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Agriculture

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Cellar and Vineyard Papers of J. S. Casscles

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2020.0009
Scope and Contents This collection contains the records of the vineyard of J. Stephen Casscles including tasting notes for various wines produced from grape varieties on the vineyard. Of note is a manuscript for his book on vinticulture.

Cornell Folder Six, 1860 - 1861

 File — Box MSS Box 350
Scope and Contents This file contains correspondence of Dr. Cornell with his brother Frederick. Many letters are of a decidedly somber tone, one concerns assisting with funding possibly for a nephew's college education. Of note is one letter that mentions apples being shipped in barrels by him to his brother on either the barge "Jefferson" or "New Baltimore."

Family, Events, and Vacations Photo Album by Abbie Lisk Hallock, 1938 - 1969

 Item — Box LOB 7
Identifier: PA-2021-0006
Scope and Contents This album was compiled in two stages and contains a large selection of candid images printed in larger formats of 4x6 and 5x7 showing scenes around woodlawn farm and elsewhere. Of note are images of family and scenes of New Baltimore as well as a later selection of color photographs at the end of the album. One scene shows the ruins of Point Lookout in East Windham following the fire in 1966. Also in the album are snapshots of Thomas Hallock's "labor saving" inventions for use around the farm,...

New Baltimore and Vacations Photo Album by Abbie Lisk Hallock, 1921 - 1931

 Item — Box Photo Box 36: Series PC-2021-0006
Identifier: PA-2021-0008
Scope and Contents This album contains an array of images by Abbie Lisk Hallock taken while on vacations and around her home in New Baltimore. Included are images of the Cairo Fair and Cairo Fairground, activities of the Echo Grange of New Baltimore, scenes around Woodlawn Farm in New Baltimore, numerous candid images of pets and family, and pictures from several vacations. Vacation scenes include pictures from the Finger Lakes region of New York, the Adirondacks, Rhode Island, Roxbury, Gilboa, Haines Falls,...

New Baltimore Photo Album by Abbie Lisk Hallock, 1913 - 1921

 Item — Box LOB 7
Identifier: PA-2021-0001
Scope and Contents This photo album contains early images by Abbie Lisk prior to and following her marraige to Thomas Hallock, a neighbor from the farm up the road from the Lisk Homestead. Images in this collection cover agricultural activities at the Benjamin Lisk Farm [Woodlawn Farm] showing farm equipment and vehicles, farm animals and livestock, laborers working, and domestic activities. Also included in the album are scenes of trips to Windham, Catskill, New Baltimore Hamlet, Schoharie County, Lake George,...

The Bessie and LeRoy Curtis Collection

 Collection — Box MSS Box 31
Identifier: MSS 2021.0007
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a small selection of documents and photographs of the late Bessie Lounsbury Curtis and LeRoy Curtis of Coxsackie, New York. Included are a class of 1937 yearbook of Coxsackie High School, LeRoy Curtis' membership card in the Odd Fellows, an article on the Four Mile Point School from a 1924 copy of the Rural New Yorker, miscellaneous notes and a class reuinion booklet. Also included are some images of Coxsackie and a selection of photographs of the Cattle herd at the...

The George M. White Dairy Farm Collection

 Collection — Carton MSS Box 92: [MSS 2019.0008.0001]
Identifier: MSS 2019.0008
Scope and Contents Collection comprises a large selection of photographs of Guernsey Cows and Bulls bred on George M. White's "Gayhead Farm" during the first half of the 20th century. Also included is ephemera from various events George M. White attended either as a contestant with prize-winning animals or as a judge of Guernsey Cows which he was a nationally recognized breeder of. Additional materials in the collection concern Gayhead Farm itself, notably there is a folder listing all the cattle on the farm in...

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...

Unidentified Cash Book, 1899

 Item — Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MV 1734
Scope and Contents This cash book seems to contain a daily cash account of a hardware store in the vicinity of the Village of Coxsackie. Several Coxsackie family names are referenced in daily tabulations, and the paying down of an outstanding account of the Four Mile Point Lighthouse is mentioned.

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...