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New York organized a war council in 1940 to coordinate war-related efforts for local, state, and national defense during World War II. Beginning initially as a women’s organization, the Albany City and County War Council was formed in 1941 to coordinate efforts for the towns within Albany County. This collection contains administrative records, campaigns and projects efforts, publicity records, and index cards containing information on servicemen and women.
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Virginia Farrell Mahigian
The Albany Civic Theater formed in 1955 when the Ilium Players of Troy and the Albany Dramatic Group joined. This collection contains Programs, Committee Meeting Minutes, and Education material related to the Albany Civic Theater.
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Donald Eberle
This collection contains the records of the Albany Hardware and Iron Co., a wholesale hardware distributor in Albany, New York. The collection contains administrative records, photographs, catalogs, and scrapbooks, along with newspapers ads and articles on the company and the men who ran it.
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The materials in this collection deal with the erection, in Albany’s Academy Park in 1928, of a memorial to the Albany-born, eminent scientist Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Members and officers of the Albany Institute were active in this project. Materials include correspondence of the memorial committee concerning fundraising, choice of a memorial location and sculptor, and the ceremony marking completion of the monument. Also included are letters to and from, and contracts with, the sculptor chosen, John Flanagan (1865-1952). Programs for and invitations to the inaugural ceremony are included, as is some biographical material on Joseph Henry.
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Albany Institute of History & Art
The subjects of the collection are the letters and communications of Former Mayors of the City of Albany to others. This collection contains receipts, licenses, property deeds, supply queries, and correspondence.
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Chuck Miller
A collection of newspapers, sports yearbooks, programs for a variety of Albany-related sports including soccer, football, arena ball, ice hockey, and baseball. There is also a collection of Capital District Sports newspapers for 1997 and a collection of The Source, a weekly entertainment newspaper for 1997.
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Albany Symphony Orchestra
The Albany Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra based in Albany, New York. This collection includes records of and recordings by the Albany Symphony Orchestra from composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner.
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This collection is composed of letters written by brothers Albert and Garrett Vander Veer to family members. Garrett and Albert were the fifth and seventh children, respectively, of Abraham Harris and Sarah (Martin) Vander Veer and were officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The majority of the letters are addressed to the Vander Veer’s sister and brother-in-law, Esther and John Craig.
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Lawson Annesley founded Annesley and Co. in Albany, New York in 1802. After a few years taking on different partners, Annesley’s sons took over the business, which remained headed by the family until 1909. The company was known for selling fine furniture, looking glasses, and artist’s supplies, and was often referred to as the “Albany Art Gallery.” Annesley and Co. closed in the 1940s. This collection contains a daybook, advertisements, and a price list.
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Lawson Annesley founded Annesley and Co. in Albany, New York in 1802. After a few years taking on different partners, Annesley’s sons took over the business, which remained headed by the family until 1909. The company was known for selling fine furniture, looking glasses, and artist’s supplies, and was often referred to as the “Albany Art Gallery.” Annseley and Co. closed in the 1940s. This collection contains business records of Annesley and Co., and includes invoices for items received by the company from 1898 to 1900 and business correspondence from customers, suppliers and artists from 1905 to 1911.
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The Banks Family Papers collection consists of personal and legal papers of Robert Lenox Banks and his family, primarily his daughter, Mary Decamp Banks Moore. These include correspondence to and from the Banks Family by local businessmen, politicians, such as New York Governor, John T. Hoffman, and William Vanderbilt, President of the Hudson River Railroad. The documents are mostly personal in nature, describing the private life of a prominent local family of the 19th Century. Also in this collection are photographs, genealogical information, and other items relating to the Banks, Lenox, and Corning families.
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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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The biography vertical files contain varied information on individuals or families in and around Albany, New York. Folders may include such material as clippings, photocopies, pamphlets, etc., and are arranged by the surname of the individual or family.
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William and Henry Blasie
The Blasie Family Papers are a collection of materials owned by Henry M. Blasie and relating to the Blasie family. William Blasie, Henry’s father and a Captain in the Civil War, was the original owner of most of the collection. The collection consists of news clippings, photo albums, photographs, and scrapbooks.
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Gray family
James A. Gray founded the Boardman & Gray Piano Manufacturing company of Albany, New York in 1837, with the business expertise and financial support of his business partner, William G. Boardman. The company patented their own design for the Dolce Campana attachment for the Piano Forte, and enjoyed great renown, including designing a model for singer Jenny Lind. This collection includes books, community newsletters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, sheet music, and song books.
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Ehrmann, Emma Boyd
James Boyd (1742-1832) and Jane MacMaster Boyd (1751-1831) arrived in Albany, New York, from Scotland in 1774. In 1796, James founded the Arch Street Brewery, which would later become the Albany Brewing Company. This collection contains correspondence, personal papers, and photographs.
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Burdick, Joel Wakeman, 1853-
Joel W. Burdick accepted a position as a clerk with the D & H (Delaware and Hudson) Railroad Company in 1879, and moved with his wife to Albany, New York. He eventually rose to the position of passenger agent, and he and his wife traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada. This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
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Bowers, Virginia B.
The collection contains audition posters for the years 1961-1984, performance posters for the years 1960-1987, the 1986 Albany High School 45th Anniversary Reunion program, 1969 reprints of Metropolitan Opera House Performance posters from 1907 and 1931, and four bound scrapbooks which contain letters, newspaper clippings, thank you letters, organization constitution, outline of plans for organization, photographs of performances and rehearsals.
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The Capitol Hill Choral Society was a mixed choral group created by Judson Rand (conductor) in spring 1953, with its premiere performance on December 18, 1953. The Society’s constitution from 1953, states that it was created to educate both the members of the organization and the outside community through the study and artistic presentation of choral music of the highest quality. This collection contains songbooks, a photograph, and performance programs.
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The collection consists of a random grouping of ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and tintypes; all photographic techniques popular in the United States from the late 1830’s to the turn of the century (19th into 20th). Most of the collection, like the predominant subject matter of these photographic processes, are portraits. Some landscape photography was done using each of the three photographic techniques; few survive. Landscape photography would blossom with the advent of the “paper process” which, though still cumbersome by today’s standards, was much less cumbersome than the equipment and process required, even for the tintype.
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Clinton, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1798-1861
The collection is composed of seven bound volumes compiled and written by Charles Alexander Clinton, the son of former New York Governor, DeWitt Clinton. Included in the collection is a copybook of letters drafted soon after his father’s death, a commonplace book, a volume of notes from a law class and four volumes called Flim Flams that contain newspaper clippings mostly dealing with his father’s political career.
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Contains prints, photographs, and texts related to the planning of the Robert Burns statue in Washington Park Historic District (Albany, New York). Calverley researched Robert Burns’ true appearance, previous depictions, statues of Burns, statues of the intended style, and illustrated interpretations of Burns’ most famous poems. Information concerning the St. Andrew’s Society, who commissioned the statue, is included.
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Stedman, Charles
Walter L. Palmer (1854-1932), the son of sculptor Erastus D. Palmer, was an Albany-based landscape painter. The correspondence in this collection relates to the settlement of his estate (the probate of which was handled by Albany attorney Charles S. Stedman (1874-1940)). Letters deal with such matters as insurance claims, sale of Palmer’s pictures, and efforts of his widow Zoe (1866-1939) to establish a Palmer prize, administered by the National Academy of Design.
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Albany Institute of History and Art
The City Neighbors Project Collection includes materials collected between 1989 and 2001 and primarily contains documents relating to immigrants’ personal family lives, and community life in Albany. Items in this collection are primary research materials. A large body of materials documenting the administrative and organizational functions of the City Neighbors Project remains unprocessed as of July 2002. The research collection is divided into 4 series: Oral History Tapes; Oral History Documentation; Research Materials; and Photos.
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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.
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Congress Hall
Leatherbound guest register measuring 12 x 16 inches in worn condition. This registry contains guest signatures from Congress Hall between the years of 1874 to 1878, which was a hotel operated by Adam Blake, Jr., whose name might be familiar from the Kenmore Hotel, which he founded soon afterwards.
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Consolidated Car-Heating Company (CCHC) was formed by the merger of two companies, McElroy Car Heating Company, Albany, New York, and Sewall Safety Car Heating Company, Portland, Maine. CCHC was incorporated in the State of West Virginia on June 24, 1889. This collection includes patent files, financial records, stockholder records, corporate records, legal files, and miscellaneous files.
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Papers of several families related to John and Abigail Adams, including the families of Reverend William Smith, Richard Cranch, William Cranch, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Daniel Greenleaf, and John Greenleaf. This collection contains correspondence, bills of sale, maps, estate records, and property records.
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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.
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Button, Daniel E. (Daniel Evan), 1917-2009
Daniel Evan Button (1917-2009) was a Republican politician elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. After his landslide win for the 1966 election, Button once again ran and was re-elected to his seat on the House of Representatives as a representative of New York. He ran for a third term in 1970, but was ultimately defeated. This collection contains newspaper articles, letters, speeches, documents, photographs, and published works in his memory.
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O'Connell, Daniel Peter, 1885-1977
Daniel P. O'Connell (1885-1977) was a leader of the Albany County Democratic party for over fifty years. This collection contains documents relating to his personal and family life, such as correspondence, invoices and receipts, and other miscellaneous documents.