Manuscript collection, 1744-[ca. 1950], 1830-[ca. 1950] (bulk)

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Manuscript collection, 1744-[ca. 1950], 1830-[ca. 1950] (bulk)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155526107

Account books, letters, record books, deeds, maps, broadsides, receipts, photographs, films, and memorabilia pertaining to the Delaware and Hudson Canal and the Neversink Valley. Account and record books include two account books of Russel F. Lord on the daily operations of the Canal, 1830 and 1842; two account books of Samuel A. Adams of Summitville concerning his general store, canal freight, and house rents, 1885-1896; William H. Frantz's accounts concerning flour, Ellenville, 1858; a political poll book recording conservative, radical, and doubtful voters, 1866; minutes, accounts, and other records of School District 12, Town of Deerpark, 1860-1936; an assessment roll for the Town of Deerpark, 1861; and a memoranda book concerning rafting on the Delaware River, 1833-1834, kept by H.H. Farnum. Photographs include photoprints, glass negatives, postcards, and stereoptican cards of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and the villages it passed through in the Neversink Valley, old houses, churches, ice jams, and the construction of the power plant at Cuddebackville in 1902. The films are copies of silent films by D.W. Griffith, which were filmed at Cuddebackville and vicinity, 1910-1914.

ca. 600 items.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6880388

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Neversink Valley Area Museum (Cuddebackville, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f58fhq (corporateBody)

Collecting area: History of the Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Neversink Valley. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155527142 The Delaware and Hudson Canal, running from Kingston, N.Y. to Honesdale, Pa., was built to transport coal from Pennsylvania coal fields to New York City markets. John B. Jervis and Russel F. Lord were both engineers. From the description of Manuscript collection, 1744-[ca. 1950], 1830-[ca. 1...

Farnum, H. H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66148fp (person)

Frantz, William M., 1965-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md28z5 (person)

Lord, Russel F., d. 1867.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6797fhv (person)

Engineer on the Delaware and Hudson Canal. From the description of Papers, 1820-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155521033 ...

Jervis, John B. (John Bloomfield), 1795-1885

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62v2jsr (person)

Engineer. From the description of Papers of John B. Jervis, 1827-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067890 Civil Engineer. John Bloomfield Jervis was born in Huntington, New York, on December 14, 1795. He began his career in his father's lumber business at Rome, New York, and in 1817 he became an axeman on the local survey for the Erie Canal. Jervis became one of the most gifted engineers produced by the so-called "Erie Canal School." By 1823, he...

Adams, Sam, 1933-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf1twm (person)

Samuel Alexander Adams (1933-1988) was a research analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1963 to 1973. He specialized in Southeast Asia, and was a consultant on the CBS television documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, broadcast in 1982. He also testified at the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, relating to the Pentagon papers. From the description of Adams, Samuel A. (Samuel Alexander), 1933-1988 (U.S. National Archives and Records A...

Griffith, D.W. David Wark 1875-1948

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s2cnc (person)

Motion picture producer. From the description of War : typewritten transcript, circa 1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454336 Pioneer American movie director and producer. Griffith was influential in the development and popularity of American cinema. From the description of Papers [microform] 1872-1969, 1897-1954 (bulk). (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 83085079 Pioneer American movie director ...