth Infantry of the U.S. military. Description of Oneida Community experiences, and military family life in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Correspondence 1844-1991, both original and transcript. Also diaries, memoirs, writings, memorabilia, printed material and photographs.
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New York State Council of Churches.
Correspondence, agendas, minutes, memoranda, reports, printed material, and other papers relating to the Council's positions on such legislative issues as abortion, church and state relations, civil rights, family relations, labor, pornography, and Christian education.
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Wayland-Smith, Prudence
Papers of the 20th century social activist, focused on migrant reform, education for migrant children and prison reform. Correspondence, 1925- 1994. Also newspaper clippings, personal notes, and memorabilia including student artwork from migrant schools, photographs and photo boards. Some government documents and publications along with manuscript materials from Wayland-Smith's personal and professional life.
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Spalding family.
Material relating to the Evans, Ellicott, and Spalding families of western New York, some of whom were Quakers. Members of these families were involved with the Holland Land Company, the Erie Canal, agriculture, and the temperance and anti-slavery movements. Correspondence (1804-1887) primarily of David E. Evans and his son, Ellicott Evans; legal and financial papers, including contracts, deeds, and wills; and 9 diary volumes (1832-1884) of Lyman A. Spalding of Lockport; photographs, and clippings.