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Farmers.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Orville Theodore Fletcher papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064718582]
Identifier: 3674
Scope and content

Manuscript and typescript of Orville Fletcher's "From Plow to Pulpit: An Autobiography..." concerning his boyhood on a farm in McClure Settlement, New York, 1850-1890. Also, photographs of Fletcher farmhouse, 1893, and barn, 1930; the Fletcher children; Fletcher's parents, James and Laura Fletcher; and Patty and Benjamin Fletcher, Jr., 1859, his grandparents. Includes obituaries of James Fletcher, Orville Fletcher's father.

Dates: 1859-1935.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Orville Theodore Fletcher papers

Paul W. Griswold diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065226387]
Identifier: 3939
Scope and content

Diaries containing short daily entries concerning weather, farm work, crops, visits, social activities, and finances.

Dates: 1891-1901.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Paul W. Griswold diaries

Raymond Clark Hitchings papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2580
Abstract

Accounts, correspondence, and financial and legal records relating to Hitchings's various positions as an officer and employee of the Co-operative Grange League Federation Exchange (ca. 1920-1928) and as a consultant and officer in various agricultural agencies; also, other personal and family papers.

Dates: 1808-1959,-1870-1945 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Raymond Clark Hitchings papers

Richard Winne diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065178018]
Identifier: 3019
Scope and content

Collection consists of one checkbook and 29 diaries of Richard Winne covering the years 1860-62, 1864-67, 1869, 1871, 1874-87, and 1890-97.

Dates: 1860-1897.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Richard Winne diaries

Robert Pollock letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240453]
Identifier: 805
Scope and content Four letters by Pollock to a brother in Scotland; the first from Lake Mills, Wisconsin including instructions on how to prepare for emigration, advice as to costs, prices, clothing, household utensils, and other matters, and advice as to the exact procedures to be followed on the trip from New York, Albany, Buffalo, and the West in order to escape "runners," and to avoid the dangers facing uninformed immigrants; the second letter from Cambridge, Wisconsin describing his failure as a grain...
Dates: 1848-1869.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Robert Pollock letters

Silas Mickel accounts

 Collection — Manuscript box 10 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241485]
Identifier: 1403
Scope and content

Farm and household accounts, including expenses for hired hands, inventories of farm equipment, livestock, home furnishings, etc. for a farm near Hector, N.Y. 1 vol.; miscellaneous loose papers, including recipes for home dyes and liniment, a church, subscription list, and bills.

Dates: 1885-1910.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Silas Mickel accounts

Torrey family diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065191243]
Identifier: 4242
Scope and content

Diary of Mrs. Hamilton H. Torrey, April 20, 1878 - May 24, 1879. Diaries of George H. Torrey, October 1, 1893 - October 22, 1898, and June 18, 1891 - Sept. 21, 1893. Farm diaries from Town of Bethany, Genesee County, N.Y.

Dates: 1878-1898.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Torrey family diaries

Whiteside family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065174363]
Identifier: 643
Scope and content This set of papers deals largely with the activities of Phineas and John Whiteside, pioneer farmers in Washington County, New York, who acted as agents (1785-90) in the handling of 3,756 acres of land for Henrietta Maria Colden and her son. The papers include deeds to Phineas Whiteside for 1,011 acres from Alexander Colden (1769) and Richard Nicholas Colden (1775) containing detailed information as to lots, names, rents, and terms, and with some rents fixed at 20 bushels of wheat per 100...
Dates: 1769-1938.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Whiteside family papers

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