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Railroads -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Diven family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2231
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, account books, and legal papers of an Elmira family of lawyers and businessmen.

Dates: 1828-1940.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Diven family papers

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates: 1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ezra Cornell papers

Gail and Stephen Rudin Cornelliana Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-1-4159
Scope and content Letters and documents from and to Ezra Cornell relating to the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira Railroad, to Douglass Boardman regarding the telegraph business, from Thomas Rooker about an "acoustic telegraph," and from Conrad Milton about a "percussion shell." Letters from Andrew Dickson White to. W. C. Crane about the possible purchase of a newspaper for the Library and to Abner I. Phipps doubting a visit to New England. A manuscript written by Jacob Gould Schurman for an anthology to be produced...
Dates: 1848-1931.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gail and Stephen Rudin Cornelliana Collection

George J. Magee Watkins Glen, New York, to C. D. Champlin, ALS:

 Collection — Manuscript box 30 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246161]
Identifier: 1038
Scope and content

Letter from Magee of the Fall Brook Coal Company informing Champlin that the people of Savona, Dundee, Geneva, Penn Yan, and adjacent communities wish to bond their towns in an effort to site a railroad advantageously to their interests.

Dates: 1870 May 8.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George J. Magee Watkins Glen, New York, to C. D. Champlin, ALS:

Glen Springs Hotel records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16
Scope and content

Registers, invoices, ledgers, day books, and room books for a hotel in Watkins Glen, New York (1885-1917), William M. Leffingwell, manager.





Dates: 1885-1918.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Glen Springs Hotel records

H. G. Hotchkiss Essential Oil Company records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 673
Abstract

Includes accounts, correspondence, banking records, broadsides, prices current, market guides and other materials relating to the development of the essential oils industry.

Dates: 1822-1982.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / H. G. Hotchkiss Essential Oil Company records

Horatio N. Cary vs. Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 10 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241618]
Identifier: 1513m
Scope and content

Correspondence and documents in the case as it came before the Oneida County Supreme Court. Correspondents include the plaintiff's attorneys, Kernan & Quin (of Utica, New York), Horatio Cary, and the defendant's attorneys, Tracy, Wait & Olmstead (of New York City). Also included are transcripts of Margaret Bedell's testimony in the case.

Dates: 1856-1858.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Horatio N. Cary vs. Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company legal documents

J. DeMotte Smith and Henry D. Barto papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 304
Scope and content

Includes material concerning legal cases of J. DeMotte Smith and Henry D. Barto, such as briefs, deeds, mortgages, bonds, indentures, financial statements and correspondence; legal papers of the Auble Family; and bills and inventories sent to G. W. Cole of Havana, Chemung County (now Montour Falls, Schuyler County), New York, concerning the Elmira and Corning Line.



Dates: 1800-1892.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / J. DeMotte Smith and Henry D. Barto papers

James D. Nares papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940848]
Identifier: 2450
Scope and content Letters to Nares regarding the development of the Penn Yan and Lake Keuka Electric Railroad, and a typescript prospectus of the latter line; correspondents include the Northern Central Railway Company, the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Company, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, the General Light and Power Company of Philadelphia, and manufacturers of various devices used in the construction of railroads; also two letters (1900) from Frank J. Nelson, Mayor of...
Dates: 1898-1902.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James D. Nares papers

John Greig papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1550
Abstract

Correspondence; accounts of purchases, payments, and unsold lands; surveys; tax receipts, contracts, notes, bonds, deeds, powers of attorney; and maps and field notes of the New York Military Tract and city lots of Rochester and Ontario County, New York.

Dates: 1794-1870.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John Greig papers

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