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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Constant Cook and Company records

 Collection — Manuscript box 9 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241212]
Identifier: 1373
Scope and content

Articles of agreement between Constant Cook, John Arnot, Charles Cook, and James S. Stranahan, and the New York and Erie Railroad Company concerning construction of a railway from Binghamton to Elmira. Also, a contract between the company and the railroad regarding construction of a railroad from Binghamton to Corning, including reference to Thompson Skinner Brown, John Magee, and John H. Chedell. Collection includes an Erie Railway broadside.

Dates: 1848-1874.

Crystal Salt Company records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2956
Scope and content

Correspondence, and administrative, financial and production records of the Crystal Salt Company, Warsaw, New York. Includes letterbooks, articles of incorporation, contracts, deeds, stock shares and insurance policies, annual reports, account books, bankbooks and check stubs, invoices, purchasing, receiving and sales and shipping records. Also includes several Charles Beard letters, and correspondence of Howard Lee McBain, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University.

Dates: 1879-1883,-1879-1899 (bulk).

George Jarvis Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 18-2-1173
Abstract

Collection includes student and professional papers from several schools and travels.

Dates: 1906-1957.

Horton Machine Works records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1917
Scope and content

Contracts, correspondence, invoices, payroll accounts, citations and certificates, pamphlets, and other records relating to the company's manufacture of mortar shells and other munitions; includes communications with the Rochester Ordnance District of the War Department, other manufacturers and suppliers, and subcontractors.



Dates: 1920-1965.

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.

John Melmoth Dow papers

 Collection — Mapcase folder 3
Identifier: 2765
Abstract

Personal and professional papers of John M. Dow. Also included are letters and newspaper clippings concerning political events in Central America in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dow also pursued his interests as a naturalist, exploring the Central American coast to collect marine flora and fauna.

Dates: 1798-1918.

Matthew T. Scott papers

 Collection — Box 12: [Barcode: 31924064937349]
Identifier: 330
Abstract

A collection of business documents relating to the establishment and development of a 55,000-acre frontier estate in Illinois and a 5,000-acre estate in Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, the Scott family and other partners. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe purchases, acquisitions and sales of land and the development costs and crop yields of frontier farms.

Dates: 1831-1930.

Paige Bartholomew papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944139]
Identifier: 404
Scope and content Consists mainly of social and business letters written by various people, mainly in central New York State, interspersed with receipts and routine legal contracts. Included are many letters to former Dryden resident Paige Bartholomew from friends and relatives living in central New York and also in Litchfield, Minnesota (1884-1888). Correspondents include Paige's father D. Bartholomew and mother D. A. Bartholomew, his brothers David and Lee Bartholomew, friends Frank N. Wood and Warren P....
Dates: 1843-1919-(bulk 1884-1892).

Peebles family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065174447]
Identifier: 726
Scope and content

Papers relating to the activities of the various members of the Robert H. Peebles family of Pittsburgh, Pa; includes letters, contracts, and other material concerning Peebles' transactions (1829-1845) in provisioning U.S. troops at Fort Gibson, Ok., Fort Snelling, Mn., and Fort Towson, Ok. Also, papers relating to the land interests of William R. Dickinson near Steubenville, Oh.; letters about Texas land claims; and genealogical records of Peebles, Dickinson, and Johnston families.

Dates: 1776-1895.