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John H. Wood Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2019.0006
Scope and Contents The collection includes a range of materials, including legal records, property records, correspondence, business and household records, photographs, and memorabilia. Of particular note are the selections of family correspondence from the Civil War and song lyrics written by Levi Wood when he was a soldier. A colored tintype portrait of Levi is included in the collection. The collection also includes an account book, business receipts, and correspondence from Hezekiah’s shoemaking business. In...

John J. Fox Collection

 Collection — Carton: MSS Box 304
Identifier: MSS 2019.0007
Scope and Contents Collection comprises ephemera related to the life of John Fox of Coxsackie. Included are a considerable amount of photographs of people in coxsackie in the 1930s, as well as photographs of Mr. Fox overseas in Europe during World War Two. Also within the collection are unsorted newspaper clippings, diplomas and certificates, and a considerable amount of material including correspondence related to the 40th reunion of the Coxsackie High School Class of 1932.

Katharine Decker Memorial Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2020.0001
Scope and Contents The collection comprises a vast array of materials broken into series by family groups, and sorted roughly by generation in chronological order. The greater share of materials deal directly with four generations of the DuBois/Allen/Stone/Decker family of Catskill. Appearing within are diaries, personal letters, estate documents, literary works in prose and verse, and a considerable selection of landscape sketches and studies by Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone.A lesser portion of the...

Ledger of Accounts between Percy W. Decker and others at Catskill

 Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1714
Scope and Contents Ledger contain several different accounts held by Percy W. Decker, an attorney from Catskill. Of note in the first half of the ledger is an account of the boarding of Mr. Walton Van Loan and Wife at 11 Prospect Ave. as part of the terms of a Bond and Mortgage, as well as a description in part of the Van Loan's social itinerary. While the reason for such accounting is somewhat unclear it is possible that the Van Loans sold their home to Mr. Decker and as part of an agreement maintained rooms in...

Legendary Locals of Greene County Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2021.0003
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the alphabetically sorted research files of David and Wanda Dorpfeld utilised for their publication "Legendary Locals of Greene County" [2014, Arcadia Publishing]. Files are sorted by the surname of notable individuals and contain photographs of subjects, notes and biographical information on them, and correspondence concerning the development and publication of the book.

Lester R. Smith Collection

 Collection — Box: LOB 582
Identifier: MSS 2020.0008
Scope and Contents Materials within the collection concern the business, legal, and church papers, booklets and newsclippings of Lester R. Smith. Of note is a small selection of material related to union activities in Catskill during the interwar period. Also included are photographs of the sites of car accidents across Greene County. Also of note are the 1858 New York Daily Tribune newsclipping of the recollections of Rev. Dr. David Porter of Catskill and a large number of newspaper clippings concerning 1930's...

Letizia Vatalaro Memorial Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2022.0009
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a selection of documents collected and retained by Letizia Vatalaro over the course of her life reflecting aspects of both her professional and personal life. Of particular note are snapshots in her photographic colleciton showing Reed Street and the riverfront at Coxsackie during the interwar period, as well as a selection of ephemera related to Coxsackie High School and her subsequent work in Civil Defense during World War Two.

Letters of Dr. Theodore Cornell

 Collection — Box: MSS Box 350
Identifier: MSS 2021.0012
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a series of 43 letters written by Dr. Theodore Cornell of New Baltimore, New York to his brother Frederick Cornell, D. D., of Raritan, New Jersey. The letters are primarily of a personal nature, conveying news of family with some details about community events and the illnesses of particular patients Dr. Cornell ministered to.

Manuscript Vertical Files

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2019.0004

Map and Survey of a Farm Situated in the Town of Catskill known as the TenBroeck Farm

 Item
Identifier: MAP 2019.0005-7G.3
Scope and Contents Map is a survey of the division of the old TenBroeck Farm on the southern side of the Embought completed by John Van Vechten in 1834. The farm was in the vicinity of the Van Orden, Trumpbour, and Richardson Farms, and was divided following its purchase by Jacob Van Orden and William and Jarvis Richardson. The parcel seems to lie south of the intersection of modern Embought Road and Route 9W, and the large tract was serviced by a road described as being laid down for "the accommodation of the...

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