Robinson family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1960

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers include correspondence, legal documents, and related papers dealing with the law practice of James Richards Robinson (1885-1953); letters from constituents and special interest groups, copies of bills and hearings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to his service as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly, 1923-1936; scattered letters and pamphlets relating to his early Pesbyterian pastorate at Weston, Schuyler County. A stock ledger, subscribers' list, and advertising cuts of the Danby Telephone Co., ca.1912-1926, and broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, and photographs from Ithaca, New York and elsewhere. Also papers, 1868-1881, of Mr. Robinson's father, James, Sr., principal of Southold Academy, Suffolk County, which include letters, a roll book, a student petition, school announcements and bills, manuscript orations and essays; personal and household accounts, 1868-1880; a scrapbook and estate settlement papers of Douglass Boardman, a distant relative of James Robinson; and blueprints (1922-1926) of the Masonic Temple in Ithaca.

Dates

1868-1950.

Creator

Robinson family. (Family)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Correspondence, legal documents, and related papers dealing with the law practice and family life of James Richards Robinson.

Physical Description

Legal and financial records, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and blueprints.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: February 2016
EAD encoding:: Marcie Farwell, February 2016
Date modified:: RMC Staff, February 2016