2 volumes listing the hours worked and the amount paid to a group of carpenters, painters, masons, groundskeepers, and other laborers at Cornell University. In this period they generally worked 9 hours a day, 6 days a week. Individuals are listed by name, but no details are given as to what buildings or grounds they were working on. Their jobs (carpenter, painter, etc.) are specified on only some of the sheets.

Correspondence, grocery and general merchandise daybooks, cashbooks, customers' ledgers, inventories, order books, checkbooks and other accounts mainly of Hammond Brothers, the Hammond Store, and [E.J.] Barker and [Wallace] Wyman, successors to the Hammonds; also records relating to company railroad employees, canal and lake steamer shipping accounts, and journals of the Crown Point Iron Company and the Sugar Hill Company.