Box Q-9 (books) - Porter #1 Books + Poems, 1703-1905
Scope and Contents
Books from The Porter Collection:
-Library Catalogue, 1882. A. H. Porter;
-Field Notes of Lot Lines on the New York State Reservation Niagara Co. By David E. E. (?)
-Mix surveyed in 1803 by Simeon DeWitt (Field Notes on a Tract of Land lying on the Niagara River in the County of Genesee and State of New York)
-"Niagara, Jephthah, Remarks upon the Defense of Wessex by Alfred the Great..."(from the library of Peter A. Porter);
-Kalm, Peter: _An Account of the Great Falls of Niagara (handwritten), 1751 with a note by Porter in the front
-"Extract from Baron LaHoutan's New Voyages to North America (1703)" (hand-copied by Porter)
-Niagara House Company (Monteagle) Stock book (1846)
-"Appendix: The Past and Future of Niagara Falls" by Warren Upham
-Niagara from Travels in New England and New York by Timothy Dwight, late President of Yale College in vol. IV New Haven, 1882
-"The Past and Future of Niagara, 1872, Gunning (Popular science Monthly)
-The Institution of Civil Engineers at Niagara Falls, Tuesday, September 27, 1904 (presented by the Local Committee of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers)
-Peter A. Porter and His Cow (DeWeese) from Judicious Advertising and Advertising Experience (n.d.)
-"The Menace to Niagara", Dr. John M. Clark, reprinted from The Popular Science Monthly (April 1905) (about diverting too much water away from Niagara Falls for power production)
-"The Pulp Mill of the Cliff Paper Company of Niagara Falls, NY, advance copy, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1894
-"Niagara Its Falls and Scenery" (n.d.)
-Some Observations on Niagara (n.d., geological observations).
Dates
- 1703-1905
Extent
From the Collection: 10.0 Linear feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Porter, Julia (Person)
- From the Collection: Porter, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1853-1925 (Person)
- From the Collection: Porter, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1853-1925 (Person)
- From the Collection: Porter (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) (Family)
Repository Details
Part of the Niagara Falls Public Library Local History Repository
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Niagara Falls NY 14305 United States
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