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Series VI: Books, 1817-1926, inclusive

Language of Materials

English.

Scope and Content

This series consists of three subseries which contain a ship log, printed books, and family bibles.

Subseries VI.A: Unpublished Books, 1913–1926, inclusive

Scope and Content

Subseries A contains Roy Campbell Smith's U.S. Navy Log. Smith was a naval officer, later Governor of Guam, and Spotswood Dandridge Bowers's father-in-law.

Roy Smith, U.S. Navy Ship Log, 1913–1926, inclusive

Volume: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries VI.B: Published Books, 1817-1922, inclusive

Scope and Content

Subseries B contains several published works connected with the Bowers family.

Cadwallader D. Colden, The Life of Robert Fulton, New York: Kirk and Mercein, 1817., 1817

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in Three Volumes, volume 1, New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828., 1828

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in Three Volumes, volume 2, New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828., 1828

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in Three Volumes, volume 3, New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828., 1828

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

C.S. Stewart, Brazil and La Plata: Personal Record of a Cruise. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856., 1856

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical Review: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of the Volume 11: Leading Citizens of Otsego County, New York, Boston: Biographical Review Publishing, Co., 1893., 1893

Volume: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rand McNally Complete Atlas of the World, Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1922.

Volume: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries VI.C: Family Bibles, undated, inclusive

Scope and Content

Subseries C contains the Bowers family's bibles. These bibles do not contain much, if any, genealogical information.

Bowers Family Bible A, undated

Volume: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bowers Family Bible B, undated

Volume: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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