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The Bessie and LeRoy Curtis Collection

 Collection — Box: MSS Box 31
Identifier: MSS 2021.0007

Scope and Contents

This collection comprises a small selection of documents and photographs of the late Bessie Lounsbury Curtis and LeRoy Curtis of Coxsackie, New York. Included are a class of 1937 yearbook of Coxsackie High School, LeRoy Curtis' membership card in the Odd Fellows, an article on the Four Mile Point School from a 1924 copy of the Rural New Yorker, miscellaneous notes and a class reuinion booklet. Also included are some images of Coxsackie and a selection of photographs of the Cattle herd at the Coxsackie Vocational Institution, now Coxsackie Correctional Facility.

Dates

  • 1935 - 1985

Extent

.1 Cubic Feet (Legal Size Document Pouch) : Photographs, mimeographed documents, handwritten documents.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials were given by Diane Stuart, daughter of Leroy and Bessie Curtis, via Ted Hilscher the New Baltimore Town Historian.

Separated Materials

Photos in this collection are cataloged as PC-2021-0004 in photo box 33.
Title
The Bessie and LeRoy Curtis Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Jonathan Palmer
Date
2021-03-09
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
English

Repository Details

Part of the Vedder Research Library Repository

Contact:
90 County Highway 42
Coxsackie New York 12051 United States