Typewritten report on economic conditions in and around Elmira, New York, including population, local manufacturers, merchants, government offices, transportation, educational institutions, the nature of the labor pool, and travel and communication infrastructure. The data cited covers the period from 1920-1951. In paper covers (front cover is illustrated).

Papers of a tanner in Elmira, New York, including correspondence with leather dealers in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc.; also two letters from John Bowman, who was hunting hides in Michigan (1855). Account books and personal records include a memorandum and diary of a trip to Chicago by way of the lakes in 1849; broadsides of prices current in leather exchange, two penmanship books, four newspapers, a book catalog, trade card, two pamphlets, two maps, and a music copy sheet.