Clarence Babcock account books and miscellany
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 257
Scope and content
17 account books, cashbooks, ledgers, and daybooks from Rhodes & Co., Lester Brown & Co., Roberts Rhodes & Co., grocery, clothing, dry goods stores in New York, Camden, Albany, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and Osceola. Also, a typewritten document on the descendants of Amos Merit Babcock, with cover letter dated May 12, 1916; letter from C. Comstock to A.H. Foster, dated September 17, 1869, on letterhead of the Williamstown and Redfield Rail Road and Forest Company, asking to have some land surveyed; and a printed sheet listing stops on the Erie and Junction Canals, compiled by Samuel W. Shepard (undated).
Dates
- 1860-1916.
Creator
- Babcock, Clarence (Compiler, Person)
- Comstock, C. B. (Cyrus Ballou), 1831-1910. (Person)
- Foster, A. H. (Person)
- Rhodes & Co (Organization)
- Roberts Rhodes & Co (Organization)
- Lester Brown & Co (Organization)
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Account books
- Babcock family -- : Genealogy.
- Babcock family.
- Cashbooks.
- Clothing trade -- New York (State)
- Daybooks.
- Dry-goods -- New York (State)
- Erie Canal (N.Y.)
- Groceries -- New York (State)
- Junction Canal (N.Y. and Pa.)
- Ledgers (account books)
- Lester Brown & Company
- Rhodes & Company
- Roberts Rhodes & Company
- Stores, Retail -- Missouri -- St. Louis.
- Stores, Retail -- New York (State) -- Albany.
- Stores, Retail -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn.
- Stores, Retail -- New York (State) -- Camden.
- 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)