Abstract
This collection contains newspapers from various organizations, newspaper businesses, service oriented agencies, historical societies, school districts, libraries, and businesses in Broome County and surrounding localities. The newspapers are arranged alphabetically by title and date from 1862 to the present, with the majority of the collection dating from the 1990s to the present time. See the ...
Dates:
1862 - 2023; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2023
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The collection contains correspondence, bills, receipts, broadsides, and business advertisements pertaining to Martin Bros. Circus, located in Castle Creek, Broome County, New York. The circus was owned and operated by Clayton Hawkes and Carroll Miller. Its tent shows toured upstate New York beginning in the 1930s, with the company's winter quarters in Castle Creek. Clayton Hawkes and his wife Madge also ran other circus shows, including Clayton's Combined, Bogart and Hawkes, and the Great...
This collection includes correspondence, photographs, business and local history research files, maps and other materials of Josiah T. Newcomb (1911 - 1981), director of the Binghamton University Library from 1953 to 1971 and Broome County Historian.
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The collection consists of personal documents of Dr. John G. Orton, his daughter Helen D. Orton, and his grandson Orton Spaulding Barnes. Documents include two indentures, dated December 7, 1897 and July 11, 1898 with Dr. Orton as guarantor of the promissory note payments; detailed account of work completed on Dr. Orton’s house and accompanying bill, November 1, 1875; Memorandum written by Dr. Orton and dated October 7, 1920 to be read in connection with his will; copy of will of Helen D....
The John Lewis Phillips and Beverly Jean Lyon letters include roughly 150 pieces of correspondence written by Binghamton-area fiances during WWII while John was serving on the USS Blue Ridge.
Documents and letters pertaining to a family of prominent landowners in Broome County and northern Pennsylvania during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
1785 - 1912; Majority of material found within 1806 - 1870
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This collection consists primarily of letters received by Louisa Russell (1841 - 1913) of Hooper, Town of Union, Broome County, New York between 1861 and 1866. Correspondents include her brother James Russell, cousins Carrie, Lydia, and Daniel Russell of St. Joseph County, Indiana, and cousins Sarah and Chester McKinney of Litchfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The collection also includes one letter written by Louisa Russell to her sister-in-law, Louisa Chauncey Russell, and two letters...
This collection contains four certificates regarding the membership and achievements of William Worth Sisson (1849 - 1937), a Binghamton businessman, with local orders of Masonic and Mecca Temples.
This collection includes news clippings, speech transcripts, letters from public officials, certificates of appreciation, and similar materials documenting Dorothy L. Titchener's service on the Binghamton Housing Authority from 1953 until 1972. Also present are some clippings of her earlier activities as a playwright and author, and which document her role in other Binghamton-area civic and philanthropic organizations.
This collection includes administrative and other records of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Binghamton and Broome County, New York. Records include meeting minutes, membership books, annual reports, and correspondence, and well as documention of various YWCA programs and initiatives.
