Historical files, ca. 1730-1990.

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Historical files, ca. 1730-1990.

Historical writings, articles, photographs, reports, newsletters, booklets, clippings, posters, programs, scrapbooks, certificates, maps and other material about the history of Westbury and surrounding areas including Old Westbury, Wheatley, New Cassel and Carle Place. Subjects include Old Westbury Gardens and other estates and historic houses, historic preservation, churches, village government and development, polo, the Vanderbilt Cup Races, Roosevelt Raceway, community social and service organizations, local businesses, other towns and villages on Long Island, and the town of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Items of note include voter registration cards from Election District 6, ca. 1930; annual reports of the Village of Westbury, 1950s; constitution and bylaws of the Westbury Protective Association, 1909; programs, handbooks, sports schedules, songs and cheers of Westbury High School, 1920s-1930s, and a building needs survey, budget and photos of the school, 1960; annual report of the Three Communities Action Program (Tri-Cap) for Westbury, New Cassel and Carle Place, 1974; and transcriptions of manumission papers, deeds and other documents from the Society of Friends, 1730s-1770s. Also articles about Long Island communities by Gene Gleason from the Sunday New York Herald Tribune, 1963-1966; and scrapbooks of clippings, letters, photos and other material about temperance, education, polo, Long Island history, the paintings of William Sydney Mount and Shepard Alonzo Mount, the Robert Bacon Memorial Children's Library in Westbury, and the Friends War Relief Service, 1917-1926.

20 cubic ft.

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Vanderbilt Cup Races (Long Island, N.Y.)

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Historical Society of the Westburys (Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y.)

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Mount, Shepard Alonzo, 1804-1868

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Roosevelt Raceway (Long Island, N.Y.)

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Old Westbury Gardens (Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y.)

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Robert Bacon Memorial Children's Library (Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y.)

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Westbury High School (Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y.)

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Three Communities Action Program (Nassau County, N.Y.)

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Friends War Relief Services (Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y.)

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Westbury (Nassau County, N.Y.). Election District No. 6.

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Mount, William Sidney (1807-1868)

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Painter of portraits and genre scenes; resident of Setauket (N.Y.). From the description of William Sidney Mount papers, 1833-1868. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58782964 American artist. From the description of Letter : Stony Brook, N.Y., to J. & H.G. Langley, New York, 1840 Aug. 11. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 24857298 William Sidney Mount: painter; New York City and Stony Brook, Long Island. ...

Westbury Protective Association (Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y.)

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