Historical material about Conrad Poppenhusen and College Point

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Historical material about Conrad Poppenhusen and College Point

1918-1975

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Notes about Conrad Poppenhusen, founder of India Rubber Comb Company, industrialist, and founder of Poppenhusen Institute. Notes include copies of letters written to his second wife, genealogy of Poppenhusen family, and notes and publications about his life and contributions to College Point. Text of slide lecture about College Point history delivered by Robert Friedrich, 1963. Copy of a compilation of stories and facts about College Point written by many individuals, 1930's-1950's. Correspondence by Lawrence family members and other community residents. News clippings, photographs, texts of speeches, and publications about College Point churches, industries, fire company, banks, and library. Also, correspondence of the Poppenhusen Institute Historical Room dealing with College Point history, 1960's. Two scrapbooks of news clippings about College Point and classes and events at Poppenhusen Institute, 1923-1927.

1.5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6874966

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Poppenhusen family.

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India Rubber Comb Company.

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Friedrich, Robert C., 1934-2006

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Robert Friedrich spent most of his career as a librarian with the Queens Library System in New York and was known as the College Point Neighborhood historian. He also owned a collectables shop in California in the 1970s. Friedrich was a collector of milk glass, and he wrote a number of articles for the periodical of the National Milk Glass Collectors Society....

Poppenhusen Institute

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Vocational courses offered at Poppenhusen Institute trained students for jobs in defense-related industries during World War II. From the description of War production training program, 1940-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155478695 Collecting area: Material pertaining to College Point in Queens and surrounding communities, as well as materials about Poppenhusen Institute, its founder, Conrad Poppenhusen, and his family. Poppenhusen Institute wa...

Poppenhusen, Conrad, 1818-1883

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Lawrence family.

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