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Historic Geneva

Historic Geneva

Geneva History Museum
543 South Main Street
Geneva, NY 14456, United States
The Archives consist of the two-dimensional paper portion of our collection. We have 1,300 cubic feet of archives material, which includes 50,000 images. Geneva's stories are captured in letters, diaries, ledgers and minute books, and photographs. Inventory of our material is ongoing, please contact us or visit our website for further information.

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Phelps Historical Society

The collection covers the years 1905 to 1953 and contains one letter from 1995. The bulk of the letters belong to Margaret McCarthy, but a couple are addressed to Francis Wallace (brother or father). There are many greeting cards addressing anniversaries, birthdays, baby announcements, and holidays.

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Petrizzi, Jennie

This collection covers the entirety of American Can Company’s years of business, from 1901-1989, with a large number of photos (many duplicates of the same company distributed photos). It also includes personal reference books of former employees, publications distributed by the company, and tools of the trade. Blueprints, correspondence, articles, and photographs make up the bulk of the collection.

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Maxwell family
This collection represents a wide variety of the business and personal interests of Thompson C Maxwell and his brothers Joshua and Henry who were in the nursery business from 1848 until their deaths. It includes correspondence, photos, stock certificates, and many deeds related to their land purchases across the country.
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Johnson, Josephine

This collection covers the years that America was involved in World War II and Geneva’s efforts on the home front, plus the years the ‘Our Boys Fund’ Committee was still going into the 1950s. There are publications made for the home front and for soldiers, ration books, articles, and photos; documents related to Our Boys Fund and the Geneva City Defense Council.

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Historic Geneva
This collection focuses on the family of Beverly Chew, president of Shuron Optical. He resided at 543 South Main Street from the 1920s through 1960 when he and his wife Edith gifted the building to the Geneva Historical Society as a permanent home for the Geneva History Museum.