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

An account book from a Port Henry, New York farmer and businessman.

This collection contains daybooks of a general store in Oak Hill, Greene County, New York in the mid-19th century.

The collection includes administrative records of a 19th century railroad in Dutchess County, New York.

This collection contains an account book kept by a saddle and harness maker in Hillsboro County, New Hampshire the early 19th century.

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

This collection contains the business records and correspondence of a late 19th century Maine sea captain.

This collection is a notebook from a student reading law in 1800.

This collection contains letters, deeds, and retained copies of legal documents kept by John Dean Dickinson as an attorney and landowner in Lansingburg and Troy, New York in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Dickinson served in the New York State Assembly and the United States Congress.

This collection includes materials from the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad in southeastern Massachusetts.

This collection documents the activities of the members of the Freligh family who lived primarily in the Niskayuna area during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Ebenezer Fitch was a justice of peace in Oneida, New York. This collection contains a docket of cases he handled, personal items, and manuscripts.

This collection contains tax assessments and petitions pertaining to School District No. 6 of Cumberland, Rhode Island.

This collection contains correspondence of Charles K. Gardner invlolving a dispute over land, taxes, and railroad damages in Black Rock, Erie Canal, New York.

Leonard Gansevoort Jr. was an attorney in the Albany, New York area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This collection contains a register of cases handled by Gansevoort in the New York State Supreme Court, Albany Mayor's Court, and various county courts.

This collection contains the late 19th century financial records of building contractors in Killingly, Connecticut.

This collection contains a 19th century scrapbook maintained by the daughter of the mayor of Poughkeepsie, New York.

This collection includes a diary and business records kept by an early 19th century farmer and rural laborer in Passaic County, New Jersey.

This collection includes a journal of a journey through North America in 1828.

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.

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

This collection contains the account book of a late 19th century wagon maker from Rhode Island.

The Albany General Store Records contain business records kept by an unidentified proprietor of a general store which sold dry goods, rum, and other merchandise.

This collection contains reports on the finances and employment at the Amoskeag textile mills in New Hampshire during the 1930s.

Records of the Auburn Woolen Company include 120 certificates of capital stock.

This is a one volume collection kept by a textile dyer in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

This collection includes late 19th and early 20th century accident reports of the Boston and Maine Railroad.

This collection cosists of a daybook from a 19th century Albany bookbinder.

Business records for a company in Pascoag and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, which specialized in the manufacture of windows, doors, blinds, and moldings.

The financial and business records of a late 18th century Springfield, Massachusetts lumber mill.

This collection was kept by D. Ayeers Blakeslee, a native of Wellsville, New York.

19th century accounting records for a Vermont stage company.

The collection consists of daybooks of a mid-19th century lumber dealer in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

This collection contains the account book of a mid-19th century farmer in Farmington, Connecticut.

Account records of a saddle- and harness-maker in Burrillville, Rhode Island in the late 19th century.

This collection includes shipping and related records from a dock operator in New York City in the early 19th century.

The collection includes copies of Nazi documents with translations, 1940-1947, and photographs (with personal information) of 63 inmates at the Dachau and Ravensbruck concentration camps. Items were retained by George Scheider, a refugee from Czechoslovakia who served as a translator at the Nuremberg tribunals.

This collection consists of a manuscript including treatments for ailments of horses, written in German, from a farmer living west of Albany, New York in the late 18th century.

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.

Includes board minutes and reports for the Kendall and Hamlin School District No. 8, located in the area of Morton, Monroe County, New York.

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

This collection contains a late 19th century account book for the Lebanon Springs, New York Post Office.

The collection contains a late 19th century record book listing the technical specifications and dimensions of wagons, carriages, fire engines, and other horse-drawn vehicles from places in New England and New York.

This collection includes a register for the South Duxbury Station dated 1882-1883; four freight registers, 1883-1890; and a record book with description of locomotive engines and a register of employees, undated, for this railroad company.

The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company (NH) operated from 1872-1968. This collection records names, builders, repairs, renumbering, and dates of service of New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company locomotive engines since.

Founded in 1852 in New York City, the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company was a company that preluded the first trans-Atlantic cable. This collection contains the minutes of meetings of this company's "corporators," including Peter Cooper, Cyrus W. Field, Frederick N. Gisborne, Moses Taylor, and others.

This collection contains records of locomotive engines built between 1861 and 1921 and used by the Great Western Railway.

Caleb S. Hallowell was an educator from Alexandria, Virginia. This collection contains a journal that documents Hallowell's journey from Washington D.C. to Niagara Falls, New York.

Daniel Hawks was an attorney from Cortland Village, Cortland County, New York. This collection contains letters, financial accounts, deeds, and other legal documents, as well as copies of minutes, calendars, and other court records of the Cortland County Court.

This collection consist of records from the proprietors of a saddle and harness making shop in Paris, New York.

This collection contains the account book of a 19th century shoemaker and leather dealer near Taunton, Massachusetts.

This collections contains legal and administrative materials from the early 19th century from Orange County, New York.

Letters kept by a resident of Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York concerning local land transactions, 1854-1858.

Letters, publisher's catalogs, book dealers' announcements, and stationer's circulars received by mid-19th century booksellers in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Includes 32 volumes of day books and ledgers kept by J. A. Muzzey for his general store in Jamaica, Vermont.

Collection contains a variety of 19th century materials related to several New York State canals.

This collection contains minutes of stockholders' meetings of a horsecar operator based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Mid-19th century ledgers and day books kept by George W. Lovell and William H. Nichols for a lumber mill in Pascoag, Rhode Island.