Petitions
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Box S-5, Pledge Books, State Reservation, 1885
Box S-5 contains: vols. 1-4 and 6 (#5 is missing) of these volumes. They are bound books filled with pledges by people to write their representatives to vote for the bill to "preserve the scenery of Niagara". From the State of New York Assembly Chamber. From the Niagara Falls Historical Society.
Box W-1, 1858-1934
Contains correspondence, receipts, summons, excise dept re: gambling, petitions (for Woodrow Wilson), John J. Welch's papers (including Woodrow Wilson petition) who was a nephew of T.V. Welch, scrapbook pages, a sheet of music by Edward V. Welch "On Niagara's Fair Shore", etc.
Coxe, Bishop, circa 1880-1900, undated
Petition by Bishop Cleveland Coxe against a Jesuit statue in Statuary Hall in Congress
Petition by Berry H. White for road to Ferry + by Peter B. + Augustus Porter to run ferry + construct road on own land, 1834
Petition by Berry H. White and the petition of August Porter and Peter B. Porter requesting authorization to construct a road
Pornography, 1985 - 1990
Photos of anti-pornography protests
DeLancey Rankine Papers
Correspondence, minutes, publicity and scrapbooks related to the 4 WWI (World War One) Liberty Loan drives chaired in Niagara County by Rankine. The collection includes newsletters from campaigns in Buffalo and Rochester, and a lapel pin worn by a committee member, cataloged as 2012.65.1 Topics include World War I, Home Front, Americanization.
Signed petitions by Democrats to make Woodrow Wilson the Democratic nomineer for President of the U.S., 1912
Signed petitions by Democrats to make Woodrow Wilson the Democratic nominee for President of the U.S. to Robert H. Gittens and E.T. Williams