Penfield & Taft (Crown Point, N.Y.)
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Hammond family business papers
Correspondence, grocery and general merchandise daybooks, cashbooks, customers' ledgers, inventories, order books, checkbooks and other accounts mainly of Hammond Brothers, the Hammond Store, and [E.J.] Barker and [Wallace] Wyman, successors to the Hammonds; also records relating to company railroad employees, canal and lake steamer shipping accounts, and journals of the Crown Point Iron Company and the Sugar Hill Company.
Separation and inspiration : concerning the first industrial application of electricity in America
An essay on the use of electricity in the iron works of Penfield & Taft at Crown Point, New York, and the subsequent acquisition of the firm's electromagnetic equipment by Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor. The essay is designated Historical Publication No. 1 of the Penfield Foundation, Ironville, Crown Point, New York.
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- Inland water transportation -- New York (State) -- Accounting. 1
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