Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Evan J. Morris autobiography
Collection — Manuscript box 64 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257572]
Identifier: 4111
Scope and content
14 page autobiography; contains many references to Cornell University.
Dates:
1980.
Ithaca diary
Collection — Manuscript box 54 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252144]
Identifier: 3012m
Scope and content
Diary of an unidentified Ithaca businessman, possibly a grocer. He was a member of the Oddfellows Lodge and the DeWitt Guards. The diary comments on the escape of Edward Rulloff, on lecturers and preachers, including C. M. Clay and Horace Mann; and frequently on the weather. He also notes the scarcity of certain provisions in the city, the opening and closing of canal traffic, the flood of June 17-18, depressed business in the fall of 1857, the bank's suspension of specie payment in...
Dates:
1857-1858.
Johnson family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1200
Abstract
Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds; bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance (1880); numerous letters written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson, a...
Dates:
1816-1936.
Simeon De Witt papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065197042]
Identifier: 4573
Scope and content
Letters and a power of attorney to Francis A. Bloodgood of Albany; concerns land contracts, property and property accounts, animals and timber, disposition of property and crops, and tenant supervision.
Dates:
1822-1831.
The industrial development of Ithaca, New York
Collection — Manuscript box 53 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251955]
Identifier: 2934m
Scope and content
Typewritten report detailing the industrial needs and resources of Ithaca, New York, with recommendations for how the city might go about encouraging development. Attached at the front of the report is a resolution passed at the January 28, 1969 meeting of the Mayor's Citizens Advisory Committee, commending the report and proposing next steps to be taken.
Dates:
1969.