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Adair's Club minute book

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00639
Scope and Contents

Minute book, 1942, of the Adair's Club of Brooklyn, New York. Includes details of the invitation of new members to the club, induction of new members, planning of events, and events held by the club. Events typically include card games, food, and socializing. There is also discussion of former members and their reasons for leaving the club. Meetings were usually held in the homes of various members.

Dates: 1942
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bolton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 B64
Scope and Contents

Business letters of J. & C. Bolton Co. of New York, N.Y., importers and exporters of food stuffs. Includes correspondence of Dr. James Bolton; John Bolton; A.M. Bolton; Edward C. Bolton; and a letter copybook (incomplete) of John Bolton.

Dates: 1825-1871
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bruce Centner September 11, 2001 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00060
Content Description

Collection is contained on 7 DVD's and 2 CD's. Titles of discs from creator are as follows: Pentagon Fire DVD 09-11-2001, President Bush Visits Pentagon, September 12, 2001, Exterior/ Interior Aerials of Pentagon Crash Site 09-14-2201, The Pentagon Power Point Presentation, News Media Coverage of Bruce H. Centner NEWS 13 9/9/2011, BS News 7 9/11/11, "At the Arc" Photo Collection, Charles Lindbergh, DRHS Welcomes, DRHS Signage.

Dates: Other: 2001- 2011
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Ephemera, 1880-1925

 Series
Scope and Contents

Contains pamphlets, calling cards, a map of the area surrounding Napanoch, New York, and miscellaneous documents including some of Thomas Putnam Chapman, Jr.’s schoolwork. Documents that may be letters but are incomplete or have no known recipient or creator are included.

Dates: 1880-1925
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Thomas Putnam Chapman, Jr. Papers

Helen Mantel Diary

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00790
Scope and Contents Diary, 1959, of Helen Mantel of Brooklyn, New York. Includes her daily activities, people with which she meets, and places that they go. It also includes a few very brief entries regarding a trip to Cuba taken in June and July of 1959, months after Fidel Castro had overthrown Fulgencio Batista. Mantel's grandmother lived in Cuba and the family took the trip because she was sick. In a couple of sentences Helen Mantel mentions seeing Batista's daughter in a restaurant, and the fact that her...
Dates: 1959
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Minnie A. Hill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00932
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters from supervisors or sponsors to Minnie A. Hill, a northern female teacher, who was in Norfolk and then Petersburg, Virginia teaching at freedmen’s schools in the late 1860s.

Dates: 1865-1869
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Hook and Ladder Company 9 (New York, N.Y.) Daybook

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.168
Scope and Contents Daybook, October-December, 1884 (501pp.) of the Hook and Ladder Company 9 (New York, N.Y.) . Included is a list of members with address and members' signatures. Entries were made several times per hour and record the exact time, name, and rank of each member and duties assigned, arriving and leaving work, relieving other members etc. Company action call entries include details on how calls were received, response, who attended the call and also who did not and why, when members returned,...
Dates: 1884
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Thomas Jefferson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2002.31
Scope and Contents Letter, 24 June 1803, of Charles Ludlow, New York City, to Thomas Jefferson. Acknowledges receipt of his letter of the 17th with one enclosed for Mr. Cheetham; describes his financial dealings with Cheetham and declares himself willing to execute further commands. Note on verso; "Copy of a letter to his excellency Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1803." The Jefferson Project was funded by the Papers of Thomas Jefferson and the Delmas Foundation to enable Swem Library to scan its...
Dates: 1803; Majority of material found in 1803
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Dennis Loy Papers, 1952-1993

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2014.023
Scope and Contents This collection contains letters, diaries, publications and other material collected by Dennis Loy, a gay artist who exhibited works in the Chicagoland area and New York City. Most of the letters were written to Loy by his cousin, American writer and journalist P.J. O'Rourke, and cover such topics as poetry, politics, drugs, art, and gay culture in the 1980s. In one of his diaries, Loy wrote about his trip to India in 1975 and describes the landscape and culture. The other diary is a travel...
Dates: 1952-1993 and undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Maury Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 97 M44
Scope and Contents The Maury family papers contains materials documenting the lives of the Maury Family of Virginia, New York City and Liverpool, England from 1777-1977. The collection includes the letters and business papers of James Maury (1746-1840), the first American consul to Liverpool, England, and the letters of his second wife, Margaret Rutson Maury (1805-1882), of Liverpool. Letters, business papers, legal papers, and diaries of  the next two generations of the Maury family, including Ann Maury...
Dates: 1777-1977
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Richard H. Patchin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2008.57, 2009.194, 2010.406
Scope and Contents Papers of Richard H. Patchin of Marlborough, Ulster County, N.Y., who was a teacher, clothing sales clerk, farmer and public lecturer. Largely includes accounts of Patchin’s daily activities and personal reflections.  Correspondence and professional documents also make up a portion of the collection.  The materials document Patchin’s work as a teacher, farmer, clothing sales clerk, and lecturer in and around Marlborough, New York during the mid and late 19th century.  The...
Dates: 1829-1902; Majority of material found in 1860-1890
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Katherine Anne Porter collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01702
Content Description

The collection contains a diary of Isabel Levin--Porter's longtime friend and the trustee of her literary estate--detailing her travels to Europe in 1932. The collection also includes two books by Porter, "My Chinese Marriage" (1921) and "The Days Before" (1952), a two page letter from Katherine Anne Porter to Douglas Watson, and a postcard in the jacket of the later book. In addition, a small pamphlet, a card signed by Porter, and two color lobby cards can be found in the collection.

Dates: 1921-1965
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Susannah Nourse Sawyer Autograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01182
Scope and Contents

Autograph diary of Susannah Nourse who was a student at Bolton Seminary in Brooklyn, New York. Most entries are poems with some prose. Many entries are by Nourse's family. A list of autographs is included with the diary.

Dates: 1836-1841
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Travel Diary (Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y.)

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00697
Scope and Contents

Travel diary (8pp.), 1950, describing the car trip of three young men from Alabama to New York City. The description focuses on their stays in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but there is also some mentioning of the bad traffic during the trip and stops for food and some overnight stays along the way.

Dates: 1950
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

William Wirt Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00596
Scope and Contents Letter from William Wirt, Williamsburg, [Virginia] to John Patterson, Clerk of Court, Mathews County, [Virginia], asking for the record in the case of William Armistead and Company vs Mildred Dixon, executix of Thomas Dixon, lest the appeals case be dismissed. April 12, 1806. Letter from William Wirt, Washington,, [D.C.] to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 26 September 1823, about the advantages of Washington [D.C.], New York City is "almost the only prosperous point in the Union," his...
Dates: 1806 April 12, 1823 September 26
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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