1 OHA RESEARCH CENTER READING ROOM SUBJECT FINDING AID The primary research collection of the Onondaga Historical Association is the Vertical File collection, which is contained in over 100 file cabinets and has been gathered over the course of the past century. The Vertical File Collection of the Onondaga Historical Association’s Research Center has five main divisions or series: Biographical/Genealogical Block Image Subject Town each of which has numerous subdivisions or sub-series. BIOGRAPHICAL / GENEALOGICAL FILES The Biographical Files contain newspaper clippings, research notes, photographs, ephemera, genealogical information, and other material on specific individuals or families. These are arranged alphabetically. In many instances there are separate files for individuals while in other cases there are general files for a particular surname. Note: there is a separate listing of Genealogical Titles in this guide, which is a list of printed/published genealogies. BLOCK FILES The Block Files contain material primarily pertaining to the Syracuse City blocks and wards. There are separate block files for Salina and Geddes Blocks, which pertain to areas pre-dating the incorporation of the City of Syracuse in 1848. The files contain newspaper clippings, photographs, sections from the Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlases from 1894 through 1950 (not consistently for each and every block), and other materials relating to the structures and land usage patterns within a limited area including Syracuse. The easiest point of access to the Block Files is the reference set of 1957 Sanborn Atlases. 1 2 Note: there is additional information contained in the general Syracuse files on Subdivisions and there are separate files on some Syracuse City Streets. PRINT FILES The Print Files contain images, both photographic prints and rotogravures from the newspapers, and are arranged similarly to the Subject Files. Note: there is a separate finding aid for the Print Files. a separate sub-series of photographs is part of the Town Files. SUBJECT FILES The Subject Files comprise the largest division within the Vertical File Collection. These files include newspaper clippings, original documents, research notes, and other paper items relating to the specific topic covered by the subject. The Subject Files are broken down into Subject Headings and further into Subject Subheadings. These Heading and Subheadings are listed on the following pages. TOWN FILES The Town Files contain newspaper clippings and other materials on the Towns within Onondaga County. Information on individual villages, sites and topics relative to the particular Town is contained in this series. Note: a sub-series, Town Photographic Files, contains photographs and other graphic images arranged by Town. 2 3 SUBJECT FILE HEADINGS This list of file headings note which headings have been further broken down into subheading lists. The subheading lists follow the main list and are marked with the plastic guide tabs. Volume 1. ABOLITION & ACCIDENTS/CATASTROPHES AGRICULTURE & FARMING AMUSEMENTS (see SPORTS) ARCHITECTS (see BUSINESS) ART ARTISTS & SCULPTORS ASSOCIATIONS - including HISTORIC REGISTER INFORMATION AUTHORS BANKS & BANKING BRIDGES (see STREETS) BUILDINGS & STRUCTURES - including HISTORIC REGISTER INFORMATION BUSINESS CONDITIONS BUSINESSES CARDIFF GIANT (see FRAUDS and HOAXES) CELEBRATIONS (see also HOLIDAYS) CEMETERIES CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE (see BIOGRAPHICAL FILES) CHARITIES (see PUBLIC WELFARE) CHRONOLOGIES CHURCHES & RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS - SUBHEADING LIST (see also JESUITS) CIRCUS (see SPORTS) 3 4 CITIZENS (see POPULATION) CIVIC CENTER (see BUILDINGS & STRUCTURES) (see BLOCK FILES) COMMUNICATIONS - includes FILM & VIDEO COMMUNITY CHEST (see PUBLIC WELFARE) CONSERVATION - includes POLLUTION AND HAZARDOUS WASTE (see also ONONDAGA LAKE: POLLUTION) CONVENTIONS COURTHOUSES (see also BLOCK FILES) COURTS & BAR CRIME & CRIMINALS - SUBHEADING LIST DENTISTS & DENTISTRY EDUCATION EPIDEMICS (see also MEDICAL HISTORY & HOSPITALS) FAIRS FIRES & FIRE DEPARTMENTS FLAGS FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION FRAUDS & HOAXES - includes CARDIFF GIANT GENEALOGY GEOLOGY (see NATURAL HISTORY) HISTORICAL SERIES HOLIDAYS (see also CELEBRATIONS) HOSPICE (see HOSPITALS) HOSPITALS (see also MEDICAL HISTORY) 4 5 HOTELS & INNS (see also BLOCK FILES) HOUSEKEEPING - LIMITED TO CLIPPINGS FOR 1890’S HOUSING, PUBLIC (see also URBAN RENEWAL AND BLOCK FILE: WARD 15) INDIANS (under NATIVE AMERICANS) INDUSTRY INVENTORS & INVENTIONS JERRY RESCUE (see also ABOLITION & ANTISLAVERY) JESUITS (see also NATIVE AMERICANS) Volume 2. LABOR & LABOR ORGANIZATIONS LAKES LAND - includes MILITARY TRACT LAW ENFORCEMENT (see POLICE, see also CRIME) LIBRARY (see also TOWN FILES) MARKETS, PUBLIC MEDICAL HISTORY (see also HOSPITALS AND EPIDEMICS) MILITARY HISTORY -SUBHEADING LIST MILITARY TRACT (see LAND) MONUMENTS, MARKERS, HISTORICAL SITES, & TABLETS (see also BLOCK FILES: CIRCLES & SQUARES) MUSEUMS MUSIC & MUSICIANS NAMES, PLACE NATIVE AMERICANS NATURAL HISTORY - including GEOLOGY, HISTORIC TREES and ARCHAEOLOGY 5 6 NATURAL PHENOMENA - including WEATHER and DAYLIGHT SAVINGS NEWSPAPERS (ABOUT) NEW YORK STATE ONEIDA COMMUNITY (for SKANEATELES COMMUNITY, see TOWN FILES FOR SKANEATELES) ONONDAGA COUNTY - GENERAL and HISTORICAL PARKS & RECREATION - SUBHEADING LIST (see also LAKES) PLANNING, REGIONAL (see POLITICS and GOVERNMENT) POLICE POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - includes NATIONAL, NYS, ONONDAGA COUNTY, and CITY- SUBHEADING LIST POPULATION - includes ETHNIC GROUPS & VITAL STATISTICS - SUBHEADING LIST POST OFFICES PRISONS & PRISONERS (see also CRIME) PUBLIC UTILITIES PUBLIC WELFARE - SUBHEADING LIST (see also COMMUNITY CHEST) PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS RESORTS (see also LAKES) RIVERS & STREAMS (see also LAKES) ROADS, STREETS and THRUWAYS (see also STREETS AND BLOCK FILE: STREETS) SOCIAL LIFE / FASHION SPEECH (DIALECTS / COLLOQUIALISMS) SPORTS & RECREATION - includes HOBBIES STREETS (see ROADS, ETC.) SYRACUSE - GENERAL HISTORICAL (see also BLOCK FILE: SYRACUSE SUBDIVISIONS) 6 7 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT THEATERS & ACTORS TRADES & CRAFTS (see also BUSINESSES) TRANSPORTATION - AIR AUTOMOBILE BUS CANAL ELECTRIC HORSE-DRAWN RAILROAD TREES, HISTORIC (see NATURAL HISTORY) URBAN RENEWAL (see also HOUSING, PUBLIC & BLOCK FILES: WARD 15) UTILITIES (see PUBLIC UTILITIES) VISITORS TO SYRACUSE VITAL STATISTICS (see POPULATION) WEATHER (see NATURAL PHENOMENA) WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT - SUBHEADING LIST 7 8 ABOLITION including ANTISLAVERY and JERRY RESCUE General and Miscellaneous - Bibliography Miscellaneous - Obituaries, etc. Leaders - Encyclopedia pages “The Antislavery Movement in Syracuse” - Loucks, Ester, 1934 “The Black Abolitionists Papers” - Vol. II - Canada - 1830-65 Pamphlets- (3) Black Leaders Common Cause by Milton Sernett, 1986 (Gerrit Smith; Berial Green; Jermain W. Loguen) Pamphlets Slaves in Onondaga County and Non Northrup - Slavery in New York Brown, John Truth, Sojourner Tubman, Harriet Onondaga and Non-Onondaga - 1830’s Onondaga and Non-Onondaga - 1840’s (Liberty Party, Conventions, etc.) Onondaga and Non-Onondaga - 1850-Attempted Suicide of Abolition and Catastrophes - Onondaga and Non-Onondaga - Fugitive Slave on Canal Boat Onondaga and Non-Onondaga - 1850’s Fugitive Slaves - Miscellaneous, no date Onondaga and Non-Onondaga - 1853- Onondaga County Colonization Society JERRY RESCUE 1850 in Onondaga (includes conventions and protests) William Henry Notes RNW Notes and text Fugitive Slave Law-1850, Protests – Non-Onondaga S.J. May Letters – Fugitive Slave Law 1851-1855; Protests – Non-Onondaga; Ignoramus; Star 1851 Bibliography; Miscellaneous 1851 Syracuse Conventions and Other Meetings & Protests 1851-55 (missing) Jerry Protest Jerry in Colorado Jerry in Kingston and Other Biographical Information Jerry in Kingston, Ontario (Dick Case article) 8 9 Contemporary Articles 1851-1865 Contemporary Opinions, Editorials, Speeches and Letters NY Tribune Accounts Hearings and Indictments Trials Syracuse Star Items 1851 Henry W. Allen. Marshal Trials in Albany 1852 Trials in Albany 1853-J.B. Brigham and Ira H. Cobb Trials in Albany 1853-Enoch Reed, William L. Salmon Eyewitness accounts after 1863 A-H (missing) Eyewitness accounts after 1863 I-M (missing) Eyewitness accounts after 1863 N-Z (missing) Eyewitness accounts after 1863 Edward Austin Sheldon (missing) Eyewitness accounts after 1863 Susan Watson (missing) Eyewitness accounts after 1865 A-H Eyewitness accounts after 1865 I-M Eyewitness accounts after 1865 N-Z Eyewitness accounts after 1865 Edward Austin Sheldon Eyewitness accounts after 1865 Susan Watson General Accounts after 1865 by Author General Accounts after 1865 Dramatic Adaptations Anniversary Celebrations to 1900 Anniversary Celebrations 1900+ Webster’s Speeches Invitation to Webster-1851 Other and Similar Rescues Post Rescue letters and speeches Cards exhibited Oct. 12, 1951 Colligan 1967 Finkelman 1970 Account By Freeman Galpin 1941 “The Story of Slavery “ John Howe Ella B. Moffett Article-Syracuse Herald 10/1/1899 “The Jerry Rescue Story” R. Moyer 1989 “The Fugitive Slave Law and Jerry Rescue” Perkins 1902 October 1, 1851 by Earl Sperry, 1924 (Research Copy) October 1, 1851 by Earl Sperry Displays-Jerry Rescue (missing) Jerry Rescue Monument Campaign “Abolitionists, Orators and Daniel Webster...” Desist 1969 ABOLITION AND ANTISLAVERY Non-Onondaga-1850-51 (mssing) 9 10 Onondaga-1850 (missing) Onondaga (including Fugitive Slave Law Protests), 1852 Non-Onondaga-1852-53 Onondaga-1853-54 Non-Onondaga-1854 Non-Onondaga-1855 Onondaga-1855 Non-Onondaga-1856