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Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982
Papers of the American poet, literary critic, scholar. Correspondence which is of greatest depth and duration includes letters from William Rose Benet, Winifred Bryher, Eleanor Clark, Malcolm Cowley, E.E. Cummings, Hilda Doolittle, Richard Eberhart, James Farrell, Dudley Fitts, John Gould Fletcher, Joseph Freeman, Robert Hillyer, Raymond E. F. Larsson, Norman Holmes Pearson,James Putnam, Muriel Rukeyser, Evelyn Scott, Winfield Townley Scott, John Sweeney, Allen Tate, M.B. Thornton, Louis Untermeyer, T.C. Wilson, and Morton Zabel.
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Havemeyer, Horace, 1914-1990
Notebook containing notes handwritten in French describing Greek coins presented by Horace Havemeyer to the American Numismatic Society in February 1964, and a letter (February 18, 1903) from a coin seller to his grandfather, Henry (Harry) Osborne Havemeyer, which contains notes on a gold coin Henry had purchased.
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Friess, Horace L (Horace Leland), 1900-1975

Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, reports, memoranda, documents, and printed materials relating to Friess' dual career. The correspondence files include letters from professors of religion and philosophy at Columbia and other universities; from his students; letters dealing with Columbia academic matters; letters with related reports and memoranda concerning his membership in the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the American Council of Learned Societies Committee on the History of Religion, the latter concerned with lectures on Chinese religions by Wing-Tsit Chan in 1950 and on Islam by Louis Massignon in 1952. The academic writings of Friess consist of manuscripts, typescripts, manuscript notes, course materials, and other items relating to his teaching, research, publishing and other activities and associations at Columbia. Religion and philosophy are the chief topics, particularly German philosophy. There are numerous manuscripts submitted to Friess by colleagues and students, including three lengthy ones by Dr. Arno Carl Coutinho.

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Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974
These papers contain drafts, outlines, notes, and manuscripts authored by Horace Meyer Kallen (bulk 1930s-1960s), documenting his career as a founding professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research (1919-1974). His papers also contain writings by others and research material in the form of offprints and printed journals. Many topics center on religion and his work with Jewish organizations during the 1950s-1960s.
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White, Horace, 1865-1914.
Papers of the American lawyer, legislator, politician. New York State Senator representing Onondaga County, and Lieutenant Governor, later Governor, upon the resignation of Charles Evans Hughes. Correspondence (1900-1912), includes 4400 incoming letters and 4000 outgoing carbons; personal financial records (1903-1914); speeches; and photographs. Correspondents include Nicholas Murray Butler, George Fisk Comfort, Chauncey M. Depew, Alan C. Fobes, Frank W. Higgins, Charles Evans Hughes, Seth Low, Frank A. Munsey, Benjamin B. Odell, Thomas C. Platt, Elihu Root, Jacob G. Schurman, William H. Taft, James W. Wadsworth, Andrew Dickson White, and other White family members, and Timothy L. Woodruff.
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Robinson, Horatio G.
Letters from Navy sailor Horatio Robinson to his mother, while posted to the USS Powhatan, flagship of the South Pacific Squadron, dated from locations in Chile and Peru.
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Hendrickson was born in Albany, in 1866, and spent the majority of his years living and working as a professional photographer in and around the downstate city of Yonkers. This collection includes material relating to the photographer’s artistic and commercial work rather than his personal life.
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Hermann, Horst

The collection is made up of architectural drawings for various projects undertaken by firms/architects such as Skidmore, Owings& Merrill, Warren Gran & Associates, John Carl Warnecke & Associates, Eggers Group, INC, Carson, Lundin & Shaw, and Alfred Easton Poor during the 1960s to the 1980s. Projects represented in this collection include, among others, 1st City National Bank of Houston, Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation, Pepsi Cola HQ Auditorium, Olympia Centre in Chicago, US Steel Building, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., International Arrival Wing at JFK Airport, Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills, CA and Newport Beach, CA, Foreign Trade Bank of Iran Banking Headquarters, Hilton Casino in Atlantic City, 445 Fifth Avenue, John Hancock Tower in Boston, and the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building. The majority of the drawings are blue line prints, however, there are some color renderings.

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Historic Geneva

The Historical Society possesses quite a few pieces of Hotel Seneca that have been left behind including menus, wine lists, pamphlets, a napkin, and even pieces of wallpaper. There is not much material from the days of the Nester Hotel but rather the time period during which the building was Hotel Seneca, 1912-1982.

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University Archives
Leaflets issued in opposition to hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities Committee held in Buffalo, New York in 1964. Signed by the Niagara Frontier Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights; Buffalo Committee to Oppose HUAC; Buffalo Labor Action; Paul Sporn; Joe Prantis; Max Berman; Jay Berman; Rachel Wolkenstien; and Richard Alexander.
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Notebook with pasted-in and handwritten recipes for a wide range of household uses, from ginger beer to silver polish to a formula for determining the weight of live cattle.
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House of Books, Ltd. (New York, N.Y.)

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, business records, book catalogs and other printed materials of Louis and Marguerite Cohn and their customers, associates and friends. Correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benʹet, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore, all among the authors represented in the Crown Octavos series published by the House of Books; there are also manuscripts, proofs and correspondence with printers for this series. Other correspondents include Cyril Connolly, W. Somerset Maugham and Tom Stoppard. Also in the collection are letters and manuscripts from the stock of the shop; notable among these are a series of Graham Greene letters and pages from an autograph book which contains entries from many turn of the century American Literary figures. The collection also include the personal memorabilia of the Cohn and Arnold families. Louis Cohn's participation in World War I as an officer in the French Army is recorded in photographs, documents and memorabilia. Marguerite's childhood collections, among them many early greeting cards, are also included.

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Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 1855-1927.
Letter from Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British (later German) author of books on political philosophy and on composer Richard Wagner, to W. Ashton Ellis, Wagner biographer.
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This collection contains research files created by and several typescript essays written by sociologist Howard D. Abramowitz. The collection amply documents his interest in the American labor movement and, in particular, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and sheds light on the scholarly research that he completed during the final years of his life.
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Craig, Howard A.
Papers of the U.S. Air Force officer. Collection includes correspondence (1938-1959); flight records (1937-1951); photographs; pilot's books; scrapbooks (1919-1959), and clippings.
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Baetzhold, Howard G., 1923-
The bulk of the Howard Baetzhold papers are comprised of correspondence with members of the Mark Twain community. The majority of the letters, though touching on Twain topics, are of a personal nature. The collection contains little documentation of Baetzhold’s academic contributions in the field of Mark Twain studies and primarily documents the Twain scholarly community.
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Baetzhold, Howard G., 1923-
The Howard Baetzhold Papers contain materials from Baetzhold’s tenure at the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California and correspondence with other members of the Twain scholarly community. The correspondence contains little in the way of scholarship and primarily focuses on Baetzhold’s professional and personal relationships in Mark Twain studies.
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Cruse, Howard
Personal and professional papers of comics artist Howard Cruse (1944-2019). Cruse was author of the graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby (1995), the comic strips Wendel (1983-1989) and Barefootz (1971-1979), and founding editor of the anthology Gay Comix (1980-1991).
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Miller was an expert on institutional budgetary finance. He served on the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University (1947-1969), as deputy director of the New York State Division of the Budget (1971-1978), and director of the budget, (1978-1980).
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Giles, Howard, 1876-1955.
Papers of the American painter, lithographer. Correspondence, 1918-1957; exhibition catalogs, photographs, published material by and about Giles; and sketches and watercolors by Giles.
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Samuels, Howard Joseph

Correspondence, memoranda, position papers, campaign materials, speeches, photographs, and printed materials relating primarily to Samuels' unsuccessful 1970 campaign for governor of New York. Included with the collection are campaign materials for other candidates, and campaign buttons for Samuels, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and others. Major correspondents include William Averell Harriman, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, LeRoi Jones, Edward I. Koch, John V. Lindsay, Robert Moses, and Edmund S. Muskie.

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Clark, Howard Kenneth, 1909-1979

Correspondence, articles, photographs, clippings, and other ephemera about the career and writings of Robert William Chambers (1865-1933), collected by Clark. The collection includes six letters from Chambers, one letter from John Kendrick Bangs to Chambers, and 14 scrapbooks which also include printed materials about Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) and George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928). There are also some Clark family photographs and memorabilia.

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Osgood, Howard L. (Howard Lawrence), 1855-1909

The Howard L. Osgood Papers are comprised of eight boxes containing notebooks and published writings on early history of Rochester and Western New York, genealogical data on the Carroll, Fitzhugh, Montgomery, Osgood and other families of Rochester, and correspondence from John S. Clark, 1881-1901. There are also Nathaniel Rochester correspondence and business papers, as well as correspondence and documents relating to the claim of the Ogden Land Company to Indian reservations in New York, 1838-1909, maps and documents for the One Hundred Acre Tract at Rochester and flour mills on the Genesee River, and transcripts of letters to Josiah Burr of New Haven, Connecticut, concerning the Genesee Country, 1788-1791. Items of particular interest include a letter written by Charles H. Carroll to John C. Calhoun, located in Box 4, Folder 2 and the handwritten sermon given at the funeral of Nathaniel Rochester, located in Box 4, Folder 3.

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Major, Howard

Collection consists of five binders of photographs of different regional residential architectural styles, one unpublished manuscript entitled "The Architecture of Old Cuba" and some notes on Post Colonial architecture. The binders and the manuscript consist primarily of black and white photographs of architectural structures, which have been adhered to sheets of paper by Major. The binders have photographs primarily of residential structures throughout the United States. A note accompanying the collection indicates that the majority of the photographs in the binders were used to illustrate "The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic." The two binders titled "North Atlantic Seaboard" (parts I & II) feature towns in Maine, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. The binder "South Atlantic Seaboard" focuses on Virginia, Washington D.C., North Carolina and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. "Old Northwest" covers Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, and the "Old Southwest" binder covers Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi. The manuscript "The Architecture of Old Cuba" covers many aspects of Cuban architecture, including the history of its development from the 16th century through the 19th and the functions of major components such as windows, grills, doorways, arcades, and patios. Howard Major does not seem to have taken the majority of the photos; most of the photographs of Cuba can be attributed to the American Photo Studios in Havana, Cuba. Within the binders he identifies the photographer by last name with a note. Within the manuscript, there are some pages of text interspersed within the photograph pages. His perspectives on each image are recorded in the notations at the bottom of each page.

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Howard Merritt papers 10 Linear Feet

Merritt, Howard S.

The majority of the collection includes the research, lecture notes, published articles and books for Howard Merritt, with a small portion of materials related to Florence. Merritt. Howard wrote and lectured extensively on 19th century painters such as Thomas Cole and Thomas Chambers. Much of Howard's research and lecture notes focus on painting in early America and American landscape, however, his lectures also covered topics such as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque period. Florence's research and lecture notes, though limited, focus on early America, specifically the American West. The collection also contains the couple's correspondence exchanged among colleagues from 1963-1988.

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Moorepark, Howard.
American literary agent. Collection consists of correspondence with various authors, artists and literary figures, including authors H. T. W. Bousfield, Anna Mary Wells, Ivor Bulmer, Israel Cohen, Malachy Gerard Carroll, Christoffel Lessing, and Frederic Dannay (aka Ellery Queen); poet Earle Birney; and artists John Steuart Curry and Edward Hopper.
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Cook, Howard Norton, 1901-1980
Correspondence (1928-1972); artwork (original watercolors and reproductions); writings by Cook (articles, essays, reminiscences about the Taos community, statements and notes on Cook's artistic philosophy); and memorabilia, including financial and legal documents, and printed material (articles, reviews, clippings about Cook, exhibition announcements, invitations, and catalogs). Correspondents include artists Ernest L. Blumenschein, Victor Candell, Jean Charlot, Fred Conway, Russell Cowles, Andrew Dasburg, Lamar Dodd, Ernest Fiene, Lez Haas, John Haley, Ward Lockwood, Henry Lee McFee, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Arthur Osver, Rudolph Ruzicka, Millard Sheets, and Carl Zigrosser. Other correspondents include Margaret Anderson, Joseph Blumenthal, John Hodgdon Bradley, J. Frank Dobie, and Lenore Marshall. Extensive correspondence relating to Cook's mural work includes that of the Mayo Clinic, the U. S. Post Office, the U.S. Public Buildings Administration, and the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Garis, Howard Roger, 1873-1962.
Papers of the American author of children's books, creator of the Uncle Wiggily character and stories. Collection includes correspondence, business and personal letters (1929-1961); typescript books and stories, including those for Uncle Wiggily, and other writings and illustrations relating to various other Uncle Wiggily projects; and memorabilia, including photographs, and financial and legal material.
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Marraro, Howard R. (Howard Rosario), 1897-1972

Correspondence, notes, and manuscripts of Marraro. The collection is divided basically into a General File (professional activities of Marraro), a Subject File (notes, lectures, and writings on various topics), and two small Subject Files--Americans on Italy and Italy on America (attitudes of Americans and Italians toward each other)--used by Marraro.

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Selsam, Howard, 1903-1970

Correspondence, manuscripts, note cards, and printed material of Selsam. Correspondents include Justice Hugo Black, W.E.B. Dubois, Waldo Frank, Rockwell Kent, and Corliss Lamont. The collection contains several manuscript and proof materials for several of Selsam's books and numerous periodical articles, as well as note cards on philosophers and philosophies. Also, a subject file of Selsam's notes and areas of interest, and assorted printed and biographical material.

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Johnson, Howard Eugene, 1915-2000
The Howard "Stretch" Johnson Papers document the life of Howard Johnson, known for most of his life as "Stretch." Johnson was a tap dancer with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and performed in Harlem at the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater in the 1930s. After joining the Communist Party of the United States of America in 1940, Johnson went on to engage in social activism for most of his life, living in a number of places, including Brazil, Galveston, Texas, Hawaii, Paris, and St. Croix. The Papers contain correspondence, both personal and work related, as well as a nearly finished typescript of Stretch's autobiography. There are a number of photographs, mainly copies of the various performers at the Cotton Club, as well as audio and videocassettes, and ephemera. Additionally, the collection contains a family scrapbook with photos from the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Coles, Howard W.
This collection consists of the personal papers of Rochester, New York based, African American community activist, Howard W. Coles. The materials date between 1836 and 1996. The papers are comprised of newspapers, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, records, and recorded broadcasts.
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Howard Wesley Davis Papers, 1949-1963 9 boxes (4.5 linear feet)

Davis, Howard Wesley.
The Howard Wesley Davis Papers includes clippings, correspondence, class lectures and assignments, lab equipment, photographs, and publications about his student experience and career as a physicist.
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Howard Wilder Lyman Papers, 1921-1969 1 box (.25 linear feet)

Lyman, Howard Wilder.
The Howard Wilder Lyman Papers contain materials related to the life of Professor Lyman, his work as a voice and choral music instructor, and his position as director of the University Chorus.
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Howard W. Yoder papers, 1954 0.25 linear feet

Yoder, Howard W.
Howard W. Yoder was a Methodist missionary in Peru, Bolivia, and Panama, and Executive Secretary of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA from 1954 – 1963. The collection contains a 1954 report by Yoder on the state of Protestant missions in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
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H. O. Waugh Hardware
This collection consists of records from H. O. Waugh Hardware, a Rochester, N.Y., hardware store and home heatin installer. The records date between 1935 and 1950. They consist of installation proposals, recipts and job notes.
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Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944

Correspondence, specifications, contracts, invoices, financial statements, memoranda, and architectural drawings pertaining to the construction of St. Paul's Chapel (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.), a project designed by Howells & Stokes, and by Stokes independently. Correspondence is between Howells & Stokes and Columbia University officials, contractors, and suppliers, including Nicholas Murray Butler, R. Guastavino Co., Tiffany Studios, Coppède, Paul Manship, and McKim, Mead & White, as well as Stokes' aunts Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes and Caroline Phelps Stokes.

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Niebuhr, H. Richard (Helmut Richard), 1894-1962
H. Richard Niebuhr was president of Elmhurst College, 1924-1927; Sterling Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics, 1954-1962 at Yale University (faculty since 1931); and was known for conglomerating neoorthodoxy, realism, and Christian existentialism. The collection contains 13 typescript essays thematically divided into four sections: Deity of God; Human bondage; Divine action and human response; and Catholic vision.
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Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925.
The collection contains correspondence from Haggard and to and from others, as well as a few miscellaneous items including notes on errata in some of Haggard's works.
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Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925

The collection is composed of 66 letters from Haggard to various members of his family, primarily to his sister-in-law, Agnes Barber Haggard, who had been his secretary. There are nearly 250 letters addressed to Haggard, to Coulson Kernahan, and to others. Among the correspondents are: James Barrie, Hall Caine, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Joseph Chamberlain, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, Austin Dobson, A. Conan Doyle, J.A. Froude, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Andrew Lang, C.J. Longman, J.E. Millais, William Morris, Ouida, Grant Richards, Rafael Sabatini, and John Tenniel. There are several manuscripts by Haggard and printed materials relating to him. There are 20 letters from Haggard to his oldest sister, Ella Green, and about 110 to his brother, Col. Andrew C.P. Haggard.

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Knickerbocker, H. R. (Hubert Renfro), 1898-1949

Correspondence, clippings, notebooks, and photographs. The principal files are not complete. The correspondence covers the years 1920 to 1941, and the scrapbooks of clippings begin in 1927 and end in 1945. Nevertheless, many of Knickerbocker's reports, cables, and interviews, some unpublished, are present and provide information concerning news events, primarily in Europe, and the operations of his office. Correspondence with fellow members of the press is extensive and interesting. There are a few original manuscripts in the collection, but none pertain to Knickerbocker's seven books. Also, photographs relating to Knickerbocker's works on Russian trade and the Five Year Plan, and of Knickerbocker himself. The correspondence includes letters from Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill, Evelyn Waugh, Leon Trotsky, Sir Josiah Stamp, Ernestine Evans, Walter Duranty, and John W. Wheeler-Bennett.

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Lenormand, H.-R (Henri-René), 1882-1951

Correspondence, manuscript review, and printed materials of Henri-René Lenormand. The collection includes letters from Lenormand to Eugene Jay Scheffer, an analysis by Lenormand of his own work , and numerous handwritten copies (in unknown hands) of review of Lenormand's plays "L'homme et ses fantômes" "La dent Rouge" "A l'ombre du mal" and Le Simoun.".

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Huang, Fu papers, 1913-1945 0.8 Linear Feet

Huang, Fu, 1880-1936
The Huang Fu papers consist of materials relating to Huang Fu's political involvement in the early revolutions, the Coup d'etat of 1924, the Nanking Incident, the Jinan Incident, the Tanggu Truce settlement and its aftermath, dating mostly from 1913 to 1945. Materials included in the papers are correspondence, documents, letters, telegrams, speeches and writings.
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Hubbard Family

Domestic correspondence of Lucius Lee Hubbard (1849-1933), and that of his wife, Frances Johnson Lambard Hubbard (1852-1927), their three daughters, and other relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Houghton, Michigan. Most of the letters are addressed to Hubbard's daughter Frances Hubbard Flaherty, the wife and co-worker of Robert J. Flaherty, the film director. There is also correspondence of the parents and relatives of Frances Hubbard, the Lambard family of Georgia.

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Hubbell family

The collection consists of about 150 letters, 1802-1903, the main part being from the period 1845-1860. The letters center around Mary (Chapin) Hubbell and represent correspondence to and from her and members of her family including her grandmother, mother, husband, and children. The letters reveal day-to-day events and emotions. Travels, and family and local events, including births, marriages, and deaths, are discussed. Many of the letters are quite long.

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This collection, which dates from 1740-2004, includes dozens of hand drawn maps, and maps with engravings, most of them originals, as well as bound atlases, representing the City of Hudson and its immediate surrounding area, including Columbia County and portions of adjacent counties as well as New York State. These items contain important information about the history of Hudson and the surrounding region – from insurance and railroad maps, topographical and geological maps, to bird’s eye view drawings and developmental proposals. The collection also includes maps that provide information about The Hudson River as a site of commerce, industry, travel, and tourism, as well as wildlife and residential life, since the settling of the city of Hudson. The collection features maps and bound atlases from a multitude of important historic publishers, including Beers, Ellis & Co.; H.H. Rowley & Co; F.W. Beers; Hudson River Sloop Clearwater; The Sanborn Map Company; and Frank E. Richards, among others.
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Hudson Area Association Library
This collection assembles hundreds of photographs and some slides that have come into the possession of the Hudson Area Library over the years, either by donation or purchase. Photographs date from the early 1800s to the mid-2000s and depict people, places, and activities in Hudson, N.Y. as well as wider Columbia County.
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The Hudson River Conservation Society, Inc.
The Hudson River Conservation Society was founded in 1936 in order to preserve and protect scenic and historic landmarks in the Hudson Valley and seek regulation when necessary to achieve this. The Hudson River Conservation Society Collection documents the history and continued efforts of the Society as a non-profit agency, fighting for the conservation and protection of the Hudson River, its surroundings, and its environment. The Hudson River Conservation Society collection consists of correspondence, office records, reports, memoranda, newsletters, brochures, maps, newspaper clippings, press releases, opinion polls, financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, books, and other printed material.
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Hudson River Environmental Society
The Hudson River Environmental Society Collection documents the research, actions, and legal cases involving environmental issues surrounding the Hudson River Valley. Various interests include Storm King Mountain, Con Edison’s Cornwall Pumps, Indian Point, Dredging, Transportation, Danskammer, and many others. The collection also contains communication and records of cooperation with other environmental groups such as Scenic Hudson and the Hudson River Valley Greenway Council.
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The Hudson River Environmental Society (HRES)
The Hudson River Environmental Society (HRES) was founded in 1970 to foster research on the Hudson River environment and related coastal areas, provide a forum for communication and cooperation among researchers, and make the results of environmental research available and accessible to concerned citizens and public officials. The Hudson River Environmental Society Library contains approximately 12 linear feet of records and 1,226 monographs. The records consist of field notes, meetings minutes, research papers, memorandum, and newspaper and article clippings. The monographs consist of scientific reports generated by government agencies and private organizations concerned with the environmental condition of the Hudson River.
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There is a rich history of nautical travel along the Hudson River by the means of steamboats, sloops, and barges. This collection chronicles some of the many vessels that made their way up and down the Hudson River during the 1800s and through documents pretaining to their the business transactions.
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Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Collection consists of studies, reports, correspondence, and clippings documenting the society’s interests in local environmental issues. The collection also includes office materials, litigation, and Clearwater events.
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George Washington Murdock, 1853-1940
Hudson River Steamboat biographies written by George W. Murdock, Jr. for the Kingston (NY) Freeman newspaper. Murdock, a veteran marine engineer, wrote a regular column in the 1930s. Over 200 articles comprise this collection.
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Hudson River Valley Commission
The Hudson River Valley Commission was a New York State Agency, established by the Legislature in 1966, to coordinate planning along the Hudson River and to encourage the balanced development of the Valley’s land and resources. The HRVC collection consists of testimony, exhibits, legal briefs, opinions & orders, publicity materials, and stenographer’s reports concerning the Storm King decision.
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Greenway Council
The Hudson River Valley Greenway Council Collection documents the development and growth of the Greenway Council. The collection consists of handouts and minutes of meetings and clippings gathered and collected by the Greenway Council. The meetings cover a variety of topics, from local environmental hearings to expansion of the Council, to protecting the Hudson Riverbanks, parks, and hiking trails. The clippings cover topics of environmental importance in and around the Hudson River Valley.
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On November 14, 1946 the Carpenters' District Council of Ulster County and Vicinity was chartered. This council had local chapters in Kingston and Ellenville, New York. During the late 1940's local unions in the area began affiliating with the district council and eventually the district council, on May 4, 1949, was rechartered as the Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters, the change of name more closely describing its jurisdiction. New local unions continued to be created, and independent local unions continued to affiliate with the district council. By the early 1950's the district council represented carpenters in Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster counties.
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Hudson Valley GREEN
The Hudson Valley GREEN (Grass Roots Energy & Environmental Network) Collection documents the development of the environmental group and their constant vigilance in protecting the environment in the Hudson River Valley Area. This collection includes printed material, environmental magazines and newspapers, Hudson Valley GREEN Times, background material, business files, slides and film, as well as a variety of other documents and reports funded by the New York State Government and other Federal organizations. Also included in the collection are files dealing with specific topics such as Indian Point, James Bay, 765 Power Line Controversy, Con Edison v. Mid Hudson Nuclear Opponents and the Town of Red Hook as well as variety of other topics.
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Burr, Hugh Chamberlain, 1890-1978

The materials in the Hugh Chamberlain Burr papers (1892-1965) are largely organizational records from Burr's time with the National Council of Churches and the Rochester Federation of Churches, with a small amount which he collected during his time as a Baptist minister in Elmira. The bulk of the materials are meeting minutes, notes, conference organization records and proceedings, bylaws and constitutions, inter-organizational newsletters, financial planning materials and reports, pamphlets and fliers for events, and reports from various committees under the National Council, particularly those related to the work of the Council secretaries. Correspondence from members of the community is found throughout in various formats (printed, personal letters, letters to the Council, etc.). Additionally, there are a large number of newspaper clippings, articles and issues from Christian newsletters and magazines focused on topics pertinent to the mission and work of the National Council.