Scope and content One certificate for patent rights for Erasmus Bennett's self-acting brake, July 19, 1866 for Jewett F. Bentley for 11 counties in Wisconsin; one letter from Erasmus Bennett to Jewett F. Bentley, Aug. 15, 1866; one blank share in Erasmus Bennett's self-acting brake; one photograph of Cornell women students, 1890; a manuscript address by Andrew Dickson White on Robert Richardson, sculptor, Munich, May 21, 1889; and a manuscript address by Goldwin Smith about Oxford University, England, about...

Scope and content Two copies of a broadside advertising Erasmus Bennett's self-acting wagon brake, patented in 1864, with directions for mounting it on a wagon, printed by Spencer & Williams in Ithaca, New York; three blank printed receipts for payment for the right to use and sell the brake in a particular town, dated 1860s; one sheet with directions for mounting the brake, printed by Spencer & Williams in Ithaca; and one manuscript document agreeing to pay to "Charles Brown or bearer" five dollars...