Notes on the War of 1812, ca. 1856-1858.

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Notes on the War of 1812, ca. 1856-1858.

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Notes, ca. 1856-1858, mainly on the War of 1812, some signed by William Kelby. Some are brief anecdotes or poems, no source given, copied on scraps of paper. There are also notes taken from several newspapers of the period 1811-1815: the Massachusetts Spy, the Philadelphia Mercantile Advertiser, the Federal Republican, the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger, and the Essex Register; some of these notes are written on the back of pieces of ephemera dated 1858, dealing with the foundation of the New York Athenaeum. There are also notes on other subjects, including fires in New York and steamships; a small notebook giving bibliographies compiled by Kelby on various subjects, based on books in the New-York Historical Society library; a printed article by Israel Russell, dated 1856 and reproducing an 1814 pamphlet listing New York officers; a miniature booklet on dressmaking patterns, entitled What to Wear and issued as an advertisement by Demorest's Emporium of Fashions, 375 Broadway, which opened in 1860. Ellen Demorest was the inventor of the mass-produced paper pattern for home dressmaking.

ca. 44 pieces.

New-York Historical Society

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Athenaeum Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Kelby, William, 1841-1898.

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Genealogist, historian, and author of works on New York City. From the description of William Kelby correspondence, 1875-1898. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58782958 ...

Demorest, Ellen Louise Curtis, 1824-1898.

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Russell, Israel Cook

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