Manuscripts

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION TitleBenjamin Tallmadge Autographed Signed Letter: July 8, 1781 Collection NumberSC 381 OCLC Number75506730 CreatorBenjamin Tallmadge, 1754-1835 Provenance Acquired by purchase in 2003. Extent,Scope, and Content Note This original manuscript letter was authored and signed by Benjamin Tallmadge on July 8, 1781. Written from Wethersfield, Connecticut, it is directed to Colonel John Broome

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION TitleSuffolk Interreligious Coalition on Housing, Inc. (New York) Collection Collection NumberSC 290 OCLC Number122379119 CreatorSuffolk Interreligious Coalition on Housing, Inc. Provenance    Gift of Dorothy Beall in 1983. Extent, Scope, and Content NoteThe collection is comprised of 0.4 cubic ft. of correspondence, minutes, agendas, reports, news clippings, and pamphlets of

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION TitleSuffolk County, New York Legislature Committee Resolutions Collection Collection NumberSC 276 OCLC NumberIn-process Creator Suffolk County, New York Legislature Committee  Provenance Under review Extent, Scope, and Content NoteThe collection is comprised of 34.6 cubic ft. of Suffolk County, New York Legislature Committee Resolutions created between 1985 and 1989.  Arrangement and Processing

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION     TitleTheater Programs Collection Collection NumberSC 140 OCLC Number1245233152 Creator Various Provenance The Theater Programs Collection consists of an accumulation of  gifts received by Special Collections. Extent,Scope, and Content Note The Theater Programs Collection is an artifical collection of 28.5 linear ft. received from multiple donors by Special Collections over the course of

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION TitleIsaiah Thomas Autographed Signed Letter: September 24, 1805 Collection NumberSC 465 OCLC Number945919670 CreatorIsaiah Thomas, 1749-1831  Provenance This document was located in SC 100, an artificial collection created by the department in the 1970s. The letter was removed to form its own collection.  Extent,Scope, and Content Note Autographed letter by Isaiah

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION     TitleTintypes and Portraits Collection Collection NumberSC 341 OCLC Number1179140046 Creator The photographer and original owner are unknown. Provenance This collection was donated by Leighton Coleman III in 2005. Extent,Scope, and Content Note The collection includes 3 linear inches of tintype portraits produced circa 1860s-1880s. The subjects are primarily unidentified African

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION TitleW.H. Johnson Autographed Signed Letter to Captain Solomon Townsend: January 11, 1831 Collection NumberSC 458 OCLC Number911649488 CreatorW.H. Johnson Provenance Purchase from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, April 2015; from the contents of the Hedges home in East Hampton, New York. Extent,Scope, and Content Note Letter from W.H. Johnson to

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION     TitleHoward Townsend Memoir Collection NumberSC 101/23 OCLC Number122487855 Creator Howard Townsend, Jr.,1858-1935 Provenance Acquired by Stony Brook University from the Lindmark Collection, c1960s.  Extent,Scope, and Content Note The collection is a one volume, bound typescript, autobiographical memoir by Howard Townsend (1858-1935). It has 53 leaves. Dedicated: “For my children.” New York City,

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION     TitleHoward Townsend Memorial Volume Collection NumberSC 101/24 OCLC Number122458586 Creator Various Provenance Acquired by Stony Brook University from the Lindmark Collection, c1960s.  Extent,Scope, and Content Note The one volume was compiled in honor of Howard Townsend (1858-1935). It includes carbon copies and transcriptions of biographical information about Howard Townsend, correspondence, and letters

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION TitleJoyce Moore Turner Collection Collection NumberSC 261 OCLC Number156793832 Creator Joyce Moore Turner, 1920-2024. Provenance Donated by Joyce Moore Turner a series of transfers between 1978 and 1993. Extent,Scope, and Content Note The collection is comprised of 28.5 linear ft. of papers created and collected by community and civil rights activist Joyce Moore Turner