Skip to main content



Horatio M. Pollock and Charles Culver Papers

Horatio M. Pollock and Charles Culver Papers

1 of 2
Open Finding Aid
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large
Extra Large
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution

Guide to the Horatio M. Pollock and Charles Culver Papers

1869-1950

New York State Historical Association - Research Library
Special Collections
P.O. Box 800, 5798 State Highway 80
Cooperstown, NY 13326
(607) 547-1470



Profile Description

Creation: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-02-03T15:35-0500

Repository: New York State Historical Association - Research Library
Title: Horatio M. Pollock and Charles Culver Papers
Dates: 1869-1950
Quantity: 1.0 cubic feet + 4 volumes
Funding Source:This finding aid was made available electronically through a Regional Bibliographic Data Bases (RBDB) grant from the South Central Regional Library Council, Ithaca, N.Y.
Identification: Coll. No. 316
Language: English

Scope and Content Note

Personal and business papers of Horatio M. Pollock, a teacher at Albany High School and statistician at the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene. Includes papers on mental health and criminology, correspondence, papers relating to his work as an officer of the Civic League of Albany, travel notes from Europe and Peru, and a 1932 diary of his wife, Georgina. Also contains personal papers of Dr. Charles Culver (1856-1938), an ophthalmologist in Albany, N.Y., including correspondence, notebooks, a daybook, essays, and a biographical sketch written by Horatio M. Pollock.


Series Descriptions

Series 1. Horatio Pollock Personal Papers. 7 folders.

Personal papers of Horatio Pollock include biographical information, correspondence with family and friends, notes on a European trip and a trip to Peru, his passport, photographs of Pollock and Culver and associates, and photographs of the Home Savings Bank, Albany, N.Y.

Series 2. Horatio Pollock Business Papers. 8 folders.

Papers spanning the career of Horatio Pollock from his time as a teacher at Albany High School through his position as statistician at the New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene.

Series 3. Civic League of Albany Records. 6 folders.

Records relating to the work of the Civic League of Albany, for which Pollock was executive secretary from 1907-1911, and president in 1913. Includes minutes, correspondence, and reports of the League.

Series 4. Horatio Pollock Family Papers, Essays, Clippings, and Other Papers. 5 folders, 1 volume.

Includes papers of Horatio Pollock about his sister, Ada Pollock Blundon, and the school and orphanage she operated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a diary of Georgina Pollock, 1932. Also includes several essays on religion; newspaper and magazine clippings; a "black list" of speakers, labeled as pacifists, communists, socialists, etc., which was sent to the Massachusetts chapter of the D.A.R.; and items pertaining to Albany, N.Y.

Series 5. Charles Culver Personal Papers. 15 folders, 3 volumes.

Personal papers of Charles Culver include letters he wrote and received, 1869-1937 (bulk 1932-1937), a biographical sketch written by Horatio Pollock, some genealogical notes, and Culver's last will and testament. There are three volumes, including notes on language and a scrapbook, 1882, a daybook, 1932, and a German notebook, 1937. Other papers include essays, poems, etc. written by Culver; articles, booklets, etc. on various topics; a paper by Gen. J.M. Robertson, "General Grant in Mexico;" and a program and menu of the Albany Legislative Correspondents' Association, April 12, 1917.


Restrictions

Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research. If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of fair use, that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.


Administrative Information

Accession Numbers

NM-5.81, NM-6.81


you wish to report:


...
Select the collections to add or remove from your search
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
 
OK
http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16694coll8/id/1236
cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2016-18
266849
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:34PFEFSASWCOLWKJC5W3DEXASLAPPMNG
<urn:uuid:8b54b420-b1b4-43ff-a4ba-b9c866ad2492>
2016-04-29T22:26:24Z
132.174.3.1
sha1:WEYWJSQVJUCKOXKZ2JNEMXQS43HCWQQW
<urn:uuid:db001cad-814e-43de-9bb6-3f53d6a04fbd>
http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16694coll8/id/1236
response
<urn:uuid:acc7bbcd-158c-4e9e-b192-f57e4a42d0a9>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-18
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf