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Martha Bradstreet Legal papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0687
Dates:
1795 - 1861
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Mechanical Engineering Department Records
Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG03-038
Dates:
1943 - 2019
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Mortimer F. Sayre papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0135
Content Description
Notes, writings, speeches, correspondence, and reference material from Union College mechanical engineering professor Mortimer F. Sayre.
Dates:
1915 - 1959
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
New York State Conservation Council, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: ARL-026
Overview
The New York State Conservation Council, Inc. records measure 1.89 cubic feet and were created during the years 1937-1989. The records consist of annual meeting minutes, reports, resolutions, and other records of the Council.
Dates:
1937 - 1989
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Noel Riedinger-Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: ARL-080
Overview
The Noel Riedinger-Johnson papers measure .77 cubic feet and spanm the years 1912 to 2013. The collection of personal papers includes research files, writings, articles, photographs, and other materials used in editing "Adirondack portraits: a piece of time," and other research on Jeanne Robert Foster and Paul Schaefer.
Dates:
1912 - 2013
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Office of College Relations records
Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG04-013
Content Description
The Office of College Relations contains extensive historical subject files, records from the Campaign for Union as well as the later Powering Union Campaign. Includes accompanying film "A Union of People," and other records relating primarily to fundraising and construction. Files include reports, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and audio-visual recordings. Alumni files consist of collected biographical materials on alumni and non-graduates who attended Union College.
Dates:
1797 - 2020
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Osmond D. Putnam photographs
Collection
Identifier: ARL-081
Scope and Contents
Collection of 132 glass plate negatives, 150 photographs and information on images showing rural Adirondack life in the 1880s from the personal collection of Osmond D. Putnam (1861-1926). Sizes of the glass plates vary. Copy prints made from the glass plate negatives were used in Jeanne Robert Foster books, Neighbors of Yesterday and Adirondack Portraits. Original negative enclosures contain hand-written notes by Foster identifying the...
Dates:
1885 - 1986
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Paul Schaefer collection
Collection
Identifier: ARL-013
Overview
The Paul Schaefer collection consists of ca. 62 cu ft of correspondence, maps, litigation manuscripts, legislative documents, pamphlets, circulars, published materials, photographic material, audio recordings, video recordings, and art prints. The collection is in good condition, however some of the material exhibits water or insect damage. The dates within the collection range from 1870 to1997, with the bulk of the collection falling between 1940 and 1997. This collection documents...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1908 - 1997
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Paul Schaefer Plans collection
Collection
Identifier: ARL-076
Scope and Contents
Architectural plans created by Paul Schaefer during construction of houses and munipical projects in the North Country and Town of Niskayuna.
Dates:
1955 - 1985
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Per O. Moberg papers
Collection
Identifier: ARL-079
Scope and Contents
Materials related to the work of Per Moberg while employed with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, as a member of the Sierra Club and in other advisory committees spanning the years 1892 to 2009. The collection contains unit management plans and drafts, photographs, transcripts, lectures, publications, maps, meeting agendas, reports, minutes, printed materials, position papers and official correspondence dealing with environmental issues in New York's Forest Preserve.
Dates:
1892 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1967 - 2001
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Philip John Schuyler family letters
Collection — Drawer: 52, Frame: 1
Identifier: SCA-1168
Overview
Letters related to Philip John Schuyler and his family, 1777-1800.
Dates:
1708 - 1800
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCA-1095
Scope and Contents
Postcards of the campus, its vicinity, artifacts, individuals, events, activities, and sites and scenes associated with the College, Schenectady, and surrounding areas. Postcards in this collection have been sorted to correspond to their location on or near campus.
Dates:
1900 - 2015
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Protect the Adirondacks!, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: ARL-073
Overview
The records of Protect the Adirondacks!, Inc. measure 60 cubic feet and date from 1901-2012. They consist of organizational records, subject files, audio-visual recordings, publications, and other materials pertaining to environmental issues as addressed by Protect the Adirondacks!, Inc. and its predecessor organizations, the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks (AfPA) and Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks (RCPA). Also included are records of the education arm of the...
Dates:
1901 - 2012
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Ramee Documents collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-1159
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of documents made by architect Jacques Ramee between 1812 and 1814. President Eliphalet Nott hired Ramee as to design the campus of Union College 1812 and 1814, and much of the design remains intact today. Many of the folders in this collection contain reproductions of these documents created during research by Paul Turner for his publications on the creation of the campus.
Dates:
1812 - 1848
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
ReUnion Photographs
Collection — Drawer: 1
Identifier: SCA-1173
Scope and Contents
These are photographs of Union College alumni class reunions taken by year of graduation of each class from 1955 through 1978. Black and white photographs found in collections, gift of Robert Trumbull. Date of gift is unknown but possibly in the 1980s.
Dates:
1955 - 1978
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Robert F. Flacke papers on the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Collection
Identifier: ARL-018
Content Description
The papers include correspondence, planning records, legislative and agency reports, photographs, postcards, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings related to the approval process, planning and environmental impacts of the Olympics.
Dates:
1974 - 1980
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Schenectady Union-Star Records
Collection — Drawer: 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: SCA-1178
Dates:
1955-04-22
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Schenectady Wintersports Club records
Collection
Identifier: ARL-008
Content Description
The collection consists of the records of the Schenectady Wintersports Club and documents skiing and other outdoor activities in New York's Capital District and Vermont. Administrative records consist of meeting minutes, financial records, membership lists, agreements, constitutions, bylaws and lists of officers. General records include newsletters, printed materials, historical files, information on ski lodge construction, photographs and miscellaneous materials from the years 1929 to 2002.
Dates:
1929 - 2002
Found in:
Adirondack Research Library
Sheldon Jackson Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA- 0067
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,...
Dates:
1862 - 1928
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Sigma Chi records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-1179
Scope and Contents
Records of the Sigma Chi fraternity. At present, collection consists of one issue of the Union Sig publication from 1928.
Dates:
1928
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Social Distancing and COVID-19 collection
Item
Identifier: SCA-1182
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
2020-03 - 2020
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Taormina Family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-1177
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1949 - 1959
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Twitty and Constance Glasgow Styles papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-1080
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...
Dates:
1948 - 2017
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Union Women Oral History Project Interviews
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0678
Content Description
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.
Dates:
2000 - 2002
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Ward Wright Briggs papers
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-1174
Scope and Contents
Collection containing photographs of Ward Wright Briggs, M.D., UC Class of 1932. Photographs show Briggs at his graduation, as well as with his fraternity Kappa Alpha Order. Included is a article cut from a newspaper about the Class of 1912 winning the college alumni prizes. Collection donated by Ward Briggs, Jr.
Dates:
1928 - 1932
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Warren O. Kamm papers
File — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-1167
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a donated gift of the late Warren O. Kamm from the Union College Class of 1945, as per his estate. It includes some personal memorabilia from Union College student days, alumni materials and reunions. The collection also contains State of the Union reports published by Union College, as well as materials related to war and wartime training, athletic events,as well as publications such as the Signet and Beta Rays, which were publications of the Beta Chapter of Phi Sigma...
Dates:
1942 - 1965
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
William A. Waldron personal papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0237
Content Description
The William A. Waldron personal papers include records of his work for the New York State Assembly and Constitutional Convention, the War Labor Board, class notes taken while a student at Union College, state and federal government publications, materials prepared for a Union College class reunion and correspondence. A small amount of material from his father, Charles N. Waldron, is also included and contains photographs, printed materials and news clippings.
Dates:
1902 - 2004
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
William James Stillman collection
Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SCA-0144
Content Description
The collection is comprised of a wide range of materials reflecting Stillman’s long and prolific career in journalism, as well as his intimate ties to literary, artistic and political circles of the nineteenth century. In addition to close to six hundred letters and documents between Stillman and family, friends, colleagues and associates, there are several unpublished manuscripts by Stillman: essays, articles, stories and poetry.Several large photograph albums contain Stillman’s...
Dates:
1838 - 1978
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
William Stanley Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0319
Overview
The collection consists of 12.24 cubic feet and dates from 1848 to 1970. It includes the personal papers of William Stanley Jr., a pioneer of alternating current, demonstrating his laboratory work with power transformers and business ventures. Also included are general materials on the history of General Electric, Pittsfield Works.
Dates:
1848 - 1970
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Women's Studies 10/Anthropology 12: Gender and Society Oral History Interviews
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG03-029-002
Content Description
This collection contains recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by students in the class titled Gender and Society taught by Professor Sharon Gmelch. The interviews were conducted in 1995, and interviewees consist of faculty members, wives of faculty members, staff and students in the Union College community regarding experiences before, during and after coeducation was adopted at Union College. Scope and Contents This...
Dates:
1995
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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