New York State pamphlet collection, circa 1800-1946-(bulk 1820-1900).
Collection Number: 1439
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State pamphlet collection, circa 1800-1946-(bulk 1820-1900).
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1439
Abstract:
Pamphlets mainly about or issued in New York State, on political, historical, religious,
and engineering topics.
Creator:
no primary creator
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Williamson, Charles, 1757-1808. (Title of work: Description of the Genesee Country..)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919. (Title of work: Andrew Carnegie\'s college lectures..)
New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee on Railroads (Title of
work: Report of the Special Committee on Railroads, appointed ... to investigate alleged
abuses in the management of railroads ....)
Long Island Rail Road (Title of work: Long Island illustrated..)
Quanitities:
1.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Pamphlets mainly about or issued in New York State, on political, historical, religious,
and engineering topics. Includes reprints of historical documents from the early settlement
of New York State by the Dutch and the English, covering a period from about 1621-1800;
polemical pamphlets, speeches, reports, and legislation concerning canals and railroads
in the state, 1800s; pamphlets on social issues including temperance, the condition
of the poor, and women's rights; speeches and reports on the state of New York State's
finances; reprints of two speeches by 1940 Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie
(1941); and pamphlets on religious issues, mainly concerning the Episcopalian and
Presbyterian churches.
Titles of note include: Investigation of the charges of mismanagement and cruelty,
at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Bath, N.Y. (1883); Long Island illustrated (a
guidebook published by the Long Island Railroad Company, 1900); Robert Munro (pseudonym
of Charles Williamson), A description of the Genesee Country (that is, the Finger
Lakes region; 1804); Report of the Special Committee on Railroads, appointed ... to
investigate alleged abuses in the management of railroads chartered by the State of
New York (1880); and Andrew Carnegie's college lectures (1896; the second lecture
was given at Cornell University).
INFORMATION FOR USERS
New York State Pamphlet Collection, #1439. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Places:
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
Finger Lakes (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
New York (State) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
New York (State) -- Politics and government.
New York (State) -- History.
Subjects:
Finance, Public -- New York (State)
Railroads -- New York (State)
Canals -- New York (State)
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Scope and Contents
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