Photograph collection, [ca. 1850]-1985.

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Photograph collection, [ca. 1850]-1985.

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Photoprints, postcards, and glass plate negatives pertaining to the Town of New Castle. Subjects included Horace Greeley and his family, churches, the Croton Dam, the 1904 cyclone, historic houses and buildings, the railroad, the village of Chappaqua, local clubs and businesses, events of the Historical Society, and the 200th anniversary of Chappaqua in 1930.

3 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6881826

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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New Castle Historical Society (Chappaqua, N.Y.)

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Greeley (1811-1872) was the editor of the New York TRIBUNE, an abolitionist, and Presidential candidate in 1872. He and his family lived on their farm in Chappaqua, which he bought in 1852-1853, into the 1930s. From the description of Horace Greeley collection, 1826-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540108 Collecting area: History of the Town of New Castle. Will also accept Horace Greeley items. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). Wor...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...