Primarily Civil War letters from Stanton to his wife. Also, family letters, certificates, pension files, clippings, publications, and diaries of John Crosby and Amos B. Stanton.

The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates.

Transcript of Howe family diaries; also letters of a Steuben County family.

Receipts, monthly statements, promissory notes, shares in Cheese Box Factory, certificates, court summons, letters, and account books. Also photographs of members of the Walker and Wilbur families of Steuben County, New York, the Auburn State Prison, a bicycle, a rag man, and dolls.

Included are legal files of Bath, New York, attorneys Guy Humphreys McMaster and John Foster Parkhurst. Also, deeds and related documents concerning land in Steuben County; legal papers of David McMaster; accounts of Dr. Andrew Baker; family and personal letters; a clipping scrapbook; manuscript poetry of the McMaster family; and photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, maps, and local historical and genealogical materials.

Letters, deeds, accounts, a manuscript arithmetic book, newspaper clippings, and an autograph book; also diaries (1842-1847, 1852-1891) of William B. Pratt; Steuben County (N.Y.).

Diaries and accounts of a farm family in Lynn and Prattsburg, Steuben County, New York.

Account book; financial transactions; record of events, time account; almanacs; includes a great variety of advertising.