The Lyon Family wood lots were located near Port Lynden, Lewis County, New York. This collection includes records related to the family's lands and personnel.
Collections : [Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts]
Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts
Manuscripts, records, and papers primarily related to businesses and people of New York and New England.
Chiefly 19th-century New York and New England local history manuscripts and business records, primarily for craftsmen and railroads; papers of children's book writer and illustrator Marcia J. Brown and two original manuscripts by Maud and Miska Petersham; papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy; papers of Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 19th century social reformer; and papers of Benito Perez Galdos, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Evengi Zamyatin, and other writers.
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Marcia Brown Papers, 1940-2000 82.55 cubic ft.
A 1940 graduate of the New York State College for Teachers, Brown was a respected children's book writer and illustrator, and a three-time Caldecott Medal winner.
Mark Nepo Papers, 1978-1991 .72 cubic ft.
The Mark Nepo Papers contain a manuscript and research materials related to his literary career.
Mark Woodbury was a proprietor of a general store in Antrim, New Hampshire. This collection contains his account book for the store.
This collection contains manuscripts of two children's books by Maud and Miska Petersham. The Petershams were a Caldecott Medal winning married couple who wrote and illustrated children's books together, primiarly between the late 1920s and mid-1950s.
Max Dietze Papers, 1907 0.1 cubic ft.
Includes manuscript writings on the life and works of Johann W. von Goethe (1749-1832) by Max Dietze.
This collection contains a late-nineteenth-century Hebrew manuscript commentary on the Book of Psalms, including an explanation of the Mogen David symbol.
Menands Book Club Records, 1881-2009 0.67 cubic ft.
The majority of the Menands Book Club Records consists of meeting and treasurer notes and program schedules. There also is correspondence, club histories and an information packet of the village of Menands, NY Anniversary.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Undated 1 cubic ft.
Includes autograph letters and signed documents of John Jacob Astor, Erskine Caldwell, Richard Cobden, Charles Cornwallis, DeWitt Clinton, Jefferson Davis, Albert Einstein, Richard J. Gatling, Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Ionesco, Andrew Jackson, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Amy Lowell, Arthur Pinero, Ezra Pound, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Walter Scott, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Sumner, Horatio Seymour, Edwin M. Stanton, William Howard Taft, Daniel D. Tompkins, William B. Yeats, and others.