COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes genealogical correspondence, 1922-53; mimeographed Elsbree family letters and other papers; letters and other papers of Jabez and Lewis Beers relating to the New Jerusalem Church of Danby, 1815-74, and to the Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company, 1810-20; attendance records and other papers of the Tornado Hook and Ladder Company, No. 3, Ithaca, 1843-1928; notes and clippings on history of Ithaca and Tompkins County; commencement ball in New Haven; invitations; cemetery records from Tompkins County; autograph album, account and recipe book, and photograph album of Llewellyn Elsbree; many family and other photographs; broadsides and pamphlets; and much miscellaneous material on local history and genealogy.
Dates
- 1788-1953.
Creator
- Elsbree, Anna (Collector, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
4.5 cubic feet. (4.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes genealogical correspondence, 1922-53; mimeographed Elsbree family letters and other papers; letters and other papers of Jabez and Lewis Beers relating to the New Jerusalem Church of Danby, 1815-74, and to the Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company, 1810-20; attendance records and other papers of the Tornado Hook and Ladder Company, No. 3, Ithaca, 1843-1928; notes and clippings on history of Ithaca and Tompkins County; commencement ball in New Haven; invitations; cemetery records from Tompkins County; autograph album, account and recipe book, and photograph album of Llewellyn Elsbree; many family and other photographs; broadsides and pamphlets; and much miscellaneous material on local history and genealogy.
Physical Description
Correspondence, an autograph album, an account book, a recipe book, a photograph album, photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, and other materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- D.F. Sutter, M.E. Warren
- Date completed:
- June 1991
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2003
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, June 2012
- Accounts.
- Autographs (manuscripts).
- Beers, Jabez.
- Beers, Lewis.
- Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
- Danby (N.Y.)
- Elsbree family.
- Elsbree, Llewellyn.
- Fire departments.
- Fire stations.
- Genealogies.
- Ithaca (N.Y.)
- Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company
- New Jerusalem Church (Danby, N.Y.)
- Photographs.
- Recipes.
- Toll roads -- New York (State)
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Genealogies.
- Tornado Hook and Ladder Company No. 3 (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by D.F. Sutter, M.E. Warren
- Date
- April 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu