Scope and content: Examination notes taken by Dr. Robert King Stone, family physician of President Abraham Lincoln, after Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Includes autopsy notes of J.J. (Joseph Janvier) Woodward, another physician who examined Lincoln. Additionally, there is an 1864 sheet containing autographs of Lincoln and his cabinet (William H. Seward, Salmon Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, Gideon Welles, J.P. Usher, M. Blair, and Edward Bates).

The Adams Ropewalk collection contains a typescript history of the company up until 1932, a 1957 6-page Insurance Survey of [the] Property of Mr. Guy P. Adams with photographs of the Ropeworks and office building, newspaper clippings that document a roof collapse in 1958, and 22 b&w photos that document the exterior and interior of the ropeworks, its machinery, and employees.

The American Canoe Association Collection consists mostly of photographs, scrapbooks, and printed materials, which span the years 1879 to 2009 (bulk 1879-1966). Most of these materials relate to the early years of the ACA and document the annual meets and camps.

The Averell Family Papers consist primarily of the personal, business, and legal papers of William Holt Averell of Cooperstown, New York. The collection also includes a substantial number of papers relating to or written by James Averell, Jr., William Holt Averell's father. In addition, the collection includes papers relating to other members of the Averell family and genealogical information regarding the Averell, Carter, Slayton, and Waldby families. The date range is mostly from 1790 to 1880.

This collection contains about 500 manuscript pages of Lockwood's various lectures, including some from the time of her campaign for president; newspaper clippings about her; an 1879 diploma presented to Lockwood when she was allowed to practice law before the United States Supreme Court; and an 1889 passport.

Contains items from the Borthwick, Smith, and Strong Families including correspondence, diaries, family histories, financial papers, land records, a school notebook, and a manuscript cookbook. Additional material includes two woman's diaries, land records, a history of the Bushnell Family, and Hattie E. Kurtz's school notebook. Of unusual interest is a black & white photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken by Matthew Brady in Washington, DC in 1864.

The Burr - Hamilton Duel Collection contains correspondence between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr and their seconds, Van Ness, and Pendleton, before the duel (June 18 - July 9, 1804); and correspondence and statements made after the duel, by Burr, Van Ness, and Pendleton including eye-witness accounts of the duel by Van Ness and Pendleton, the only living witnesses besides Burr himself (July 11, 1804 to Mar. 5, 1805). Also included are letters by Aaron Burr and documents pertaining to Burr (1793-1828). These items do not concern the duel.

The Campbell Family Collection, 1790s -1870s, covers four generations and documents the history of the family in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, NY in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. The main focus of the collection is the correspondence of Judge William W. Campbell and his manuscript "Annals of Tryon County." Also included are papers of Cleveland J. Campbell, Helen S. Campbell, Douglas Campbell, William A. Campbell, Henry J. Campbell, Samuel Campbell, Samuel Starkweather, Harriet Bowers Paige Campbell, James S. Campbell, and other family members. Also included an early nineteenth century manuscript music book, survey maps of Cherry Valley and Belvedere, and the correspondence, medical observations, and financial records of William B. Campbell.

Contains documents relating to the military career of Captain John Delany in Company H, 60th New York Infantry during the Civil War including Muster Rolls for 1863 listing names of 57 soldiers and 1864 listing names of 40 soldiers, their ranks, where and when they joined and mustered, and remarks (e.g. promoted, absent, sick, “stoped,” detailed, wounded, killed). In 1863, a large majority of soldiers mustered from Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, NY, in 1864, from Wanhatchie; and a 90-page memorandum book containing daily entries documenting life during wartime, 1862-1864, and occasionally, verses; his commission paper; and receipts.

Contains Carl Carmer's literary manuscripts and other writings with related correspondence and research notes. This includes undated and unpublished manuscripts, school essays, speeches, early poems, CBS broadcast scripts, published articles, galleys, notebooks, publicity, reviews, and fan mail. The collection also contains financial records, newspaper clippings, writings of other authors, autobiography, pamphlets, family and other photographs, biographical data, greeting cards, songs and music, art books, sketch pads, illustrations in various stages for Carmer's manuscripts, and some family papers.

This collection documents the courtship and marriage of Harold Cheetham and Ella May Wilson, Williamson, Wayne County, NY.

Contains correspondence, unpublished poems, and essays by William W. Christman, as well as pamphlets, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also includes research notes, final typescript, and galley proofs for Henry Christman's book.

This collection of church records consists of financial records and account books, 1895- 1968; minute books of business, Board of Trustee, and Thimble Club meetings, 1904-1948; and land records (primarily land indentures and burial plot deeds) that document church holdings, 1848-1943. Also included are two pencil sketches of the church by "W.C."

Circus materials include programs, periodicals, clippings, articles, route books, broadsides / posters, and photographs. Also includes a typed account by Richard C. Ellsworth of travelling with a circus in 1902, visiting Ithaca and Elmira, New York; Williamsport, Lock Haven, DuBois, and Butler, Pennsylvania; and Wheeling, West Virginia.

Personal and business papers of members of these related families, especially Charles Bush Collins, Lyman R. Lyon, Clinton L. Merriam, Charles C. Merriam and his wife Florence Lyon Merriam. Includes letters, diaries, military commissions, wills, inventories, cash accounts, deeds, and field books relating to their large land holdings in Lewis County, N.Y., their lumber business, and their involvement in politics. Also contains a large number of household bills of the Lyon family.

Collection contains materials from Stewart's war career including letters, documents, reports, and returns with many references to the difficulties of obtaining, transporting, and paying for Army supplies. Also, materials from Stewart's pre- and post-war career including letters, memos, deeds, receipts, genealogical data, and accounts of land investments and surveys in NJ and PA, and the expulsion of Connecticut settlers from the Wyoming Valley, PA and their resettlement after the war. Correspondents include James Tilghman, Amos Ogden, John Penn, Alexander Patterson, family members, and many notable military figures.

Papers of Judge William Cooper, the founder of Cooperstown, and of his children, Hannah, Isaac, James Fenimore, Samuel, and William. A large part of the collection concerns the land and financial transactions conducted by Judge Cooper and his direct descendants. Of particular interest are deeds, leases, bonds, and mortgages that document his involvement in the settling of Cooperstown and Otsego County, N.Y. His papers also include correspondence, land books, and bankbooks. Isaac Cooper's papers include the contract for building his home, Edgewater. James Fenimore Cooper's papers include correspondence and fragments of literary manuscripts. The collection also contains scattered letters from a few in-laws and grandchildren of Judge Cooper, such as Susan Fenimore Cooper, as well as three photograph albums.

This collection focuses on Cooperstown, NY and consists of notes, photographs, and lists identifying people in photographs but the photographs are missing. Series 1 is a timeline (1792-1919) that lists significant Cooperstown events. Series 2 consists of notes on various topics and people of Cooperstown. Series 3 consists primarily of annotated group photographs and lists of people.

This collection focuses on Cooperstown, NY and consists of notes, photographs, and lists identifying people in photographs but the photographs are missing. Series 1 is a timeline (1792-1919) that lists significant Cooperstown events. Series 2 consists of notes on various topics and people of Cooperstown. Series 3 consists primarily of annotated group photographs and lists of people.

Contains research undertaken by Cecily Dodd pertaining to Cooperstown, Otsego County, NY including research notes and essays on the dwellings, individuals, businesses, schools, churches and ministers, notable news, and folktales and traditions of Cooperstown, 1838-1891, as well as on James Fenimore Cooper and Susan Fenimore Cooper. Also, a speech on the history of the Otsego County Fair in Cooperstown, 1817-1931, given by Cecily Dodd at a local history panel discussion, and a history of The Cooper House written Dora Crittenden, the daughter of the owner.

Agreements, orders for supplies and raw materials, reports from company managers and factory foremen, annual and monthly reports, ledgers, and material on company personnel and investments. Correspondence between partners Merritt J. Corbett and John L. Stuart, and with managers of subsidiary companies at Corbett, East Branch, Harvard, Livingston Manor, and Peakville, N.Y., St. Mary's, Milanville, and Sherman, Pa., and Wells, Mich.

This is an extensive collection of the World War II correspondence of Corporal Michael “Rome” Sollak who served in the U. S. Army, 303rd Engineers Battalion, Companies H and S. These letters were sent to his girlfriend-then-wife, Evelyn Mickel Sollak, and other family members and friends in Johnstown, Fulton County, NY.

Correspondence of Universalist minister, Cuthbert Collingwood Gordon. The letters span 1850-1883. The bulk of the collection consists of letters from Universalist ministers and Universalist Society members in New York State and New England.

This collection of twelve meticulously maintained diaries kept by Esther Preston Reynolds vividly portrays the lives of hard working individuals in an farm family living in the Town of Cazenovia, Madison County, NY.

Papers relating to Eva Coo's trial and conviction for the murder of Harry Wright.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, research material, and photos created or collected by Everett Lee Millard who researched and wrote about John H. I. Browere and his life masks of historic figures.

These papers of Fordyce w. Ames and his son, Frederick L. Ames primarily consist of business records of the father who was a farmer and the son who was a printer. Included are correspondence; farm, household, and insurance account books; bills and receipts; a Typographical Union membership certificate and working card for F. L. Ames, and a surveyor's report of a parcel of land in Tromp Township, DeRuyter, Madison County, NY.

The collection consists of the papers of the Frey family and related Ludlow and Baldwin families of Kinderhook, Columbia County; Oswego, Oswego County; and Palatine Bridge, Montgomery County, N.Y. It includes family correspondence, diaries, farm and legal documents, letter books, daguerreotypes, photograph albums, historical manuscripts of Samuel Frey Ludlow, and a eulogy and picture of Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

Business correspondence of George Andurs of Adams, Jefferson County, NY in his several professional capacities. Topics include instructions to Farmers Fire Insurance and Loan Company agents with notes of rates for special premiums for various occupations and goods, list of un-insurables including brimstone works, malt houses, gun powder makers, snuff mills, varnish makers, and theaters. Some letters, pertaining to the general store and debt collection businesses are jointly addressed to him and his partner, Mr. Harter. George Andrus’ 1822 post masters appointment is noted in a letter signed by the Postmaster General, J. Neigs.

Account books and daybooks, 1834-81, of a general store run by the Chadeayne family in Cornwall, Orange County, New York. Account books, daybooks, and journals, 1841-94, of other businesses owned or operated by the Chadeaynes, or in which they had a financial interest, including insurance, real estate, money-lending, and the newspaper business. Register of manufacturers, retail outlets, and professional people in New York City and mid-Hudson Valley, kept by H.F. Chadeayne, 1884-87. Diaries kept by H.F. Chadeayne, 1873-84, and his sons, 1871-82, which discuss business and family matters, the weather, and politics. Also, various ledgers kept by the Chadeaynes when they started their businesses in the 1820s, later used as scrapbooks for clippings about politics, economics and social life in Cornwall during the 19th century.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The John E. Wyman Collection consists primarily of material relating to the early history of New York and some material relating to Connecticut. The collection includes a variety of manuscripts (1695-1917; bulk 1750-1840) collected and organized by John E. Wyman of Fonda, N.Y. The New York State Historical Association purchased the collection from the Wyman family in 1950. With the manuscripts, NYSHA acquired a calendar, probably compiled by John Wyman, which includes transcriptions and/or descriptions of more than 1,000 of the 1,100 plus documents originally in the collection.

Contains manuscript documents relating to the establishment and management of the Johnstown Cheese Factory, Fulton County, NY, including subscription lists with the names and signatures of over twenty local cheese/milk producers who purchased shares, leases for property leased for the company’s factory, articles of agreement/bylaws and statutes instituted for the governance of the enterprise, annual reports, and other related documents. The materials contain a wealth of information and statistics relating to a NY State cheese/milk cooperative enterprise.

Items relating to Judge Alden Chester and family of Westford and Schenevus, Otsego County, NY. Includes business correspondence, postcards, material pertaining to the Irving Society of Westford Literary Institute of Westford, NY; business cards, tintypes, and materials related to an illustrated talk by Arthur Chester, on "Our Civil War."

Research material collected by Katherine C. Grier (1953- ) and drafts, for a catalog essay, Celebrations in Wood: The Sculpture of John Scholl 1827-1916, which accompanied an exhibition at the William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA, November 1979-March 1980; and her Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, NY, thesis, Celebrations in Wood: The Carvings of John Scholl (1827-1916), 1980.

Contains the business records and record books of the Lakewood Cemetery from 1875-1955, bulk 1875-1907 and the cemetery keeper's daybooks, 1880-1915.

Consists of land records (deeds, indentures, leases, and mortgages) associated with Ebenezer and his son Charles S. Landers for parcels in Afton, Bainbridge, Jericho, and South Bainbridge, Chenango County, NY. Among the other names included on these documents are: Sarah C. Landers, Margaret C. Landers, Arthur L. Fisher, Marshall Hill, Devillo Church, George Bliss, and Peter Betts. A scrapbook entitled "Landers Family Records - line of Thomas Landers of Lenox, MA," contains original Landers family correspondence and receipts, 1781-1846; newspaper clippings; photographs; and a color copy of the Landers family shield.

Contains assorted legal instruments pertaining to the Niles and Taber families Otsego County, NY and others: Allen, Bull, Comstock, Gile, Mack, Miller, Latimer, Lyon, Heaton, Sleeper, Reed, Tickner Thayer, Thomas, and Smith.

This collection documents the youth and young adulthood of Lucy Medora Walker, 1848-1916 of East Springfield, Otsego County, NY throughcCorrespondence from friends and family, diaries, school papers, programs, and photographs. Topics of discussion in correspondence and diaries include household chores, school, hop harvesting, and church.

Contains the papers of two Cooperstown, Otsego County, NY families, the Armine H. and J. Stokes Gazley family papers (1883-1989) and the Ross and Margaret B. Young family papers (1932-1959) and the 1847-1885 ledger of an unidentified farmer and barrel maker, probably from the Cooperstown area. Series 1 contains Gazley family papers relating to Armine H. Gazley, Cooperstown, Otsego County, NY, including a 1883 marriage certificate between Gazley and Mary H. Wood, invoice for A. H. Gazley, boat builder, the verso of which is a 1919 land survey along Mill Street; correspondence concerning a 1896 grant for underwater lands in Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, NY; and an account book documenting his work on boats for Chenango Camp, Otsego Lake Transit, McGown's Camp, and several individuals. And relating to his son, J. Stokes Gazley and his estate including Gazley's 1903 diary, correspondence, obituaries, funeral guest book, Native Sons of Cooperstown membership lists, and estate records relating to the auction and real estate transactions. Series 2 contains 1936 invoices to Mrs. R. W. (Maude) Ellsworth, 32 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown, NY from Edward Ryan, plumbing and heating; A. John Weddugson, Afton, NY; and K. B. Welch, painter and paper hanger. Series 3 contains papers of Ross and Margaret Young including bills and invoices for household expenses; records pertaining to the 1932 construction of an Aladdin House; and transaction records concerning land occupied by the Fenimore Camps and John Wood's Quarry. Also included are two Cherry Valley, NY commencement programs, a Cooperstown Union School Regents Certificate for Ida M. Neal, an embroidery punch card, and photographs, one of which is of Ross Young in an automobile shop. Series 4 contains the 1847-1885 ledger of an unidentified farmer and barrel maker, probably from the Cooperstown area, whose products included hops, hides, butter firkins, barrel hoops, meat casks, and potash, vinegar, and cabbage barrels.

Letters from Marjorie Jackson (1926-1953); typescript of autobiography; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1917, which deal with her wartime experiences; World War I photographs (many identified); miscellaneous programs, clippings, and photographs; notes for speeches for Women's Club, Cooperstown, 1940's; pen and ink sketches by Cockett; and letters, manuscripts and clippings regarding her books and pamphlets.

Contains letters from Maria Campbell Smith written to her son, Charles Evelyn Smith, while she lived in Europe, New York State, and Washington, DC. Letters discuss health, activities, marriages, and deaths of family members and friends, and social activities and gossip of the place she happens to be staying. She also comments on Charles’ attempts at business, his love affair, and his marriage to “Sue” and their eventual troubles. But the most consistent topic throughout is Charles’ gross mis-management of the money she has entrusted to him, her desperate need for him to send her money to live on, and real estate dealings he is supposed to be managing for her. Despite these difficulties, her letters are always addressed, “My dear Charley.”

Includes correspondence, speeches and writings, and family photographs. The writings include "Memories of a Congressman's Widow," which describes Clarke's entry into politics.

This collection of 654 color photographic slides taken between 1973-1976 documents the vernacular architecture of rural and small town central New York State.

Contains correspondence to Spicer, as an individual, tradesman, and in his capacity as Justice of the Peace, from various writers; also family letters to Spicer's sisters, brothers and mother. Related items pertaining to Spicer such as business receipts and an account notebook are also included.

Contains images of sites of significance to the history of New York State. The images are all mounted on sturdy card stock and labeled with town, date, description, and source, if appropriate. Media include: prints; lithographs; post cards; b&w sepia-toned, and hand colored photographs; and stereoscopic view cards.

Primarily photographic images of octagon houses from locations in the United States, over half of them from New York State. The New York State octagon house files were gathered for use in "Octagon Buildings in New York State," compiled by Ruby M. Rounds of the New York State Historical Association. The information and photographs for the compilation were supplied by Stephen R. Leonard, Sr. Additional photographs and research came from Mrs. K.R.J. Edholm and Bertha Guptill. Also included are newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, research notes, associated published materials, and two photograph albums.

Black and white photographs of the staff of Cooperstown’s Otsesaga Hotel and Iroquois Farm posing in groups of up to 20 at various, mostly rural locations in the vicinity of Cooperstown, Otsego County, NY. All but a few of the photos are labeled by date and location. If Gertrude Wood McDonough, Ruth Wood Thornblade, and/or Mary Wood Masters appear in photos, they are identified. Some photos feature autos, horses, a duck pond, women in maid’s uniforms and in costumes, and various Cooperstown landmarks.

Consists of material relating to the Thomas P. Parker family of Lenox, Madison County, NY from 1850-1901. Primarily financial in nature, the material documents the family's involvement in the hops industry, Parker's involvement in peddling and farm machinery sales, and the personal expenses of the family. Also included is an account book of Paul Gifford, Fairhaven, MA that documents his finances in 1826. Five multicolored hop tickets marked H. R. Ingalls or Mrs. T. P. Parker can also be found here.

Included in this collection is Green’s journal which describes his journey from upstate New York to Mississippi where he acquires a teaching position, his social and professional activities, encounters with slaves and his detestation of slavery, and his health, which along with his distaste for “the country,” precipitates his return North. The journal picks up again as Greene is practicing law in Livingston County, NY and documents his professional, familial and social activities, and his health.

This collection contains photos taken and research done in the 1920s -1940s by a traveler with a deep interest in New York State history. Images of the following regions: the Adirondacks, Capitol, Catskill, Hudson and Mohawk River Valley, greater New York City, Long Island, and Niagara; and of the 1939 New York World’s Fair are included.

Papers and photos from collections of Raymond H. and Harriet Rogers.

Papers include journals and diaries of travel to, and residence in, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), 1822-25, 1829; correspondence of Stewart and his wife (Harriet Bradford Stewart), 1822-36; and printed items. Other items are journals of voyages on U.S.S. Guerriere and U.S.S. Vincennes to and from Hawaii, 1829-30; to British Isles, 1832; to the Mediterranean on U.S.S. United States, 1834; to Spain and Portugal on U.S.S. Brandywine, 1839-41, along with a sketch book from the latter. There are also letter books kept on voyages on U.S.S. Congress to South America, 1850-52, and on U.S.S. Niagara, 1860-62, around the world via Japan, China, Mozambique, Cape of Good Hope, Charleston, South Carolina, and Cuba.

This collection consists of illustrations of American topics, mainly prints from various sources. It contains individually printed pieces and prints taken from books and magazines. Other illustrations include newspaper and magazine clippings, transparencies of works of art and other printed materials, advertisements, and photographs.

Contains the financial records of Samuel Campbell throughout his career as a lawyer in New York City and into his retirement in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, NY as well as an account book of a dressmaking business. Series 1 contains the financial records of Samuel Campbell throughout his career as a lawyer in New York City and into his retirement in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, NY. Apparently in tandem with his legal profession, he owned and managed rental properties in the City. These cash, expense, and receipt books reflect financial activity of both businesses as well as domestic expenses. Series 2 contains the account book and diary of an unknown person with a dressmaking and millinery business. In addition to records of fabric, notions, and garment sales, and "lost time," it also documents dates of illnesses and deaths of 6 children, notes on the treatment of cancer, consumption and arthritis, and dates and names of boarders. Also in this series are [William Thomas] Gilbert's records of building maintenance expenses and rental income. Collection includes cash books, account books, ledgers, court ledgers, and cancelled checks from Cherry Valley, New York.

This collection consists of the records of Smalley Theatres, Inc., accumulated at its home office in Cooperstown, N.Y., 1912-1955. The daily and weekly statements, which constitute a significant portion of the records, were collected from the theaters in Camden, Cooperstown, Delhi, Dolgeville, Fort Plain, Hensonville, Johnstown, Norwich, Oxford, Sharon Springs, Sidney, St. Johnsville, Stamford, and Walton, N.Y., before coming to the home office. They provide excellent detail on attendance and box office receipts for films shown at each location.

This collection contains primarily business, as well as personal, papers of Stuyvesant Fish and his son, Stuyvesant Fish Jr. It includes 30 letterbooks from father and son, 1903-1944, which contain name indexes and subject indexes (after 1923). The Stuyvesant Fish letterbooks contain business and personal letters sent, including a substantial amount of discussion of political, historical, business, and cultural issues with various people in government, industry, and other occupations. The Fish, Jr. letterbooks focus more on the day-to-day running of the Nochpeem Corporation, a real estate and financial company, and his other business interests. Charles H. Wenman, secretary and treasurer of the Nochpeem Corporation, wrote a substantial number of the letters in the Fish, Jr. letterbooks. Additionally, there is an abundant amount of correspondence (8 folders) discussing the construction, furnishing, and maintenance of Stuyvesant Fish's mansion at 25 East 78th Street in New York City, 1896-1903; along with correspondence connected to Stuyvesant Fish, Jr.'s book, 1600-1914. The collection also contains 5 volumes of household expenses of Stuyvesant Fish and son; Nochpeem Corporation records, particularly receipts, invoices, and rents collected from 19-20 Gramercy Park in New York City by H.W. Fenniman Real Estate; records from the Stuyvesant Fish [Jr.] et. al. vs. Demotte, Inc. et. al. court case involving the 25 East 78th St. property; genealogy of the Fish, Anthon, and related families; Fish Land Corporation records; Fish family photographs, including an album from Stuyvesant Fish's trip(s) to Europe and North Africa in the early 20th century; and Hamilton Fish estate papers, along with his diary notes on "conduct" in Congress.

Contains the original copy of the 1,108 page manuscript for "They Meet Again: 'The Re-Unions' of the New York State Volunteers' 114th Regiment, 'The Chenango Unit' by Norwich, NY City Historian, Patricia F. Scott. Reunions numbers 1 (1873) - 46 (1918) are documented.

Minutes, stock transfers, and other papers, 1803-59; contracts, 1802-10; orders for dividends, 1810-13, 1823-27; dividend demand notes, 1821-59; receipts and bills for supplies and services, 1811-56; incomplete commuter lists, 1830-54; appointments of proxies, 1803-09; certificates, tables, and notices of elections, 1804-12; daybooks, 1811, 1832-35; and correspondence of Samuel S. Forman, 1829-35, and Sidney T. Fairchild, 1836-58, officers of the company. Also a photographic copy of a map of the road in Otsego, Herkimer, Madison, and Onondaga Counties, from near Richfield Springs to beyond Cazenovia.

The heart of the collection documents Thomas D. Burrall's career as an inventor. Present are eight U. S. Patent Certificates, complete with much technological detail and, in four cases, drawings for a clover seed cleaning and hulling machine, 1923; a thrashing and winnowing machine for wheat or small grain, 1830; a cook stove, 1835; a threshing machine, 1832/1837; a reaping and mowing machine, 1856; and a corn shredder, 1863, for which a metal scale model and an advertising card are also included. In four cases, the patent certificates are signed by historic figures: James Monroe, John Q. Adams, or Andrew Jackson. Three diplomas, from Union College, Schenectady, NY and Yale, New Haven, CT, document Burrall's academic career. An 1850 listing of Yale graduates show that Burrall's was an old Yale family with graduates in 1771, 1781, and 1826. Also present is Burrall's appointment as an attorney in New York in 1810 and two books owned by Burrall: Cowper's poems and the biography of a Litchfield, CT missionary. Also included is ancillary material on a Burrall family ancestor, John Howell Wells: a Wells' family tree, an 1837 public land sale document to Margaret Mott, Ontario County, NY, two Rev War-period appointments, and an indenture of Apprenticeship between two Geneva, Ontario County, NY men.

The records in this collection document nearly every phase of operation of the Tuller House, Richfield Springs, New York. It consists of advertising copy; bills including those for goods, freight, power, and labor from scores of business establishments; broadsides; business cards and flyers; catalogs; cancelled checks; correspondence; employee applications and blank forms; employee rosters; inquiries from salesmen and prospective guests, entertainers, and employees; insurance documents; invoices; equipment manuals; newspaper copy; receipts including tax receipts; solicitations; statements; and telegrams.

This collection is the by-product of Van Cleaf Bachman's research into the Low Dutch language -- which he describes as a form of Holland Dutch spoken in parts of New York State and New Jersey by the early nineteenth century -- and the preparation of a Low Dutch dictionary.

Contains a sales kit for the Wetmore, Hanes, and Sugden Company’s line of Christmas cards mounted on 27 pages of heavy, brown card stock. The colorful cards are printed with winter or religious scenes and Christmas and New Year greetings and include envelopes. Printing techniques include steel die stamped (some with mother of pearl backgrounds), metal seal steel die stamped, off-set, and color toned. One card sample is hand colored. Many envelopes, inside envelopes, and card holders are lined with printed tissue linings and some with linings designed to match the card.

Seemingly unrelated collection of papers of the "ancestors of William Brandt," Clinton, Oneida County, NY including stock certificates, property tax receipts, Erie Canal Navigation Company way-bill and two other papers, accounts, pension papers, tax documents, legal notes, letter, lottery ticket, Jenny Lind concert program, ms copies of two addresses, and Kirkland, Oneida County, NY School District # 6 bills. Names mentioned include J. M. Doolittle, Richard R. Lansing, Ebenezer Bacon, Clive Mather, Hannah Flandars, and Thomas Dean.

This collection contains a rough draft and final copy of Jedlick's 1967 Masters Thesis, "Landscape Window Shades of the 19th Century in New York and New England" for the Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, NY; a 22 page booklet entitled, Shades of History; and material related to the thesis and booklet. It also of correspondence, b&w and color photographs, publications and related material in which Jedlick is credited for his scholarship and photography.

This collection contains the drawings, paintings, sketches, and woodcut prints of William M. Beauchamp included in bound volumes (sketchbooks and scrapbooks) and on loose sheets. Taking landscapes with water features as his primary subject, Beauchamp captured New York State’s lakes (especially Skaneateles Lake and environs), waterways, countryside, mountains, and small towns with graphic detail.

This collection, which encompasses over 40 years of women’s activities relating to the Woman’s Baptist Missionary of New Lisbon, Otsego County, NY and later, the Woman’s Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary Society of New Lisbon consists of Minute Books, financial documents, an educational notebook focusing on hygiene, a program from the Northfield Summer School for Women's Foreign Missionary Societies, and recipes.

Family correspondence, deeds, wills, genealogical data, travel mementos, patents, clippings,and scrapbooks of Charles F. Zabriskie (CFZ) and his son Charles Lemaire Zabriskie (CLZ) of Cooperstown. Also documents of Jean LeMaire, an immigrant from France.