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  • Sheila Weed // August 2, 2006 at 7:43 am

    Hi,
    I’m a member and an architect, here in syracuse.
    I bought from a garage sale a box of Post Standard news papers that are dated 1917 and 1918.
    They were going to throw them out, so I took them for $1.
    Would these be of use to you? If not who do you think might want them?
    They seem of value, somehow.

  • Melonie Unger // November 22, 2006 at 9:24 pm

    I have a similar situation. My grandmother gave me a large hardcover book called “The Onondagan 1929″. I think it is a yearbook from Syracuse University. It was published by Syracuse University. Is this something you would be interested? I would be happy to donate it to OHA.

  • Jim Miller // December 16, 2006 at 7:12 pm

    Letter dated 30 September 1975 to James Will concerning a Lincoln Photograph from the Gilbert home taken by George N. Barnard.The letter mentions the picture is a copy of a known and dated portrait. I would like to have more information as to date and copied from which photo. I have the picture and frame at this time. Thank you. Houston, Texas

  • Tom Kane // February 24, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    My Great Grandfather had a business in syracuse and was an amatuer archeologist. He left most of his collection to Syracuse University and I learned your office may have had some of it after a fire at the university in the 40’s or 50’s. I am doing some research on him and would like to know if you have anything that may help…..thanks in advance for your assistance……..Tom Kane
    His name was William E Kane
    His Business was Kane & Roach
    it is now Eastern Ambulance

  • Mary Elizabeth Jones // August 9, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    RE: Sheila Weed’s comment dated Aug. 2nd, 2006.
    I would be very interested in looking through the Syracuse newspapers dated 1917-1918. Do you know who has those copies now? I am doing genealogical research on my grandparents who lived and died in Syracuse during those times. Thank you,
    Mary Elizabeth Jones, Delmar, NY

  • Karen Donnelly // August 19, 2007 at 9:51 pm

    I am researching Oliver James Le Faivre (c1870-1937) who I believe ran a music store on Sth Salina c 1885. He later traveled to Fiji and Australia where he was a photographer. Any information anyone has to offer on this gent would be most welcome

  • David Quinlan // January 29, 2008 at 8:22 am

    Dennis,

    We have applied for and received endorsement
    fron the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and are having a show of Francis Bicknell Carpenter’s paintings at the Center4the Arts in Homer, NY. The period is during abolitionist times in and around this area. I was wondering if anyone had a piece of the jerry rescue chains he had broken.
    David Quinlan

  • Rick // January 31, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    To do research on my property at 200 South Geddes St. I went to the historical 5th floor of the Galleries Library down town. They have 150 years worth of news papers that have been scanned into a computer data base. I was able to find an article “first hand” reporter to builder updates on the construction of my building.

    This seriously made research fun!! I would recommend it to any one looking for news articles!!

    Thanks,

    Rick

  • Pamela // March 5, 2008 at 8:49 am

    I am trying to do research on my family tree. My paternal grandmother has become a large mystery for me. I have done many searches and I got nothing except a possible hit for her listed as maybe an inmate in the 1930 census recordin syracuse. Her name is Rena Sodan but the census has it as Rena Soden which maybe they miss spelt it as I find alot error’s in spelling of name’s. It is from syracuse, NY and I noticed that the age’s are from 9 yrs old to 57yrs old on these girl’s. Does anyone know if there was a boarding house or maybe a orphanage or something there or can give me any input on this matter. My dad said she never talked about anything in her past, not even parent’s so I don’t know how to track her. Can someone please help?

  • Mary Ellen Snodgrass // March 22, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    To: Dennis Connors

    Many thanks for assisting me with my research. With your help, my two-volume book, The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations, is available from M. E. Sharpe.
    Happy Easter,
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    http://www.aphrab.net

  • Andrew F. Butcher // June 23, 2008 at 4:39 am

    Dear Onondaga Historical:

    I am an historian working in connection with the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.

    I am trying to find details of a bookshop in Syracuse, New York, which I believe to have existed in 1968.

    The name of the shop was “Economy Bookshop and Stationery Store Inc.”.

    The address was 317 South Salina Street.

    I would like to know as much about it as possible and would be grateful for any help.

    yours sincerely,

    Andrew Butcher

  • Barbara Iorio // September 29, 2008 at 10:43 am

    I have the following books in my possession. Would the Onondaga Historical Association be interested in them? The books are:

    The New York Red Book…. Volumes 1910, 1914, 1916, 1918, (3) 1919, 1931

    Journal of the Board of Supervisors …Volumes 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1927

    Bureau of Statistics of Labor – State of New York – 1896

    Board of Supervisors, County of Onondaga -1893, 1898, 1919, 1920, 1928

    Dennis M. Hurley, Memorial Addresses, House of Representatives 1899 – 1890

    Government Statistics, Handbook of the United States of America, Guide to Emmigration Giving latest and most complete statistics….1885

    Please contact me by e-mail or by telephone at 475-0214
    Thank you.
    Barbara Iorio

  • Joanne Dahlgren // November 23, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    My father lived in Syracuse from his birth in 1912 until 1924. I have a collection of his reminiscences of growing up in the Italian immigrant community in Syracuse. He was a great storyteller, and these are charming stories of the immigrant experience. There are 150 pages of stories. I’d be happy to send them to the museum if you think they’d be useful. I imagine a local storyteller might be able to use them to give school children and others a feeling for life in Syracuse in those days.

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