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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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The Abbe (Abbey) family papers include records relating to the Abbe family. The Abbe family, which consisted primarily of Richard T. Abbe, his wife Helen Woods Abbe, and their daughter Olive Abbe Jones, corresponded with many family members and business associates before and during the Civil War. This collection contains deeds, legal records, correspondence, business records, and other papers of the family.
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Administrative, 1902-2020 5.34 cubic ft.

This series contains the administrative records of the Delmar Progress Club, including meeting minutes, correspondence, financial documents, membership records, and committee reports. Meeting records comprise Bethlehem town board and school district meetings, Delmar Progress Club meetings, i.e. board of directors meetings, business meetings, executive board meetings, general meetings, past president's meetings, and special meetings, and General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) meetings, i.e. bi-county meetings, mid-Hudson district meetings, third district meetings, and tri-county meetings. In the first few decades of the Club's existence, meeting roll calls were included with the meeting minutes. More recent Club meeting minutes are interfiled with agendas, ballots, by-laws and standing rules, citations, Club calendars, Club communications, correspondence, event invitations, financial documents, GFWC materials, member guidelines, lists of officer candidates and conference delegates, memoranda, motions, newspaper clippings, notes, policy documents, presentations, reports, resolutions, speech transcripts, webpages, and yearbooks. Meeting minutes are typically arranged by the fiscal year (October to May) rather than by calendar year. Correspondence is divided into general correspondence, which includes intra-Club and extra-Club communications, membership correspondence, and the papers of the Club's corresponding secretaries. Financial records include accounts, audit reports, bank books, checks, Club budgets and proposed budgets, GFWC finances, profit and loss standards, reports of the Club's treasurer, summaries, tax documents, and town budgets and tax reports. The early financial documents of the Club include lists of members, officers, and resignations. Membership records include address changes, applications for membership, dues paid, lists of members, lists of new members, lists of resignations, notices of the deaths of members, and reminders to contact members. Reports include the annual reports of the recording secretary, the corresponding secretary's reports, committee and group reports, conference reports, event reports, membership reports, New York Legislative Forum reports, the Club president's reports, school district meeting reports, task force reports, town board meeting reports, town planning reports, and the Club vice president's reports. This series also includes the Club's certificate of registry with the Home Education Department of the University of the State of New York, the Club constitution, the incorporation documents of the Club (the original 1929 document is stored in a flat file), various iterations of the Club's by-laws, scripts for the installation ceremony for new Club officers, rules for conducting meetings, parliamentary procedure guidelines, New York Legislative Forum by-laws and program schedules for 1974 and 1976, the notes of Club president Muriel H. Welch, and the personal notebook of Club President Wilma DeLucco. Finally, the series includes index cards, which include the member's name, her address, the date she joined, her Club identification number, the names of her sponsors, and the date she left the Club, for former Club members who have died or resigned.

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Online
The Jewish Community of the Albany, New York area is featured in the Collection which was brought together to show community involvement in the region by the Greater Albany Jewish Federation and the University Libraries of the University at Albany, SUNY. This collection contains photographs, meeting minutes, commemoration papers, local area newspapers, academic articles, community reports, and a prayer book.
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Online

This series includes autobiographical material and items from current biographical directories. Articles about Brown are from August 1962, January 1963, and August 1983. It also includes undated photographs. There are clippings concerning Lt. Col. Helen E. Brown, Anne Carroll Moore (obituary), Roaul Dufy, and Pierre Bonnard. Interview material (1964-82) is included as well as biographical information supplied by the processors.

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Sweeney, Dorothy L., 1923-
Dorothy (nee Langley) Sweeney graduated from St. Mary's Institute in Amsterdam, New York in 1941. After graduation, Sweeney accepted an office position at General Electric in Schenectady. In her off hours she spent time at WGY, GE's AM radio station, where her brother Edward Langley acted and wrote for the station's dramatic productions. She later worked at WGY and in radio in New York City. Sweeney provided sound effects for several programs and her scripts from this work form the bulk of this collection.
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This collection contains a report on Investigation of Books and Records of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company from 1870 to 1899, inclusive showing value to it of the leases of the Albany & Susquehanna and Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroads. This collection also contains a 510-page typescript report, including a 22-page subject index and numerous manuscript corrections and emendations. E.C.M. Rand was a New York City attorney and authority on the railroad business.
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Includes trial evidence, topical indexes to testimony, transcriptions of business records, legal briefs, and other materials compiled by V. N. Roadstrum of New York City, attorney for the J. P. Morgan Estate, in a 1915–18 lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against William Rockefeller, the Executors of the J. P. Morgan Estate, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company for "conspiracy to monopolize" railroad, streetcar, and water transportation of the "common-carrier business of transporting passengers and property" in New York, New Jersey, and New England.
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Frederick Hendricks worked for the Globe Insurance Company of London. During the years 1848-1890, Hendricks collected 164 autograph letters and holographic manuscripts of 18th and 19th century British actuaries, some of whom were also astronomers and mathematicians. This collection includes letters, manuscripts, printed materials, and portraits pertaining primarily to 18 British insurance companies and to the Institute of Actuaries.
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Galdos Benito Perez was born on May 10, 1843 and was a Spanish writer and realist novelist. This collection includes a series of 50 letters written by Perez to Manuel Tolosa Latour, a physician and writer. This collection also includes a photograph of the exterior and a pencil sketch of the interior of Perez Galdos's Villa San Quintin at Santander.
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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.
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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.
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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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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."
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James Sullivan was the principal of the Boy's High School in Brooklyn, New York, 1907-1916. The collection contains photographs compiled by Sullivan of the interiors of high school libraries in Albany, Buffalo, and New York City from 1916-1929. In 1940 the Department of Librarianship at the New York State College for Teachers (a predecessor of the Information Science program at the University at Albany) added photographs of high school libraries in Albany, Elmira, Glens Falls, and Malverne, as well as several school libraries in Detroit, Michigan.