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Pamphlet collection, 1828-1985.

Title: Pamphlet collection, 1828-1985.

Articles, brochures, reports, directories, conference proceedings, catalogs, speeches, bibliographies, almanacs, and ordinances primarily concerning the history of Lake Champlain, Clinton County, neighboring Vermont and Canada, Plattsburgh, and the Adirondacks.

ArchivalResource: 16 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464417 View

Clipping collection, 1910-1985.

Title: Clipping collection, 1910-1985.

Newspaper clippings and articles, brochures, programs, and reports pertaining to Plattsburgh and Clinton County history are arranged by individual person, place, institution, business, and a few general subjects.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464366 View

Genealogy collection, 1830-1983.

Title: Genealogy collection, 1830-1983.

Registers of lot owners and records of interments at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Plattsburgh, 1895-1979; baptismal, marriage, death, and confirmation records of St. John's Catholic Church, Plattsburgh, 1830-1910, largely in Latin; and copies of "Tree Talks," the quarterly newsletter of the Central New York Genealogical Society, 1962-1983.

ArchivalResource: 31 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464370 View

Miscellaneous documents, 1728-1937, 1728-1854 (bulk)

Title: Miscellaneous documents, 1728-1937, 1728-1854 (bulk)

Indentures, agreements, deeds, bonds, guardianship papers, bills of sale, receipts, accounts, surveys, maps, broadsides, and other miscellaneous documents pertaining primarily to Clinton County. Includes receipt for sale of a Negro woman, 1728; survey of road from Fort George to northern border of New York State, 1789; will of Susan Thorn, 1844; will of Levi Platt, 1853; Platt family land and financial papers, 1798-1854; student notebook on English history kept by Margaret Tredwell, 1824; and program from testimonial dinner for Miss Helen D. Woodward, Plattsburgh High School teacher, 1937.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464397 View

Plattsburgh program collection, 1923-1971.

Title: Plattsburgh program collection, 1923-1971.

Programs from dinners, music concerts, club meetings, dedication ceremonies, sports events, dances, and other events.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464442 View

Battle of Plattsburgh Sesquicentennial collection, 1964.

Title: Battle of Plattsburgh Sesquicentennial collection, 1964.

Correspondence of the organizing committee, brochures, programs, press releases and clippings, concerning the public celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Plattsburgh; and a script of the pageant "Muskets to Missiles."

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464362 View

Account book collection, 1850-1896.

Title: Account book collection, 1850-1896.

Business income and expense record of G.H. Beckwith, lawyer, 1877-1878; daybook of J. & J. Rogers Company, a general store, 1896; daybook of a lumber mill, 1850; daybooks and account books of a Wilmington, N.Y. general store, 1853-1857; and an unidentified daybook from Port Kent, 1853-1870.

ArchivalResource: 9 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464349 View

Repository description.

Title: Repository description.

Letters, financial records, and legal papers of early Clinton County settlers, 1728-1854; minutes and records of Clinton County and Plattsburgh schools and organizations, 1909-1971; genealogical records; records of the Plattsburgh Public Library, 1897-1979; account books of lawyers, general stores, and lumber mills, 1850-1896; papers, 1904-1948, of Leander Bouyea, mayor of Plattsburgh; Civil War letters and papers; scrapbooks; photographs; clippings; and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 45 cubic ft., 12 linear ft., 160 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155466534 View

Miscellaneous correspondence collection, 1765-1935.

Title: Miscellaneous correspondence collection, 1765-1935.

Letters to Zephaniah Platt concerning land purchases and politics from Peter Yates, Melancthon Smith, George Clinton, James Kent, and William Bailey, 1784-1801; Levi Platt to John G. Freligh concerning a religious disagreement, no date; and Platt family letters concerning land, money, visits, and family history, 1785, 1896-1935. John W. Mooers to his father Benjamin concerning his religious conversion, 1825; and a letter to William B. Mooers concerning the removal of Commodore Thomas Macdonough's body from Connecticut to New York, 1909. Benjamin Moore to Amasa C. Moore about a sea voyage, 1831. Two letters of Commodore Thomas Macdonough to Melancthon Smith concerning naval movements and supplies, 1814; family letters of Margaret F.L. Wolfe to her cousin Sue, 1890-1894; letters by Louis Agassiz, 1858, and Horace Greeley, 1864, concerning publishing; and other local letters, 1765-1864.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464382 View

Records, 1895-1979.

Title: Records, 1895-1979.

Registers of borrowers, 1915-1966; accession records, 1898-1955; circulation records, 1919-1964; minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1895-1938; treasurer's book, 1928-1939; receipts, budgets, financial reports, and correspondence, 1914-1948; scrapbooks of clippings, 1939-1959; and miscellaneous photographs, brochures, clippings, and blueprints, 1949-1979.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464454 View

Plattsburgh organizations collection, 1909-1971.

Title: Plattsburgh organizations collection, 1909-1971.

Programs, brochures, and a history of the Garden Club, 1935-1952; programs from services and meetings of Plattsburgh Lodge No. 621, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 1914-1956; programs and lists of officers of the Clio Club, 1920-1950, and the Tuesday Club, 1910-1971, women's study clubs; and programs, constitution and bylaws, and reports of the Saranac Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1909-1954.

ArchivalResource: ca. .5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464422 View

Print collection, 1858-1964.

Title: Print collection, 1858-1964.

Prints of paintings owned by the Glens Falls Insurance Company depicting colonial history, ca.1963; photographs of offices and personnel of Northern New York Telephone Corporation, 1920's; copy of a bird's eye view of Keeseville, 1887; clippings, illustrations, prints, and cartoons, some copies, 1858-1964, on miscellaneous subjects; and a scrapbook of published engravings of portraits of prominent men, 1861-1862.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464448 View

Photograph collection, 1860-1985.

Title: Photograph collection, 1860-1985.

Photographs primarily of Plattsburgh and vicinity including parades, buildings, railroads, boats, street scenes, soldiers, families, fire of 1867, churches, and individuals; also some photographs of Adirondack guides and a volume of photographs illustrating the history of Saranac Lake.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464429 View

Scrapbook collection, 1865-1917.

Title: Scrapbook collection, 1865-1917.

Clippings on local history, Clinton Prison, presidential visits to Plattsburgh, local biographies, obituaries, and other local events.

ArchivalResource: 6 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464459 View

Map and atlas collection, 1748-1977.

Title: Map and atlas collection, 1748-1977.

Original manuscript maps of Summersvale, Town of Crown Point, 1802, and of Platt family lands, 1811; photocopy of map of Lake Champlain from Fort Chambly to Fort St. Frederick, 1748; maps of Plattsburgh, 1860-1977, Lake Champlain, 1815-1974, Clinton County, streets and lots in Plattsburgh; and U.S. Geological Survey maps of local areas, 1895-1964. Includes atlases for the United states, 1826; New York State, 1941; Franklin, Essex and Clinton counties, 1869-1876, and the City of Plattsburgh, 1927-1968.

ArchivalResource: 10 cubic ft; 12 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464376 View

Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1882-1981.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1882-1981.

Genealogical data and narrative family histories for the Moore, Manley, Haff, Button, Mooers, Jacobs, Arnold, Bennett, Pease, Kellogg, Boomhower, Warren, and Marshall families. Notes and articles on local history for Plattsburgh, Clinton and Essex Counties compiled by Bessie Cutting, Helen McConnell Boomhower, Maria J.B. Tuttle, H. E. Baker, Richard S. Allen, Emmett Armstrong, Cornelia Allen, J. Bernard Stratton, and Glyndon Cole. Autobiography by George Myers Elmendorf including his years as Superintendent of Schools in Plattsburgh, 1961; school census for District No. 1, Town of Ausable, 1928; abstracts of the wills for thirty-nine Clinton County people including John L. Fouguet, Frances Delord Hall, Kinnear Newcomb, Peter S. Palmer, Zephaniah Platt, and St. John B.L. Skinner, 1976; and transcripts of cemetery records compiled by Nell B. Sullivan in towns of Chazy, Altona, Champlain, and North Hero, Vermont. Typescript report on the fiscal affairs of Plattsburgh made by the State Examiners of Municipal Accounts, 1931. Attendance record of Plattsburgh Intermediate School, 1882.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155464400 View