Robinson family papers, 1868-1950.
Collection Number: 1960
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Robinson family papers, 1868-1950.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1960
Abstract:
Correspondence, legal documents, and related papers dealing with the law practice
and family life of James Richards Robinson.
Creator:
Robinson family.
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Robinson family papers, #1960. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Boardman, Douglass, 1822-1891.
Robinson, James, Sr.
Robinson, James Richards.
Danby Telephone Company
Masonic Temple (Ithaca, N.Y.)
New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Southold Academy
Places:
Weston (N.Y.)
Schuyler County (N.Y.)
New York (State)
Subjects:
Politicians.
Lawyers.
Religion.
Presbyterians -- New York (State) -- Weston.
Politics, Practical.
Law -- New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Broadsides.
Blueprints.
Accounts.
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