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Papers, 1811-1868.

Title: Papers, 1811-1868.

Two scrapbooks containing clippings of Pratt's activities, receipts, accounts, reports and speeches by Pratt, programs, poetry manuscripts, letters to Pratt concerning politics, business, speaking engagements, and other items, 1837-1860, some of which concern his son George Pratt, who later died in the Civil War; ledgers from Pratt's tannery interests, 1841-1857; pamphlet of a speech by Pratt on tanning interests in the State of New York, 1849; copy of a manuscript poem by Pratt, 1811; daybook from tannery, 1825-1829, converted to a scrapbook of clippings on political and local concerns, 1827-1847; and two pamphlets on Pratt's life and career, 1849 and 1868.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155504898 View

Washington Square Park (New York, N.Y.), Washington Square Area, and Campus Buildings Image Collection, 1850-1990

Title: Washington Square Park (New York, N.Y.), Washington Square Area, and Campus Buildings Image Collection 1850-1990

This collection contains images of Washington Square Park (New York, N.Y.), the Washington Square area (below 14th Street, above Houston St.) and the old University Building from the New York University Archives image collection.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/archives/washsquarephoto/washsquarephoto.html View

Genealogy collection, 1740-1976, 1860-1976 (bulk)

Title: Genealogy collection, 1740-1976, 1860-1976 (bulk)

Genealogical notes and correspondence, largely of Roswell Randall Hoes, clippings, charts, articles, biographical sketches, copies of family records, and some original family records pertaining to families in Ulster County. Items of note include letters and military records concerning Helena Clearwater's career in the Army Nurse Corps and other personal papers, 1879-1956; two letters from Esther Dickerman to Zadock Pratt concerning her initial reluctance to marry Pratt, her sister's widower, 1821; original manuscript and sketches of Mary Westbook's story, "Rachel DuMont: The Brave Little Maid of the Revolution," ca. 1876; letters of George H. Sharpe to a Hasbrouck uncle concerning land and financial transactions in Kingston and Rondout, 1863-1867; Civil War letters of Jansen Hasbrouck, 1862-1865; letters of F. Garrettson, Rhinebeck, to James O'Neil concerning rentals, property, and financial matters, 1820-1827; letters to James Russel from family and friends concerning affairs in Scotland, emigration to America, financial matters, and family news, 1817-1843, and other family letters and receipts, 1836-1874; and receipts, legal documents, and letters to John E. Van Alen from Evert Van Alen concerning the state of John's farm stock and buildings, planting, and weather, 1773-1795, with an undated letter concerning the St. Regis and Caghnawaga Indians serving as packers and huntsmen during a journey.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155500132 View

Allen-DuBois-Decker family papers, 1743-1966.

Title: Allen-DuBois-Decker family papers, 1743-1966.

Letters, deeds, wills and estate papers, bills, receipts, legal papers, genealogy information, school compositions, diaries, account books, and other items of Capt. Joseph Allen (1752-1842), Andrew V. Allen, Eliza T. Allen, Jane L. Cornell, John P. and Adeline Decker, Katharine M. Decker, Barent A. DuBois (1759-1837), Cornelius DuBois (1791-1824), S. Barent DuBois (1834-1901), Julia DuBois Meserole (1859-1887), Dr. Jeannette Greene, Samuel DuBois (1801-1862), Sarah Allen DuBois (1802-1883), Joseph Allen DuBois (1826-1863), Frederick Hopkins DuBois (d. 1913), and others. Subjects include shipping business, Catskill property, family life, War of 1812, the Revolutionary War, Col. Zadock Pratt's bank in Prattsville, business in Tennessee during the Civil War, service on a whaling ship in the 1850s, brick manufacturing, household accounts, and the Greene County jail (1838-1844).

ArchivalResource: 16 v., 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155505484 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

Pratt, Zadock, 1790-1871. Zadock Pratt papers, 1818-1870.

Title: Zadock Pratt papers, 1818-1870.

Correspondence, public addresses, writings, memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous papers, 1818-1870, of Zadock Pratt, tanner and politician of Prattsville, New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 150 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58779213 View

Fowler, Gilbert Ogden, 1788-1843. Gilbert Ogden Fowler papers, 1816-1843.

Title: Gilbert Ogden Fowler papers, 1816-1843.

Correspondence and papers, 1816-1843, of attorney and banker Gilbert Ogden Fowler of New burgh, New York; including legal documents, court papers, notes and drafts for courtroom addresses, case records, legal and business correspondence, bonds, receipts, drafts, contracts, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 500 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58779226 View

Account book collection, 1778-1947.

Title: Account book collection, 1778-1947.

Cashbooks, account books, daybooks, and ledgers of Greene County individuals and businesses including sloops and river shipping, general stores, grocery stores, estate settlements, ferries, tanneries, ice industry, farming, transportation, retail stores, shoemakers, lumber concerns, banks, physicians, and a boarding house. Of note are accounts of Sarah Howland, Athens, concerning hay and straw shipments to the army, 1863-1865; estate accounts for Nathan Clark and others kept by John Sanderson, Athens, 1873-1901; accounts of Asa Coggeshall, Schoharie, with Zadock Pratt, 1842; grate record from Travis Foundry, Athens, 1926-1930; and Revolutionary War and personal accounts of Eliakim and Selah Strong with payroll records for Captain Hall's company, 1778-1792.

ArchivalResource: 63 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155505705 View

Lee, Gideon, 1778-1841. Papers, 1804-1868.

Title: Papers, 1804-1868.

Collection of correspondence both to and from Lee of a personal and business nature. Included is family correspondence, 1806-1839; papers concerning the New York City fire in 1835; and marriage register as mayor, 1833-1834. Correspondents include Peter Cooper, John A. Dix, Erastus Corning, Lewis C. Beck, Azarian Flagg, Albert Gallatin, W.L. March, Zadock Pratt, S.B. Ruggles, and Roger B. Taney.

ArchivalResource: 20 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122486965 View