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  Title

  Albums, 1886-1900

  Author

  Grider, Rufus A., b. 1817.  

  Pages:

  9

  Item info:

  3 copies available at New York State Library and Manuscripts and Special Collections.
  

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  • Holdings			Change Display
    New York State Library
    	Copy	Material	Location
    974.74 G847 209-1404	1	MICROFILM	MA (nocirc)
    	2	MICROFILM	MB
    Manuscripts and Special Collections
    	Copy	Material	Location
    VC22932	1	MANUSCRIPT	N (nocirc)

• MARC Record

  Albums, 1886-1900
  Grider, Rufus A., b. 1817.
  

  Local call number:

  VC22932

  Author:

  Grider, Rufus A., b. 1817.

  Title:

  Albums, 1886-1900.

  Quantity:

  9 boxes (3.0 cubic ft.)

  Additional phys form:

  Also available on microfilm. Camara master is color. Service copies are black and white.

  Historical/biog note:

  Rufus Alexander Grider was born April 13, 1817, in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a town founded by members of the Moravian Congregation in 1756. He lived in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1870 to 1883, when he moved to Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York. He taught art at the Canajoharie Academy until his retirement in 1898. He died February 7, 1900.

  Review:

  These albums comprise nine volumes containing over a thousand illustrations, chiefly hand-drawn sketches and watercolors, with text related principally to the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding regions of New York State. The first three volumes contain a potpourri of images that include historic buildings and structures, natural features, early family records and historical documents, and Indian artifacts. The fourth volume is devoted to transportation via rivers, canals and turnpikes. The fifth volume includes text and pictures telling the story of the invasion of the Mohawk and the Schoharie valleys by Sir John Johnson and his Indians and Tories in 1780. Volume six contains material on Fort Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain, Lake George and the surrounding area. Volumes seven and eight are devoted entirely to the Cherry Valley and the Schoharie Valley respectively. The ninth volume contains text and illustrations devoted to the road built by General John Sullivan's army between the Mohawk River and Otsego Lake in 1779 during the expedition that destroyed the settlements and crops of the Iroquois Indians in central and western New York. Scattered throughout these volumes are numerous sketches of powder horns from the colonial wars and the American Revolution.

  Access restriction:

  Restricted: stored in the vault; Access to the original materials requires making arrangements through Manuscripts and Special Collections.

  Access restriction:

  Camera master Restricted: stored in the vault; Access to this color microfilm requires making arrangements through Manuscripts and Special Collections.

  Finding aids:

  Unpublished finding aid available in the repository and on the Internet.

  Subject:

  Iroquois Indians--Antiquities Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Indians of North America--New York (State)--Antiquities Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Powder flasks--United States--History Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779.

  Geographic terms:

  Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)--Antiquities Pictorial works.

  Geographic terms:

  Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)--History Pictorial works.

  Geographic terms:

  New York (State)--Antiquities Pictorial works.

  Geographic terms:

  New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Pictorial works.

  Geographic terms:

  New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 Pictorial works.

  Form/genre terms:

  Albums. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Drawings. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Sketches. aat

  LOCATION:

  New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections.

  Electronic access:

  Finding aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/vc22932.htm