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Account books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 298 Collections and/or Records:

Hog purchase accounts

 Collection — Manuscript box 12 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241717]
Identifier: 2055
Scope and content

Handwritten accounts list purchaser and seller, weight, price, and amount paid, Washington County (N.Y.).

Dates: 1846-1847.

Horatio Seymour papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 694
Abstract

Papers are concerned chiefly with land holdings and business dealings of the Seymour family, and the related Bleecker family and Tibbits family; the development of business in the city of Utica, milling, banking, and iron manufacturing. Other topics include the Saint Mary's Ship Canal and connecting Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes.

Dates: 1741-1920.

Hosea Bacon papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064916681]
Identifier: 1662
Scope and content

Farm, mill, and general account books, diary of expenditures and income, deed, Certificate of Elder's Orders for the Church of God, a report of the Commissioner of Highways, and weaving drafts, Orleans County, New York.

Dates: 1820-1869.

Howe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1
Scope and content

Transcript of Howe family diaries; also letters of a Steuben County family.

Dates: 1854-1855.

H.S. Allen Company accounts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4
Scope and content

Account books of the Allen Company and the Chippewa Falls Lumbering Company, and an associated general store and grain milling business; includes cashbooks, ledgers, and journals.

Dates: 1836-1890.

Hugh White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 610
Abstract Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data and other papers pertaining chiefly to White's involvement in land in northern New York, particularly the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence; material concerning the cement business at Chittenango and Greenkills, New York. Also, political papers (1840-1867), which include material on the...
Dates: 1750-1933.

Hulce family papers

 Collection — Box 690 2: [Barcode: 31924113867380]
Identifier: 690
Abstract Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, and other records and material pertaining to the activities of the Hulce family in Deposit, Delaware County, New York. Subjects include their lumbering interests along the Delaware River, the making of potash, a general store business, land speculation and real estate in New York, Pennsylvania, and the west, saw-mills, labor matters, waterpower, and brick-kilning. Areas of their especial...
Dates: 1773-1899.

Hulst family papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 79 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065253852]
Identifier: 948
Scope and content

Accounts, bonds, deeds, receipts, contracts, paper money of various denominations (c. 1770s), articles of agreement, recognizances, a boundary award, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous legal material pertaining to a family in King's County, New York. Most of the papers refer to two men named Anthony Hulst (likely father and son). Topics include the French and Indian War, and reports of "fence viewers" and of the commissioner of highways.

Dates: 1708-1824.

Iden family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937141]
Identifier: 1653
Scope and content

Four farm account books, 1855-1913; a notice of appointment as Overseer of Highways, 1858; lease, 1907 with extensions to 1917; and a stock certificate, 1899, of George W. and Jane E. Iden of Sherwood, N.Y.

Dates: 1855-1917.

Ithaca Glass Works records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2590
Scope and content Collection includes outgoing correspondence (1 letter book, 1884-85) and incoming correspondence (1886-90), in part between the company president, Charles F. Blood, and O.E. Frazer, secretary of the New York State Window Glass Manufacturers Mutual Benefit Association, an organization created to meet western competition, concerning efforts to fix local prices and settle discounts and freight deductions; also, correspondence with customers, suppliers, and other glass manufacturers; a committee...
Dates: 1878-1891.