Manuscript collection, 1744-[ca. 1950], 1830-[ca. 1950] (bulk) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Account books, letters, record books, deeds, maps, broadsides, receipts, photographs, films, and memorabilia pertaining to the Delaware and Hudson Canal and the Neversink Valley. Account and record books include two account books of Russel F. Lord on the daily operations of the Canal, 1830 and 1842; two account books of Samuel A. Adams of Summitville concerning his general store, canal freight, and house rents, 1885-1896; William H. Frantz's accounts concerning flour, Ellenville, 1858; a political poll book recording conservative, radical, and doubtful voters, 1866; minutes, accounts, and other records of School District 12, Town of Deerpark, 1860-1936; an assessment roll for the Town of Deerpark, 1861; and a memoranda book concerning rafting on the Delaware River, 1833-1834, kept by H.H. Farnum. Photographs include photoprints, glass negatives, postcards, and stereoptican cards of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and the villages it passed through in the Neversink Valley, old houses, churches, ice jams, and the construction of the power plant at Cuddebackville in 1902. The films are copies of silent films by D.W. Griffith, which were filmed at Cuddebackville and vicinity, 1910-1914