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Preliminary Guide to Environmental Sources

Historical Records Repositories in New York State

Onondaga County Public Library. Central Library

447 South Salina Street Syracuse, NY 13202-2494

  • Weber, Herman R. A proposed $48.8 million metropolitan sewage treatment plant for Syracuse, New York : an answer to control pollution of Onondaga Lake?
    1970
    47 p. ; 29 cm.

Onondaga Historical Association.

Syracuse, NY

  • Ackles, Myra Schell, 1882-1964. Papers, 1893-1960.
    .2 cubic ft.

    Housewife in Town of Tully.
    Letters to Ackles from her son Rev. Howard Ackles, 1928-1960, discussing seminary training at Drew Seminary, ministerial positions, and family affairs; letters to Myra from other family members, 1930-1945; correspondence between Myra and Gov. Herbert Lehman concerning proposed construction on land she sold to the State Forestry Station, 1935-1936; family deeds, wills and leases, 1893-1930; family letters to Arthur Bonner, a resident in the Ackles home, discussing jobs, shopping and vacations, 1936-1955, including one letter from Myra; a diary of an automobile trip from Massachusetts to California by Bess and Tom Bonner, 1953.

  • Onondaga Historical Association. Miscellaneous collection, 1562-1900.
    25 items.

    English deed between Jasper Ffissher and John Goslyn, 1562; English mortgage involving Samuel Young, 1787; map and memoranda concerning division of land in Ulster County (N.Y.), 1740; reminiscences and historical sketches of Syracuse by Delia Colvin Hatch, 1894-1900; patents of William Avery for distiller, boiler, and drying mechanism for sawdust, 1825-1836; and a manuscript literary journal issued by a woman's club in Onondaga Valley, N.Y., 1858.
    Subject: Wood waste--Recycling.

  • Onondaga Historical Association. Scrapbook collection, 1861-1964.
    ca. 100 v.

    Clippings, programs, photographs, postcards, and memorabilia concerning local history, trade unions, weather, politics, Civil War, World War I, housing and real estate, genealogy, Syracuse University, fires, cycling, elections, theater, public health, black history, sports and recreation, railways, water supply, and murder trials. Individuals highlighted include William C. Cady, 1881, Dr. James Carlton Carson, 1875-1911, Moses DeWitt, 1935, Manning C. Palmer, 1905, Major Theodore L. Poole, 1895-1896, Hurlbut W. Smith, 1908-1910, Moses Summers, General H. W. Slocum, 1862-1894, and John H. Walrath 1922-1925.

Oswego County Historical Society.

135 East 3rd Street, Oswego, NY 13126

  • City of Oswego Pamphlet Box, 1860-1960.
    0.3 cubic ft.

    Minutes, constitutions, bylaws, and rosters of The Leatherstocking Club, a wildlife conservation group, 1860; the Oswego Yacht Club, 1891-1907; the Oswego Rural Cemetery Association, 1910; and the Winter Literary Club, 1925.

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