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Notes, certificates, and notices relating to Schuyler Strong's career as a lawyer, as well as several items relating to Union College.

Content Description Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister and missionary as well as a political leader, and he was involved in establishing government agencies and Presbyterian community throughout the territory that became Alaska and the Western portions of the United States. The Sheldon Jackson Collection provides evidence of his work in Alaska and Colorado, including the establishment of the First Presbyterian Church of Sitka and the Museum of Alaskan Natural History and Ethnology. In addition,...

Content Description The Sherret S. Chase Papers consist primarily of organizational records from the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks (AfPA), Catskill Center for Conservation and Development (CCCD), Friends of the Catskill Interpretive Center (FCIC), the Olive Natural Heritage Society, and other Adirondacks and Catskills related groups.Olive Natural Heritage Society records include meeting minutes, bylaws, correspondence, an inventory of plant life on Tan Eyck Mountain, and...

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Typescripts of six humorous essays for the New Yorker.

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Records of the Sigma Chi fraternity. At present, collection consists of one issue of the Union Sig publication from 1928.

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This collection was created in response to the global pandemic known as COVID-19, or Novel Coronovirus, beginning in March, 2020. The Department of Special Collections at Schaffer Library have started this collection as an ongoing effort to collect responses of the Union College community, as well as those local to it, who have been affected by the pandemic in one way or another.

Content Description The Society of the Descendants of Norman Fox Records contains historical records collected by the Society, as well as the Society's own records. Historical records include the papers of the descendants of Norman Fox (1792-1863) and genealogical information. Materials date from 1800 to 2007 but the bulk of it dates to the mid to late nineteenth century. Part of the collection sustained water damage and photocopies have been made for preservation purposes. Oversized materials include...

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The Sports Information Department Records include clippings, press releases, photographs, statistics, and artifacts relating to Union College sports teams.

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12 individual leaves taken from disbound religious and antiquarian books. Each leaf is mounted on a sheet of paper which also includes a facsimilie of the title page from each respective volume.

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Meeting minutes, memos, reports, and other documents from Student Affairs Council Chair Ruth Anne Evans.

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Two boxes containing scrapbook materials, disassembled for conservation purposes, with ephemera such as corsages, newspaper clippings, commencement pamphlets, and brochures from sports events. Scrapbooks were assembled by Marget Carey Taormina, Union College employee and wife of Frank Taourmina, UC Class of 1950.

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Copy of Crane's introduction to "The Education demanded by the People of the U. States" by Francis Wayland with footnotes added.

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Correspondence, legal documents, and other material mostly relating to the construction of the Theta Delta Chi House.

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Daily diaries written by Judge Thomas Palmer of Schenectady with typewritten transcripts. Other materials include diplomas, certificates, and miscellaenous writings. Dairies provide a glimpse into political, religious, business, and social life of Schenectady and Saratoga Counties in the 19th century. Complete diaries are missing for the years 1848-1852.

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Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, receipts, commencement materials, and information on Tillott's Blatchford Oratorical Prize.

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Constitution, membership list, and a history of the Tiger's Eye Society.

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Extensive financial records, including bill books, cash books, day books, journals, ledgers, vouchers, and correspondence. Substantial records from the Nott Trust and Union's ownership of Long Island City real estate are also included.

Scope and Contents The papers within this collection consist chiefly of the correspondence and professional activity related to Twitty J. Styles career at Union College. A majority of the correspondence relates to Twitty’s work on various Union and non–Union related committees, letters from students and colleagues, as well as his role as a founding member of the Union College organization UNITAS. In addition to correspondence, materials include copies of Twitty’s publications, research interests, and course...

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Financial records, membership lists, and memos for the Union College Locker Association, a cooperative deep freeze locker and food buying organization.

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Transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with female Union College alumni conducted by students in History 16: Women in Modern America taught by Professor Andrea R. Foroughi in Spring of 2000. The interviews date from 2000-2002, and for this project students interviewed women who attended Union College in the earlier years of coeducation. 

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Meeting minutes, publications, grant proposals, ephemera and other records of UNITAS, an advisory committee which promotes multiculturalism and diversity at Union College.

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Photographic negatives of Schenectady street scenes. Photographs apparently taken by H. Collingwood.

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First draft of "Gleanings from Archives and Apparatus: The First Century of Physics at Union College" by V. Ennis Pilcher.

Content Description Research records, including reports, patent documentation, and publications from General Electric Company researcher Victor H. Fraenckel. Records covering the Second World War document attempts at reverse engineering and jamming V-1 rockets and include declassified materials on captured German electronic devices. Post-war materials include a systematic attempt at surveying scientific research in Western Europe for prospective GE recruiting. Other business materials include inventions by...

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The collection consists of class notes and papers written by DeBaun while a student at Union College, as well as later correspondence with his former professors, including Harold W. Blodgett.

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Typescript of a physics textbook.