Local history collection, 1796-1982, 1892-1982 (bulk)

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Local history collection, 1796-1982, 1892-1982 (bulk)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155542588

Collection concerns the history of Purchase and vicinity and contains primarily photographs, 1892-1982, of the Purchase Fair, the Park family, the Whitelaw Reid family and their Ophir Farm estate, famous residents such as John Barrymore and Alfred Knopf, other local residents, Purchase School, and old houses and buildings. Other items include clippings on John Barrymore and Alfred Knopf, copies of school records, handbook from the Parents-Teachers Organization at Purchase School, 1970, genealogy of the Park family, and a copy of the will of William Anderson, 1796.

ca. 1 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6882101

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Purchase Free Library (Purchase, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: Local history of Purchase, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155542603 ...

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

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U.S. politician, historian and newspaper editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cedarville, to Schuyler Colfax, 1863 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 649441349 American newspaperman, editor, diplomat, and historian. From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid [manuscript], 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647879858 From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid, 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). ...

Purchase Fair (Purchase, N.Y.)

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Barrymore, John, 1882-1942

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Purchase School (Purchase, N.Y.). Parents-Teachers Organization.

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Anderson, William

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W. Anderson, lessee-manager of several theatres and other places of amusement in Sydney and Melbourne, was a successful producer of melodrama, including dramatization of Australian authors, such as Rolf Boldrewood and Marcus Clarke, and also of original plays with Australian themes by Jo. Smith and others. From the description of Playscripts [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225809903 Isaac Downs was a basket maker on Shelter Island. From t...

Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Alfred A. Knopf and his wife, Blanche Knopf. From the description of Letters, 1928-1944, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155870929 Publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Alfred A. Knopf : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743309 American publisher. From the description of Typed letters signed (1...