The collection is comprised of correspondence of mainly W.C. Brown, Henry Cargill, and E.C. Miner during the time they were active in the formation and activities of the association. The collection includes records of the organization (minutes of general and stock holders meetings) and detailed descriptions of the farms that were sold. It also has two bound volumes of unused stock certificates and one embosser.
The Arthur Caswell Parker Papers contains correspondence including letters written by Ely Samuel Parker, as well as Frederick Ward Putnam, Horace Porter, Theodore Roosevelt, Nathan L. Miller, Allen Macy Dulles, Woodrow Wilson, James Schoolcraft Sherman, William Howard Taft, and Lewis Henry Morgan. This collection also includes Parker's extensive research, published and unpublished articles, and lectures on museums, archaeology, and American Indians, particularly those of New York State, including their history, culture, problems, legislation, administration, rights and citizenship. Related topics include the American Indian in World War I, American Indian Day, Harriet Maxwell Converse, Cornplanter, Lewis Henry Morgan, Mary Jemison, the Parker family, and Red Jacket. There are six volumes of radio scripts delivered in 1937 through 1938 under the title A Romance of Old Indian Days as well as the 1943-1944 radio scripts of the Rochester War Council's Speakers' Bureau.
The collection consists of 80 letters to Benjamin Douglas Silliman and 11 letters from him. His correspondents include William Henry Seward, Hamilton Fish, Preston King, Peter Cooper, and others involved in New York Sate politics. In the letters to and from Seward, they discuss the influence of the Irish vote in the 1840 election.
The University of Rochester interview with Edwin Jaeckle was held on May 31 and June 1, 1979. It was conducted by William E. Diez, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, as part of an ongoing Oral History Project.
This collection contains correspondence and printed material on Jaeckle's political career locally in the Buffalo area; then statewide as NY State Chairman of the Republican Party and then on a national level; running Governor Dewey's campaign for the presidency.
The Edwin Ruthvin Reynolds Papers are comprised of one box containing writings, speeches and a diary of E. R. Reynolds, certificates pertaining to his father Linus J. Reynolds, and miscellaneous documents, letters and poems.
Included in the Papers are approximately 150 letters. Most of them were written by members of the family and thus are of a personal or business nature. Some letters, after 1834, deal with life, investments, and land promotion in Michigan. All the correspondence has been indexed in the main manuscript index.
The Eugene F. Roberts Papers is comprised of one series: Personal Papers. Within this series there are sixteen letters written between Roberts and Julia Boulware, while Roberts served as Lieutenant of the New York 10th Zouaves and the 82nd U.S. Colored Infranty Regiment, Corps de Afrique. The other two items in this collection are a handwritten poem, presumably be Roberts and a woodcut of one of his military headquarters.
The First Women Project is principally organized alphabetically by county. The folder for each county consists of information about the first women to serve in various political positions, including the legislature.
Legislative reference and correspondence files, general correspondence files, speeches, reports, press releases, photographs, films, and memorabilia. Please note: This collection is currently unprocessed.
The Freeman Clarke Family Papers, 1812-1929, consist of the family and business papers of Freeman Clarke, primarily from the period of the late 1820's to the 1890's.
Manuscripts of published and unpublished works of George Henry Harris including manuscripts (presumably an original and a revised draft) of his "Life of Horatio Jones."
The George J. Skivington Collection consists of business papers of John Greig of Canandaigua, agent for William Hornby and other landowners in western and central New York. The land papers include deeds, contracts, surveys, maps, depositions in chancery case regarding title of Pulteney Estate, 1820-21, schedules of debtors, 1841-42, and Greig estate inventories and papers. There is also correspondence, including letters from Oliver Phelps, Israel Chapin, Robert Troup, William H. Adam, Joseph Fellows, Alexander Duncan, Alonzo Frost, Nathaniel W. Howell, Thomas Morris, John Rankine, William Jeffrey, John Tryon, Francis H. Beckwith, Josephine Greig Chappell, Lockwood R. Doty, and D.D.S. Brown, a paymaster in the U.S. Army, Civil War. Topics in the correspondence include lands in the Chenango Triangle, Military Tract, Cottringer Tract, Greig Tract at Rochester; Morrisville Tract at Philadelphia; and the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. There is also information about early Rochester railroads, the Sodus Canal Association, Sodus Land Company, the Shaker colony and Fourierite Phalanx at Sodus Bay, and the Ontario Glass Manufacturing Company at Geneva.
Letters addressed to George Washington Patterson on a variety of subjects, with emphasis on local, state and national politics, and business affairs of the Chautauqua Land Office at Westfield. Patterson was agent of the Land Office for many years, also Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1848, and a member of the House of Representatives, 1877-79.
The Helen Power Papers are divided into five series: General Board of Regents Business, Committee Meetings and Conferences, Proposals, Reports, Published and Printed Materials. The series General Board of Regents Business contains correspondence written to and from Power, as well as to other members of the Board, materials related to issue campaigns and addresses made to the Board as well as other community groups. The second series, Committee Meetings and Conferences includes materials from weekly and monthly meetings held between 1973 and 1975. The third series includes proposals and recommendations made by and to the Board. Similarly, the fourth series, Reports contains drafts and final versions of documents submitted for the Board's approval. The final series is comprised of newsletters published and sent to Power and others during the early 1970s, as well as newspaper articles and other printed materials related to education.
Correspondence, legal documents, business and financial papers of the Hollister Lumber Company. The correspondence is mostly of a business nature, included in the legal documents are contracts and agreements, deeds, indentures, lease, mortgages, court papers, bonds and abstracts of title. The business and financial records include records of the company pertaining to meetings, stock, officers and organization, annual reports, inventories, bills and receipts, invoices, bills of sale, price lists and statements of accounts, as well as bank drafts, promissory notes and insurance policies.
The Howard L. Osgood Papers are comprised of eight boxes containing notebooks and published writings on early history of Rochester and Western New York, genealogical data on the Carroll, Fitzhugh, Montgomery, Osgood and other families of Rochester, and correspondence from John S. Clark, 1881-1901. There are also Nathaniel Rochester correspondence and business papers, as well as correspondence and documents relating to the claim of the Ogden Land Company to Indian reservations in New York, 1838-1909, maps and documents for the One Hundred Acre Tract at Rochester and flour mills on the Genesee River, and transcripts of letters to Josiah Burr of New Haven, Connecticut, concerning the Genesee Country, 1788-1791. Items of particular interest include a letter written by Charles H. Carroll to John C. Calhoun, located in Box 4, Folder 2 and the handwritten sermon given at the funeral of Nathaniel Rochester, located in Box 4, Folder 3.
The Harris Papers are a collection of letters, photographs, and papers spanning the mid to late 1800s of the Harris and Mathews families, both prominent families of Rochester, New York. The collection centers around the 1860-1877 business correspondence of Joseph Harris (1828-1892), and the 1840s through 1860s personal correspondence of his wife, Sarah Ann Mathews Harris (1833- ). In addition there are also the letters and papers of Sarah Harris' parents, Selah and Mary Pitkin Mathews.
The collection contains correspondence, speeches, press releases, tapes, phonograph records, picture files, films, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed material.
The collection contains correspondence, speeches, press releases, tapes, phonograph records, picture files, films, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed material.
The collection consists of subject files and correspondence relating to constituent concerns in New York State, as well as materials concerning legislative issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment, gay rights and women's rights. The Krupsak papers also include materials on the International Women's Year and state agency efficiency in addition to materials such as speeches, schedules and memos related to Krupsak's campaign for Lieutenant Governor in 1974 and her campaign for Governor in 1978.
The New York Central Railroad Stock Certificate Collection is comprised of three boxes containing over 200 stock certificates (and a few bonds) from the 1840's to the early 1900's. All but a few are certificates of railroad companies, many of which became part of the New York Central System. The certificates are not only of historic, but also of artistic, interest.
Correspondence, reports and printed material relating to the proceedings of the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention. Includes copies of propositions submitted to the Convention for amendment of the Constitution. Also, correspondence and printed material relating to the proposed repeal of the Blaine Amendment, Article II, Section 3, which prohibits aid to sectarian schools. Copies of the proposed Constitution, which was defeated in the November, 1967 election, also are included.
A collection of documents including deeds, leases, agreements, and land titles relating to transactions in upstate and Western New York. Includes records relating to Albany, Monroe County and the Pulteney Purchase.
The Nicholas M. Graver Papers are comprised of one series: Anti- Smoking Materials. This series contains correspondence from 1984- 1998 that Graver wrote to New York State legislators imploring them to pass anti-smoking legislation, as well a response from the Editor of Time explaining why the magazine would continue to publish advertisements from tobacco companies. There are also issues of ASH: Smoking and Health Review from 1984- 1986 that document the organization's committment to anti-smoking activism. The series includes printed materials published by ASH and other organizations as well as newspaper clippings that Graver saved.
The Oliver Phelps Papers are comprised of one box containing correspondence written by Samuel Street (1753-1815), a merchant trader and land speculator who supplied goods to the British stationed at Fort Niagara during the Revolutionary War. In addition to Oliver Phelps, Street's correspondents include General Israel Chapin (1740-1795), George Washington's aide-de-camp and first agent for Indian Affairs in Western New York, and Reverend Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), missionary and liason between New York State and the Iroquois in land negotiations following the Revolutionary War and founder of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, which was to become Hamilton College. The correspondence largely concern relations with the Native Americans and land settlements. One bill for goods, issued to Chapin by Street and Colonel John Butler (of Butler's Rangers), is housed in the last folder.
The collection is arranged by specific topics. The GAR and Civil War material occupies the majority of box 2, the remaining topics and general correspondence are filed in box 1.
The collection includes correspondence (chiefly carbon copies of letters from Werner to friends and associates), speeches, briefs, opinions, and scrapbooks of clippings covering his legal career.
