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Guide to the Thomas F. De Voe Scrapbooks
circa 1720-1890 (bulk, 1850s-1880s)
 MS 3193

New-York Historical Society
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New York, NY 10024
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Collection processed by Larry Weimer and Elise Winks

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on July 08, 2022
Finding aid written in English using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Container List

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Offsite-Box: 9 Volume : SN-56 Markets

Scope and Contents

Includes, among others, articles about De Voe's book.

 1850-1883
Offsite-Box: 11 Volume : SN-57 "Markets & Collections"

Scope and Contents

Relates especially to the beef/cattle market. Bulk is from 1854-1858.

 1854-1858, 1860s
Offsite-Box: 18 Volume : SN-77 Markets

Scope and Contents

The volume holds clippings from 1854-1856. At the back of the volume is a manuscript list of notes on markets opened in New York City, 1836-1871.

1854-1856, 1870s?
Offsite-Box: 12 Volume : SN-55 New York Markets
 1876-1887
Offsite-Box: 14 Volume : SN-71 New York City Markets
 1864-1874
Offsite-Box: 15 Volume : SN-72 Extracts of articles on cattle, poultry, fish, etc. (manuscript )
 undated
Offsite-Box: 12 Volume : SN-63 [Philadelphia Markets]
 1790s-1880s
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-17 Index. "Book G." [Obituaries, 1869-1873]
 1869-1873
Offsite-Box: 12 Volume : SN-66 [Obituaries, New York City & Elsewhere. Index G]
 1866-1873
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-29 Index. "Obituaries of Noted Persons, 1869-1878. 37"
 1869-1878
Offsite-Box: 5 Volume : SN-13 "Obituaries of Noted Persons. Index No. 37"
 1869-1878
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-18 Index. "Book P. Prominent Persons Obituaries, 1866-1868"
 1866-1868
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-23 Index. "U" [Obituaries, 1878-1881]
 1878-1881
Offsite-Box: 6 Volume : SN-21 Obituaries
 1878-1881
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-20 Index. "Obituaries, 1881-1882. 26"
 1881-1882
Offsite-Box: 7 Volume : SN-19 Obituaries

Scope and Contents

The bulk of this volume holds clippings about the assassination of President James Garfield.

1881-1882
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-28 Index. "Obituaries, 1881-1883. 3"
 1881-1883
Offsite-Box: 3 Volume : SN-27 "Obituaries from 1881-1883"
 1881-1883
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-15 "Index to No. 39. Obituaries, 1884-1886"
 1884-1886
Offsite-Box: 6 Volume : SN-22 Obituaries
 1884-1886
Offsite-Box: 16 Volume : SN-75 Obituaries
 1886-1889
Offsite-Box: 17 Volume : SN-74 Obituaries
 1887-1891
Offsite-Box: 1 Volume : SN-10 [Military clippings. #19]
 1854-1855
Offsite-Box: 10 Volume : SN-43 New York State Militia/National Guard

Scope and Contents

Includes, among other subjects, articles on yellow fever quarantine on Staten Island.

 1857-1860
Offsite-Box: 10 Volume : SN-44 New York State Militia/National Guard

Scope and Contents

Primarily holds articles about the Civil War

 1860-1862
Offsite-Box: 14 Volume : SN-70 New York State Militia/National Guard
 1863-1880s
Offsite-Box: 14 Volume : SN-69 Civil War

Scope and Contents

The clippings all date from the 1860s. There is one drawing of the Statue of Liberty, dated 1886.

1861-1863, 1886
Offsite-Box: 14 Volume : SN-49 Civil War

Scope and Contents

Principally about the Civil War and later reminiscences.

 1860s-1880s
Offsite-Box: 11 Volume : SN-45 Civil War and New York City current events
 1854, 1861-1870
Offsite-Box: 8 Volume : SN-39 [Military & Naval Clippings] & Theatre
 1879-1890
Offsite-Box: 18 Volume : SN-79 "Index to Historical Incidents from Newspapers, 1696-1800"; "Index to Names of Persons from Newspapers, 1696-1800"

Scope and Contents

These appear to be alphabetical subject indexes to the chronology above (SN-67). There is a bound facsimile of this volume available at the reference desk.

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Offsite-Box: 16 Volume : SN-67 "Historical Incidents from Newspapers I, 1696-1800" (manuscript)

Scope and Contents

The volume is a year by year chronology of events, in manuscript form, abstracted by De Voe from newspapers. There are letters related to the De Voe collection generally, attached to the back cover. There is a bound facsimile of this volume available at the reference desk.

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Offsite-Box: 16 Volume : SN-68 "Historical Incidents from Newspapers II, 1800-1850" (manuscript)

Scope and Contents

This volume has the same general content as I (SN-67) above. This box also holds a related draft index for the years 1800-1810 prepared by N-YHS reference librarian Mariam Touba. There is a bound facsimile of this volume and a copy of Touba's index available at the reference desk.

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Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-53 Index. "Miscellaneous scraps from 1720-1828. 100"
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Offsite-Box: 4 Volume : SN-34 "Miscellaneous scraps, 1720-1828"

Scope and Contents

This volume holds original clippings. SN-53 may be an index to this volume.

 1720-1828
Offsite-Box: 1 Volume : SN-1 to SN-9 "History of New York" (9 volumes)

Scope and Contents

These volumes hold clippings of compilations about New York City history by "DTV" (David T. Valentine). The original source of the clippings is not explicit, except for 1868-70, which are from Valentine's Manual of the Corporation of New York City; this is the likely source for most or all of the other clippings in these 9 volumes.

1851-1870
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-31 Index. "Olden Time in New York. Bacon. T" [1-123]
 undated
Offsite-Box: 3 Volume : SN-30 "Cuttings. T" [Index T. New York in the Olden Time by J.B. Bacon. 1-123]
 undated
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-42 Index. "F" [Old New York, 1870-1875]
 1870-1875
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-52 Old New York-related clippings
 1876-1877
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-41 Index. "Old New York. 61"
 undated
Offsite-Box: 3 Volume : SN-33 [Old New York #7, 1871-1875]
 1871-1875
Offsite-Box: 9 Volume : SN-32 New York City history
 1860s-1880s
Offsite-Box: 15 Volume : SN-73 General clippings about New York

Scope and Contents

Holds clippings about catastrophes, current events, city development, etc.

 1849-1861
Offsite-Box: 18 Volume : SN-78 General clippings about New York
 1853-1863
Offsite-Box: 18 Volume : SN-76 General clippings about New York
 1863-1873
Offsite-Box: 3 Volume : SN-14 General clippings about New York City
 1869-1875
Offsite-Box: 1 Volume : SN-12 General clippings about New York City
 1870-1875
Offsite-Box: 17 Volume : SN-64 General clippings about New York
 1871-1885
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-40 "Index. Streets, Lanes, Roads, etc., Wharves & Piers. No. 43"
 undated
Offsite-Box: 4 Volume : SN-38 "New York City covering Manhattan Island, newspaper clippings, 1877-1890"
 1877-1890
Offsite-Box: 6 Volume : SN-46 Miscellaneous, especially theatre/stage

Scope and Contents

Many pages of a cash journal from 1868-1869 are visible in this volume as, unlike other volumes, it was not entirely covered over with clippings.

1868-1869, 1881-1890
Offsite-Box: 8 Volume : SN-25 General clippings about New York
 1851-1858, 1866-1870
Offsite-Box: 5 Volume : SN-11 "Andrew H. Green for Mayor; Trials of Prominent Persons; New York City"

Scope and Contents

The volume especially holds clippings about the Albert D. Richardson murder (1869) and the Henry Ward Beecher-Elizabeth Tilton matter (1870s). There is only a little about Andrew H. Green.

1869-1889
Offsite-Box: 13 Volume : SN-65 New York City and State Politics

Scope and Contents

Holds articles about Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall, city charter, legislation, etc.

 1871-1872
Offsite-Box: 7 Volume : SN-16 Miscellaneous, especially politics

Scope and Contents

Holds clippings on Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall, Andrew Green, etc. Holds the lengthy reminiscences of the former New York mayor M.M. Noah.

1875-1878
Offsite-Box: 12 Volume : SN-62 Catastrophes

Scope and Contents

Articles about ship sinkings, fires, weather, murders, riots, etc.

 1846-1873
Offsite-Box: 4 Volume : SN-47 [E. Strikes & Riots, 1877]
1877
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-48 "United States. E" [Strikes & Riots, 1877]
 1877
Offsite-Box: 8 Volume : SN-24 [Catastrophes. 13]

Scope and Contents

The clippings' geographic range extends beyond New York.

 1880-1888
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-60 "J" [Churches & Ministers, 1874-1883]
 1874-1883
Offsite-Box: 4 Volume : SN-37 Churches and other houses of religious worship, clergy
 1870s-1880s
Offsite-Box: 12 Volume : SN-59 Churches and other houses of religious worship, and clergy

Scope and Contents

The clippings in the volume date from 1883-1890. Many pages were not covered in clippings and so the underlying content is readable. It presumably pertains to the firm S. Judd's Sons & Co., the name embossed on the volume's cover. Entries from 1863 and the 1870s concern the creditworthiness of various companies. For 1863, these are New York State companies; for the 1870s, companies elsewhere in the United States.

1863-1890
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-36 Index. "O. Historical Items & Obituaries, etc., 1858-1874"
1858-1874
Offsite-Box: 4 Volume : SN-35 [Historical Items & Obituaries, etc., 1858-1874]
 1858-1874
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-50 Index. "Personal in New York, 1875, 1879. 55"
 1875, 1879
Offsite-Box: 3 Volume : SN-26 Various clippings about people and events

Scope and Contents

Holds obituaries and other articles about people, portraits of clergy, and various events. Geographic range goes beyond New York.

1860s-1870s
Offsite-Box: 4 Volume : SN-54 Clippings about current events
 1854-1870, 1883-1889
Offsite-Box: 2 Volume : SN-51 Index. "71" [Brooklyn Newspapers]
 undated
Offsite-Box: 13 Volume : SN-80 Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents

Holds articles about travel description, current events, speeches, international matters, etc.

1860s-1880s
Offsite-Box: 11 Volume : SN-58 Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents

This volume was found on the shelves in 2022 with the De Voe scrapbooks, but it may not be one of his. The volume holds various articles, many concerning slavery and other topical matters. Many of the articles are signed "Sigma" and are from the Daily Evening Traveler. A table of contents is at the front. There appears to be an accession date of March 18, 1897, on the cover, which would include it among the many donations made that day by Daniel Parish.

1850s-1860s
Offsite-Box: 12 Volume : SN-61 Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents

Holds mostly clippings of the series "Letters from New York" signed by "Roscoe" to the "Editors of the Traveller" (i.e., Daily Evening Traveller of Boston). There are also clippings of reviews and other articles about R.G. Horton's "Life & Public Service of James Buchanan."

1854-1857
Offsite-Box: 19 Loose book spines

Scope and Contents

Several book spines with labels that had loose from the original volumes. These were found shelved separately after the collection had been boxed for storage and so were not (and perhaps cannot be) matched to the related volumes.

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