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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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These files document the placement, with State financial aid, of hundreds of bronze tablets commemorating sites of historical significance in the colonial, revolutionary, or state formative periods. The files include financial application, historical importance of site, structure, person, or event commemorated .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series primarily consists of correspondence relating to the State's observance of the 150th anniversary of the punitive expedition led by General John Sullivan and General James Clinton against the Iroquois tribes in 1779. The records were compiled by Peter Nelson, Secretary of the Advisory Committee .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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The Education Commissioner appointed the Executive Committee on the 150th Anniversary of the American Revolution to develop a plan for statewide observances of events that occurred during 1776 and 1777 in New York. This series consists of correspondence, clippings, programs and pamphlets relating to .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). State Commission of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition

 

 

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The series consists of log books of visitors attending celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the American Revolution. Volumes are labeled for Federal Hall, Philadelphia, and for Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh-on-the Hudson, during the Sesquicentennial International Exhibition. The records give .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Washington's Birthday Celebration Commission

 

 

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The Washington's Birthday Celebration Commission was a temporary state commission established to cooperate with the federal government in the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. The bulk of the series consists of reports of the state commission and a variety of pamphlets, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series contains correspondence, ephemera, reports, newspaper articles, questionnaires, and financial records of statewide observances related to the 150th anniversary of the American Revolution and Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779. Other historical observances documented include the Albany Tercentenary; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series consists of photographs of observances of the 150th anniversary of the American Revolution held throughout the state. The photographs show reenactments of battles, plays, and other pageantry; pageant organizers, participants, and spectators; placement of historical markers; scenes of pageant .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Office of the State Historian

 

 

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The markers documented in this series were created by a special initiative to commemorate the route that General Henry Knox used to conduct an artillery train and supplies from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the winter of 1775-1776. Record types include applications, articles, correspondence, and other .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives