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group of 19 photographs, letters, diary and other documents, including a manuscript diary entitled B.H. Streeter Daily Memorandum 1847. This diary was kept by Benjamin from 1847-48, age 20-21. Interestingly, Benjamin records nothing but work around the farm on Christmas Day 1847. The diary is a 20pp 12mo blank booklet printed by the Gennesee Paper Mill, Rochester, N.Y. with woodcut illustrated wraps. Most of the entries deal with his farming and building business with a typical entry being between one and five lines and reading July Thur. 15 warm mowed, raked & roped & stacked hay. Benjamin's farm was quite diversified with dairy and meat cows, oxen, horses, pigs, sheep and other critters, field crops including wheat, barley, clover, potatoes and much more. Diary includes most social events he attended. After this period Benjamin was elected to the New York Assembly and this group includes a 12mo pamphlet entitled A Statistical List of the Members and Officers of the Assembly of the State of New York at the Session of 1853., by C.H. Maxson, Albany, C. Van Benthuysen, 10pp in self wraps with Streeter's autograph on the front wrap. In this pamphlet Benjamin is listed as being the Representative of Wayne County, born in town of Berlin, Rensselaer County, age 26, unmarried and a farmer/merchant. The archive also includes an interesting group of manuscript letters including one dated Jan. 30, 1860, from Nebraska Territory, written by Wallace W. Walker to Brother Harvey. This 4pp letter tells of Wallace's journey west in search of Gold, of which he writes I have hunted the wild buffalo on the plains of Kanzas; (sic) I have seen the wild animals of the mountains bounding from hillside to hill top such as bear mountain sheep elk antilope (sic) black and red tailed deer but that which I hunted the most for I have the least of Gold. Judging from the content of the letter, this is the first to Harvey since he traveled west, as it tells of the beginning of the trip and the route taken to arrive in N.T. The letter continues with his description of his working for the Indian Agent on a Pawnee reservation located on a former Mormon town. He has been hired to teach the Wild Indians of the Plains to farmer like White people. Continues with detailed description of the reservation and account of his work for the Agent. It is unknown how this letter came into Benjamin's hands, but another member of the Streeter family is mentioned in the letter by Wallace with I received a letter from S.S. Streeter about 3 weeks ago since with a great amount of news. The next letter in this archive is dated June 23, 1864, and addressed to B.H. Streeter in Chicago, from Capt. Linus J. Austin, 36th Illinois Infantry reading Your brother Bryan L. Streeter is missing since Sunday June 19th. I think he is a prisoner and unhurt. If so probably he will write you soon. Chaplain Naigh sends regards to yourself and wife to which I beg leave to add my own. In addition there is a partially printed Civil War pass on 2.2" x 3.5" white card stock reading Head Quarters/Camp Goodell/May 31 1861./Pass Mr. Streeter & Lady/in and out of Camp Goodell between the/hours of Reveille and Retreat./J.M. Douglass fort Comdt. Bryan enlisted in March 1864 as a private in Co. G. The 36th Illinois Infantry was operating in the Western Theater ending with Sherman's Army. We could find no listed action in either regimental history or other sources involving the 36th around June 19th, 1864. Lot includes printed soldiers and unit histories from Bryan and the 36th. There are four photographs in this archive, the earliest is a 5" x 7" albumen portrait of Benjamin's mother (unnamed), mounted on original 8" x 10" card stock, being a copy of an earlier daguerreotype, PLUS a pair of early silver gelatin full length portraits, ca 1880 of Benjamin and wife Amelia with imprint of E.H. Husher & Co., Detroit, Mich. both on original 6.75" x 9.75" embossed card stock mounts, AND the last is an unidentified CDV-