Papers of the Huntting-Rudd family, 1834-1905 (inclusive), 1849-1865 (bulk).

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Papers of the Huntting-Rudd family, 1834-1905 (inclusive), 1849-1865 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006669

The bulk of the collection is correspondence; there are also accounts, bills, school compositions, calling cards, invitations, concert and graduation programs, clippings, photos and other memorabilia. The letters illuminate relationships between parents and children, siblings, lovers, spouses, other family members, and friends. They contain accounts of activities and events of daily life: social and religious activities (in Sag Harbor, Brooklyn, New York City, and Montrose, Pennsylvania); clothes and dressmaking; school life (at Brooklyn Female Academy; Ingham Collegiate Institute, LeRoy, N. Y.; Flushing Institute; Berkshire Family School, Stockbridge, Massachusetts); travel; careers for women, particularly as teachers; and illness, death, courtship, weddings and childbirth.

3 linear ft.

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Rudd family.

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Ingham Collegiate Institute.

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Adams, William, 1807-1880

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American clergyman. A founder in 1836 of Union Theological Seminary. From the guide to the William Adams letters, 1852-1862, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Jessup, Henry Harris, 1832-1910

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Henry Harris Jessup was a missionary in Syria from 1856 to 1910, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Presbyterian Mission Board. He was one of the founders of the Syrian Protestant College, later known as the American University of Beirut. From the description of Henry Harris Jessup papers, 1851-1912 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152609 1832 Apr 19 ...

Berkshire Family School

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Flushing Institute

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Incorporated in 1827 and closed in 1902, the Flushing Institute served as a school for boys. From the description of Records, [ca. 1840]-1939. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155478842 ...

Dwight family.

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Huntting family.

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Descendants of a prosperous whaling family of Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York. From the description of Papers of the Huntting-Rudd family, 1834-1905 (inclusive), 1849-1865 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006669 ...

Brooklyn Female Academy

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The Packer Collegiate Institute was incorporated in 1845 as the Brooklyn Female Academy, an institution devoted solely to female education. The Academy opened in 1846 in a building on Joralemon Street between Court and Clinton Streets in the present-day neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights. While it enjoyed consistently increasing enrollment over the years, the Academy was destroyed by fire on January 1, 1853. Shortly after the Academy's destruction, Harriet Putnam Packer, w...