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Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum

5798 State Highway 80
Cooperstown, NY 13326, United States
The Research Library supplements the diverse and world-renowned collections at Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers Museum. Our broad focus includes New York State with an emphasis on Otsego and nearby counties, American, and Native American history, art, and material culture. The Library Special Collections include rare books, manuscripts and archival collections, trade catalogs, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera.

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Eastman, Harold F.

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.

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Peabody, Millicent K.

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.

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Hickory Grove Inn Papers .75 cubic feet

Hickory Grove Inn (Cooperstown, New York)

Contains business records and other materials created or collected by owners of the Hickory Grove Inn, Otsego County, NY prior to 2015 including Marie Green Coupier. Business records include financial records and four reservation logs, 1979-1983. These annual logs record dining room reservations for individual parties, groups, and events. Also contains Hickory Grove Inn-related material such as advertising, clippings, ephemera, letterhead, menus, photographs, items removed from a scrapbook, and guest book pages for an event celebrating "Jim and Polly's retirement from the Inn," October 1985. The Research Material folder contains numerous copies and some originals of brochures, post cards, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Cooperstown and The Hickory Grove Inn in particular. It is unclear who collected this material.

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Alvin Erastus Hill, 1867-1938
This collection consists of materials related to Chauncey Hill’s lumber business, 1830s; Alvin E. Hill’s dairy farm, 1890-1931; Willian Manson’s Lakeview Poultry Farm, 1914-1918; and Francis Hill’s saw mill and lumberyard, 1950s; all in Chenango County, NY.
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Jacob Morris, 1755-1844.

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).

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Glen, Jacob S., 1777-1859

Collection consists of correspondence and business documents relating to the extensive land holdings and agricultural business of Jacob S. Glen, 1773-1859, Town of Glen, Montgomery County, NY. Included are materials relating to leases, farms, land, real estate, and hired labor: business invoices, bills and invoices for personal and household goods, labor agreements, and assorted legal documents relating to his land holdings. Many of the items in this collection are written or docketed in Glen’s hand. Of note is a detailed 1857 auction notice that lists Glen’s farm property and goods.

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Byard, Jr., James

Scrapbooks (7) of newspaper clippings relating to Byard's career. Two of them contain clippings of the Eva Coo murder case, 1934. In addition there are family papers, 1832-1870, mainly deeds and legal papers.

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Neal, Janice C., 1902-1966

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.

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Fonda, Jellis, 1729-1791

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.

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Clarke, John D. (John Davenport), 1873-1933

Political and personal papers of John Davenport Clarke include mostly correspondence, scrapbooks, and photographs, along with publications, speeches, financial records, and estate papers, 1889-1949. Also contains some papers of Clarke's sister, Eleanor Clarke Slagle, who was known for her work in occupational therapy.