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Diaries of Mabel S. Laidlaw and her daughter Helena Laidlaw Livermore of Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Collection consists of diaries kept by a wife and a daughter of a Doctor in Canton, N.Y., and provides a daily log of domestic life in the first part of the century. Other items include automobile records, autograph books, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, correspondence and microfilm of diaries.

The collection consists of four diaries (1901, 1906, 1908 and 1917) and four photocopies of diaries (1899, 1900, 1902 and 1903). The diaries include accounts of Mabel's daily activities and a report on the weather of the day. The 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902 diaries also contain detailed lists of daily expenses of the household, with monthly and yearly totals. The diaries are an excellent source of information about life in Canton and St. Lawrence County, NY.

Two account books for the town of Madrid, N.Y. Town Supervisor's account book 1829-1868 and "Book of public land of the town of Madrid", 1840-1859. Both contain names of individuals, dates, and amounts paid.

The collection consists of 117 letters from various historians (Paul Jamieson and Atwood Manley), the bulk of the correspondence is from individuals at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. where he received an honorary degree and a North Country Citation.

This collection contains newspaper clippings, photo albums and information collected by Malcolm McCormick highlighting the early days of Canton, NY. Included in this collection is a history of the theater in Canton. Malcolm also collected information on the beginnings of St. Lawrence University.

The Man Papers, consisting of around 500 items, cover a period from the 1800's to the 1870's and include the personal, business and legal papers of the Man family of Malone, N.Y. The family was among the first settlers of Malone, and later Constable and Westville when those towns split from Malone.

The collection consists of photographs, correspondence with Dr. Frank Piskor, President of St. Lawrence University from 1969 to 1981, and newspaper clippings (mostly New York Times Book Review). Also included are poems and articles by and about Moore, journals where her poems were published, i.e. "Texas Quarterly", "The Story" and "Poetry" are also a part of this collection.

Mr. Swanson describes his writings as “Thoreauvian in nature”, documenting the author’s “day to day life in and relationship with the region”.

The collection consists primarily of business letters, ledgers and account books of the various businesses and the personal diaries of Orrin Martin. Included also are legal papers, photographs of the pulp mill construction, and newspaper clippings of Hollis and Marion's accident.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and an iconic figure in the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 60s.  The items in this collection consist mainly of clippings from Chicago newspapers shortly after King's assassination.