Record Group V: Fiske Family
Scope and Contents
Record Group V: Fiske Family includes Sylvester Manor research conducted by Andrew and his wife Alice. Genres range from original and reproductions of ephemera, legal records, personal and professional correspondence, personal writing, and printed materials.
Biographical Note
Andrew Fiske (February 21, 1909 - August 31, 1992) was born in Cambridge, MA to Augustus Henry Fiske and Esther Bennett. Andrew was a thirteenth generation descendant of Nathaniel Sylvester and inherited Shelter Island upon the passing of his father in 1949. Andrew was a Harvard College and Business School graduate, and managed the Groton, CT Electric Boat Company during World War II. Fiske was the Long Island representative for Boston brokerage firm H.C. Wainwright, and was a founder, trustee and president of the Suffolk County Library. Fiske served for more than forty years on the Shelter Island Public Library board, and served for more than twenty years on the Shelter Island school board, the Eastern Long Island Hospital board, and with the Suffolk County Historical Society.
Alice Hench Fiske (November 9, 1917 - April 17, 2006) was born in Youngstown, OH to Laverne Willis Hench and Florence Ebersbach Hench. Alice graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1939 and married Andrew Fiske in 1952. Alice helped restore Sylvester Manor and its gardens to their 19th century glory. As the founder of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, she sponsored digs at Sylvester Manor. Alice was also a supporter of the Shelter Island Library, Shelter Island Historical Society, and the Shelter Island Garden Club.
Professional Correspondence, 1929 July 2, inclusive
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1 Letter with Notation
Addressed To: "Hugh C. Middleton, 228 Masonic Building, Augusta, GA"
Sent From: "Augustus [Henry] Fiske"
In Reference To: Family / Genealogy / History; Constant Sylvester, Nathaniel Sylvester, Thomas Middleton, purchase of Shelter Island; Answer to Middleton's Sylvester Family Inquiry to Fiske's Aunt Cornelia Horsford of Cambridge, MA concerning Thomas Middleton, Nathaniel Garland & Captain Henry Colleton
3 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Legal Records, 1925 - 1937, inclusive
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27 United States Patents
Applicant: "Augustus [Henry] Fiske, Warren, RI, Assignor to Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, RI" [With Others]
"Baking Powder"
Patent #: 1,775,037
Filed: March 2, 1928
Patented: September 2, 1930
"Baking Powder"
Patent #: 1,811,263
Filed: March 2, 1928
Patented: June 23, 1931
"Canning Vegetables"
Patent #: 1,966,927
Filed: April 15, 1931
Patented: July 17, 1934
"Bread Improver"
Patent #: 1,657,116
Filed: March 7, 1927
Patented: January 24, 1928
"Detergent Compositions"
Patent #: 2,078,071
Filed: October 5, 1935
Patented: April 20, 1937
"Detergent Compositions"
Patent #: 2,092,913
Filed: October 5, 1935
Patented: September 14, 1937
"Form of Leaving Ingredient"
Patent #: 1,951,328
Filed: May 16, 1931
Patented: March 13, 1934
"Improved Method in the Manufacture of Sodium Aluminum Sulphate" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 2,055,283
Filed: March 20, 1935
Patented: September 22, 1936
"Inhibitive Compound" [2 Copies]
Patent #: 2,098,744
Filed: April 9, 1937
Patented: November 9, 1937
"Leaving Preparation"
Patent #: 1,787,193
Filed: July 2, 1929
Patented: December 30, 1930
"Method of Obtaining Tetraphosphates" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 2,019,666
Filed: January 22, 1935
Patented: November 5, 1935
"Method of Preparing Thiotetraphosphates and Product Thereof" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 2,033,913
Filed: December 7, 1934
Patented: March 17, 1936
"Process for Softening Water and Dissolving Calcium Salts with Thiotetraphosphates" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 2,067,628
Filed: May 15, 1936
Patented: January 12, 1937
"Process of "Method of Producing Pyrophosphates" (with Charles S. Bryan) [2 Copies]
Patent #: 1,984,968
Filed: August 31, 1931
Patented: December 18, 1934
"Method of Producing Sodium Aluminum Sulphate" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent # 2,055,284
Filed: March 20, 1935
Patented: September 22, 1936
"Method of Purifying Phosphoric Acid and the Like"
Patent #: 1,787,192
Filed: August 11, 1928
Patented: December 30, 1930
"Multiuse Batter Product" (with Bevan W. Colby & Georgia B. Lewis)
Patent #: 2,000,888
Filed: January 18, 1934
Patented: May 7, 1935
"Prepared Flour"
Patent #: 1,811,264
Filed: March 26, 1928
Patented: June 23, 1931
"Process for the Purification of Sodium Metaphosphate" by Charles S. Bryan
Patent #2,055,332
Filed: December 7, 1934
Patented: September 22, 1936
"Process for Softening Water and Dissolving Calcium Salts" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 2,059,570
Filed: December 7, 1934
Patented: November 3, 1936
"Process of Making Tetraphosphates" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 2,031,827
Filed: December 7, 1934
Patented: February 25, 1936
"Process of Preparing Thiotetraphosphates & Product Thereof"
(with Charles S. Bryan & Arthur Wright, attorney) [2 Copies]
Patent #: 2,025,503
Filed: December 7, 1934
Patented: December 24, 1935
"Process of Producing Tetraphosphates" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 2,019,665
Filed: January 22, 1935
Patented: November 5, 1935
"Production of Pure Phosphorus"(with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 1,984,674
Filed: November 24, 1933
Patented: December 18, 1934
"Purification of Phosphate Source for Acid Manufacture"
Patent #: 2,079,847
Filed: May 27, 1936
Patented: May 11, 1937
"Purification of Phosphoric Acid" (with Charles S. Bryan)
Patent #: 1,858,203
Filed: January 13, 1931
Patented: May 10, 1932
"Yeast Assistant"
Patent #: 1,599,563
Filed: June 3, 1925
Patented: September 14, 1926
In Reference To: Business / Chemistry / Professional / Science / Technology
82 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed & Printed
Measurements: 7.75" x 11.25"
Personal Correspondence, 1940, undated, circa 1940 - 1970, inclusive
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2 Birthday Cards with Envelope & Notation
Addressed To: "Miss Horsford, Aunt Nini" ; [Unidentified Correspondent]
Sent From: "Leila & Rad c/o Shelter Island Florist, 1 Brander Parkway, [Shelter Island, NY]" ; "Your Loving Niece, Miss Gertrude Fiske, Weston, MA"
In Reference To: Family / Friendship / Social
4 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 2.75" x 2"
Research Notation, 1944 November 29, inclusive
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1 Note
Addressed To: [Unidentified Correspondent]
Sent From: "(Dr.) Augustus [Henry] Fiske, Hotel Statler, Boston," [MA]
In Reference To: Family / Genealogy / History; [This note was originally housed with the record "Description of the landscape parlor K.H. gave to C.H. (Kate Horsford to Cornelia Horsford)" which is preserved in: Record Group IV: Horsford Family, Series I: Assorted Horsford Materials, Subseries 6: Poetry & Manuscripts, Box 115, Folder 15]
1 Page, Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 6" x 9.5"
Legal Record, 1944 December 23, inclusive
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1 Notarized Appraisal Booklet with Notation
" 'House List' Inventory: Personal Property Contained in The Horsford Residence, 27 Craigie Street Cambridge, Massachusetts, Made by Pierce S. Haley, 53 State Street, Boston, MA"
54 Pages, Unbound with Blue Cover
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 9" x 13"
Legal Record, 1945 May 29, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Notarized Appraisal Booklet with Notation
"Appraisal: Personal Property, Estate of Cornelia [Conway Felton] Horsford at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY, Made by Pierce S. Harley, 53 State Street, Boston, MA"
43 Pages, Unbound with Blue Cover
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 9" x 13"
Image Set
Personal Correspondence, 1847 August 19; 1947, inclusive
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1 Letter Transcription with Notation
Addressed To: "Mary Horsford" [Possibly Mary Leila (Lilian) or Mary Katherine (Kate) Horsford]
Sent From: "Phoebe [Dayton Gardiner Horsford], The Abbey Manor" [Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY]
In Reference To: Family / Personal; [Original Date August 19, 1847, Transcription Date 1947]
5 Pages, Unbound
Typed & Handwritten in Pencil
Measurements: 8" x 10"
Research Clipping [Photocopy], 1948, inclusive
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1 Photographic Aerial View of Sylvester Manor with Notation
In Reference To: Genealogy / History
1 Page, Unbound
Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Professional Correspondence, 1950 May 2, inclusive
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1 Envelope with Notation & Postage [Empty]
Addressed To: "Mr. Roswell Ward ℅ Lee-Stockman, Inc., 10 East 44th Street, New York, NY"
Sent From: "City Historian Dr. Blake McKelvey, Public Library, 115 South Avenue, Rochester, NY"
In Reference To: Genealogy / History; "Return to Andrew Fiske, Jr."
2 Pages, Bound
Typed & Handwritten in Pencil
Measurements: 9.5" x 6.25"
Legal Record [Photocopies], 1951 September 21, inclusive
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1 Transcription of Last Will & Testament
Estate: Nathaniel Sylvester
In Reference To: Business / Family / Financial / Professional / Slavery--American; "Sylvester Manor House Copy; Copied from Original Manuscript [October 1, 1680], Shelter Island Town Hall, Shelter Island, NY [by] N. Shepherd" ; Francis Brinley, Grizzell (Grissell) Sylvester, James Lloyd, Isaak Arnold, Lewis Morris, Daniel Gould, Shelter Island & Roberts Island; "Negros with their increase as are belonging in partnership and of the horses and mares, cattle...,Tammero and wife Oyou & their children, John & daughter Priscilla, Jo & wife Maria, Jenkin"
14 Pages, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Legal Records, 1947 December 6; 1950 October 18; 1951 January 22, inclusive
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1 Affidavit of Appraisal for the Federal Estate Tax, 1 Decree on Accounting with Notice Of Entry, 1 Judicial Settlement Account Proceeding Petition, 1 Envelope with Notation
Appraiser / Legal Authority: "Gordon T. Banks, Buyer of Autographs for Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., 1926-1947 [with] Notary Madeleine Bisson" ; "Honorable Edgar F. Hazelton, Surrogate's Court, County of Suffolk, Riverhead, [NY] with Notary Public Edith M. Cooper"
Estate: "[Cornelia Conway Felton] Horsford" ; "[Andrew Fiske] & Gardiner H. Fiske, Executor ℅ Rockwood & Kemp, Attorneys, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York," [NY]
In Reference To: Business / Financial / Professional
64 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 8.5" x 11" - 15" x 9.25"
Personal Correspondence, 1952 July 13, inclusive
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1 Letter, 2 Envelopes with Postage
Addressed To: "Mr. Ernest C. Tuthill, Shelter Island, Long Island, NY"
Sent From: "Mrs. Dering Sprague, 953 Anna Street, Elizabeth, NJ; Telephone EL 3-2611"
In Reference To: Friendship / Personal / Social; Shelter Island Celebration
6 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 5.25" x 4.25" - 5.25" x 8"
Professional Correspondence, 1952 August 12, inclusive
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1 Letter with Notation
Addressed To: "Mr. Andrew Fiske, Shelter Island, NY"
Sent From: "Mildred D. King, Shelter Island, NY"
In Reference To: Family / Genealogy / History; "Town Meeting Records of April 7, 1730 & the chosen offices of Supervisor W. Nicholl, Assessor John Havens, Assessor Samuel Hudson, Collector Edward Havens, & Constable Edward Gilman as transcribed by Town Clerk Henry H. Preston on April 6, 1886"
2 Pages, Bound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.25" x 11"
Play Script [Photocopies], undated, circa 1952, inclusive
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1 Copy of 11 Scene Play for Shelter Island Tercentenary Celebration with Green Cover
In Reference To: Family / Genealogy / History
14 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Professional Correspondence with Ephemera, 1953 February 11, inclusive
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1 Letter with Clipping & Notation
Addressed To: "Mr. Andrew Fiske, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY"
Sent From: "Librarian John R. Russell, The University of Rochester Library, Rochester 3, NY"
In Reference To: Business / Family / Financial / Genealogy / History / Professional; Eben Norton Horsford Collection of Letters, Advertisement from Goodspeed's Book Shop Catalog; [See Related Materials: Record Group IV: Horsford Family, Series A: Eben Norton Horsford, Subseries 5: Scientific Papers, Box 80, Folders 1-3; "Clippings related to EN Horsford's Study of Lead Pipes in Boston" Oversize Series A, Subseries 10: Newspapers, Mapcase 4.B, Folder 9]
3 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 4.75" x 7.5" - 8.5" x 11"
Ephemera [Photocopies], 1954 July 3; 1955 August 7, inclusive
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3 Sylvester Manor Day Flyers
Event Titles: "For The Shelter Island Public Library, Featuring an Exhibition in the Manor House of Ingrid McBrian's Hand Hooked Art Rug" & "For The Shelter Island Public Library, Featuring a Lecture by World Famous Author and Farmer Mr. Louis Bromfield" [2 Copies]
3 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11.25"
Printing Block with Ephemera [Photocopy], 1955 August 7, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Copper Plate Printing Block, 1 Sylvester Manor Day Flyer
Event Title: "For The Shelter Island Public Library, Featuring a Lecture by World Famous Author and Farmer Mr. Louis Bromfield" ; Features Image of the Sylvester Manor House
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 4" x 3" - 8.5" x 11"
Professional Correspondence, 1963 December 31, inclusive
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1 Letter, 1 Envelope with Postage
Addressed To: "Mr. Andrew Fiske, North Ferry Road, Shelter Island, NY"
Sent From: "Frank S. Landers, 155 Woodbury Road, Huntington, New York"
In Reference To: Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; "Dering, Sleight, Gardiner, Sage, & L'Hommedieu Correspondence"; Postal History; [See Related Material: "Mary Catherine L'Hommedieu letter to Henry P. Dering" Record Group II: L'Hommedieu, Series C: Mary Catherine Havens L'Hommedieu, Subseries 1: Correspondence, Box 28, Folder 38]
2 Pages, Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8" x 3.75" - 8" x 10"
Professional Correspondence with Research, 1969 February 4, inclusive
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1 Letter with Notation
Addressed To: "Mr. Andrew Fiske, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY"
Sent From: "Staff Historian James M. Hobbins, Joseph Henry Papers" [Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C.]
In Reference To: Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; "A Quick Search for Eben Norton Horsford Correspondence in the Smithsonian Institution Archives"
4 Pages, Unbound
Typed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8" x 10.5"
Research Printed Material, circa 1968, inclusive
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1 Exhibition & Program Pamphlet
Event Title: "An Educational Experience in 'Historic Medicine' : An Exhibit Presented by the Suffolk County Medical Society, Suffolk Academy of Medicine, Constructed & Arranged by Mr. Norman Tjon of Huntington Station, NY, Art work by Mr. John DeRosa of Huntington, NY; A Program Based on the Life and Works of Reverend Ezekiel Skinner, MD (1777-1855), Westford-Ashford, CT and Greenport, Long Island"
12 Pages, Bound & Printed
Measurements: 7.25" x 10.25"
Professional Correspondence with Research [Originals & Photocopies], 1970; 1972, inclusive
Scope and Contents
4 Letters, 1 Archival Inventory, 1 Article & Notation
Addressed To: "John M. Clayton" ; "Margaret [W.] Rossiter" ; "Mr. Andrew Fiske, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY" ; "Professor Hall"
Sent From: "Andrew Fiske" ; "Margaret [W.] Rossiter, Harvard University, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, 53 Church Street, Cambridge, MA; 28 Lincoln Street / 420 Temple Street / 446 Humphrey Street, New Haven, CT" ; "Miss Horsford, Shelter Island," [Original Date July 29, 1864 from the James Hall Collection, New York State Library, Albany, NY]; "University Archivist John M. Clayton, Jr., The University Archives, Morris Library, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Phone 302-738-2750"
In Reference To: Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; "Preliminary Inventory of The Eben [Norton] Horsford Papers in the Archives, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute" ; "Science in the Civil War: The Permanent Commission of the Navy Department" by Nathan Reingold from ISIS, Volume 49, Part 3, Number 157, September 1958
33 Pages, Bound & Unbound Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 6" x 9" - 8.5" x 10.25"
Margaret W. Rossiter (born July 1944) is an American educator and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science at Cornell University. Rossiter coined the term "Matilda Effect" for the systematic repression and denial of the contribution of women scientists in research, whose work is often attributed to their male colleagues. Rossiter's works are available at New York University Libraries via Bobcat.
Research Clipping [Photocopies], 1973 July 27, inclusive
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1 New York Times Newsprint Clipping
"Food Price Rises Confirmed Here: The Cost of Pork Rose 7.2% and Frying Chickens 6.5% Since the Ceiling Ended" by Gerald Gould
In Reference To: Business / Food / Professional / Science
2 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Professional Correspondence, 1974 March 8, inclusive
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1 Letter with Notation
Addressed To: "Andrew Fiske, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, Long Island, NY 11964"
Sent From: "Archivist Wilma R. Slaight, Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, MA 02181"
In Reference To: Academic / Education / Business / Genealogy / History / Personal; Professor Eben Norton Horsford's Letters, Librarian Miss Brown
1 Page, Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 5.5" x 8.5"
Ephemera [Photocopies], 1976, inclusive
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1 Events Flyer
Events Title: "A Bicentennial Quilt: Presenting Landmarks and Familiar Sights on Shelter Island; Project Sponsored by The Bicentennial Committee, Mrs. Andrew Fiske, Chair; Directed by Miss Louise Schaefer, Mrs. Scudder Griffing, Mrs. Thomas Bixler, Mrs. Thomas Oliver" [With Project Participant Flowchart on Opposite Side]
2 Pages, Bound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Personal Correspondence, 1977 December 5, inclusive
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1 Letter
Addressed To: "Alice & Andy" [Alice Hench & Andrew Fiske]
Sent From: "Gladys C. Brigham"
In Reference To: Friendship / Social; North Fork Bank & Trust Company Dismissal, "Lars' Sailing Expedition"
1 Page, Unbound
Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 6" x 8"
Professional Correspondence with Manuscript, 1977 May 21 & June 4, inclusive
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2 Letters, 1 Envelope, 1 Manuscipt with Notation & Postage
Addressed To: "Andrew Fiske, Shelter Island, NY"
Sent From: "Florence [Parker] Simister (Mrs. Robert H. Simister), 100 Angell Street, Providence, RI"
In Reference To: Business / History / Writing; "Bottina, Chapter One" [Florence Parker Simister's Manuscript about Anne Lynch Botta, governess & tutor to Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner Horsford & Phoebe Dayton Gardiner Horsford]; Shelter Island property owner Mary Elizabeth Cashel
19 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Notation
Measurements: 8.5" x 11" - 9.5" x 13"
Florence Parker Simister is an American author. The Florence Parker Simister Papers are preserved in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS.
Research Printed Material, 1978 March, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Educational Pamphlet
Travis, Harold G., editor. The Weston Historical Society Bulletin. Volume XIV, No. 3. Weston Historical Society, Inc: Weston, MA. March 1978.
In Reference To: Academic / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; Isaac Fiske (1778 - 1861)
8 Pages, Bound & Printed
Measurements: 6" x 9"
Professional Correspondence with Research, 1980 May 15, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter with Ephemera & Notation
Addressed To: "Mr. Andrew Fiske, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY 11964"
Sent From: "Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Bookseller Cedric L. Robinson, 597 Palisado Avenue, Windsor, CT 06095, Telephone (203) 688-2582"
In Reference To: Business / Family / Genealogy / History; The Francis Brinley Collection with Catalog Advertisement Clipping; [Original folder labeled "Rhode Island 300.00 Brinley, Francis I, 1670s"]
9 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 3" x 5" - 8" x 12.5"
Professional Correspondence with Research [Originals & Photocopies], 1983 October 16 & November 1, inclusive
Scope and Contents
2 Letters, 1 Article with Notation
Addressed To: [Andrew Fiske]
Sent From: "Florence Felde Pratt (Mrs. Randall Nicoll Pratt), 15 DeKalb Square, Haslet Park, Newark, DE 19713"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Writing; [Request for Dr. Elizabeth Dyer & Dr. John Beer to write Eben Norton Horsford biography]; "The European Education of an American Chemist and Its Influence in 19th-Century America: Eben Norton Horsford" by Samuel Rezneck
15 Pages, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 7.25" x 10.5" - 8.5" x 13.5"
Research Printed Material, 1987, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Exhibition Catalogue
Vose, Abbott W. & Robert C. Vose III, curators. "Gertrude Fiske (1878-1961)." Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc: Boston, MA. 1987.
In Reference To: Academic / Art / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Painting / Professional
24 Pages, Bound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Professional Correspondence, 1984 September 11, inclusive
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1 Card, 1 Envelope with Notation
Addressed To: [Andrew Fiske]
Sent From: "Edith"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / History; Loan of Photographs of Calves Christening at Sylvester Manor [No Photographs]; Don Allen, Historical Society Documents Committee
4 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 5.5" x 3.5" - 6" x 4"
Professional Correspondence, 1989 May 19 & 27, inclusive
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1 Invitation, 1 Envelope with Postage
Addressed To: "Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Fiske, Sylvester Manor, North Ferry, Shelter Island [NY] 11965"
Sent From: "Robert D.L. Gardiner, 16th Lord of the Manor, Gardiners Island," [NY]
In Reference To: Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional / Social; Invitation to Gardiners Island 350th Anniversary at the South End Cemetery, James Lane, East Hampton
2 Pages, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 5.75" x 3.75"
Research Notation [Photocopy], 1989 May 10, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 List of 17 Correspondences Copied for Wellesley by Andrew Fiske [Original Date 1886]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Genealogy / Family / History / Professional
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Legal Records [Photocopies], 1911 December 11; 1951 September 21; 1991 April 4, inclusive
Scope and Contents
5 Transcriptions: 3 Inventories, 2 Last Wills & Testaments with Notation
Estates: Constant Sylvester; Nathaniel Sylvester
In Reference To: Business / Family / Financial / Professional / Slavery--American; "An Inventory of the Estate of Nathaniel Sylvester taken the 22nd of September 1680" [Copy by] "Daniel J. Dowdney, Clerk of the Surrogates' Court of the County of New York, December 11, 1911" [2 Copies] ; "Nathaniel Sylvester's Last Will & Testament, Copied from the Original Manuscript, Shelter Island Town Hall, Shelter Island, NY, September 21, 1951 [by E. Shepherd]," Francis Brinley, Grizzell (Grissell) Sylvester, James Lloyd, Isaak Arnold, Lewis Morris, Daniel Gould, Shelter Island & Roberts Island; "Negros with their increase as are belonging in partnership and of the horses and mares, cattle...,Tammero and wife Oyou & their children, John & daughter Priscilla, Jo & wife Maria, Jenkin" ; "Constant Sylvester's Last Will & Testament Transcribed by the Registration Office, Law Courts Office, Bridgetown," [Barbados] [2 Copies, Original Document Dated January 24 & April 7, 1671]
46 Pages, Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.5" x 11" - 8.5" x 15"
Professional Correspondence with Research [Originals & Photocopies], 1989 - 1993, inclusive
Scope and Contents
14 Letters, 1 Envelope with Postage, 1 Inventory List with Notation
Addressed To: "Mrs. Alice [Hench] Fiske, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY 11965" ; "Mrs. Julia Older Bazer, 24 Manwaring Road, P.O. Box HH, Shelter Island, NY 11964" ; "Wilma R. Slaight"
Sent From: "Archivist Wilma R. Slaight, Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02181-8275" ; "Julia Older Blazer"
In Reference To: Academic / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; "Copies of Items Belonging to Andrew Fiske, Received From Julia Bazer [between August 9, 1989 - May 30, 1990, March 19, 1993]" ; Eben Norton Horsford Wellesley Materials
48 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed & Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 5.5" x 8.5" - 8.5" x 11"
Professional Correspondence with Research [Originals & Photocopies], 1956; 1966 - 1968; 1993, inclusive
Scope and Contents
21 Letters with Collected Notation
Addressed To & From: "Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Fiske, Shelter Island, NY 11964"
"Frederick A. Morse, Secretary to Board of Regents, The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, Office of the President of the University & Commissioner of Education, Albany, NY"
"Jean K. Brown, Director of Records Management & Archival Services at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE"
"George [Mihlin], Eastern Long Island Friends, NY"
"Hope Ford L'Hommedieu, Fort Lauderdale, FL"
"James M. Hobbins, Staff Historian of the Joseph Henry Papers, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C."
"Jean K. Brown, Director of Records Management & Archival Services at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE"
"John M. Clayton, Jr., Archivist at The University Archives at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE"
"John R. Russell, Director of Libraries at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY"
"Marion of Bridgehampton, NY"
"Mrs. James P. Hall (Louisa Sylvester Hall) of Norwell, MA"
"Mrs. Robert H. Simister (Florence Parker Simister) of Providence, RI"
"Mrs. Walter H. West, Jr. (Helen Howe West) of Philadelphia, PA"
"Nathan Reingold, Editor of the Joseph Henry Papers, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C."
"Quaesita Cromwell Drake, Department of Chemistry at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE"
"Samuel Rezneck, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Department of History & Political Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY"
"[Theo] T. Young, Sr., of Shelter Island, NY"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History; Quaesita Cromwell Drake's biographical research of Eben Norton Horsford; L'Hommedieu Family History
37 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed, Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 5" x 3 - 8.5" x 12"
Guest Book with Ephemera [Originals & Photocopies], 1990 June 16 - 1996 August 19, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Visitor Record Booklet
Event Title: "(H.A.H.) Horticultural Association [Alliance] of the Hamptons at Sylvester Manor," [With Others]
In Reference To: Business / Friendship / Professional / Social
64 Pages, Bound by String
Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 8.5" x 7"
Professional Correspondence, 2005 July 27, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter with Notation
Addressed To: "Detective Sgt. Thilberg"
Sent From: "Alice [Hench] Fiske [with daughters] [Elizabeth] Lissa Williamson, Susan Woodworth, William Buice, Henry Cortes"
In Reference To: Business; Missing Items from Sylvester Manor
1 Page, Unbound
Typed & Handwritten in Pencil
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Personal Correspondence, 1973 May 7, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter, 1 Envelope with Postage
Addressed To: "Mr. Andrew Fiske, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY 11964"
Sent From: "Aunt Corne [Cornelia], 775 Edmunds Road, Framingham, MA"
In Reference To: Family / Genealogy / History; "Letters in [Weston]"
3 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 7.5" x 4" - 7.25" x 10.25"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, circa 1980 - 1990s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Bennett Genealogy" List with Notation
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
4 Pages, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Clipping, undated, circa 1980 - 1990s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Captain [Gamaliel] Bradford, father of Hannah was son of Col. [Gamaliel]" Notation
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
2 Pages, Unbound
Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8" x 12.25"
Personal Correspondence, undated, circa 1980 - 1990s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter
Addressed To: [Alice Hench Fiske]
Sent From: "William (Bill) Goodhart"
In Reference To: Friendship / Personal / Social; Acquitting Charges of "Tardy Departure"
1 Page, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 7.25" x 10.5"
Research Clipping, undated, circa 1956, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Application Form Fragment with Family Lineage & Genealogical Information, "I Andrew Fiske, being the age of Forty-Seven years, hereby apply for membership in this Society by right of lineal descent"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional / Social
2 Pages, Bound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.5" x 6.5"
Personal Poetry, undated, circa 1950 - 1970s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Copy of "Thanksgiving" by Andrew Fiske
6 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 5" x 8"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, circa 1980 - 1990s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Sylvester Manor" Historical Summary with Notation
In Reference To: Academic / Family / Genealogy / History
2 Pages, Unbound & Typed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation, undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Items in Card File" Inventory List Fragment by Andrew Fiske
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
9 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8" x 12.25"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, circa 1970 - 1980s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Inventory of Furnishings at Sylvester Manor in Trust For Article Sixth Section d" with Notation
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Financial / Genealogy / History / Legal / Professional
3 Pages, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation [Originals & Photocopies], undated, 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Letters to Mary Gardiner from Samuel Gardiner, her husband" Collection of Fragments with Notation
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
29 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 8" x 3.75" - 8" x 12.25"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
2 "New York to Stratford" Maps
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
2 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Personal Poetry, undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Copy of "Why don't you take off your hat. Hullo." Poem [Unidentified Author]
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 4" x 2.5"
Ephemera, undated, circa 1950 - 1970s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Advertisement / Business Card "Cottages For Sale, Apply to Lewis Smith, Pawnee House, Oak Bluffs"
In Reference To: Business / Professional / Real Estate
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 3.5" x 2.25"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
2 "Descendents of Thomas Lord" Fragments
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
2 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
2 "Descendents of Thomas Lord" Fragments
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
7 Pages, Bound & Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Research Notation, undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 [Gravestone Inscriptions from Quaker Cemetery] List
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
2 Pages, Bound
Handwritten in Pencil
Measurements: 7.25" x 10.5"
Research Notation, undated, circa 1950 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Transcription "Extracts of Council Minutes 1667-1668" [2 Copies]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; Constant Sylvester
8 Pages, Unbound & Typed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation [Photostat Copies], undated, 1920 - 1960, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Children of my Brother Nathaniel Sylvester" List [3 Copies]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
3 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 11.5" x 8.5"
Research Notation [Photostat Copy], undated, 1920 - 1960, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 "Children of my Brother Nathaniel Sylvester" List with Notation
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
1 Page, Taped to Cardstock Folder & Printed
Measurements: 11.75" x 9.5"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, 1920 - 1960, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Copy of Correspondence Transcription [by Professor Eben Norton Horsford, 3 Copies]
Addressed To: "Honorable Ezra L'Hommedieu, Esq."
Sent From: [Professor Schuyler of Morristown; Original Date May 29, 1780]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
3 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, 1920 - 1960, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Copy of Correspondence Transcription with Notation [by Professor Eben Norton Horsford, 2 Copies]
Addressed To: "Honorable Ezra L'Hommedieu, Esq."
Sent From: [Professor Schuyler of Morristown; Original Date May 29, 1780]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
2 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 5" x 9.5" - 8.5" x 13"
Legal Record [Photocopies], undated, circa 1920 - 1970, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Transcription of Indenture [Original Date, November 19, 1779]
Acquistion: £5,000 for Property on Shelter Island, NY
Grantee: "Thomas Dering, Middletown, CT & Shelter Island, Suffolk County, NY"
Grantor: "Ezra L'Hommedieu, Middletown, CT & Southold, Suffolk County, NY"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional / Real Estate; "Compared by [Holmes W. Surgry], Clerk"
3 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Research Notation [Photostat Copies], undated, circa 1920 - 1970, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter [Original Date September 25, 1783]
Addressed To: "Governor George Clinton"
Sent From: "Ezra L'Hommedieu, Princeton," [NJ]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Military / Professional; Payments to The Army
4 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11.5"
Legal Record with Research [Photostat Copies], undated, circa 1920 - 1970, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Transcription of Indenture [Original Date, November 19, 1779; 2 Copies], 1 Property Lease [Original Date March 25, 1820]
Acquistion: £5,000 for Property on Shelter Island, NY; $350/Year for Shelter Island
Grantee: "Thomas Dering, Middletown, CT & Shelter Island, Suffolk County, NY" ; "Samuel Smith Gardiner"
Grantor: "Ezra L'Hommedieu, Middletown, CT & Southold, Suffolk County, NY" ; "James Beckman"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional / Real Estate; "Compared by [Holmes W. Surgry], Clerk"
7 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, circa 1960 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter [Original Date March 1, 1792]
Addressed To: "Ezra L'Hommedieu, Esq."
Sent From: "John Laurence, Philadelphia, PA"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Political / Professional; Payment Inquiry, Elections
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, 1960 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Legal Record with Notation [Original Date January 28, 1794]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Political / Professional; Regent of the University Appointment, Senate Chamber, Albany, NY, signed by the Secretary of the University
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, circa 1960 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter with Notation [Original Date May 3, 1795]
Addressed To: "Ezra L'Hommedieu, Esq."
Sent From: "Benjamin Bourne, Providence," [RI]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Political / Professional; "From the original in the Rhode Island Historical Society" ; Thomas P. Ives Introduction, Bourne's Return from Philadelphia
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, circa 1960 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Letter with Notation [Original Date May 3, 1795]
Addressed To: "Ezra L'Hommedieu, Esq."
Sent From: "Benjamin Bourne, Providence," [RI]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Political / Professional; "From the original in the Rhode Island Historical Society" ; Thomas P. Ives Introduction, Bourne's Return from Philadelphia
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 9.5"
Research Notation, undated, 1920 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Correspondence Transcription [Original Date January 17, 1799]
Addressed To: "Miss Mary [Catherine] Havens" [Wife of Thomas Dering]
Sent From: "Jonathan [Nicoll] Havens, Philadelphia, PA" [Brother of Mary Catherine Havens]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Genealogy / History / Personal / Professional; Family Health
4 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Typed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation [Facsimilies], undated, circa 1970 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 L'Hommedieu Family Genealogical Note [Original Date circa 1854, 3 Copies]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Genealogy / History / Personal / Professional
3 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 7" x 11"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 United States Senate Legislative Fragment "In Assembly - February 21, 1803, An Act To Regulate and Encourage Common Schools"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Genealogy / History / Personal / Political / Professional
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 13"
Research Notation [Facsimile], undated, circa 1970 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Shipping Report Reproduction "Having Captured the Nancy Sloop, Southold in Long Island" by Captain Carteret [Original Date September 29, 1814]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Genealogy / History / Personal / Professional
1 Page, Mounted on Cardstock & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 5.5"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Correspondence Transcription with Notation
[Original Date January 28, 1838, Preserved in the Slaight-Dering Letters, Long Island Collection, East Hampton Free Library]
Addressed To: "Miss Frances Dering"
Sent From: "Anne [Charlotte] Lynch" [Botta]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Personal / Professional; Death of Mrs. Gardiner
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 10.5"
Research Notation [Photocopies], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Map Reproduction in Fragments [Original Date January 1867]
"The Farm, late of Samuel [Smith] Gardiner, Esq. of Shelter Island, Suffolk County, NY; made for Professor Eben Norton Horsford & Professor Lane of Harvard University, Proprietors, by J.M. Case"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
12 Pages, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Correspondence Reproduction [Original Date March 8, 1886]
Addressed To: "Professor [Eben Norton] Horsford"
Sent From: "Chief Librarian Melville Dewey, Madison Avenue & 49th Street, New York," [NY]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; "Professional Librarianship as a profession for women," Wellesley College
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 13" x 8.5"
Research Notation [Photocopy], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Newsprint Clipping "Wellesley College News" [Original Date June 9, 1909]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; "Dedication of the Library, Mr. Fiske, the son-in-law of Professor Eben Norton Horsford"
1 Page, Unbound & Printed
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation [Photostat Copies], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Reproduction of Personal Writing with Notation [Original Date Februrary 1771]
"The First Census of Shelter Island" by Eben Norton Horsford
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
12 Pages, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Pencil
Measurements: 5" x 8.5"
Research Notation [Photostat Copies], undated, circa 1980 - 1992, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Collection of Assorted Record Reproductions [Original Dates, circa 17th & 18th Century]
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional; Correspondence, Genealogical Notes, Legal Records, Map of Paris; Sylvester Manor Renovations, List of Nathaniel Sylvester's Children
19 Pages, Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink
Measurements: 8.5" x 11"
Research Notation with Ephemera [Originals & Photocopies], undated, circa 1989, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1 Collection of Garden Image & Plan Reproductions, 1 Article, 1 Flyer
Article & Event Title: Garden Design excerpt "The Flowering of Central Park by (H.A.H.) Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons member Jean Spiro Breskend" ; "Harry Marinsky F.I.A.L., Sculptures in Bronze and Watercolor Landscapes: An Exhibition and Benefit Sale for the Shelter Island Public Library Society"
In Reference To: Academic / Business / Family / Genealogy / History / Professional
40 Pages, Bound & Unbound
Printed & Handwritten in Ink & Pencil
Measurements: 8.5" x 11" - 22" x 16.5"
Fiske: Oversize
Scope and Contents
These materials are arranged in a loose chronological order. In the case that a record includes more than one date expression, the listing will begin with its earliest. If a record is physically undated, approximate ranges are provided. These records are noted "undated" and followed by a "circa" estimate determined by the range represented in the same series.
Maps & Plans - Gardiner's Bridge, Shelter Island, Boston, 1939 - 1962, inclusive
Boston Evening Transcript, 1941 April 30, inclusive
Maps, Photograph, Plans - Shelter Island, 1948, 1962, undated, inclusive
Newspapers & Clippings - Shelter Island 300th Anniversary, 1952, inclusive
Garden Plan - Edwin Prellwitz [Based on Otto Van Tuyl 1920 Plan], 1953, inclusive
Blueprint Plans - Kitchen [Not Used], 1955, inclusive
Map & Legal Documents - Leonard Gloecker, Shelter Island, 1957, inclusive
Photograph - Sylvester Manor, Tidal Wetland Disappearance, 1974, inclusive
Scope and Content
Six Diazo Type Prints
43 x 41 inches each
