Scope and content

Letters, receipts, applications, and statements pertaining a family of Owego, Tioga County, New York and their household and business expenses; a letter from Congressman S. B. Leonard relating to Joel Farnham's application for a cider press patent; also, a statement by Frederick Farnham about his spinning-wheel and wooden ware factory and cider mill.

Scope and content

Transcript of a diary kept by Yaple noting personal expenses, tasks planned or accomplished in connection with his farm, and family and social activities. Includes a genealogy, obituaries, and photographs assembled by Joan Stoughton Smith and Anne Yaple Stoughton.

Scope and content Papers of Gardiner Stowe Tubbs concerned in part with his work as a daguerreotypist, including correspondence dealing with photographic processes, formulas for making solutions used in picture development, articles of agreement with Tubbs' journeyman ambrotypist, and a lease for his "deguarian gallery" in Waverly, N.Y. Also, bills and printed items pertaining to his work as a piano tuner and repairman in Auburn, 1870s; letters, 1881-1883, from physicians and pamphlets concerning the...

Abstract

Letters and papers, mainly those of Chester Patterson and D. Williams Patterson Tioga County, New York.

Scope and content

Collection includes tavern register, 1830-1832, and journal, 1831-1860, of Jacob Willsey; family Bible, ca.1822; almanacs, 1865,1866; daybook, 1848-1862; and miscellaneous papers, a photograph, and photograph album.