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The George M. White Dairy Farm Collection
Collection — Carton: MSS Box 92
Identifier: MSS 2019.0008
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises a large selection of photographs of Guernsey Cows and Bulls bred on George M. White's "Gayhead Farm" during the first half of the 20th century. Also included is ephemera from various events George M. White attended either as a contestant with prize-winning animals or as a judge of Guernsey Cows which he was a nationally recognized breeder of. Additional materials in the collection concern Gayhead Farm itself, notably there is a folder listing all the cattle on the farm in...
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Vedder Research Library
The Harry C. Teich Memorial Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2020.0004
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises mainly invoices of various suppliers with whom Teich's General Store conducted business. These materials are organized by vendor coompany, and repesent an interesting cross-section of various mercantile and food vendors at both the regional and national level who supplied this moderately sized general store. Also included in the collection is a selection of the day books and ledgers of the General Store frm the 1870s through the 1950s as well as the charge account books...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
The James C. Stevens Memorial Collection
Collection — Box: MSS Box 49
Identifier: MSS 2021.0021
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises a selection of documents relating to the James Stevens line of the Stevens family of Greenville, NY. Included in the collection are miscellaneous papers related to fraternal orders and agricultural ventures as well as municpal and court papers which concerned the family. Of particular note is a Road Book listing the freeholders of various road districts in Greenville and the number of days labor they were required to contribute to the maintenance of the Town's roads. Also...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
The Reverend Addi Lee Memorial Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2021.0017
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises a small selection of materials related to the Lee and Bagley families of Old Windham and Ashland. Of note is a souvenir ribbon bearing a likeness and biography of the Marquis de Lafayatte from his 1824 visit to the United States. Also of note is a funeral address given by a Mr. "L. King" on the passing of Reverend Addi Lee of the Methodist Church at Ashland. Other materials are primarily letters of family consoling Sumner Lee on the passing of his mother (widow of Rev. Lee)...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
The Samuel Van Aken Collection
Collection — Box: MSS Box 220
Identifier: MSS 2021.0026
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises a selection of steamboat articles written by Sam Van Aken of Athens during World War Two, as well as other miscellaneous writings of his and materials related to his life and career. Also included in the collection are a handful of Van Aken's articles which were transcribed and mailed by Clarice Weeks Millspaugh of Catskill, NY to Forrest Van Loon Ryder upon his request while incarcerated at the South Carolina State Pennitentiary in Columbia, SC. Mrs. Millspaugh also mailed...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
The Student Reflector
Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1736
Scope and Contents
The "Student Reflector" appears to be a collection of poetry and prose by students of the Margaretville Academy/Seminary kept during the year 1853-54. This collection of works begins as the diary of student Walter C. Palmer Jr., but after five entries the volume becomes a collection of essays and poems composed primarily by female students on various topics. The essays open with an editorial by Susan A. O'Conner and include works by Paulina Hoffman, Sally Sticke, Jane O. Barber, Ruth A....
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Town of Athens Justice Court Civil Docket
Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1720
Scope and Contents
Item is a ledger of civil cases not requiring a jury heard in the Town of Athens by Justice Claude B. Whiting from 1936 to 1939. The ledger comprises 299 pages front and back, of which only approximately 140 are filled out in any way.
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Vacation at King's Farm, Surprise, NY
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2019.0001
Scope and Contents
Item is a photographic album of images taken by the Great Aunt of Linda M. Cox while the former was on a vacation at the King Farm in the hamlet of Surprise, New York in 1921. the sixteen-page album contains an average of three snapshots per page showing the family of this individual out and about on the grounds of the King Farm and on a swimming excursion to High Falls just west of Catskill. Each photo has a corresponding caption in white ink on the scrapbook sheet to which the photo is...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Van Loan-Brandow Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2019.0012
Scope and Contents
The contents of this collection consist of handwritten documents in English and Dutch belonging to Johannis Brando, William Brandow, Peter G. Brandow, and others in two document containers, primarily early indentures, leases, mortgages, wills, litigation records, and other documents pertaining to real and personal property in the Loonenburgh patent and town of Cattskill dating from about 1750. Notably, the collection includes 6 bills of sale and a bequest of enslaved adults and children dating...
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Vedder Research Library
Van Valkenburg Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2023.0002
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
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