Columbia County subject file, 1794-1985.

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Columbia County subject file, 1794-1985.

Photographs, brochures, pamphlets, clippings, surveys, articles, catalogs, research correspondence, broadsides, petitions, appointments, and other items arranged by subjects including agriculture, architecture, art, celebrations, deeds, fraternal organizations, houses, Hudson River, Indians, manufactures, mining, preservation, railroads, religion, slaves and slavery, settlements, schools, wars, and whaling. Items of note include typescripts of letter to Samantha L. Huntley from art professor Giulio Cantalamessa praising her work, 1915, and of a letter from Huntley to her art patrons, ca. 1928; blueprints, 1926-1927, and of the Vanderpoel house built in ca. 1820; receipts, agreements, and accounts concerning slaves and the support of black children, 1794-1825; and anti-rent materials including an 1846 letter about County politics, 1844 poem about Sheriff Henry Miller and the incident at Copake Flats, and 1844 resolution by the Hudson Common Council inviting the Albany Burgesses Corps to aid in Hudson's defense.

6 cubic ft.

Related Entities

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Vanderpoel family.

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Hudson (N.Y.). Common Council

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Columbia County Historical Society (N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of Columbia County. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155495086 ...

Cantalamessa, Giulio

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Miller, Henry, 1929-

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Henry Miller was a Huntingdon Borough, Pa. storekeeper. Jacob Miller was the administrator of his estate, as well as the street regulator and treasurer of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad Company. From the description of Estate Accounts and Cashbooks, 1807-1862(inclusive), 1807-1843, 1850-1862(bulk). (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122590509 Henry Miller (formerly Mueller) had an engraving business in Louisville (Ky.) in the 1850's. ...

James Vanderpoel House (Kinderhook, N.Y.)

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Albany Burgesses Corps (Albany, N.Y.)

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Huntley, Samantha L. (Samantha Littlefield), 1865-1949

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