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Salt industry and trade.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Portland Point Project papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 60 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257390]
Identifier: 3702
Scope and content

Includes one pamphlet entitled "The International Salt Plant Memory Book" by a 1977-78 fourth grade class in Lansing, New York. Also included are photographs and student papers concerning Portland Point, New York, an abandoned salt mining town. Also includes a revised edition, "Portland Point Memory Book," 1976.

Dates: 1975-1978.

Romance of and notes on salt industry / / by Wm. B. Wilkinson

 Collection — Manuscript box 55 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252441]
Identifier: 3114m
Scope and content

11 pages of an uncorrected typewritten manuscript of an essay on salt, including its physical properties, the history of its uses by various civilizations, superstitions surrounding it, types of salt, and how it is obtained and processed.

Dates: circa 1951.