John H. White papers, 1854-1877.
Collection Number: 1988
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
John H. White papers, 1854-1877.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1988
Abstract:
Includes a photograph album of officers and members of the 1870 New York State Assembly,
scrapbooks, pamphlets, photographs, broadsides, postcards, and greeting cards.
Creator:
White, John H., 1821-1877.
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
John H. White was a lawyer, apparently originally from Jamestown, New York. He had
a law office at 169 Broadway, New York City, and lived at 32 West 35th St. He served
in the New York State Assembly at its 93rd Session, 1870 and died in March 1877 or
somewhat earlier.
Includes a photograph album of officers and members of the 1870 New York State Assembly,
scrapbooks, pamphlets, photographs, broadsides, postcards, and greeting cards.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
John H. White papers, #1988. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Places:
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Subjects:
Legislators -- New York (State).
Lawyers -- New York (State).
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
The Knickerbocker Gallery (New York: Samuel Hueston, 1855 )
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1855 | |
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Scope and Contents
Is "A Testimonial to the Editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine from its Contributors. With forty-Eight Portraits on Steel, from Original Pictures
Engraved Expressly for This Work." Is inscribed "A Christmas memento to my Wife -
John H. White, Dec. 25, 1854." Bound vol. [cover loose].
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| Box 1 |
Unidentified photograph, presumably of Civil War general, removed from above book.
D. Appleton & Co., Publishers,
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1861. | |
| Box 1 |
1 sheet of historical notes on French exploration and settlement from 1534, n.d.
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| Box 1 |
Pamphlet: "Speeches Delivered at the Republican Union Festival, in Commemoration of
the Birth of Washington; Held at Irving Hall, Feb. 22, 1862, under the Auspices of
the Republican Central Committees, of the City and County of New York." (New York:
G.P. Putnam, 1862 ). 27 pp.
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1862 | |
| Box 1 |
Photograph album, leather bound with clasps, containing portraits, some autographed,
of members of the New York State Legislature, ca. 1870 .
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1870 | |
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Scope and Contents
Also contains pictures of Governor John T. Hoffman [elected 1868], Lt. Gov. Allen
C. Beach, Secretary of State H.A. Nelson, and Comptroller W.F. Allen (p. 1). 195 photographs,
150 of which are autographed.
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| Box 1 |
Resolutions of Kane Lodge, No. 454, made on the death of John H. White. (Masonic Lodge).
Unpaged bound vol. New York City, Mar. 6,
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1877. | |
| Box 1 |
Plate for steel engraving of Samuel Barrett.
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| Box 1 |
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, chiefly on foreign affairs, Franco-Prussian War,
etc. 1870's . Some loose clippings.
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1870's | |
| Box 1 |
Removed from above scrapbook and added to greeting card collection, 2 Christmas cards:
"The Dead Sea" and Bible verses, 1883 ; Purple morning glories, n.d.
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1883 | |
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Six Concord, Mass. postcards. -- Added to Postcard Coll.
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Envelope with picture of Old Wright Tavern, Concord. -- Added to Letterheads.
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Broadsides
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Resolutions offered by John H. White, 1875 or later. Br.#____ Card entry: "Politics
(New York State)"
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1875 | ||
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WEST SIDE ASSOCIATION. To owners of West Side real estate, n.d. Br.#____ Card entry:
"Real estate (New York City)"
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Notice of Henry T. Kneeland & Co., grain commission merchants of N.Y.C., 1889 . Br.#____
Card entry: "Commission merchants"
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1889 | ||
| Box 1 |
Letter from Laura M. King, Ridgefield, New Jersey, to her cousin, Bella Fuller (Mrs.
Charles G. Fuller), Evanston, Illinois, Nov. 17, 1907 , concerning three enclosed
photographs of the wife and son and daughter of their uncle, Charles F. King of San
Antonio, Texas, taken in 1865 . Photograph of Mrs. King added to Fashion Collection,
dated women's fashions box, and those of children to same, dated children's fashions.
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1907, 1865 | |