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Hart - Linton Family Collection, 1865-1949. 1 record carton.
ArMs 1985.050 (also 2006.026).
Edith Linton married Frank Elsworth Hart at Plymouth Church in 1889 or 1890. Hart’s father, Frederick D. Hart, was chief engineer of Ridgewood Water Works. Frank and Edith had two children, both boys, and maintained residence on Jamaica Avenue in Flatlands. Frank died in 1895, and Edith then became a music teacher in the public schools and retired in 1921.
The Hart-Linton family materials constitute an evocative picture of c.1900 family life. The collection includes correspondence, certificates, obituary notices, wedding invitations, genealogy notes and papers, deeds and insurance, securities account books, and a number of images.
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Newell Dwight Hillis Papers (1883 - 1964). 4 record cartons, 2 boxes (60 linear inches).
ArMs 1985.004
Newell Dwight Hillis (1858 -1929) was a noted clergyman of his day. After several pastorates in the midwest, Hillis was called to the Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn in 1899. Plymouth Church was then well known as the Church of Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbot, whom Hillis succeeded. While at Plymouth Church Hillis gained in reputation as a preacher, lecturer and author. Among Hillis’s activities outside of Plymouth Church were his involvement in plans for the beautification of Brooklyn, his extensive lecture tours, and his articles and publications on spiritual matters and current topics.
The Newell Dwight Hillis Papers consist of Hillis’s correspondence and writings, business and financial records, ephemera, newsclippings, scrapbooks and family papers. The major activities of Hillis’s career which are well documented by the collection are his work in creating the Henry Ward Beecher Memorial and Plymouth Institute at Plymouth Church and his involvement in World War I which included two Liberty Loan tours and numerous articles, sermons and lectures on the events of the War and its aftermath.Correspondence and papers of Hillis’s children, Richard Hillis and Marjorie Hillis Roulston, and clippings and ephemera presumably collected by them make up a small part of the collection which post-dates Hillis’s death in 1929.
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Papers of Herbert Stavely Sammond, 1871-1964 (inclusive dates: 1889-1964; bulk dates: 1891-1958). 5 manuscript boxes (2 cubic feet).
ArMs 1977.245
Herbert Stavely Sammond (1871-1964) was an organist and choral leader who began his career with the Greenwood Heights Reformed Church (42nd Street and 7th Avenue, Brooklyn) while still an adolescent. Greenwood Heights was the first in a long succession of Brooklyn- and Manhattan-based churches that Sammond served as organist and choirmaster.
In 1919, Sammond founded the Morning Choral Society of Brooklyn as a women’s amateur vocal group. Over the years it gained an esteemed reputation among the churchgoing citizens of Brooklyn, and his retirement from the group in 1949 met with fanfare and local media attention. The Morning Choral Society eventually disbanded in 1962, two years before Sammond’s death.
The papers of Hebert Stavely Sammond constitute a personal record of musical activity by a man who spent seventy years as an organist, choral leader and music teacher in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Brooklyn. The collection contains letters, scrapbooks, clippings, writings, scores, sheet music and an abundance of souvenir programs.
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The Civitas Club Collection, 1893-1993 (Bulk Dates: 1893-1960). 6 document boxes (2.7 cubic feet).
ArMs 1977.324 and 1993.008
The Civitas Club Collection traces the history of the Civitas Club of Brooklyn, New York. The club was founded in 1893 in Brooklyn Heights as a women’s social group dedicated to “awaken an interest in matters pertaining to municipal welfare, and to foster all movements within the circle of its influence that have for their end the improvement of any phase of civic life.” The Civitas Club and its members were politically and socially active throughout its century of existence. Members were encouraged to present papers, make their voices heard within the community, and gain knowledge of timely issues through the lectures and debates sponsored by the club.
The collection traces these activities, the organization of the club, and the more social ventures of Civitas, illustrating the functions of a women’s club and the development of women’s political voice through the twentieth century. The bulk of the collection concerns the first two decades of the twentieth century and the decade immediately preceding the club’s 75th anniversary (celebrated in 1968). Included in the collection are minutes, meeting and program announcements, financial records, and memorabilia.
Access Points:
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Clubs - New York (State) - New York
- Lectures and lecturing - United States
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Political Clubs
- Social group work
- United States - Politics and government
- Women - Societies and clubs
- Women in charitable work
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