Franklin Robert Smith papers
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers of Franklin Robert Smith, including general accounts, 1883-1906. Also letters, miscellaneous business papers, trade cards and other advertising material.
Dates
- 1875-1919.
Creator
- Smith, Franklin Robert, 1855-1925. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Franklin Robert Smith was born in 1855 to Adelaide Smith (née Catchpole) and Edward Smith. Franklin Smith married Iola Jane Smith (née Ryder) in 1881, and the couple had at least 4 children: Edna, Iola, Leon, and Stanley. Franklin Smith was a fruit grower by trade and worked in Ontario County, N.Y. He died on March 5, 1925, and is also buried in Geneva, NY.
Extent
.8 cubic feet. (.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers of Franklin Robert Smith, a fruit grower from Ontario County, N.Y., including general accounts, 1883-1906. Also letters, miscellaneous business papers, trade cards and other advertising material.
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Map - Adirondacks, 1902. (Four sheets in folder.) Distributed to Maps & Microtexts Dept., July 1974.
Physical Description
Correspondence, trade cards and other advertising material, and other business and personal papers.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- N. Dean
- Date completed:
- June 1962
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, March 2004
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by N. Dean
- Date
- March 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)