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United States -- Description and travel.

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Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

John Lewis letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 28 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065245775]
Identifier: 872
Scope and content Letters and essays by Lewis in New York City, written for relatives in England, in which he describes his experiences as a clerk in a grocery and liquor business, and also describes in considerable detail American habits, foods, clothing, toys, weddings, funerals, Christmas customs, love of candy, schools, churches, newspapers, politics, shipping, railroads, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the business interests of his sons, and many aspects of the local and national scene; in one...
Dates: 1872-1881.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John Lewis letters

"Lusterchrome" sample postcard collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924130349693]
Identifier: 8712
Content Description

Color postcards with sample case. Topics include: "krazy kwips," hunting, snow scenes, Luster comics, water scenes, seashore and bathers, novelty, surf scenes, freak vegetables, desert flowers, bathing beauties, boats, farm and country, animals, "li'l honey," babies, flowers, and road landscapes.

Dates: 1950s?
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / "Lusterchrome" sample postcard collection

Robert Pollock letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240453]
Identifier: 805
Scope and content Four letters by Pollock to a brother in Scotland; the first from Lake Mills, Wisconsin including instructions on how to prepare for emigration, advice as to costs, prices, clothing, household utensils, and other matters, and advice as to the exact procedures to be followed on the trip from New York, Albany, Buffalo, and the West in order to escape "runners," and to avoid the dangers facing uninformed immigrants; the second letter from Cambridge, Wisconsin describing his failure as a grain...
Dates: 1848-1869.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Robert Pollock letters

Thomas Jefferson Ingersoll letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 12 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241782]
Identifier: 2171
Scope and content

Seventeen letters from Ingersoll to his brother, Richard, and sister-in-law, Ann, of Massachusetts, written from Worthington, Ohio; Cheneyville, Louisiana; Fredericksburg, Texas; and San Jose and Stockton, California, telling of the writer's experiences as he moved West and giving his views on the practice of medicine, slavery and states' rights, other political questions, religion, and social and economic conditions.

Dates: 1834-1861.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Thomas Jefferson Ingersoll letters

Treman family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1303
Abstract

Papers contain business and family material, including correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to various members of the Treman family of Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1838-1954.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Treman family papers

U. P. Hedrick collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23m
Scope and content "A Journal of Tours" (1819-1864, 160 pp.), a record of journeys taken by Rev. Benjamin Dorr primarily in his capacity of Episcopal minister, through New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic, southern, and mid-western states; includes descriptions of communities, the countryside, cotton production, the life of Southern aristocrats, and other topics. Also, "The National Bank of Geneva" (1817-1942, 29 pp.) written by Norman Kent; and "General Joseph Swift, Nantucketer, First Graduate of...
Dates: 1819-[ca. 1942]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / U. P. Hedrick collection

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