© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Robinson family papers,
1868-1950.
Collection Number:
1960
Creator:
Quantity:
2 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Papers include correspondence, legal
documents, and related papers dealing with the law practice of James Richards
Robinson (1885-1953); letters from constituents and special interest groups,
copies of bills and hearings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to his service
as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly, 1923-1936; scattered
letters and pamphlets relating to his early Pesbyterian pastorate at Weston,
Schuyler County. A stock ledger, subscribers' list, and advertising cuts of the
Danby Telephone Co., ca.1912-1926, and broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, and
photographs from Ithaca, New York and elsewhere. Also papers, 1868-1881, of Mr.
Robinson's father, James, Sr., principal of Southold Academy, Suffolk County,
which include letters, a roll book, a student petition, school announcements
and bills, manuscript orations and essays; personal and household accounts,
1868-1880; a scrapbook and estate settlement papers of Douglass Boardman, a
distant relative of James Robinson; and blueprints (1922-1926) of the Masonic
Temple in Ithaca.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers include correspondence, legal documents, and related papers
dealing with the law practice of James Richards Robinson (1885-1953); letters
from constituents and special interest groups, copies of bills and hearings,
and miscellaneous items pertaining to his service as a Republican member of the
New York State Assembly, 1923-1936; scattered letters and pamphlets relating to
his early Pesbyterian pastorate at Weston, Schuyler County. A stock ledger,
subscribers' list, and advertising cuts of the Danby Telephone Co.,
ca.1912-1926, and broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, and photographs from
Ithaca, New York and elsewhere. Also papers, 1868-1881, of Mr. Robinson's
father, James, Sr., principal of Southold Academy, Suffolk County, which
include letters, a roll book, a student petition, school announcements and
bills, manuscript orations and essays; personal and household accounts,
1868-1880; a scrapbook and estate settlement papers of Douglass Boardman, a
distant relative of James Robinson; and blueprints (1922-1926) of the Masonic
Temple in Ithaca.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Robinson family.
Boardman, Douglass,
1822-1891.
Robinson, James Richards.
Robinson, James,
Danby Telephone Company.
Masonic Temple (Ithaca, N.Y.)
New York
(State).Legislature.Assembly.
Southold Academy.
Subjects:
Law--New York (State)
Politics, Practical.
Presbyterians--New York
(State)--Weston.
Religion.
Lawyers.
Politicians.
Places:
New York (State)
Schuyler County (N.Y.)
Weston (N.Y.)
Form and Genre Terms:
Accounts.
Blueprints.
Broadsides.
Photographs.