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American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society records, 1895-1971

Title: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society records 1895-1971

The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society was founded in 1895 to preserve scenic and historic sites. The records contain correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs and printed material documenting the Society's work, chiefly in New York State.

ArchivalResource: 14 linear feet; 14 cartons

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American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society records, 1895-1971.

Title: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society records, 1895-1971.

Collection includes minutes of trustees' monthly meetings, and of annual meetings of the Society, 1911-1971; annual reports, 1898-1926; record books, 1898-1926, containing additional minutes, correspondence of secretaries and presidents, reports, New York State legislative documents, clippings, printed material, blueprints, maps, and photographs; minutes, reports, correspondence, and other records, 1911-1939, of committees that administered sites under the Society's custodianship; miscellaneous financial documents, 1930s-1960s; general files, 1930s-1960s, consisting largely of correspondence; issues of the Society's bulletin, Scenic and Historic America, 1929-1938; two books, A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison, and Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, N.Y., published by the Society, containing heavy annotations for the 1925 editions; and minutes, correspondence and other documents, 1924-1939, of the State Council of Parks (N.Y.), on which the Society was represented. Also discussed are Niagara Falls, Palisades Interstate Park, the Octagon House in Washington, D.C., the Morris-Jumel Mansion in New York City, Storm King Mountain (site of the Consolidated Edison power plant in upstate New York), and post-World War I reconstruction in France.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (38 boxes, 1 oversize folder)

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New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. State Council of Parks minutes and correspondence, 1960-[ongoing].

Title: State Council of Parks minutes and correspondence, 1960-[ongoing].

Informational copies of calendars and minutes of State Council of Parks and related correspondence.

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