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Petroleum industry and trade -- Pennsylvania.

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

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Raymond family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918349]
Identifier: 741
Scope and content Correspondence includes letters between Aaron Weeks Raymond and business associates, friends, his son Charles H. Raymond, and other relatives concerning the oil industry and the Raymond oil wells; Raymond investments and the value of family holdings; the bankruptcy of Culver, Penn and Company, in which Aaron Raymond had invested; proposals from Jay Cook for the purchase of land; the construction of a railroad to Oil City, Pennsylvania; the anthracite industry in Raymilton, Pennsylvania;...
Dates: 1823-1889.

Shelton family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064923802]
Identifier: 808
Scope and content Collection consists largely of letters between members of the interrelated Tappan, Brewster, Tomlinson, and Shelton families, and emphasizes religious, missionary, and educational experiences. Included are a letter (1821) from a female teacher at the Brainard Cherokee Mission School; letters (1827) from Anne Tappan at Catharine Beecher's School in Hartford, Connecticut; letters (1834) from Lucy Tappan, a teacher at a religious academy in Detroit, concerning local conditions, Miss Beecher,...
Dates: 1783-1934.