Scope and content
Records include "Dairy Herd Improvement Association Herd Record Book," 2 volumes: 1949-1952; 1949-1957; Lodi farm assets and liabilities ledger, 1955-1979; ledger of inventories, income, and farm expenses, 1947-1974; ledger about horses and ponies, 1960-1967; binders of tax records, house expenses, work sheets, milk receipts, profit and loss comparisons, etc.
Dates
- 1947-1975.
Creator
- Henderson, Isobel (Compiler, Person)
Language of Material
In English.
Biographical / Historical
Isobel Duguid and her first husband Robert Brockway owned Auchlunies Farm in Skaneateles, N.Y. In the late 1940s, they were divorced and she married Henry C. Henderson. They bought a farm that they named Dawn Hill Farm in Interlaken, N.Y. Around 1955, they sold that farm and bought another, also called Dawn Hill Farm in Lodi, N.Y. They kept dairy cows, Welsh ponies, and draft horses. Isobel died in 1976.
Extent
1.5 cubic feet. (1.5 cubic feet.)
- Account books
- Agriculture -- Accounting -- New York (State) -- Seneca County.
- Agriculture -- New York (State)
- Dairy farmers -- New York (State) -- Seneca County.
- Dairy farms -- Economic aspects -- New York (State)
- Dairy farms -- New York (State) -- Interlaken.
- Dairy farms -- New York (State) -- Lodi.
- Dairy farms -- New York (State) -- Seneca County.
- Dairy farms -- New York (State) -- Skaneateles.
- Henderson, Henry C.
- Milk yield.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- 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
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