Guide to the Henry N. Hinckley Local History Ephemera,
1823-1976.

Collection Number: 6749

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Julia Parker
Date completed:
April 25, 2007
EAD encoding:
Julia Parker, April 25, 2007
Date modified:
Jude Corina, September 2012

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera, 1823-1976.
Collection Number:
6749
Creator:
Henry Noble, Hinckley
Quantity:
.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuscripts, Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Printed and manuscript ephemera relating to canals, commerce and banking, education, politics and elections, religion, smoking, theater, travel and transportation, and technical equipment, primarily in Ithaca and Tompkins County.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Henry N. Hinckley was born in Trumansburg, NY, son son of Henry L. and Nellie Noble Hinckley. The family moved to ithaca and Henry attended Cornell University, graduating with a degree in architecture in 1911. He worked as an architect and for the Thomas Morse Air Craft Corporation. During World War I, he served in the Signal Corps and with the Air Force in France. After the war, he returned to Ithaca and worked as an investment banker, city building commissioner, owner and manager of residential properties, and collector and authority on antiques. After Henry's death in 1969, his house became the Hinckley Foundation Museum. The museum closed in the 1990s.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Printed and manuscript ephemera relating to canals, commerce and banking, education, politics and elections, religion, smoking, theater, travel and transportation, and technical equipment, primarily in Ithaca and Tompkins County.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Hinckley, Henry Noble,

Subjects:
Canals--New York (State)
Banks and banking--New York (State)--Tompkins County.
Education--New York (State)--Tompkins County.
Political campaigns.
Political collectibles.
Advertising cards.
Theater--New York (State)--Ithaca.
Travel.

Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.)--Commerce.
Tompkins County (N.Y.)--Commerce.
Ithaca (N.Y.)--Religious life and customs.
Ithaca (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
New York (State)--Description and travel.

Form and Genre Terms:
Trade cards.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera, #6749. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1876
Politics: Atlanta Journal's Cabinet Souvenir (broadside)
Box 1 Folder 1
1840
Politician's Register (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1831
Stratford Convention Committee Report (1 sheet)
Box 1 Folder 1
n.d.
A. Lincoln photograph (card)
Box 1 Folder 1
1908
Republican National Convention (guest pass)
Box 1 Folder 1
1919
State Legislature members breakfast and parade (menu card)
Box 1 Folder 1
n.d.
List of 4th Ward, Ithaca, N.Y. candidates (2.8"x 2.2" sheet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1834
U. S. Senate Report of the day, February 5
Box 1 Folder 1
1917
Woodrow Wilson message calling for war with Imperial German Government in defense of American rights
Box 1 Folder 1
1872
12th Ward Republican Ticket
Box 1 Folder 1
1919
Itinerary for the visit of the Members of the State Legislature to the parade of the Twenty-Seventh Division, United States Army, New York City
Box 1 Folder 1
1889
Presidential Centennial, Auburn, N.Y. (official programme)
Box 1 Folder 1
1839
26th Congress, 1st Session, Message from the President of the United States (M. Van Buren) at the Commencement of the First Session {3 uncut leaves}
Box 1 Folder 1
1871
Laws of New York -- By Authority (Diedrich Willers, Jr.)(1 sheet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1892
Nuggets and Crystals from the Public Speeches and Official Papres of Benjamin Harrison (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1888
Hood's Political Points (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1864
Protection of Home Labor and Home Productions necessary to the Prosperity of the American Farmer, Henry Carey Baird
Box 1 Folder 1
n.d.
This is United States Greenback
Box 1 Folder 1
1888
Harrison and Morton Campaign Song Book of the Republican Party, H. E. Gordon (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1833
History of the Discovery of America of the Landing of Our Forefathers at Plymouth and of Their Most Remarkable Engagements With The Indians in New England, Henry Trumbull (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1872
Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 1
1871
Politics: Speech of Hon. Roscoe Conkling (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 2
1872
Speech of Hon. Roscoe Conkling (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 2
1908
Acorn Temperance Songs (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 2
1880
Garfield and Arthur Campaign Song Book (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 2
n.d.
An Address to the Friends of the Republican Principle Without Distinction of Party (Town of Ulysses) (leaflet)
Box 1 Folder
1885
Garfield and His Cabinet (broadside)
Box 1 Folder 2
1890
Republican National Committee Headquarters receipt for ten dollars
Box 1 Folder 2
1879
Telegram (mss., 2 pages)
Box 1 Folder 2
n.d.
Homily on politics (mss.)
Box 1 Folder 2
1940
Willkie for President button
Box 1 Folder 2
1872
General Grant pin
Box 1 Folder 2
1891
The National Press (newspaper)
Box 1 Folder 2
1891
Republican State Convention (list of delegates)
Box 1 Folder 2
1892
Five Dollars in Democratic Wild Cat Money
Box 1 Folder 2
1832
Religion: Discourse on The Subject of Truth, as Connected with Regeneration, Rev. William Page (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 3
1829-1866
7 Presbyterian Church sermons(printed and mss. booklets)
Box 1 Folder 3
1881
Receipt for thirty dollars
Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
notes
Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
Poems and notes, W. A. van Warrne (sp.?)
Box 1 Folder 3
1883
A New Hieroglyphical Bible
Box 1 Folder 3
1833
Catechism
Box 1 Folder 3
1863
Sunday School items (2)
Box 1 Folder 3
1909
Picture Lesson Paper (3 issues)
Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
poems (2)
Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
temperance items (4)
Box 1 Folder 3
1849-1854
Methodist Episcopal quarterly tickets (3)
Box 1 Folder 3
1896
Marriage Seal
Box 1 Folder 3
1846
Communion and Baptism
Box 1 Folder 3
Isle of Wigth Bonchurch (photograph)
 Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
The Flight into Egypt (print)
Box 1 Folder 3
1866
W. N. Page to Hermon Camp and Nelson Noble (als)
Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
Scrip (25 cents)
Box 1 Folder 4
n.d.
Smoking: cigarette cards (47)
Box 1 Folder 5
1925
Technical Equipment: Electric door (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 6
n.d.
Kodak folder with negatives
Box 1 Folder 6
n.d.
Thermometer leaflet
Box 1 Folder 6
n.d.
Standard scales (card)
Box 1 Folder 6
n.d.
Saw vises (card)
Box 1 Folder 6
n.d.
Lithography and printing (card)
Box 1 Folder 6
n.d.
Binoculars (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 6
1936
Type Specimens (booklet)
Box 1 Folder 6
1891
Phonographic World [for shorthand and typewriting] (Magazine)
Box 1 Folder 6
1866-1923
Theater: programs (8)
Box 1 Folder 7
1891
The Theatre Goer! (newspaper)
Box 1 Folder 7
n.d.
Star cards (2)
Box 1 Folder 7
1891
Travel and Transportation: Pittsfield, Mass. (pocket guide)
Box 1 Folder 8
Watkins Glen (souvenir folder)
 Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
Cayuga Lake, Ithaca
Box 1 Folder 8
Philadelphia (print)
Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
Baltimore (print)
Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
Chillon, Clarens, Switzerland (print)
Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
Heidelberg, Germany (album)
Box 1 Folder 8
1853
Cayuga and Seneca Lake items (3)
Box 1 Folder 8
1871
Pennsylvania Railroad item
Box 1 Folder 8
1882
Colorado Railway Association (ticket)
Box 1 Folder 8
1877
Baltimore & Ohio Railway timetable
Box 1 Folder 8
1915
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. ticket
Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
Michigan Central and Great Western Railways cards (2)
Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
The Arcade Railway [NYC](card)
Box 1 Folder 8
1876
Erie Railway Company ticket
Box 1 Folder 8
1885-1889
Railroad passes: Addison and Pennsylvania; Bath & Hammondsport; Elmira, Cortland & Northern and Canastota; Geneva, Ithaca & Sayre; Jacksonville & Atlantic; Lehigh Valley; Pennsylvania and New York; Seneca Fall & Cayuga Lake; and United States Express Co. (15)
Box 1 Folder 8
1927
Choo-Choo Trains (children's book)
Box 1 Folder 8
1839
Catskill & Ithaca Stage card
Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
Carriages advertisement card
Box 1 Folder 8
1863
Turnpike pass
Box 1 Folder 8
1837, n.d.
Steam yacht/steam boat items (3)
Box 1 Folder 8
1835, n.d.
Miscellany: Children's stories
Box 1 Folder 9
1888, n.d.
Children's items (5)
Box 1 Folder 9
1838-1895
Invitations, calling cards (8)
Box 1 Folder 9
1851-1908
Receipts (5)
Box 1 Folder 9
1888, n.d.
Ribbons (2)
Box 1 Folder 9
1891
Moving notice (1)
Box 1 Folder 9
1886
Health and recipes book
Box 1 Folder 9
1936
Photo Story of Tri-State's Greatest Flood
Box 1 Folder 9
1901-1925
Commercial - Banking, Money, etc.: banks: Tompkins County National Bank, Ithaca Savings Bank, National Bank of Ogdensburg (5 items)
Box 2 Folder 1
n.d.
Insurance: Equitable Life Assurance Society, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (2 items)
Box 2 Folder 1
n.d.
Almanack
Box 2 Folder 1
1883
Ledger pages
Box 2 Folder 1
1844
Notice of lost wallet
Box 2 Folder 1
1847
Sheriff sale notice
Box 2 Folder 1
1881-192-
Receipts (5)
Box 2 Folder 1
n.d.
post card
Box 2 Folder 1
n.d.
Advertisements (3)
Box 2 Folder 1
1841
Education I: printed history of important events in the history of the United States
Box 2 Folder 2
n.d.
Fragment of writing re Jefferson Davis (mss.)
Box 2 Folder 2
1838-1839
Penmanship books (4)
Box 2 Folder 2
1862
A. Lincoln to Horace Greeley (t[printed]l)
Box 2 Folder 2
1858-1865
Education II - Printed items re: Trumansburg Academy, Cooperstown Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute, Cortland Academy, Dryden Seminary, Oswego Commercial College and Telegraphic Institute (5 items)
Box 2 Folder 3
n.d.
Publications from Groton Academy (3)
Box 2 Folder 3
n.d.
Rewards of Merit (7)
Box 2 Folder 3
1863
Receipt (1)
Box 2 Folder 3
1854
List of school district inhabitants
Box 2 Folder 3
1885-1891
Commencement programs (2)
Box 2 Folder 3
n.d.
List of books
Box 2 Folder 3
1848
District School Journal
Box 2 Folder 3
1823-1825
Certification of school inspection (2)
Box 2 Folder 3
n.d.
Poems (4)
Box 2 Folder 3
n.d.
"Our school is coming to a close" words for song (mss.)
Box 2 Folder 3
1893-1896
Education 3: Cayuga Lake Military Academy (booklet)
Box 2 Folder 4
1891
Practical hints on football, C.M.J. (booklet)
Box 2 Folder 4
n.d.
Student writings (9 mss.)
Box 2 Folder 4
n.d.
Class notes (6 leaves)
Box 2 Folder 4
1858
School list (1 leaf)
Box 2 Folder 4
1858
Receipts (2)
Box 2 Folder 4
1846
Court date notice (mss.)
Box 2 Folder 4
1904
Tart Rhymes (booklet) [advertisement]
Box 2 Folder 4
n.d.
Poems (2)
Box 2 Folder 4
n.d.
Note of addresses (mss.)
Box 2 Folder 4
n.d.
Letter from Mr. Jefferson in possession of Queen Victoria (printed)
Box 2 Folder 4
1851
"The Student"
Box 2 Folder 4
n.d.
Miscellaneous over size items: Economy of Horse Power (broadside)
Box 2 Folder 5
1861
Loan of the City of Philadelphia (certificate)
Box 2 Folder 5
1892
Cortland Opera House (Broadside)
Box 2 Folder 5
1871
Marriage certificate (certificate)
Box 2 Folder 5
1976
Historic Ithaca Greek Revival Festival (Broadside)
Box 2 Folder 5