This is a collection of materials put together by the Albany Institute of History & Art staff and volunteers.
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Ettore Mancuso Collection, 1924-1969 2 cubic feet
Mancuso, Ettore,
1896-1979
Collection of material created and compiled by Ettore Mancuso, a lawyer, newspaper editor, and prominent citizen of the city of Schenectady.
Research notes compiled by Susan Bonynge Strange and Lucretia Booth Evans in researching the Foot(e), Booth, and Colt lines of their family trees. This collection contains correspondence, genealogies, and photographs.
This collection contains material regarding the Fort Orange Garden Club such as minutes and reports from meetings, genealogies, general histories, personal histories, membership lists, projects, flower shows, public works, newspaper articles, awards, magazines, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, photographs, and slides.
Francis Poulin Scrapbook Collection, 1716-1993 17.3 linear feet
Poulin, Francis A.,
1914-1994
Scrapbooks including topics related to the history of Schenectady, NY, with particular emphasis on the history of railroads, the Mont Pleasant neighborhood, the Westinghouse family and company, local schools and churches, and the YMCA.
Keetz, Frank
The collection comprises photographs, ephemera, notes, articles, and original writing compiled and created by Frank Keetz about professional baseball in Schenectady
Harmen Harmanse was the patriarch of the Gansevoort family in Albany, New York, arriving in the area by 1657. Although not the first Ten Eyck in America, Jacob C. Ten Eyck was the first to come to Albany, moving from Manhattan after 1654. The two families intermarried several times over the years, along with other Dutch families in the area. This collection includes correspondence, financial records, estate records, and other family-related information.
Godfrey Family Papers, 1866-2003, bulk circa 1880s-1950 2.5 cubic feet (vertical materials)
Godfrey family
The collection is composed of materials pertaining to the Godfrey and Furman families.
Hank Caputo Baseball Collection, 1975-2004 1.1 cubic feet
Caputo, Hank
This collection includes a variety of artifacts related to the Schenectady Baseball club.
Harris Ottaway collection Approximately 1916-1999 Approximately 7 cubic feet
Harris Ottaway
This collection contains the personal papers, photographs, writings, and scrapbooks of Mr. Harris Ottaway (1904-1999) as well as his decades of correspondence (1978-1999) with countless pen pals, most of whom were residents at the Kingsway Arms Nursing Home and retirement centers. Mr. Ottaway’s personal organizational system of the correspondence materials is left intact and generally follows a pure chronological order with an index.