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The collection consists primarily of letters written by Hans Hainebach to his mother while serving in the US Army during the Second World War. Other material includes a photograph of Hainebach and uniform patches.

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The Harold A. Jerry, Jr. papers consist of 11.09 cubic feet and date from 1952-1995. The papers include environmental reports, correspondence, writings, and other records associated with Jerry's work as a government official working to prevent overdevelopment in the Adirondack Park.

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The Harrison L. Wirt papers date from 1898-1960, and measure .61 cubic feet. Found within the papers are patents, writings, correspondence, and other materials associated with Wirt's career as a gas turbine engineer at General Electric.

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Newspaper articles, photographs, and postcards of Harry Naumann with Psi Upsilon fraternity members and friends while a student at Union College and one photograph of a class reunion.

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Union College ephemera from Harry Worthington Paige (Class of 1946).

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Personal letters from Henry R. Mygatt (UC 1830) to John Clapp. Also includes a photograph of Mygatt.

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Architectural plans created by Paul Schaefer during construction and renovation of houses and munipical projects in the North Country and Town of Niskayuna.

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Notebook kept by Homer Greene containing copies of poems by various authors, including Greene himself.

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Photograph album of the Reverend Horace G. Day, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Schenectady. Contains photographs of local residents and Union College professors.

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Family correspondence and other letters of Union College student Horatio Wildman (Class of 1817).

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Minutes, constitution, and membership listing of a student organization acting as a mock United States House of Representatives.

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Book of minutes with various related papers inserted.

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This collection consists of three bound artifacts which contain pressed wildflowers and plants of the Colorado and Rocky Mountain areas. One is dated 1896, gathered by Dr. H.G. Pershing, in Denver, Colorado, another is titled "Wildflowers of the Rockies," and the third it titled "Flora Alpina" with George T. Stevens named as the collector. Dates are approximate.

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Photographs, publications, papers, and ephemera from Irving Langmuir. The collection also contains business correspondence of his father, Charles Langmuir. Eight albums of photographs document travels throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

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Receipts (1856-1858) for payments by Isaac I. Truax and his son Edgar I. Truax (Class of 1859) to Union College and programs for the annual exercises of the Union Classical Institute (1877, 1882).

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The Isaac W. Jackson Collection measures .89 cubic feet and span the years 1832-1878. The collection consists of diaries, notebooks, an account ledger, genealogical information, writings, newspaper clipping, and printed materials detailing the life and career of Issac W. Jackson at Union College.

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Student diaries of Jabez P. Dake (Class of 1849) covering his studies at Madison University and Union College.

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The contents of this collection consist of an illustration, promotional materials for various events, a postcard, facsimile documents, an exhibition catalogue, a calendar, a small booklet, a theatre program, and a monthly publication.

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Ephemera of James P. Barford (UC 1940) including commencement exercises, ReUnion materials, articles about Union College, and Union Gridiron magazines.

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Manuscript account by James R. Truax of a discussion he had with Robert G. Ingersoll on religion in the early 1880s. Also includes an explanatory typescript and some notes, probably from Walter J. Reagles.

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The Jeanne Robert Foster Collection measures .95 cubic feet and was created during the years 1896-2004, with the bulk of materials falling between 1921-1970. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, poetry, photographs, and other records.

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The Jeanne Robert Foster papers measure 13.7 cubic feet and date from 1854-2003, with the bulk of materials from 1930-1970. Materials in the collection include biographical information, correspondence, unpublished writings, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera.

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Diary of Jennie Livingston, a student in the former Schenectady Female Academy founded by Urania Nott, beginning when she was a student and ending with the election of Abraham Lincoln.

Scope and Contents The papers consist mainly of mimeographed International Voluntary Services, Inc. newsletters which take the form of letters sent by Porter to friends and family. The newsletters describe Porter's travel accounts and impressions of teaching chemistry abroad in Laos during the Second Indochina War. The accounts describe being challenged by the language barrier and lack of infrastructure to carry out his teaching according to western standards. In addition, there is one photocopied postcard...

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Eight letters pertaining to his writing and other business matters.

Scope and Contents The John Bigelow Papers consist of the extensive correspondence of Bigelow and his family, his scrapbooks and his writings, records and correspondence detailing his professional activities, diaries and journals belonging to Bigelow and other family members, genealogical documents and records of the Bigelow family, and a variety of photographs.The Correspondence series includes around 24,000 letters from noteable figures, including Andrew Carnegie, Charles Dickens, John Jay, J.P....