Print Collection

History:
The Native American tribal confederacy known as the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee consists of six tribal entities or nations, primarily located in New York State and Canada. The tribes share similar language and formed a five-member tribal affiliation before contact with Europeans. Today, the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy consists of the Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas, Cayugas, Oneidas and the Tuscaroras, with the latter tribe joining later.

Universally regarded as one of the finest screen and stage directors and producers of the 20th century, George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915. Welles made his stage debut in Ireland in 1931 and by 1933 he was touring off-Broadway.

The AAUW was founded by a group of 17 college women in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881. During that period of time women were hindered by many barriers that prevented them from pursuing both higher education and obtaining work in specialized fields. The primary objective of AAUW was the betterment of women's lives and their personal growth and that a greater number of college-educated women would be of benefit to society in general. On May 4, 1927, the St. Lawrence County Branch of AAUW was formed in Canton, New York at the home of Mrs. Harold Bergman.

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials by and about Alexander Black. It also contains the papers of Edith O'Dell, including materials from the McClure Syndicate, the P.E.N. Club, the O'Dell New Service and Golden Book Magazine, as well as other business and personal correspondence and biographical material. Finally, it contains a series of letters written to Ms. O'Dell's colleague at The World, Pomeroy Burton, and a collection of the correspondence of editors of the North American Review.

Alan Casline graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1973 and received his PhD from SUNY Albany. He established Rootdrinker Institute in 1973 and began publishing Rootdrinker magazine in 1975. He has championed local culture, art, music, poetry, organics, and a "back to the land" philosophy through the Rootdrinker Institute and Benevolent Bird Press, as well as through talks, lectures, concerts and other events.

The Native territory of Akwesasne is located on the St. Lawrence River bordering St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The roughly 8,000 Mohawk people are governed by at least three different government entities; the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council, recognized by New York State and the U.S. Federal Governments, The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, recognized by the provincial and federal jurisdictions in Canada, and the traditionalist Mohawk Nation Council, which has no standing with the outside governments.

Aileen Vincent-Barwood was born in Toronto, Canada and is a resident of Canton, NY. As a young woman, Aileen was a wireless radio operator during WWII in the Canadian Air Force. Following her military service, Ms. Vincent-Barwood worked as an overseas journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the Middle East and Africa and has done extensive work as a freelance writer. Later in her career Aileen was a former reporter, columnist and then editor of the St. Lawrence Plaindealer in Canton, NY.

The Adirondack Park Agency was created July 1, 1971 by executive law article twenty-seven program bill #102. The purpose of the APA was to insure conservation, protection, preservation, development and use of the scenic, historic, ecological and natural resources of the Adirondack Park. Collection consists of the papers of George Davis who served as Wildlife Ecologist for the Temporary Study Commission on the future of the Adirondacks. Mr.

Dorothy Hall, a retired New York Telephone Employee, was an avid collector of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia. Featured in the Watertown Daily Times, Hall recounted her love of building her collection with her husband Kenneth Hall. Mr. Hall died in 1972 and Mrs. Hall continued her journey of collecting Lincoln and Civil War related ephemera, dedicating and entire room in her Copenhagen, NY home to Lincoln. Dorothy passed away in 1992 leaving her books and collectibles relating to Abraham Lincoln to St Lawrence University.

The collection consists of 136 glass plate negatives taken between 1895-1910 by Jameson of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. The negatives depict families and scenes in the Ogdensburg-Black Lake area.