small quarto, 84 pages plus blanks, entries written on lined paper, in ink, bound in half black leather, marbled paper covered boards, worn at tips of spine, corners and edges of boards, boards scuffed, outside hinges of binding mostly open, but boards…
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[Brooklyn: Waller and Schrader, 1876] oblong folio, photograph album contains 40 mounted albumen photographs, plus a mounted photographic “title-page”, each photograph mounted on card stock with printed label under each image identifying the subject. Most images measure 7.75 x 4.75 inches, one…
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41 letters, 122 manuscript pp., (9 retained mailing envelopes), dated 17 December 1845 to 18 February 1857; with 17 pieces of related ephemera (calling cards, used envelopes, receipts, will, poem, etc.); Of the 41 letters, 10 are undated; and at least 33…
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Small quarto album, containing 114 black and white photographs, mainly silver prints, the album is bound in original half leather, marbled paper boards, the photographs are mounted onto sheets of paper in album; the paper stock of these leaves is of poor…
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Archive of family correspondence consisting of approximately 474 letters, totaling 2,266 pages of correspondence, most with original mailing envelopes, plus 34 pieces of ephemera (mainly used envelopes), all dated between 4 October 1852 to 14 March 1924. Letters are written in ink,…
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Collection of 124 letters, 477 manuscript pages (no retained mailing envelopes) correspondence dated 2 August 1855 - 29 January 1891, with the bulk being from 1867-1873. With: Manuscript diary of Nettie Isbell, dated 1865-1867, small quarto, 246 pages, bound in contemporary ¼…
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Archive of 46 items - materials pertaining to this plank road company, correspondence, financial documents, receipts, stock certificates, etc. concerning the financing, incorporation, organization and maintenance of the Auburn and Moravia Plank Road Company, whose 18-mile road along the western shore of…
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Large archival collection of family papers which includes: 18 manuscript pocket diaries, 1852-1882, totaling 2,642 pages of dated entries, 92 pages of accounts, and memoranda, plus blanks. The collection also includes 2267 family letters, from later generations of the family totaling 5839…
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quarto, one page printed circular letter, completed in manuscript, on a folding letter sheet, postal markings on integral address leaf, formerly folded, otherwise in very good clean condition.
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13 letters, 42 manuscript pages, dated 30 July 1835 to 9 August 1840, plus 11 pages of manuscript papers written by the Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer to "Rev. Dr. Vermilye, Pearl St," concerning Van Rensselaer's father, General Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839). The…
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