Oversize document file, 1736-1979.

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Oversize document file, 1736-1979.

Advertisements, plans and drawings, certificates, prints, speeches, photographs, appointments, maps, posters, diplomas, broadsides, indentures, land patents, deeds, bonds, resolutions, agreements, military commissions, mortgages, and other documents pertaining to Hudson River boats, churches, firemen, politics, organizations, community events, agriculture, business, Catskill Mountain House, the Revolutionary War, transportation, the military, genealogy, World War I, Hudson Valley artists, the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Thomas Cole, Catskill Mountains, and the Hubbell, Van den Bergh, Bronck, and Decker families. Also, illustrated poems composed by Joe Waltz while in prison prior to his execution for the murder of Harmon Holcher, 1873-1874.

10 cubic ft.

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Greene County Historical Society (Coxsackie, N.Y.)

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Catskill Mountain House (Catskill, N.Y.)

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Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848

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Epithet: of Stowe MS 295 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x000182 Epithet: of Stowe MS 1060 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x000180 Thomas Cole was an English-born landscape, portrait, and religious painter, a pioneer of the Hudson River School. In 1827, he settled in Catskill, New York, where he died in 1848. ...

Centennial Exhibition 1876 Philadelphia, Pa.

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The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 marked the 100th anniversary of American freedom. The celebration took place in Philadelphia from May 10 to November 10 and attracted over eight million visitors. The exhibition spread across 450 acres of ground in Fairmont Park and consisted of over 200 buildings. Planning for the event began in 1870, and in 1871, Congress established the United States Centennial Commission to plan and run the exhibition. The following year saw the incorporation of the Centenni...

Waltz, Joe.

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Holcher, Harmon.

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