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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 Gelder-Pine-Wardle-Fiero Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MC-2025-0001

Scope and Contents From original PastPerfect record. Full Finding Aid to be added at a later date.The Van Gelder family includes James Harvey Van Gelder (1838-1917), Catskill lawyer and proprietor of Cherry Hill House, his wife Rebecca Pine Van Gelder; their son Arthur Pine Van Gelder (1873-1947) and daughter Carrie Van Gelder (b. 1865) who married Charles A. Wardle.Collection includes deeds, letters, clippings, brochures, receipts, certificates, military papers, account books, diaries,...

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...

Found in: 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.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Volna Titus Collection

Collection — Box: MSS Box 31

Identifier: MSS 2021.0005

Scope and Contents This small collection comprises a selection of receipts of Volna Titus related to his time as a farmer and postman living in New Baltimore, New York. There is a selection of miscellaneous receipts for maintenance of his home and vehicles, as well as some personal financial materials. Of note are a selection of shipping invoices and receipts for agricultural produce, particularly apples, and invoices for the purchase of shipping barrels. Also included are shipping receipts for fertilizer and...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Willard's Alley Renewal Project Maps

Collection — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MSS 2022.0003

Scope and Contents This collection comprises a selection of fourteen maps prepared by the firm of Raymond and May Associates, Planning and Urban Renewal Consultants of Pleasantville, New York on behalf of the Village of Catskill. These maps illustrate a plan to convert Willard's Alley, a small neighborhood off Main Street, into a municipal parking lot as part of a broader plan to revitalize the business and commerical section of the east side of the Village of Catskill in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

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