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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hinsdill Parsons., Esq.
This collection contains correspondence, their enclosed materials, and other miscellaneous, likely once-enclosed, materials relating to the personal and professional business of Hinsdill Parsons, Esq., and dating from 1899 to 1912. Additional materials include contracts, dividend statements, receipts, notes, company reports, and trustee information.
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Schenectady High School (N.Y.)
This collection contains materials from the Schenectady High School system. The bulk of collection dates from 1931 to 1983, however, some materials date from as early as 1927 and as late as 1992. Materials are almost entirely from Linton High School (1957-1992) and Mont Pleasant High School (1931-1992), though a few materials relate to the whole district and a few to Nott Terrace High School (1903-1958). This collection contains newspaper clippings relating to staff and students of both schools, some theater performance materials and posters, Linton HS library and school construction materials, and some general Schenectady School district materials, school newspapers and literary newspapers, photographs, maps, and blueprints.
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Albany Institute of History and Art
The Postcard Collection depicts numerous establishments and events throughout Albany, New York, from approximately 1900-1980. This is an artificial collection created by the volunteers of the Albany Institute of History & Art from various individual donations over the years.
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Schenectady Liederkranz Club
The collection is composed of the records of Schenectady Liederkranz, a German-American singing club and social organization founded in 1871 and disbanded in 2005. Materials in the collection include meeting minutes, sheet music, membership records, financial records, newsletters, photographs, event programs, audio-visual materials, plaques and awards, and ephemera.
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Soroptimist International of Schenectady
The collection comprises records of Soroptimist International of Schenectady, a non-profit organization affiliated with the world’s largest women’s classified service organization, Soroptimist International, from 1953 through 2019. Materials range from board and business meeting minutes, event programs, membership rosters and board member lists, to Friendship link papers, scrapbooks, awards, newspaper clippings, photo slides and photographs, souvenir items, and more.
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Strong, Hannah Elizabeth Vedder, 1845-1929
The Strong Collection is composed of land records, legal documents, correspondence, receipts, genealogical information, photographs, and other documents pertaining to the Bradt, Strong, and Van Patten families, collected by H. Elizabeth Strong (Hannah Elizabeth Vedder Strong). The collection includes a significant amount of material related to early settlement of Schenectady, as well as the land and trusteeship disputes in the city.