West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Subject
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Tooke Butler, collector, family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2306
Scope and content
Papers of the Tooke (Tuke) family and various relatives include diaries of Isaac P. Richmond, his son, and other family members, who lived in Knoxboro, Oneida County, and nearby, mainly concerning school days, hop growing and other farm work, and the activities of family and friends; accounts, 1897-1909, of Isaac Richmond, a licensed preacher, with the Vernon Center Methodist-Episcopal Society and the Hector Union Society, a recipe and remedy book, 1887, of Mary E. Tooke and announcements...
Dates:
1819-1963.
Johnson family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1200
Abstract
Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds; bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance (1880); numerous letters written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson, a...
Dates:
1816-1936.
Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, plates
Collection — Huntington box 15
Identifier: 9107
Scope and content
Plates extracted from the three volume United States War Department publication. Plates were drawn by Albert H Campbell, Balduin Möllhausen, Lt. J. C. Tidball and John J. Young and were published by Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith. and T. Sinclair's Lith.. Includes note of Provenance to Mr. Burnett from L.D., dated September 12, 1950, this is Edwin Kenneth. Burnett and Lillian Davis. Plates are marked U.S.P.R.R. for United States Pacific Rail Road Expedition & Surveys, 35th Parallel....
Dates:
1856.
Ronald J. Nordheimer, Collector, Papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065172797]
Identifier: 2818
Scope and content
Correspondence of George N. Angus (1863-1865), sailor during the Civil War, including letters from his mother describing life in Ithaca, New York; correspondence of John Mayne (1857-1883), a dealer in farm implements; correspondence of M. F. and Sherman Sweeting, School Commissioner of Wayne County, New York; general correspondence (1828-1942) describing Indian uprisings in the West during the Civil War and life in IThaca.
Dates:
1828-1942.
Ruth Seely Berry McDonald papers
Collection — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924064926375]
Identifier: 2016
Abstract
Papers and correspondence of Ruth McDonald and her family.
Dates:
1850-1959,-1936-1959 (bulk)