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Petitions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Box S-5, Pledge Books, State Reservation, 1885

 Box — Box S-5: [Barcode: SC2229]
Identifier: box 2
Box S-5

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.

Dates: 1885

Box W-1, 1858-1934

 Box — Box W-1: [Barcode: SC2226]
Identifier: Box 3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1858-1934

Coxe, Bishop, circa 1880-1900, undated

 File — Drawer C-5-1: [Barcode: SC0993]
Scope and Contents

Petition by Bishop Cleveland Coxe against a Jesuit statue in Statuary Hall in Congress

Dates: circa 1880-1900, undated

Petition by Berry H. White for road to Ferry + by Peter B. + Augustus Porter to run ferry + construct road on own land, 1834

 File
Scope and Contents

Petition by Berry H. White and the petition of August Porter and Peter B. Porter requesting authorization to construct a road

Dates: 1834

Pornography, 1985 - 1990

 File — Drawer SC1037: [Barcode: SC1037]
Scope and Contents

Photos of anti-pornography protests

Dates: 1985 - 1990

DeLancey Rankine Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: RAN-000-000-039
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1916-1919

Signed petitions by Democrats to make Woodrow Wilson the Democratic nomineer for President of the U.S., 1912

 File
Identifier: Box 3
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1912