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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...
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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.
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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...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Van Valkenburg Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2023.0002
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Views Around Leeds
Item — Box: LOB 54
Identifier: PA 2019.0002
Scope and Contents
Item is a photographic album of views around Leeds, NY showing notable scenery and buildings. Several images are famous views while a number of others eem to be entirely unique to this album. Most of the photographs are decoratively trimmed, and there is a single image per side on each sheet. Handwritten captions in black ink appear beneath many of the pictures describing them. It is probable that this album was a souvenir purchased in the Hamlet, although how common this item was or remains...
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Vedder Research Library
Village of Athens Treasurer's Account Ledger
Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1719
Scope and Contents
Ledger is the accounts of the Village of Athens compiled by Treasurer William C. Brady from 1901-1921 and Treasurer Frank Nichols from 1921-1931. Included within are lists of debts paid and recieved by the village from individuals and companies as well as occasional descriptions or itemizations of expenses.
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Vedder Research Library
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