Scope and content

Volumes include letterpress copybooks including letters sent from the London to the New York office, invoices, quotations, shipments, and other accounts; also included are orderbooks, ledgers, journals, and cashbooks. Papers include advertisements for goods sold by the company, catalogs and price lists, as well as a small number of personal papers including a birth certificate, patent, agreements, and leases.

Abstract

Handbills, broadsides, and other printed items pertaining to political organizations and religious and civic groups, collected by John and Alice Rivoire in New York City.

Scope and content

Three letters written by Boulton to Alfred Powles, one of the partners of a London firm, reporting markets, business conditions, news, etc.; also an account of the Erie Canal and its natural advantages for trade and commerce.

Scope and content Two letters from Walter Failing in New York City to his sister Mary Jane in Watertown, New York, on June 5 and September 22, 1845, together with typewritten transcripts. Walter gives a detailed description of life in New York, including the varied inhabitants, charitable institutions, prominent buildings (including Trinity Church, at that time being built), fire districts, city government, street lights, food markets, cabs and omnibuses, street vendors, rag pickers, plays currently being...