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Manuscript Shelves

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Contains 119 Collections and/or Records:

Flint Family Diaries, 1879 - 1933

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents This series comprises the accumulated diaries of Orin Q. Flint of Athens, NY as well as a small selection of the diaries of his first wife Allie May Wilcox Flint.

Flint-Van Valkenburg Memorial Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2019.0010
Scope and Contents The contents of this collection are primarily handwritten documents donated in three separate accessions in 1995, 2010, and 2021 by grandchildren of Orin Q. Flint. Boxes one and two are organized separately in their own chronological arragements, with some overlap covering the lifetime of Orin Flint himself. The Third accession comprises two boxes sorted chronologically containing primarily documents of the Van Valkenburg Family, and the final series comprises the Flint Diaries in chronological...

A Ledger Containing Maps and Descriptions of Lands at Catskill Point.

 Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1713
Scope and Contents Ledger contains maps corresponding to descriptions of deeds filed at the Greene County Clerk's office for lands on the east side of Catskill Creek covering the neighborhoods of lower/middle Main Street and Catskill Point. Original Deed descriptions commence apparently with purchases by John Cantine around 1795, and each described patent or parcel contains a chain of custody for subsequent divisions of each lot dating forward to the 1870s. Terms used to describe features in the original patents...

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...

The Catskill Mountain House Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2021.0002
Scope and Contents This collection compiled by the staff of the Vedder Research Library comprises an assortment of materials related to the history and operation of the Catskill Mountain House. The majority of the materials in this collection are from two separate donations, the first being a selection of thirteen registers of the Catskill Mountain House and miscellaneous material donated to the Greene County Historical Society by the estate of Milo Claude Moseman in 1963. The second batch of materials is an...

Essays of Augusta Hallock at Norton Hill

 Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1716
Scope and Contents This volume contains the handwritten compositions of Augusta Ann Hallock of Norton Hill in the town of Greenville, New York. Entries are ordered numerically rather than by date, and the first two pages of the book contain an index of composition titles. Compositions are in some cases possibly copied passages delivered by an instructor, and in other cases possibly original work of Augusta. The compositions are as follows: Valentines; Friends; Composition Day; Twilight; Nothing...

Catskill: Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone Personal Papers

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents This series is comprised of the correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone of Catskill, NY. Benjamin Stone [alternately styled BBG Stone and Colonel Stone] was a landscape artist who relocated to Catskill in the late 1850s to practice landscape drawing in a style which later came to be known as the Hudson River School of Landscape Art. Stone married Mary Allen DuBois of Catskill prior to the Civil War, and on his return from service with a Massachusetts...

Catskill: Manuscripts of DuBois, Allen, and Allied families

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Series contains documents relating to three generations of intermarried families in Catskill beginning during the period immediately prior to the American Revolution and resolving itself roughly around 1900 with the death of members of the final generation. The bulk of this series centers around Samuel Barent DuBois [styled "S. Barent"] and Joseph Allen DuBois [brothers to Mary A. D. Stone] and follow backwards generationally through their father Samuel DuBois, mother Sarah Allen, and their...

Register of Burials in the Town of Catskill Cemetery

 Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1775
Scope and Contents Item contains a record of burials made in the Town of Catskill Cemetery in Jefferson Heights for the first half of the twentieth century. The first pages are an alphabetical index of surnames and subsequent entries list the name of the individual, date of death, age, and date of burial. Also given are the lot number and measurement of the site of the burial and the attending funeral home.