Papers, 1885-1941, 1885-1919 (bulk)

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Papers, 1885-1941, 1885-1919 (bulk)

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Contracts, blueprints, specifications, maps, letters, legal papers, clippings, and other items pertaining to sewers, ponds, bridges, residences, and other projects that Lawlor or his firm, Lawlor & House, worked on, 1885-1919, including the Newburgh City Railroad, the Nyack Traction Company, the Poughkeepsie Bridge Company, the Poughkeepsie-Wappingers Falls Street Railway, the Poughkeepsie Water Works, and the Hamersley residence. There are also two letters from Gov. Alfred E. Smith to Ralph F. Butts, mayor of Poughkeepsie, concerning a conference on public improvements, 1919. Personal papers consist of letters received concerning business matters, surveying jobs, and William H. Diamond's analysis of the role politics played in his being denied a civil service appointment, 1892-1919, and a letter of condolence on Lawlor's death in 1941.

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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...

Lawlor & House (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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Poughkeepsie-Wappingers Falls Street Railway.

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Poughkeepsie (N.Y.). Water Works.

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Diamond, William, 1952-....

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Newburgh City Railroad.

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Butts, Ralph F.

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Lawlor, Thomas (Tommy)

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Poughkeepsie civil engineer. From the description of Papers, 1885-1941, 1885-1919 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155530849 ...

Nyack Traction Company.

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Poughkeepsie Bridge Company (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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