Scrapbook collection, 1837-1969.

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Scrapbook collection, 1837-1969.

Scrapbooks of clippings, postcards, greeting cards, photographs, and programs concerning the Red Cross, World War II, marriages and deaths, politics, advertisements, Will Rogers, Hudson River history, Ossining Fire Department, Ossining Dramatic Club, art shows, Ossining Police Department, railroad history, Ossining Historical Society, Girl Scouts, Ossining Women's club, Sing Sing Prison, civil defense, the Korean War, the Washington School Parents' and Teachers' Association, and other subjects. Volumes of note include documents relating to Frank Young; letters and miscellaneous papers relating to Sing Sing Prison and its inmates, 1858-1939; photographs and miscellaneous papers concerning the Van Cortlandt Manor House; and several autograph and memory books.

117 v.

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Ossining Historical Society (Ossining, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of Ossining, N.Y. and vicinity. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155541668 ...

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

Girl Scouts of the United States of America

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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...

American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Washington School (Ossining, N.Y.). Parents' and Teachers' Association.

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Van Cortlandt Manor House (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.)

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Ossining Women's Club (Ossining, N.Y.)

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Sing Sing Prison

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Ossining (N.Y.). Fire Dept.

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Ossining (N.Y.). Police Dept.

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Ossining Dramatic Club (Ossining, N.Y.)

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Young, F. C. (Frank Coleman), 1935-

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