Historical vertical file, 1862-1983.

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Historical vertical file, 1862-1983.

Historical vertical file, 1862-1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155504963

Clippings, articles, brochures, bills, menus, programs, letters, pamphlets, historical sketches, guidebooks, receipts, reports, and souvenir booklets primarily concerning the mountaintop area of Greene County. Subjects include amusements, architecture, art and artists, hotels, genealogy, fires, floods, folklore, black people, industry, music, roads, schools, ships, and steamboats. Items of note include family letters of Mary and Nathan Brower, 1862-1866; diaries of Jessie Showers, Tannersville school teacher, 1942-1951; ledger of Sherwood Brewer, carpenter, ca. 1899-1920; ledger of Ulster and Delaware Railroad Company, 1920-1921; ledger of James Douglas, Hunter general merchant, 1861-1864; thesis by Richard J. Webster on Stephen D. Button, architect of Hotel Kaaterskill and Laurel House, 1963; and the Cultural Resources Survey Report by the New York State Museum Division of Historical and Anthropological Services concerning Rte. 23A from Palenville to Haines Falls, 1980, consisting of text, maps, and photographs on historically significant sites and buildings in the path of road construction.

6.5 cubic ft.

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