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American Locomotive Company (ALCO) Records, 1872-1969 165 linear ft.
American Locomotive Company.
The American Locomotive Company was incorporated in 1901, the result of the merger of the Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory with seven small companies. In 1955 it became Alco Products, Inc. and was acquired in 1964 by the Worthington Corporation. In addition to steam and diesel engines and generators, the American Locomotive Company also manufactured high quality steel and military tanks, with unsuccessful ventures in automobile manufacture (1905-1913) and the production of nuclear energy (1954-1962). Collection contains advertising and publicity, correspondence, financial records (annual reports, ledgers, etc.), technical drawings and technical manuals, maps, news clippings, personnel records, photographs, sketches and drawings, and more.
Ashbel Parmalee Commonplace Book, circa 1834 1 volume (SC)
Parmalee, Ashbel B.
Scrapbook of quotes, clippings, sayings; compiled by Ashbel B. Parmalee, probably while he was at Franklin Academy in Malone, New York
Auburn Prison Riots Collection, 1929-1974, bulk 1929 0.5 linear ft.
Photographs and clippings relating to the 1929 and 1970 riots at Auburn Correctional Facility
Baptist Society of Pompey, New York
Records of the church in Pompey, located in central New York. Collection includes financial, administrative, membership, legal, and printed material as well as three volumes of meeting minutes. Entire collection photocopies, no original documents.
Bea González Papers, 1990-2008 2 linear ft.
González, Bethaida.
Bethaida "Bea" González was a school board member, Common Council president, and candidate for mayor in Syracuse, New York. Campaign materials including correspondence, donor lists, notes, news clippings, and other materials; programs, correspondence, plaques, and certificates; family photographs, general news articles about González, programs from events where González spoke, and materials related to other candidates in local and national campaigns in 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2008.
Benjamin Copeland Scrapbook, 1836-1940 0.5 linear ft.
Copeland, Benjamin.
Methodist minister and poet from Buffalo, N.Y. Scrapbook of manuscript poems, incoming letters, and clippings.
Calvin M. Thompson Papers, 1924-1962 12 linear ft.
Thompson, Calvin M.
Baptist clergyman in Syracuse, New York. Collection includes correspondence, printed material, manuscripts, subject files and clippings.
Central New York Cultural Ephemera Collection, 1805-2002 1.5 linear ft.
Miscellaneous printed material and correspondence relating to cultural life in Central New York. Theatres, clubs, musical performances, academic commencements, local politics, sporting events, etc.
Charles Baldwin Sedgwick Papers, 1814-1891 1.75 linear ft.
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.
Charles Devens Osborne Papers, pending processing 125 linear ft.
Osborne, Charles Devens.
Mayor of Auburn, New York; son of prison reformer Thomas Mott Osborne. Collection includes correspondence, clippings, diaries, memorabilia, artwork, printed material and much more.
Charles F. Johnson Jr. Papers, 1899-1959 136 linear feet
Johnson, Charles F., 1887-1959.
Papers of the American business executive. Collection includes Correspondence, including notices and memorandums to workers and staff (1918-1959); manuscripts (1934-1956); material relating to the George F. Johnson, Jr., Memorial Fund (1948-1951); photographs and photograph albums (1899-1958); plaques (1935-1957); clippings of the Workers' Pages from the Binghamton Sun (1948-1956); petitions signed by the workers (1946-1956); clippings, press releases, articles, advertisements, and brochures (1916-1959); and scrapbooks (1947-1957).
Charles Wesley Snow Collection, 1861-1928 0.25 linear ft.
Charles Wesley Snow was a Syracuse-area entrepreneur and active member of the community. Correspondence to and from members of hisfamily, also including some clippings and a few "seance letters."
Chester E. Gillette Collection, 1905-1939 0.3 linear ft.
Gillette, Chester.
Materials relating to the trial and execution of Chester Gillette for the murder of Grace Brown in 1905, including photocopies of correspondence, autopsy reports, court records, hotel records, a judgement of the appeal to the Supreme Court, judges remarks, a prison statement about Gillette's execution, trial description, list of witnesses, love letters of Gillette and Grace Brown, newspapers clippings, and a telegram to Judge Ward. This case served as the basis of Theodore Dreiser's novel, American tragedy.
Citizenship Book of I and II Forms, 1911-1912 2 folders (SC)
Notebook documenting "good citizen" activities of students at the Bennett School for Girls in Millbrook, New York; laid in are a few items, including a note to a "Miss Abbott" and two photographs
Constance Pierrepont Noyes Robertson Papers, 1837-1972 18.0 linear ft.
Robertson, Constance Noyes.
Papers of the American novelist and author of books about the Oneida Community. Granddaughter of Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes. Collection contains correspondence (1931-1972); manuscript articles and novels; research notes and drafts of articles, novels, speeches, stories; and memorabilia, including clippings, photographs, and reviews of her books. Some of the material relates to the Oneida Community and John Humphrey Noyes. Correspondence includes single letters of Carl Carmer and Alexander Wilder.
Crusade for Opportunity Records, 1953-1969 195 linear ft.
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.
Considerable collection of account books and diaries (some of the latter have been transcribed on DVDs) pertaining to the Douglass, Price, and Moody families of Pulaski, New York, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Edgar F. Schilder Papers, 1909-1950 14.5 linear ft.
Schilder, Edgar F.
Over 1,000 pieces of original cartoon artwork including material from the Syracuse Post-Standard, comic strips, original artwork by other cartoonists, biographical material, photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, proofs, posters, and a scrapbook.
Edmund B. Chaffee Papers, 1902-1937 47 linear ft.
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.
Edna Greene Hines Papers, 1908-1958, bulk 1955-1958 0.5 linear ft.
Hines, Edna Greene.
American author and poet. Memorabilia and poems (printed, typescript, handwritten).
Edward Corsi Papers, 1918-1968 30 linear ft.
Corsi, Edward, 1896-1965
Papers of the author and government official, active in the areas of immigration, labor relations, and social welfare. Correspondence (1922-1965); writings (1922-1956); organizational activities files (1918-1965); and published material (1931-1966). Notable correspondents include the America-Italy Society, Inc., American Council for Nationalities Service, American Federation of International Institutes, American Museum of Immigration, Anthony Celebrezze, Common Council for American Unity, Allen W. Dulles, John Foster Dulles, W. Averell Harriman, Herbert Hoover, Italian Historical Society of America, Irving M. Ives, Jacob K. Javits, Fiorello H. La Guardia, La Guardia Memorial House, Inc., William Lescaze, National Committee on Immigration Policy, National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship, Order Sons of Italy in America, Frances Perkins, Republican Party, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Howard A. Smith, Ralph W. Sockman, United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc., U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and others.
Edward G. O'Neill Papers, 1931-1944 5 linear ft.
O'Neill, Edward G.
Correspondence, manuscripts and published material of the New York attorney, assistant attorney general, and special prosecutor.
Elizabeth Trout Papers, 1954-1962 0.5 linear ft.
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.
Emily Gelhaar Scrapbook, 1880-1896 1 folder (SC)
Gelhaar, Emily.
A scrapbook documenting Gelhaar's amateur singing performances in Syracuse, NY.
Ernst Bacon Papers, 1917-1991 27 linear ft.
Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990.
Papers of the American composer, pianist, and conductor; Director of School of Music, Syracuse University and professor (1945-1963). Manuscripts, notebooks, sketchbooks, photographs, printed music, and essays. Notable correspondents in the collection inlude Ansel Adams, Carlisle Floyd, John Alden Carpenter, Kay Boyle, Aaron Copland, Witter Bynner, and Van Wyck Brooks.
Fairfield Collection, 1804-1950 10 linear ft.
Records of Fairfield Academy and Fairfield Medical College, Herkimer County, New York, and the personal papers of Dr. William Mather, Alonzo C. Mather, Albert B. Watkins, and other families and individuals connected with the school and town.
Harrington, Frances Ward.
18th and 19th century newspapers from in and around New York State.
Frank A. Johnson Papers, 1889-1965 25 linear ft.
Johnson, Frank A., 1908-
Papers of the American business executive, President of Endicott-Johnson Corporation. Correspondence (1957-1963); personnel material (1926-1965); business records (1889-1965); clippings, and photographs. Personnel material includes correspondence, manuscripts, reports, and published material relating to employees of Endicott-Johnson Corporation; production records include correspondence, manuscripts, reports, blueprints, sketches, and financial reports of the shoe manufacturer.
Frederick William Betts Papers, 1885-1932 2.5 linear ft.
Betts, Frederick William.
Papers of the American clergyman. Betts (1858-1932) was the minister of the First Church Universalist, Syracuse, N.Y. Collection includes letters, notes, and sermons of a Universalist minister, also published articles and clippings by Betts and others.
Gardner B. Weeks Scrapbook, 1881-1886 1 volume (SC)
Weeks, Gardner B.
Syracuse (New York) businessman. Scrapbook (news clippings, letters, programs, brochures, prospectuses, circulars, more) relating to Weeks' business and to the Weeks family in general.
George Kimak Papers Relating to Artmobile, Inc., 1950-1969 3.0 linear ft.
Kimak, George.
George Kimak was an art teacher and co-founder of Artmobile, a "museum on wheels" akin to a bookmobile. Artmobile was intended to "bring original works of art to the schools of New York State" and was the shared vision of George Kimak and Barbara Chapin. Artmobile, Inc. was a non-profit corporation that oversaw the operation of the Artmobile. Collection includes correspondence and papers relating to Artmobile, Inc. and some of Kimak's personal papers, covering the years 1950 to 1969. Materials relate primarily to the planning and development of the "Artmobile concept" between 1952 and 1956.
George Peck Papers, 1793-1878 4.0 linear ft.
Peck, George,1797-1876.
Papers of the American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, author, and President of Cazenovia Seminary, a Methodist-supported school in Madison County, New York. Collection includes correspondence (1793-1878); financial records (1823-1876); an autbiographical essay; diaries (1852-1875); notebooks (1856-1868); sermons; and personal memorabilia, including clippings, financial records, and photographs.
George Willis Johnson Papers, 1916-1956 24 linear ft.
Johnson, George Willis, 1880-1953.
Papers of the American business executive. President of Endicott-Johnson Corporation, 1930-1949. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1916-1954); corporate mimeographed and printed notices to employees (1925-1949); clippings (1931-1947); photographs, articles, and speeches relating to the shoe manufacturer.
Gregg Smith Papers, circa 1950-2018 35 linear ft.
Smith, Gregg.
American composer and choral conductor and founder of the award-winning choral group The Gregg Smith Singers. Collection includes handwritten and annotated original scores, parts, reductions, drafts, and compositional sketches; published music; correspondence, date books, programs, and memorabilia; and a few audio recordings.
Henry A. Washington Papers, 1947-1986 2.5 linear ft.
Washington, Henry A.
Spanning 1947 to 1986, comprises biographical material, correspondence, and memorabilia of the African-American community leader and physician and his wife, Evelyn T. Washington. The first African-American physician to establish a permanent practice in Syracuse, New York, Dr. Washington has been called one of "Syracuse's black pioneers."
Henry D. Smith Collection, 1895-1961 1 folder (SC)
Smith, Henry Didama.
American Presbyterian minister, Syracuse University alumnus. Correspondence, clippings, and a number of sermons and lectures.
Ida H. Bond Papers, 1896-1931 1.5 linear ft.
Bond, Ida H.
Papers of Ida Bond, resident of Skaneateles, New York; bulk of collection consists of papers written by Bond for presentation to the Portfolio Club, a women's study circle formed in 1875 in Syracuse, New York.
John D. Archbold Papers, 1929-1962 6.5 linear ft.
Archbold, John Dana
John Dana Archbold (1910-1993), philanthropist and trustee emeritus of Syracuse University. The contents consist of personal and business correspondence, as well as research notes and manuscripts on Archbold family genealogy and the life and career of John Dana's maternal grandfather, John Dustin Archbold (1848-1916.)
John D. Quint Papers, 1943-1947 1.75 ft.
Quint, John D.
Correspondence and printed material related to Quint's service in World War II
John J. Vrooman Papers, 1926-1960 7.0 linear ft.
Vrooman, John J.
Papers of the American historian, novelist, president of the Schenectady County Historical Society (1884-1963). Correspondence, research, book manuscripts, book reviews, lectures, clippings, and photographs of New York State landmarks.
Kath Buffington Papers, 1963-2000, bulk 1981-2000 2.25 linear ft.
Buffington, Kath, 1951 or 1952.
Correspondence, printed material and posters/memorabilia relating to non-violent direct action and war/tax resistance.
Keith McHugh Papers, 1959-1966 1.0 linear ft.
McHugh, Keith S.
Papers of the American business executive -- president of New York Telephone Company, vice-president of American Telephone and Telegraph, and New York State Commissioner of Commerce. Collection includes manuscript speeches, articles by and about McHugh, clippings, press releases, and published speeches.
Liberal Party of New York State.
Printed material, correspondence, clippings, publications of the Liberal Party of New York State, including 18 years of the "Liberal Digest."
Lillian Reiner Collection, 1890-1991 12 linear ft.
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).
Louis Krasner Papers, 1949-1988, bulk 1971-1973 2.25 linear ft.
Krasner, Louis, 1903-1995.
Correspondence, notes, clippings, and other material relating to musician, composer, WCNY radio host, and Syracuse University music professor Louis Krasner
Mansfield French Papers, 1893-1952 2.25 linear ft.
French, Mansfield Joseph, b. 1872.
Papers of the American civil engineer and New York historian.
Carden, Maren Lockwood.
Notes, drafts and research material created or collected by Carden for her book on the Oneida Community.
Margaret Noyes Goldsmith Papers, 1849-1991, bulk 1875-1950 15 linear feet
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.
Michael Annunziata Papers, 1921-1969 6 linear ft.
Annunziata, Michael R.
Annunziata was an Italian violinist, pianist, composer and music instructor. Correspondence, clippings, writings, published music, mostly from his time in Utica, New York where he lived and worked for most of his life. He was a student of Syracuse University music professor William Berwald.