William Henry Hill papers, 1878-1964,-1918-1964 (bulk)
Collection Number: 2398
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Henry Hill papers, 1878-1964,-1918-1964 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2398
Abstract:
Papers of William Henry Hill, who was a New York State and United States congressman,
National Convention delegate, member of the New York State Republican Party executive
committee, chairman of the Broome County Republicans, publisher of the Binghamton
Sun, and Central New York State Parks Commissioner.
Creator:
Hill, William Henry, 1877-1972.
Quanitities:
5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
William Henry Hill was a New York State and United States congressman, National Convention
delegate, member of the New York State Republican Party executive committee, chairman
of the Broome County Republicans, publisher of the Binghamton Sun, and Central New York State Parks Commissioner.
Mostly correspondence between Hill and W. Sterling Cole, Thomas E. Dewey, W. Averell
Harriman, Herbert Hoover, Irving M. Ives, Jacob K. Javits, Kenneth B. Keating, Richard
M. Nixon, Howard Robison, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican National Committee Chairman
Hubert Work, New York Republican State Committee Chairmen William L. Pfeiffer, Dean
P. Taylor, and L. Judson Morhouse, and others, relating to Hill's management of the
1928 Hoover preconvention campaign and to the presidential elections of 1928, 1932,
1952, and 1956; thanking Hill for political support given personally or through his
newspaper; expressing opinions on local or national poitical issues; concerning meetings
of or issues facing the Central New York State Parks Commission; and pertaining to
Hill's inclusion in the Binghamton Chapter of the American Legion's Hall of Fame (1951);
and other topics. Also, Hill's citations and awards, correspondence and other items
pertaining to the SUN'S advertising and policy; original political cartoons by Bob
Satterfield and others; a deposition, complaint, and other items (1932-33) pertaining
to the indictment of the directors of the closed State Bank of Binghamton; payroll
records (2 volumes, 1915-1924 and 1919-1924) of the BINGHAMTON REPUBLICAN and general
accounts; photographs, including autographed pictures of Herbert Hoover; related miscellaneous
pamphlets, books, and printed material; maps and plans of Johnson City and Endicott,
New York.
Also, a large engraving of Abraham Lincoln and portrait of William McKinley, probably
hung in Hill's office at one point.
See Accession Folder for a detailed list of correspondence and photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Henry Hill papers, #2398. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Cole, W. Sterling.
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Ives, Irving.
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986.
Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975.
Morhouse, L. Judson.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Pfeiffer, William L.
Robison, Howard.
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
Satterfield, Bob.
Taylor, Dean P.
Work, Hubert.
American Legion
Central New York State Parks Commission
State Bank of Binghamton
Places:
United States -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- Politics and government.
Johnson City (N.Y.) -- Maps.
Endicott (N.Y.) -- Maps.
Subjects:
Publishers.
Politicians.
Politics, Practical.
Political cartoons.
Parks -- New York.
Newspaper publishing.
Political campaigns.
Banks and banking.
Form and Genre Terms:
Plans (drawings).
Photographs.
Payrolls.
Maps.
Political Cartoons.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Correspondence
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1927-1959 | ||
Pre-1951
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1927-1948 | ||
Box 1 |
Smith, Al
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1927-01-05 | |
Box 1 |
Leonard, Albert (New Rochelle School Supt.)
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1948-03-23 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-04-09 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-04-10 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-05-21 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-06-06 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-06-15 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-08-04 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-11-02 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1928-11-10 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1929-03-15 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1929-03-19 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1935-11-27 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1937-05-18 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1937-11-16 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1939-07-17 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1940-06-28 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1940-07-07 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1940-07-18 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1940-12-08 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1940-12-22 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1941-05-25 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1941-08-23 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1941-10-14 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1942-05-16 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1942-05-19 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1942-05-22 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1942-08-20 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1942-12-21 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1943-08-16 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1944-08-28 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1945-08-17 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1945-12-08 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1946-11-09 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1946-12-26 | |
Box 1 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1947-03-19 | |
Box 1 |
Roosevelt, T., Jr.
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1928-05-14 | |
Box 1 |
Roosevelt, T., Jr.
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1929-05-20 | |
Box 1 |
Treasury Undersecretary Miles
|
1928-06-02 | |
Box 1 |
Eastman, Edward
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1928-06-15 | |
Box 1 |
Letters and telegrams congratulating Hill on Hoover victory at Kansas City, also re:
victory at election from Will Irwin, Chas. S. Wilson, Lewis Strauss, Ogden Mills,
Stanley Isaacs
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Box 1 |
La Guardia
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1938-08-17 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1938-10-29 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1939-06-16 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1939-07-01 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1941-10-08 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1941-11-06 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1942-04-11 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1942-08-28 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1942-11-10 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1944-03-23 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1944-11-07 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
|
1946-03-26 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1946-08-26 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1947-08-10 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1947-08-27 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1948-03-24 | |
Box 1 |
Wilkie
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1940-08-10 | |
Box 1 |
Wilkie
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1940-09-10 | |
Box 1 |
Wilkie
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1940-11-30 | |
Box 1 |
Wilkie
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1941-01-01 | |
Box 1 |
Wilkie
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1941-12-23 | |
Box 1 |
Wilkie
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1943-08-19 | |
Box 1 |
Wilkie
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1944-04-24 | |
Box 1 |
Moses, Robert
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1940-09-25 | |
Box 1 |
Moses, Robert
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1945-12-11 | |
Box 1 |
Reid, Helen Rogers of Tribune
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1943-09-03 | |
Box 1 |
Farley, James A.
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1944-03-13 | |
Box 1 |
Farley, James A.
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1944-03-24 | |
Box 1 |
Sen. R.F. Wagner
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1944-10-05 | |
Box 1 |
Tolley, William of Syracuse U.
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1945-06-26 | |
Box 1 |
Tolley, William of Syracuse U.
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1948-02-20 | |
Box 1 |
Watson, Tom of IBM
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1948-02-21 | |
1951 and later
|
1951-1959 | ||
Box 1 |
Appointment of individuals to jobs
|
1951 | |
Box 1 |
New member of N.Y.S. Institute of Arts & Sciences
|
1951 | |
Box 1 |
Ives
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1951-01-09 | |
Box 1 |
Ives
|
1951-01-10 | |
Box 1 |
Dewey
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1951-01-10 | |
Box 1 |
Pfeiffer, William L., Chairman NY Rep. State Comm.
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1951-01-10 | |
Box 1 |
Ives
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1951-01-13 | |
Box 1 |
Ives
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1951-02-13 | |
Box 1 |
Pfeiffer, William L., Chairman NY Rep. State Comm.
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1951-02-02 | |
Box 1 |
Pfeiffer, William L., Chairman NY Rep. State Comm.
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1951-02-02 | |
Box 2 |
Reapportionment congressional districts, N.Y.S.
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1951-10-23 | |
Box 1 |
Misc. letters re: meetings of local groups and recommendations for jobs from Justice
N.Y.S. Supreme Court for local Civil Service positions
|
1951 | |
Box 1 |
RRates for state park facilities
|
1951 | |
Box 1 |
Evans, Silliman, Nashville Tennessean, and others
|
1951-04-30-1951-05-02 | |
Box 2 |
Business & Professional Women's Club of N.Y.S.
|
1951 | |
Box 2 |
Gulfoil
|
1951 | |
Box 2 |
Parks committee meetings
|
1951 | |
Box 2 |
Gannett
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1951-11-08 | |
Box 2 |
Ford, Henry II
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1951-12-18 | |
Box 2 |
Dewey
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1952-01-12 | |
Box 2 |
Forestal, James (?)
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1952-01-29 | |
Box 2 |
Re: dinners, appearances
|
1952 | |
Box 2 |
Jobs and running for office
|
1952 | |
Box 2 |
Advertisments of Republican Nat. Comm. In local newspapers, esp. Sun
|
1952 | |
Box 2 |
Director
|
1952 | |
Box 2 |
Sherburne Republicans presid. Preferences in connection with Hill's District delegateship
to Rep. Nat'l Convention
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1952-03-11 | |
Box 2 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1952-02-01 | |
Box 2 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1952-07-05 | |
Box 2 |
Knowland, William F.
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1952-07-05 | |
Box 2 |
Letters from constituents showing support for Ike
|
1952 | |
Box 2 |
Moses, Robert
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1952-04-21 | |
Box 2 |
Minutes 66th meeting CNYSPC
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1952-04-01 | |
Box 2 |
League of Women Voters
|
1952 | |
Box 2 |
Dewey
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1952-09-24 | |
Box 3 |
Jobs and reappointments
|
1953 | |
Box 3 |
Ives
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1953-01-19 | |
Box 3 |
Commissioners
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1953-01-25 | |
Box 3 |
BHC
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1953-02-28 | |
Box 3 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1953-04-08 | |
Box 3 |
Minutes 72nd NYS Park Comm.
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1953-05-01 | |
Box 3 |
Letter stating Repub. Nominee for Binghamton mayor is conducting a dirty campaign
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1953-10-28 | |
Box 3 |
Closing of rural post offices and changing them to rural routes & stations
|
1953 | |
Box 4 |
Ives
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1954-01-05 | |
Box 4 |
Cole
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1954-01-21 | |
Box 4 |
Cole
|
1954 | |
Box 4 |
Dewey
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1954-01-04 | |
Box 4 |
Watson, Tom of IBM
|
1954 | |
Box 4 |
Managers' Report 1953 Central NYS Parks Comm.
|
1954 | |
Box 4 |
Letter protesting proposed compulsory auto insurance, NYS
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1954-02-19 | |
Box 4 |
Locker fees at a state park
|
1954 | |
Box 4 |
Pfeiffer, William L., Chairman NY Rep. State Comm.
|
1954 | |
Box 4 |
Advertisement of Midland Bank in Sun
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1954-07 | |
Box 4 |
Get out the vote
|
1954-10-20 | |
Box 4 |
From State Assemblyman regarding getting appointment to certain committees
|
1954 | |
Box 5 |
Republican's cousin being brought to U.S. from Lebanon
|
1955 | |
Box 5 |
De Sapio
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1955-01-26 | |
Box 4 |
Morhouse, L. Judson, NYS Rep. Comm. Chairman
|
1954 | |
Box 5 |
Javits
|
1955-02-02 | |
Box 5 |
Bingham, Jonathan
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1955-02-25 | |
Box 5 |
Regarding helping people get into colleges
|
1955 | |
Box 5 |
Morhouse, L. Judson, NYS Rep. Comm. Chairman
|
1955 | |
Box 5 |
Harriman
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1955-04-08 | |
Box 5 |
Regarding his editorials
|
1955 | |
Box 5 |
Morhouse, L. Judson, NYS Rep. Comm. Chairman
|
1955 | |
Box 5 |
Nixon
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1955-09-06 | |
Box 5 |
Regarding Edward Hanna of Utica's proceedings against Parks Comm. Members
|
1955 | |
Box 5 |
Donlon, Mary
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1955-10-10 | |
Box 6 |
Cole, Sterling
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1956-01-16 | |
Box 6 |
Regarding advertisement in Sun
|
1956 | |
Box 6 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1956-04-11 | |
Box 6 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1956-04-20 | |
Box 6 |
Nixon
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1956-05-03 | |
Box 6 |
Javits
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1956-05-21 | |
Box 6 |
Javits
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1956-05-24 | |
Box 6 |
Kefauver
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1956-06-09 | |
Box 6 |
Kefauver
|
1956 | |
Box 6 |
Taber, John
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1957-02-12 | |
Box 6 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1957-08-21 | |
Box 6 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1957-08-22 | |
Box 6 |
Hoover, Herbert
|
1957-10-08 | |
Box 6 |
State College presidents
|
1957 | |
Box 7 |
Robinson
|
1958 | |
Box 7 |
Martin, Joseph W.
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1958-01-17 | |
Box 7 |
Occasional letters from readers of Sun
|
1958 | |
Box 7 |
Regarding NY Rep. State Comm. Fund dinner
|
1958 | |
Box 7 |
Ives
|
1958 | |
Box 7 |
Pearson, Drew
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1958-08-04 | |
Box 7 |
Keating
|
1958-09-21 | |
Box 7 |
Hoover, Herbert
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1958-11-22 | |
Box 7 |
Regarding a Brady photo of Lincoln
|
1959-02-05 | |
Box 7 |
Fischer, Bob (Spec. Ass't Att'y Gen, NY)
|
1959-02-09 | |
Box 8 |
Keating, Rockefeller, Robinson
|
1959 | |
Box 8 |
Broome Co. Bd. Superv.
|
1959 | |
Box 8 |
Hoover, Herbert
|
1959-08-17 | |
Box 8 |
Regarding population census in NYS
|
1959 | |
Box 8 |
Simpson, Harold E. of CC&S
|
1959-11-18 | |
Miscellaneous items
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Box 9 |
Misc. lists, mimeo items, Hill for Senator item (ca. 1916), a menu, etc.
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Box 9 |
Binghamton Sun items
|
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Box 9 |
Receipt from Republic Printing Co.
|
Apr. 27, 1878 | |
Box 9 |
Delegate ticket to Repub. State Convention
|
1883 | |
Box 9 |
Delegate plates to Repub. Nat'l Convention
|
1932, 1940 | |
Box 9 |
Misc. notes and memos
|
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Box 9 |
Newsclipping and metal plate of Rockefeller's first letter as Governor (written to
Hill)
|
Jan. 5, 1959 | |
Box 9 |
Misc. cards (e.g. credit cards, membership cards)
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Box 9 |
Certificates
|
1913-1959 | |
Box 9 |
Invitations, admission cards
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1929-1957, n.d. | |
Box 10 |
Books and pamphlets (see listing in Accession Folder)
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Box 11 |
Books and pamphlets (see listing in Accession Folder)
|
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Box 11 |
Wooden plaque (presented to Hill by Hall of Fame Congress, American Legion)
|
Nov. 5, 1951 | |
Box 12 |
Misc. items
|
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Box 12 |
Various legal papers concerning Hill
|
1957, n.d. | |
Box 12 |
Deposition, complaint, summons, and memorandum re: State Bank of Binghamton
|
1931-1932 | |
Box 12 |
Newspaper clippings
|
1899, 1916-1964 | |
Box 13 | Folder 1 |
Young Republican Club and RMC material
|
1960 |
Box 13 | Folder 2 |
Inauguration invitations: Hoover, Eisenhower, Truman
|
1929, 1949, 1953 |
Box 13 | Folder 3 |
Portraits of people given to Hill as gifts
|
n.d. |
Box 13 | Folder 4 |
Portraits of people given to Hill as gifts
|
n.d. |
Box 13 | Folder 5 |
Group photos and photos of events
|
n.d. |
Box 13 | Folder 6 |
Hill with Cubs baseball team and unidentified baseball group photo
|
n.d. |
Box 13 |
Miscellaneous Photographs
|
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Box 13 | MU-340 |
Large white button, "Who else but Nelse"
|
n.d. |
Box 13 | MU-341 |
"Pen used by Governor Charles S. Whitman to sign the Hill McCue Child Welfare Bill
and presented by him to Senator William H. Hill"
|
1933 |
Box 13 | MU-342 |
Small button, "Hill for Senator"
|
n.d. |
Box 13 | MU-343 |
Ribbon, "William H. Hill, Foreman Independent Hose Co. #1, Lestershire, N.Y."
|
n.d. |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Portraits of William Hill, including one of him promoting the girl scouts
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 2 |
Photo composite of NYS Legislature
|
1915-1916 | |
Mapcase Folder 3 |
Certificates pertaining to Central NYS Parks Commission, International Business Machines
Corps. and others
|
1925-1952 | |
Mapcase Folder 4 |
Panoramic photo of dinner in honor of Pres. James A. Perkins at Waldorf Astoria
|
1964 | |
Mapcase Folder 4 |
Unidentified group of men with brooms
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 4 |
Unidentified man with fish
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 4 |
NY Young Republican Club dinner in honor of Hon. William H. Hill
|
1918 | |
Mapcase Folder 4 |
Complimentary Dinner, H. Murray Jacoby
|
1928 | |
Mapcase Folder 5 |
Portrait of Eisenhower, printed on satin fabric
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 6 |
Photos of and with Herbert Hoover
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 7 |
Political cartoons by Satterfield and others
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Misc.
|
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Scope and Contents
-Including deed giving Hill ownership of Lestershire Record from Z. A. Stegmuller
(1899), misc. photos, birthday cards, "Broome Likes Dick" poster, "Billy" Hill - written
by Floyd Gibbons
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Mapcase Folder 9 |
RNC panoramic photo
|
1912 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Portrait of William McKinley
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Large engraving of Abraham Lincoln
|
n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 12 |
Plans
|
1917, 1928 | |
Scope and Contents
-Including Lily Lakes area (1928), Johnson City Heights (1917), and Endicott area
flood protection project, unit 1 – Westover (n.d.)
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Mapcase Folder 13 |
Campaign Advertisement
|
1918 | |
Scope and Contents
Addresses the constituents of Congressional District 34 regrading the circulation
of a letter slandering his character.
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Volume 2 |
Payroll records of Binghamton Republican
|
1915-1924 | |
Volume 3 |
General accounts, probably of Johnson City Publishing Co.
|
1919-1924 | |
1 Scrapbook newspaper clippings
|
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Lestershire Record (incomplete)
|
Jan.-Dec. 1901 | ||
Record of Johnson City, Endicott and Union
|
Jan.-June 1920 | ||
Box 14 |
Phonograph, "Jerry Beacher Visits the Hill Family"
|
Jan. 10, 1937 | |
Box 14 |
Phonograph, "Lincoln Day Tributes to William H. Hill"
|
Feb. 1960 |