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Records of the Mount Hope Cemetery Association

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2020.0012

Scope and Contents Collection comprises records of the Mount Hope Cemetery Association of Athens, NY dating from the founding of the Association in 1849. Included in the collection are purchase books with listings of plot owners alongside dates of purchase, as well as some documents concerning land owned by the cemetery and early records of Association Governance. Of particular note are two registers of burials in both Mount Hope Cemetery and Mount Hope Cemetery Annex listing the date of burial, name of the...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Rip Van Winkle Bridge Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2022.0006

Scope and Contents This collection comprises a selection of documents, plans, and blueprint maps related to the construction and early operation of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. Of note are blueprint plans in flat file drawer 30 showing structural components of the bridge prepared by the Frederick Snare Corporation, General Contractors in partnership with the Harris Structural Steele Company of New Market, New Jersey in 1933. Also of note are files related to the condemnation proceedings required to acquire the land...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Ruth Jones Lindsay Memorial Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2019.0011

Content Description Collection comprises materials of the Lindsay, Jones, and Whittaker families of Catskill, NY. Included are family photographs and albums along with various papers and correspondence related to the personal and business lives of Annette Whittaker Jones, James B. Mitchell, and Messrs. Addison P. Jones Senior and Junior. Also within the collection are genealogical materials related to the Stoutenburgh family and news clippings/photographic material related to the general history of the Town and...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Some Historical Materials of the Ark Lodge No. 48 of Free and Accepted Masons

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2021.0019

Scope and Contents This small collection comprises three items previously in the care of the Synakowski family of Coxsackie. Included is an early account book of the Coxsackie Masonic Lodge covering the years 1846 to 1916, a book of check stubs for the lodge dating roughly 1897-1907, and a short history of the Masonic lodges of Coxsackie published by Ark Lodge in 1930.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Stiefel Laboratories Collection

Collection — Box: MSS Box 350

Identifier: MSS 2021.0022

Scope and Contents Collection comprises a small selection of documents related to Stiefel Labs and their lines of products and services as offered from the mid-1960s through the 1990s. Also included are an assortment of news clippings, a trade magazine detailing Stiefel Lab's buyout of a soap manufacturer, biographies of upper management, and a description of the research facility at Oak Hill. Photographic materials from this collection which include scenes of their original Oak Hill plant, groundbreaking...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Summa Papers

Collection — Carton: MSS Box 329

Identifier: MSS 2019.0013

Scope and Contents This collection contains a small selection of documents related to the Straughan, Barlow, Prout, and Peck families historically of Windham, Hunter, Jewett, and Lextington on the Mountain Top in Greene County, NY. The earliest documents within are personal letters ostesibly written by ancestors of one of the above-mentioned families, and the majority of the other materials within are land papers for property purchased and sold by Thomas and John Straughan. Of particuar note within the collection...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Supplemental Map Showing Lands to be used for Reservoir, Pipeline, and Dock for the Catskill Water Works.

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14

Identifier: MAP 2020.0015-LOB 6.46

Scope and Contents Map is a colored drawing showing the organization of the water works created to supply clean drinking water to the Village of Catskill in 1884. The map shows the Hudson River and the pump station/dock of the water work, while A red line denotes the pipeline from the pump station ascending High Street and crossing the lands of the Heirs of Maria Cole and the lands of Theodore Cole. A reservoir is shown on the lands of George Clark adjacent to the lands of Theodore Cole, and a separate red line...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Survey and Map of the Catskill and Mountain Turnpike

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 20

Identifier: MAP 2019.0001

Scope and Contents Six irregular sized map sections in slightly damaged condition and one legal size survey description all formerly bound in a single packet sealed with wax. Items are numbered in sequence they are supposed to be viewed. The Map sections are particularly interesting as they show the homes of property owners along the length of the route and include the names of the home owners.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Survey of a Road Laid out by the Trustees of the Village of Catskill near the Home of Apollos Cooke

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14

Identifier: MAP 2020.0012-LOB 6.112

Scope and Contents Map is a copy of an 1825 survey that was traced by Charles Van Orden showing the proposed route of a road commencing at the intersections of Main and Green Streets in Catskill and proceeding southeast along the route of modern lower Main Street heading to Catskill Point. The map is notable for its lengthy description copied from the Book of Roads, as well as for showing several interesting reference points including the homes of John Johnston, Abraham Van Orden, and the Luddington House. Also...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

Survey of the Boundary between the Towns of Coxsackie, Loonenburg, and Shinglekill.

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 21

Identifier: MAP 2020.0010-LOB 6.141H

Found in: Vedder Research Library

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