Correspondence

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1881 scrapbook:

Mrs. C.W. Lindsay's photo collection, 1881 ff. 2 photo albums and one box of loose photographs/cards/letters

Included are photos of J.H. Kellogg and J.N. Andrews"

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Porter Genealogical Chart, tax documents, deeds, bank receipts, cancelled checks, General Parkhurst Whitney Papers, Deed from State of New York to Judge Augustus Porter and Benjamin Barton for Prospect Park (later sold back to the State of NY).

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Receipts, cash ledgers, correspondence, receipt from a dinner at The International Hotel ($22.75), a deed, etc. An envelope labeled "Elizabeth Landreth" contains documents and correspondence mostly having to do with land and mortgage agreements.

Box S-1 (Welch) Contains correspondence of T.V. Welch that had been arranged in an accordian file according to letter of name or company (A-Z). Some later items belonged to T.V. Welch's nephew, John J. Welch, who was active in the Democratic Party and "Company E". Other topics include: 42nd Company, water rights, Woodrow Wilson, a letter from Jacob Riis, The State Reservation at Niagara, letter from the Buffalo Historical Society and others. These boxes were in an accordian file "A-Z" and are...

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Porter Family documents, primarily correspondence (mostly personal, some business). Includes a few drawings attributed to Vincent M. Porter of buildings in Canandaigua, NY (1812).

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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.

Scope and Contents -Congressional Resolution (1809)-Indentures for land-Will of Augustus Porter (handwritten in 1849)-Mortgage-Abstract of sale of land for Porter "homestead"-Letter and document by lawyer re: extension of Wing Pier-"Memorandum of Occurrences and some Important Facts attending the Campaign on the Niagara" ca. 1825-Copy of letter by A.S. Porter, Volney's Views (1796)-Personal Narrative of Travels...

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Letters sent to Charles M. Clark

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Photographs of artist James Francis Brown and two photographs of his works. Also included are letters and envelopes - one from James Brown, one from Orrin E. Dunlap, and one from Samuel S. Koenig, NY Secretary of State.

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Correspondence sent by M. I. MacDonald related to the appointment of a construction manager. One page.