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William Paterson Van Rensselaer (1805-1872) was born to General Stephen and Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer in the Manor House in Albany, New York. Van Rensselaer became an attorney, and married twice, having nine children. This collection includes correspondence, property records, financial records, and estate records.

This collection contains materials related to the Williamson Family.

This collection consists of family letters of the members of two families: the Meads of Albany and the Wilsons of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, covering the years 1824-1870, with a 1930 letter to Alice Duer Miller, a noted author, who was a descendant of both families. Miller wrote a brief history of both families, which is included in the collection.

Winifred Goldring (1888-1971) was born in Kenwood, New York, and eventually became the New York State Paleontologist, working at the New York State Museum. This collection contains biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and publications.

The earliest reference to the Winne family in the Albany area is Adam Winne, son of Peter, who, according to Records of the People of the Town of Bethlehem, was a farmer who owned a parcel of property in Rensselaerwyck. This collection contains legal documents, financial records, personal papers, and ephemera.

The Wolfgang Friedmann papers include correspondence, articles, reports, books and manuscripts, photographs, clippings, and awards.

The Helping Hand Seal and Stamp Club, later the Women’s Stamp and Seal Club, was formed in 1936 by two friends, Mrs. George J. Skinner and Mrs. William Weigman. This collection includes minute books, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, copies of stamps, constitution, and by-laws, correspondences, member information, meeting announcements, AIHA pamphlets, poems by members, Albany Academy history, award ribbons, a Loving Cup inscribed “Women’s Seal and Stamp Club of Albany,” NY Grand Award arch 26, 1946, three ink stamps, one “Elm Tree” die, painting of the “Elm Tree.”

This collection contains the correspondence and legal papers of the Woodward family of Ashford, Connecticut and Albany, New York. The collection contains correspondence from Joseph Woodward, D.M. Leonard, and other family members which discuss the health of family members, day to day events, and finances.

The Works Progress Administration was a federal relief project of the Great Depression era. The Writer' Project provided work for people involved in creative or administrative work by doing writing and or research heavy tasks. The Place Names project involved cataloging and documenting the origins of place names. Materials in this collection include half-sheets of paper with geographical information. They record geographical, political, historical, and geological facts for the counties of Allegheny, Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, and Yates, and their towns, cities, and villages. The materials date from the late 1930s.