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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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Zabriskie Family

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.

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Woman’s Baptist Missionary Society of New Lisbon, 1885-1912.
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.
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Beauchamp, William Martin, 1830-1925

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.

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Jedlick, William J., 1929-
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.
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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.

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Wetmore, Janes, & Sugden

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.

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Bachman, Van Cleaf, 1939-

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.

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Tuller House (Richfield Springs, Otsego County, NY)
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.
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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.

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Third Great Western Turnpike Road Company

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.