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Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Steuben County.

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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.

John L. Smith papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065201588]
Identifier: 813
Scope and content

Correspondence, mortgages, bonds, deeds, tax receipts, road warrants, accounts, merchandizing bills, legal material, a diary (1869), and memorandum books of Smith and other farmers in Steuben County, New York.

Dates: 1848-1917.

Lewis P. Weed diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064942976]
Identifier: 3166
Scope and content

Diaries of Lewis P. Weed of Canisteo, Steuben County, New York. Most pertain to logging, farming, and some politics. Volumes were written in 1875, 1876, 1879, 1885, 1886, 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896.

Dates: 1875-1896.