Collections : [Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts]

Includes trial evidence, topical indexes to testimony, transcriptions of business records, legal briefs, and other materials compiled by V. N. Roadstrum of New York City, attorney for the J. P. Morgan Estate, in a 1915–18 lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against William Rockefeller, the Executors of the J. P. Morgan Estate, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company for "conspiracy to monopolize" railroad, streetcar, and water transportation of the "common-carrier business of transporting passengers and property" in New York, New Jersey, and New England.

Collection consists of correspondence concerning Van Kleeck genealogy, 1946-1965; correspondence with Kenneth Hasbrouck on history and education, 1951-1956; and printed materials on New York State and Albany history, 1950-1965.

Journal kept in 1904 describing a trip in 1901 to Ecuador by E. Melton Miller of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Collection includes financial records kept by a merchant seaman from East Hartford, Connecticut, who served on schooners trading with the West Indies and Spain.

This collection contains an account book for a general store in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The collection consists of a daybook, 1881-1882, kept by the proprietor of a general store in Derby, Connecticut.

This collection contains materials related to World War II rationing and price controls on the U.S. homefront.

The collection contains the scrapbook retained by a police chief from Louisville, Kentucky and and Terre Haute, Indiana.

Francis De Gress was a member of the import-export firm of Wexel and De Gress, which had offices in New York City and Mexico City. This collection contains correspondence of De Gress.

An inventory and bequest. A notarial document done for Thomas Maurice Bronod, an attorney in Paris.