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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Collection of Backus family papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2024-044
Content Description

This collection consists of papers of the Backus family and includes genealogy hand written and typed, and the "Memorables of the Montgomeries" manuscript. It also includes a daguerreotype of Gerrit Fitzhugh Backus and his mother. the collection also contains a copy of "Sonnets of War and Peace and Other Poems" by Thomas Rochester Shepard, 1929. The book is signed by Thomas Rochester Shepard to Mr. and Mrs. Backus.

Dates: 1866-1881, 1929