Scope and content

Records of the Alfred Catchpole Company of Geneva, New York, which manufactured steam heating apparatus, include account books, 1852-1901; bills; receipts; correspondence; boiler blueprints; contracts; specifications; photographs; broadsides; trade cards; catalogs; and machinists' periodicals. There are also attendance records of school district No. 3, Aurelius, 1893-96; personal papers; and pamphlets and programs of civic, social, and church events in Waterloo and Seneca Falls, New York.

Scope and content Part of this collection relates to the Paris Furnace Company of Clayville, and includes an inventory (1851) by J.A.D. Cushing of stocks and orders in midwestern states; cash statements (1851-57); estimates on the production costs of scythes and other farm implements; a letter from Cincinnati on the establishment of a sales branch and on Cushing interest therein; orders for Millard interests (1858); a letter from Millard to his wife (1861) describing an interview with Secretary of War...