Showing posts with label intern update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intern update. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Intern Update: Town Support of the Poor in the Early 1800s

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By intern Ryan Bachman. On April 8, 1799, the Cornwall Board of Selectmen voted to pay John Peck $11.49 for boarding Ann Olcott, “a poor c...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Intern Update: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews

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By intern Ryan Bachman. Receipt for donation of $58.50 given by the Auxiliary Society of Cornwall to the American Society in New York, 1...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Intern Update: The Ousatonic Canal

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By Ryan Bachman.  By the early 1820s, as the Erie Canal stretched across western New York, communities all around the United States beca...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Intern Update: Early Trips to NYC

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By intern Ryan Bachman. Theodore Sedgwick Gold manuscript. (Collection of Cornwall Historical Society) Among Theodore Sedgwick Gold’s...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Intern Update: Cornwall's Support of Boston Revolutionaries in 1774

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By CHS intern Ryan Bachman.  In the aftermath of the Fourth of July holiday weekend, this week’s blog entry relates to Cornwall’s Revol...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Intern Update: Base Ball Score Book

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By CHS Intern Ryan Bachman. Baseball Score Book (Collection of Cornwall Historical Society) Among the shelves of scrapbooks, diarie...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Intern Update: A Farmer's Diary

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Ryan Bachman, a graduate student at James Madison University, is working as an intern at CHS this summer, creating a Finding Aid to our arch...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Intern Update: Janet Payne

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Our intern, Ryan Bachman, has been spending the summer transferring our historic documents to archival folders and boxes, improving their ...