Local ephemera collection, 1839-1972.

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Local ephemera collection, 1839-1972.

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Programs, anniversary booklets, printed minutes and proceedings, catalogs, speeches, sermons, memorial biographies, leaflets, bylaws, reports, genealogies, typescript articles, and other pamphlets relating to churches, libraries, individuals and families, political campaigns and referendum issues, the Peekskill Military Academy, public schools, charities, hospitals, military associations, cemeteries, historic sites, and other local history topics for Peekskill and Westchester County. Also included are items on the 1949 disturbances at a Paul Robeson concert near Peekskill; and typescript histories on Peekskill by William T. Horton and Carlton B. Scofield.

ca. 6 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6881749

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Field Library (Peekskill, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of Peekskill, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155542610 ...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Horton, William T.

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Peekskill Military Academy (Peekskill, N.Y.)

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Scofield, Carlton B.

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