Collection of eight illuminated parchment scrolls and one illuminated parchment codex in Geez and Amharic, pertaining to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, from the late 19th or early 20th century. This collection was acquired in 1998.
Emilie V. Clarkson was one of a handful of female photographers who showed talent and promise in an artistic medium that in the late 19th century was male-dominated. E. V. Clarkson was born in 1863 in Potsdam NY into the wealthy family that included Thomas S. Clarkson (namesake of Clarkson University). Clarkson studied art in New York City as a young woman and took an interest in photography by 1888. She graduated from the Chautaqua School of Photography and spent the next several years honing her craft and entering photographic expositions, exclusively as an amateur.
Edward H. Neary was a lawyer in the Village of Gouverneur from the mid to late 1800s. Mr. Neary was born in Elphin, Ireland and moved to the United States with his mother and a sister in 1848, following the death of his father and four siblings. He attended school in Ogdensburg, worked as a teacher as a teen and studied law. Neary was admitted to the bar in 1856. He also held the post of County Judge for 16 years. He married his wife Margaret in 1861 and had two sons, both of whom became lawyers.
Edmund Wilson, literary and social critic, was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1895. As early as his prep school and college days, he showed an aptitude for literary criticism. While editing a literary magazine at Princeton, he helped form the career of his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald. During his lifetime, he served as a
writer for, or editor of, such journals as VANITY FAIR, the NEW REPUBLIC, and the NEW YORKER. In addition, he wrote some 25 books of satiric verse, fiction, drama, history, literary criticism, and social commentary.
Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1937 and attended New York University where he received a degree in Greek in 1964. Sanders’ work as a poet is notable, along with his New York bookstore, the Peace Eye for spreading a radical, anti-establishment message. In 1966, New York police raided the Peace Eye and charged Sanders with obscenity. Sanders was a founding member of the band The Fugs, which produced several albums of music reflecting the counterculture. Sanders also made a number of solo albums through the years.
Eleanor Jane Lahey Dumas (1916-1997) was employed with the Massena Observer until her marriage and later became a Watertown Daily Times Massena correspondent in the early 1940s. Mrs. Dumas covered Northern New York and Southern Ontario until her retirement in 1976. Eleanor is most noted for covering high profile events in the North Country, such as Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit to St. Lawrence University in 1955 and the construction of the Eisenhower Lock and Power Dam from 1954-1959. In 1970 Mrs.
Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower (1890-1969) served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953-1961. Eisenhower was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II and a five-star Army general. In this role he was responsible for planning and execution of Allied invasions of France and Germany which led to the end of the war in Europe. Following WWII, Eisenhower served as supreme commander of the newly-created North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Eisenhower is generally regarded as one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history.
Lelon Ansil Doolittle was born July 22, 1853 in Russell, St. Lawrence County, NY. He was educated in Russell, St. Lawrence University Class of 1875 and at the University of Wisconsin where he studied law. Lelon died in July 1930 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Betsey (Bessie) Adams Weeks was born April 20, 1851 in Vermont, she was educated in Rutland, Vermont and St. Lawrence University Class of 1876. She married Lelon Doolittle May 4, 1880 in Wisconsin. She died April 25, 1927 in Wisconsin.
These records include Administrative records, Environmental and Human Rights newspaper clippings, Magazines, Scrapbooks and Videotapes. The dates range from 1977 to 1993.
Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing, appearing in the Middle East around 3000 BCE. Symbols were impressed into clay tablets using a stylus. Many forms of cuneiform were developed by a number of cultures over approximately three millennia, until other forms of writing came into use.