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Agriculture

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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,...

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.