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Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

Brown family papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 4 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240016]
Identifier: 536
Scope and content

Deeds, letters, bills, photographs, maps (c. 1829), broadsides, newspapers, and other papers of John Brown and family of Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1717-1907.

Carter R. Kingsley, collector, Ferris deeds and letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938487]
Identifier: 309
Scope and content Deeds, indentures, maps, an inventory, and other items pertaining to land transactions in Bath, Steuben County, New York, primarily of the Read and Ferris families, including papers of Alfred P. Ferris, Henry P. Ferris, James M. Ferris, Constant Cook, William H. Bull, A.D. Read, William H. Read, Theodore J. Aber, Robert Stewart, and Joseph Fellows. Also, Letters, primarily to Mrs. Mary Seymour from John Todd, who represented Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Harriet Dibley, Harriet Connor, and others in a...
Dates: 1834-1898.

Charles G. Howell miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926987]
Identifier: 960
Scope and content

Leases, mortgages, warranty deeds, deeds, bills, a justice of the peace transaction recording book, and other documents concerning several people other than Howell, including Isaac Hawes, James Babcock, Meriba and John Coddington, and Stephen Sharks, all pertaining to land and other activities in Danby, Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1832-1867.

Charles Henry Hull papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-249
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, regarding his professional career and financial accounts pertaining to Ithaca, N.Y. organizations. Additional records include deeds, mortgage and survey (1733-1803) on lands in Albany and Montgomery Counties and newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about the early Ithaca "Moral Society". One box of lantern slides.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1850-1945.

Church family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065173761]
Identifier: 325
Scope and content Letters concerning family matters and describing the everyday life of people who owned and operated small farms in upstate New York during the nineteenth century (Steuben County); includes letters from Henrietta Harwood (Wells), a school teacher, to her sister Helen Church, concerning her life as a teacher (pay, pupils, board, etc.), life in California, and economic conditions there. Letter from Julius Lichenstein to William Enos on methods of salesmanship in the West for selling...
Dates: 1838-1936.

Cobb, Cobb& Simpson, Attorneys records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2632
Scope and content Files of this firm and its predecessors consist largely of correspondence, wills, deeds, indentures, petitions, affidavits, citations, depositions, memoranda, tax records, bills, and receipts pertaining to settlement of the estates of Austin B. Cook, Randolph Horton, Daniel E. Marsh, Ella Minturn, Jonathan Underdown, and Harry J. Van Valkenburg. The Horton estate papers also include correspondence concerning family investments in Canadian timber lands, 1913-28, and in Oklahoma and Texas farm...
Dates: 1872-[ca.1941]; -1904-1941 (bulk)

Cook family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1389
Scope and content

Mortgages and deeds for lands in Genesee County, for David Cook, Elias Cook, and Irving D. Cook. Also, reminiscences by Irving Cook recalling pioneer days in western New York, including living conditions, farming practices, the coming of the railroad, potash manufacture, the Erie Canal, the country school, and other matters.



Dates: 1825-1909, 1954

Cooper and Ward family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065200176]
Identifier: 2196
Scope and content

Personal letters to members of the Ward and Cooper families, mostly about family matters, but also containing some comments on national politics, travels in India and Egypt, a visit to a slave pen in St. Louis (1861), and the extensive public interest in education in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1820); also, miscellaneous deeds and indentures (1792-1846) pertaining to land in Connecticut, and Herkimer County, New York.

Dates: 1784-1884.

Cornell University Office of Investments records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7-2-82
Scope and content Includes deeds, and other legal documents; land contracts, tax receipts, correspondence, and land examiner's reports regarding Western lands owned by Cornell University, 1866-1920; legal documents and logging reports of the New York State College of Forestry; leases for campus houses, including the use of fraternity houses by the armed forces, 1943; manuscript "Narration on the Financial Beginnings of the University 1865-1897"; volume "Mortgage Foreclosure Accounts," 1893-1898; reports to...
Dates: [ca.1865]-1943.

Crystal Salt Company records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2956
Scope and content

Correspondence, and administrative, financial and production records of the Crystal Salt Company, Warsaw, New York. Includes letterbooks, articles of incorporation, contracts, deeds, stock shares and insurance policies, annual reports, account books, bankbooks and check stubs, invoices, purchasing, receiving and sales and shipping records. Also includes several Charles Beard letters, and correspondence of Howard Lee McBain, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University.

Dates: 1879-1883,-1879-1899 (bulk).