Archives & Library Special Collections
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Call Number: 1977.005
Extent: 0.25 Linear feet, in 12 folders in one manuscript box
The 90th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Association papers includes documents concerning this Civil War veterans organization, founded 1884, and to a somewhat lesser extent, Mansfield Post No. 35 of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.). These documents were written or compiled by Thomas D. Sugden, a member and sometime officer of the organizations, both of Brooklyn, New York. The bulk of the material dates from 1882-1894. It includes meeting notes, admission tickets and other ephemera, a scrapbook of 90th Veterans Association memorabilia, invitations, financial reports for Post 35, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. The collection includes only three items dating from the 90th regiment’s war years; these are three numbers of The New Era, a newspaper published in Key West, Florida, and edited by the regiment’s quartermaster.
Names:
- Sugden, Thomas D., d. 1923
- 90th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Association (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Grand Army of the Republic. Mansfield Post No. 35 (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 90th (1861-1866)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Veterans
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Veterans
Subjects:
- New era (Key West, Fla.)
- American newspapers — Florida — Key West
- Veterans — New York (State) — Societies, etc.
- Veterans — New York (State) — Kings County — Societies, etc.
Types of material:
- Admission tickets
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Invitations
- Leaflets (printed works)
- Minutes
- Printed ephemera
- Scrapbooks
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Call Number: ARC.245
Extent: 4.0 Linear feet, in 5 manuscript boxes and 9 boxes of various sizes
The collection was compiled over time by the Brooklyn Historical Society (formerly the Long Island Historical Society). It principally contains the records of two major Brooklyn-based Civil War relief associations, the War Fund Committee and the Women’s Relief Association, including records of their various projects. A large portion of the collection documents one significant project undertaken by these organizations, the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair of 1864, also known as the Sanitary Fair. Documentation of the Fair covers both its financial aspects and the events and exhibits taking place there, and includes posters, broadsheets, printed matter, the Fair’s newspaper, subscription books, admission tickets, stereographs of the New England Kitchen exhibit, and more. Some artifacts exhibited at the Fair are included in the collection, notably an album of autographed writings with contributions by Hawthorne, Longfellow, and James Fenimore Cooper, among many others. Documents concerning other relief organizations are found in the collection, including the Brooklyn Bureau of the American Freedmen’s Friend Society and the Brooklyn and Long Island Christian Commission. Records of fundraising in Brooklyn for a Lincoln Monument Fund and in response to an 1866 fire in Portland, Maine, are also included. In addition, the collection holds other materials, primarily concerning the Civil War, relief efforts in cities other than Brooklyn, politics, commercial advertising, and other matters.
Names:
- Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission. (1864)
- War Fund Committee (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Women’s Relief Association of the City of Brooklyn
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Kings County (N.Y.) — Newspapers
Subjects:
- Boatswain’s whistle
- Drum beat
- Our daily fare
- Sanitary fair bulletin
- Spirit of the fair (New York, N.Y.)
- Charities — New York (State) — Kings County
- Fairs — New York (State) — Kings County
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 — Correspondence
- Presidents — United States — Election — 1864
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Civilian relief
- War — Relief of sick and wounded
Types of material:
- Admission tickets
- Advertisements
- American newspapers
- Autographs (manuscripts)
- Broadsides (notices)
- Correspondence
- Donor lists
- Lecture notes
- Ledgers (account books)
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Minutes
- Poetry
- Printed ephemera
- Printing plates
- Receipts (financial records)
- Scrapbooks
- Stereographs
- Subscription lists
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Call Number: 1991.017
Extent: 0.1 items, in one folder
A manuscript journal, written by John C. Champion, a crew member of the U.S.S. Adirondack, listing all the men on board, their rank, duties, battle stations, arms carried, and written orders and commands for 11 foot pivot guns. The journal is dated 1862.
The U.S.S. Adirondack was a screw sloop launched on February 22, 1862 at the New York Naval Shipyard (more commonly known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard) and commissioned later in the year under the command of G. Gansevoort. The Adirondack joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron as part of the Union cause in the American Civil War in July 1862. During July and August the ship cruised near the Bahamas in search of Confederate vessels. On August 22, 1862, the Adirondack ran aground on Little Bahama Bank, Abaco, Man of War Cay, Bahama Islands. Her crew was rescued but all salvage attempts failed to rescue the ship.
Names:
- Champion, John C.
- Adirondack (Screw Sloop)
- New York Naval Shipyard
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Naval operations
Subjects:
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1986.057
Extent: 0.25 Linear feet, in 15 folders
This collection contains the papers of the Tilley family of Oyster Bay, Long Island and Yonkers, N.Y. Materials in the collection include property records, wills, certificates, military commissions, and Civil War letters, all of which document the careers and lives of Tilley family members from multiple generations. The collection measures 0.25 linear feet and spans the period 1803 to 1976.
Names:
Places:
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Yonkers (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Families — New York (State) — Long Island
- Real property — New York (State) — Long Island
Types of material:
- Certificates
- Correspondence
- Military commissions
- Wills
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Call Number: ARC.282
Extent: 0.5 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and one flat box
The Luquer and Payne families papers (1822-1980) center on the Reverend Lea Luquer (1833-1919) and his wife, Eloise Elizabeth (nee Payne) (1834-1894), with material related to earlier and later generations of their family and related families, including Low, Lynch and Pierrepont. The collection includes Eloise’s journal of her 1874 travels in Western Europe with Lea. There are several editions of “The S.S.S.S. Gazette” (1876-1879), handwritten collections of poems and stories authored principally by the children of Lea and Eloise Luquer. There are nineteenth century indentures and other agreements concerning property in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, and Westchester County (N.Y.). Many of these relate to the estates of Nicholas Luquer (1810-1864) and Thatcher Taylor Payne (died 1863). The collection includes Payne and Luquer family genealogical documents compiled in the twentieth century, and records of burial plots at Green-Wood Cemetery for members of the Low, Luquer, Lynch, and Pierrepont families, among others. There is correspondence from Henry Evelyn Pierrepont to his wife (1865-1866) and documents concerning Seth Low Pierrepont’s disposition of property from the family home at One Pierrepont Place in Brooklyn, circa 1941. The collection holds a few Civil War era documents related to the Confederate States of America, including bonds and military correspondence.
Names:
- Luquer family
- Luquer, Eloise Elizabeth
- Luquer, Lea
- Luquer, Nicholas
- Luquer, Thatcher T. P.
- Lynch family
- Overmyer, Grace
- Payne family
- Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
- Pierrepont family
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1808-1888
- Pierrepont, Seth Low
- Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
- White Star Line
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Europe — Description and travel
- New York (N.Y.)
- Southern States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Westchester County (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Cemeteries — New York (State) — Kings County
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State)
- Genealogy
- Ocean travel
- Real property — New York (State)
Types of material:
- Bonds (legal records)
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Family papers
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Journals (accounts)
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Receipts (financial records)
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Call Number: ARC.280
Extent: 2.8 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and two flat boxes
Francis Skillman (1817-circa 1897) of Roslyn, Nassau County (part of Queens County in the nineteenth century), on Long Island, N.Y. was a Justice of the Peace from 1851-1876 in North Hempstead, a genealogist who published a family history of the Skillmans in 1892, and a farmer. The Francis Skillman papers include materials from each of these aspects of Skillman’s life. These materials include correspondence, a genealogy manuscript and the research underlying the manuscript, journals, a docket book, property agreements, and miscellaneous historical documents. The journals principally concern Skillman’s farming activities and his hiring of help. The correspondence can generally be categorized as: letters from the Civil War years to Skillman from Christian Walthert, a private in the 15th New York Regiment of Engineers; letters from Skillman to his brother principally concerning family matters; and responses to Skillman’s genealogical inquiries. Genealogical information on the Schenck and Onderdonk families can also be found in the collection.
Names:
- Skillman, Francis
- Onderdonk family
- Schenck family
- Skillman family
- United States. Army. New York Engineers Regiment, 15th (1861-1865)
Places:
- Nassau County (N.Y.)
- North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)
- Queens County (N.Y.)
- Roslyn (N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Long Island
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Long Island
- County courts — New York (State) — Long Island
- Crime — New York (State) — Long Island
- Family life
- Farmers — New York (State) — Long Island
- Genealogy
- Judges — New York (State) — Long Island
- Real property — New York (State) — Long Island
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- dockets
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Journals (accounts)
- Manuscript maps
- Manuscripts (document genre)
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Call Number: 1977.313
Extent: 0.2 Linear feet, in 8 folders in one manuscript box and one flat box
The collection primarily includes records concerning the determination of eligibility for claim payments. Records include lists of survivors and seamen lost from the Cumberland and Congress; certifications of claimants regarding their identity and service on the frigates; acknowledgements of funds received (often called “ovation funds”); and correspondence regarding the relief funds. Much of the correspondence comes from Stillman B. Allen, a lawyer from Boston, Mass. The collection also includes donor lists and bills related to the fundraising effort.
Names:
- Committee of Reception to the Crews of the Frigates Cumberland and Congress
- Allen, Stillman B.
- Congress (Frigate : 1841-1862)
- Cumberland (Frigate)
Places:
- New York (State) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- Charitable giving
- Charities — New York (State) — New York
- Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Civilian relief
- War — Relief of sick and wounded
Types of material:
- certification
- Correspondence
- Donor lists
- Receipts (financial records)
- Rosters
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Call Number: 1974.134
Extent: 2.4 Linear feet, in two flat boxes and one manuscript box
The collection includes five scrapbooks of Civil War era artifacts. Two scrapbooks hold envelopes with Union-themed images. One scrapbook includes Confederacy and Confederate state artifacts, especially currency and securities. Another scrapbook holds examples of various forms of scrip, not necessarily War-related, from several states. The final scrapbook holds a variety of documents on Union-related themes, including various Sanitary Commission fairs and other relief efforts, Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth of the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and the Lincoln assassination.
Names:
- Nichols, C. B.
- Ellsworth, E. E., 1837-1861
- Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission. (1864)
Places:
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- Bonds
- Money — United States
- Paper money — Confederate States of America
Types of material:
- Admission tickets
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Circulars (fliers)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Envelopes
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Poems
- Scrapbooks
- scrip
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Call Number: ARC.263
Extent: 94.55 Linear feet, in 7 manuscript boxes and 85 flat boxes
The Pierrepont family papers (1761-1918) document the intersection of commercial, civic and personal interests across three generations of one of the most prominent and influential families of nineteenth century Brooklyn, New York. The bulk of the collection concerns the business dealings of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont from 1838 to his death in 1888. This especially includes an extensive set of accounting and transactional records concerning the Pierrepont Stores, the family’s warehouse on Brooklyn’s East River waterfront; these include records of ships arriving at the Stores and their cargoes delivered. Additionally, there are substantive correspondence, legal documents and other materials concerning the Union Ferry Company, of which Henry was an officer. In addition to commerce and shipping, a major theme of the collection is that of land acquisition in Brooklyn Heights and at the adjacent waterfront in the early nineteenth century, and the development of that property over the course of the century. Included in the collection are correspondence, deeds, indentures, leases, accounting records, diaries, maps, invoices, receipts, business proposals, legal filings, clippings, and historical and genealogical manuscripts.
Names:
- Pierrepont family
- Pierpont, Hez. B., 1768-1838
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1808-1888
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1845-1911
- Pierrepont, John Jay, 1849-1923
- Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company
- Covered Tube Cable Railway Co. (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Long Island Historical Society
- Nassau Cable Railway Company of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Pierrepont Stores (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Union Ferry Company (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Maps
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- East River (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Bonded warehouses and goods — New York (State) — New York
- Business enterprises — New York (State) — New York
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
- Imports — New York (State) — New York
- Landowners — New York (State) — New York
- Real estate development — New York (State) — New York
- Real property — Ownership — New York (State) — New York
- Shipping — New York (State) — New York
- Waterfronts — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Account books
- Cadastral maps
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Daybooks
- Deeds
- Diaries
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Journals (accounts)
- Ledgers (account books)
- Manuscript maps
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Scrapbooks
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Call Number: 1978.008
Extent: 3.0 Linear feet, in one oversize flat box.
The Union Army Light Artillery, 5th New York Independent Battery records consist mainly of muster rolls for the period 1861-1865, covering the unit’s service during the Civil War. In addition to periodic muster rolls, the collection also holds the unit’s initial muster-in roll and the 1864 muster-out roll from the conclusion of the unit’s initial term of service. Additional items include rolls of absentees and deserters, and discharge, furlough and other documents of Private (later 2nd Lieutenant) William H. Cornell. Finally, the collection includes the printed roster and by-laws of the Brooklyn (N.Y.) George C. Strong Post No. 534 of the Grand Army of the Republic, circa 1910 with annotated updates through circa 1912.
Names:
- Grand Army of the Republic. George C. Strong Post No. 534 (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- United States. Army. New York Artillery. Independent Battery, 5th (1861-1865)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (State) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Veterans
Subjects:
- Soldiers — New York (State)
- Veterans — New York (State) — Kings County — Societies, etc.
Types of material:
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- Discharges
- Membership lists
- Military records
- Muster rolls
- Rosters
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