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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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Geof Huth Papers, 1960-2006 60.7 cubic ft.

The majority of these papers focus on Geof Huth's artistic activities: his creation of artworks, his involvement in the fields of visual and experimental poetry, his productions as a micropublisher, and his work as an active blogger in the worldwide network of online poets. They also document his personal life and professional career in archives and records management.
Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts
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George Scheider Papers, 1940-1947 0.1 cubic ft.

The collection includes copies of Nazi documents with translations, 1940-1947, and photographs (with personal information) of 63 inmates at the Dachau and Ravensbruck concentration camps. Items were retained by George Scheider, a refugee from Czechoslovakia who served as a translator at the Nuremberg tribunals.
Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts
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Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise Records, 1684-1764 1 Vol.

This collection contains an abstract of the Gross and Net- produce of the several Branches of his Majesty's Revenues under the Receipt and Management of the Commissioners of Excise from the respective Times of the Commencement together with their respective Appropriations. The volume covers tax revenues through November 6. 1762. The collection also contains the bookplate of William Dowdeswell who served as chancellor of the Exchequer from July 1765 to July 1766.
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Great Britain. Common Law Records, 1701-1706 1 Vol.

This collection consists of several cases concerning the public revenues referred by the Treasury to the attorney general. This collection also contains revenue cases from the reign of Queen Anne (1665-1714), with legal opinions rendered in reports by Sir Edward Northey (1652-1723). In addition, this collection includes a 1705, "state of proceedings against the Good Seized upon Captain Kidd the Pirate in the High Court of Admiralty of England."
Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts

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