- unitid
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{"value"=>"1398", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1398", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1884/1914", "value"=>"1884-1914"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1884
- date_inclusive_end
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1914
- keydate
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1884
- date_start
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1884
- date_end
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1914
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"George B. Hillard papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"5 linear feet (12 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"George B. Hillard was active in the Prohibition Party, the Young People's Prohibition League and a variety of other prohibition organizations in New York City from the 1880s through 1914. He ran for state and local office and served as a local trade union official. Collection consists of correspondence, notes, memoranda, scrapbooks of clippings, and other printed matter mainly concerning the Prohibition Party. Prohibition Party records comprise approximately half of the collection and contain letters to Hillard, minutes, notes, accounts, and printed matter such as party pamphlets, announcements, circulars, posters, programs, handbooks, and maps. Materials from various prohibition groups include mostly printed items issued by organizations ranging from local clubs to national organizations. Printed material and letters to Hillard document banquet, conference, entertainment, and travel arrangements he made for prohibition groups. Personal and miscellaneous papers relate to both personal and prohibition matters and scrapbooks contain clippings of articles about prohibition news in New York and nationally."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>George B. Hillard papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Hillard, George B", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Hillard was active in the Prohibition Party, the Young People's Prohibition League, and a variety of other prohibition organizations in New York City from at least the 1880s through 1914 - the dates these papers cover. Standard reference sources (New York City directories, New York Times Obituaries Index, Who's Who) reveal no biographical information about Hillard - all information here was deduced from the collection.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>An 1889 supplement to <em render=\"italic\">The Voice</em> - a prohibition newspaper - listing the attributes of Prohibition Party candidates for various offices describes Hillard, running for State Senator, as a carpenter. Printed material and a few small memorandum books relating to commercial parquet floor construction back this up. A business card describes Hillard as President, Local 2, Paper Box, Bag, and Novelty Workers International Union.</p> <p>Additional printed material concerning paper box manufacturing and the union are included. Printed materials issued by various labor unions, and by New York City groups concerned about the South African Boer War suggest other interests. Letters to Hillard, 1897, from a representative of the New York Headquarters of the Sons of Confederate Veterans concerning his participation in their parade suggest that either he or his family might have come from the South. Letters, business cards, and other materials in the collection put him at several addresses in Brooklyn and Manhattan.</p> <p>For the Prohibition Party, City and County of New York, Hillard served as a county organizer; poll watcher; delegate to New York City, New York State, and national Prohibition Party conventions; chairman of the Banquet Committee, Greater New York Campaign Committee, and Public Meetings Committee; and candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, Borough President of Manhattan, and State Senator (there is no evidence that he won any of these elections). He appears to have carried out sane of these activities for the Kings County (Brooklyn) Prohibition Committee as well. Manuscripts in the collection suggest that Hillard delivered speeches (an undated clipping mentions him as a speaker at a Young People's Prohibition League meeting). Letters, printed material, notes, and accounts show him arranging for the manufacture and distribution of Prohibition Party buttons, pins, pictures, and a banner; selling tickets to Party events; arranging for meeting halls, catering, and entertainment for Party banquets; organizing transportation and accommodations for Prohibition Party, Young People's Prohibition League, and other Prohibition groups travelling to conventions and other out of town events; and obtaining parade permits.</p> <p>The Prohibition Party was in favor of woman's suffrage, and in its stance against \"legalized vice\" stood with other anti-\"vice\" movements of its time. The collection is a good source of information about where prohibition stood in the era's overall reform atmosphere, documenting its relation to the woman's suffrage and woman's rights movements particularly well.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Five series: I Prohibition Party, 1886-1914, n.d.; II. Prohibition Groups, ca. 1880s-1914; III. Banquet, Entertainment and Travel Information, ca. 1892-1907; IV. Personal and Miscellaneous, ca. 1895-1914; V. Scrapbooks, ca. 1884-1890s</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Readers should be aware that the collection was found in extreme disorder, and that the order it is in now reflects decisions made by the New York Public Library and not by Hillard.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Julie Miller, November, 1987</p>"}
- extent_statement
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5 linear feet (12 boxes)