Scope and content
Letters concerning family matters and describing the everyday life of people who owned and operated small farms in upstate New York during the nineteenth century (Steuben County); includes letters from Henrietta Harwood (Wells), a school teacher, to her sister Helen Church, concerning her life as a teacher (pay, pupils, board, etc.), life in California, and economic conditions there. Letter from Julius Lichenstein to William Enos on methods of salesmanship in the West for selling advertising goods. Deeds, mortgages, bonds, assessment notices of Church family and their neighbors; pamphlets, marriage certificates, lodge membership certificate, accounts, and business letters.
Dates
- 1838-1936.
Creator
- Church family. (Family)
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Advertising
- Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Steuben County.
- Church, Helen.
- Deeds.
- Education -- California.
- Enos, William.
- Families -- New York (State) -- Steuben County,
- Farms, Small -- New York (State) -- Steuben County.
- Finance, Personal.
- Harwood, Henrietta.
- Lichtenstein, Julius.
- Mortgages.
- Real property -- New York (State) -- Steuben County.
- Steuben County (N.Y.) -- Rural conditions.
- Steuben County (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
- 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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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