Scope and content
Correspondence, accounts, and legal documents pertaining to Lytle's real estate operations and other business ventures and to his tenure in the office of Justice of the Peace of Superintendent of Schools in Washington County, N.Y.; letters from M. R. McWhorter of Milwaukee, telling of his plans to join the Gold Rush (February 1849), and from James Lydon, giving his views on opportunities in the California mines (June 1854); also, one household expense account book of Mary Lytle's family and diaries.
Dates
- 1838-1883.
Creator
- Lytle, John R. (Person)
Extent
.8 cubic feet. (.8 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Account books
- Diaries
- Gold mines and mining -- California.
- Home economics -- Accounting.
- Justices of the peace -- New York (State) -- Washington County.
- Lydon, James F.
- Lytle, Mary
- McWhorter, M. R.
- Real estate business -- New York (State) -- Washington County.
- School superintendents -- New York (State) -- Washington County.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)