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Coal Book of C. L. Beach and Company
Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1735
Scope and Contents
Item is a bound ledger containing the accounts of various residents of the Village of Catskill with Charles L. Beach and Company for deliveries of Coal. It appears that accounts were both for residential users and businesses. An alphabetical index of all account holders appears at the front of the ledger. On pages 415 to 422 appear what seems to be an account possibly of coal useage or sales from the Steamboat Redfield, and a separate account follows for the "McManus Hay Dock."
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Copy of a map of Lands Under Water at Catskill Granted to John Cantine
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2020.0018-LOB 6.24
Scope and Contents
Map is a blueprint made by Charles H. Van Orden from an original map of John Cantine's grant for Lands Under Water at Catskill Point in 1795. Van Orden's map faithfully copies the complete description and survey, and includes a separate description of "Original allotments by balloting of lots drawn by the seven proprietors December 3, 1805" which probably refers to owners of the divisions of the Lindsey Patent which this grand adjoined. Features of note on the map include the home occupied by...
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Vedder Research Library
Copy of a Map of the Divisions of the Lindsey Patent
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2020.0017-LOB 6.22
Scope and Contents
Map is a blueprint of a survey by Charles H. Van Orden showing measurements and headings for a survey of the first and second divisions of the Lindsey Patent. This map, which is an alternate description of MAP 2020.0016, gives the initials of original owners of the lots in both divisions as well as the lot numbers, but provides no narrative description of the Patent nor a cardinal point to orient it. This was likely meant to be read in conjunction with MAP 2020.0016 and was probably also made...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Copy of a Map showing the First and Second Divisions of the Lindsey Patent
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2020.0016-LOB 6.21
Scope and Contents
Map is a blueprint copy by Charles H. Van Orden of an earlier map once in the possession of Theodore A. Cole. The Lindsey Patent was the original grant covering the east side of the Village of Catskill confirmed in 1738. The First division of 10 lots was made in in 1741, and a second division comprising 20 lots was made the same year. The Map shows the first and second divisions as well as some geographic and manmade features for reference. The Hudson River comprises the eastern boundary, the...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Cornwallville Papers from the Anson Strong House
Collection — Box: MSS Box 350
Identifier: MSS 2021.0020
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises a selection of materials which have historically resided in the historic home of Anson Strong in Cornwallville, a hamlet in the Town of Durham. Of particular note are some early materials relating to land ownership which convey the location of early businesses in the vicinity of Cornwallville, as well as materials related to the boarding of Nancy Merwin who was likely a ward of the overseers of the poor. Also included is an indenture between a farmer in Durham and the...
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Courtney W. Tolley Collection
Collection — Box: LOB 35
Identifier: MSS 2019.0016
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the wartime correspondence of Courtney W. Tolley totalling approximately 40 letters along with a scrapbook which contains several wartime snapshots and news clippings as well as a wide selection of ephemera related to commemoration events for the 77th Division and survivors of the 306th Machine Gun Battalion. Also included is a typewritten transcription of Courtney Tolley's letters in blue covers with a steel ACCO binding.
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Coxsackie Burn Plant Community Opposition Campaign
Collection — Container: Basement Storage
Identifier: MSS 2022.0012
Content Description
Boxes contain a selection of news clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, mailing lists, and reports related to the organization of a community group opposed to the siting of a garbage burn plant in Coxsackie near the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District Campus.
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Diary of Florence Delameter at Sandy Plains
Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1715
Scope and Contents
The diary contains the daily recollections of Florence Delameter [age unknown] of Sandy Plains in Cairo, New York. Entries tend to be generally descriptive and include notes (in a standard order) on weather, well-being, and social interests.
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Edith S. Wilson Collection
Collection — Box: LOB 105
Identifier: MSS 2019.0003
Content Description
Contents are primarily photographic materials and documents concerning Amos Post, Inc. of Catskill, NY. Included also is a scrapbook by Edith S. Wilson as a graduate of Catskill High School class of 1947.
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
Elizabeth P. Ballard Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2022.0004
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
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