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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.

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The Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection consists of newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, reward for capture of runaway slave advertisements, slave dealer and slave trade manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews and other records documenting the sale, hire, purchase and debt payment of slaves in 18th and 19th century America.

Scope and content Krum Family material includes bibles, letters to Amelia A. Krum and Landon D. Krum, insurance policies and mortgages, newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents pertaining to the Krum family and Krum's Corners in Ulysses, Tompkins County, New York. The papers of Landon D. Krum and his daughter Amelia A. Krum are most prominently represented across the collection.Clippings and publications include newspaper articles from The Ithaca Journal...

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Records of Lake Mohonk Mountain House, a resort hotel in the Shawangunk Mountains near New Paltz, New York, owned and operated by the Smileys, a Quaker family. Albert Smiley bought a tavern near Lake Mohonk and 280 acres, including the lake, in 1869.

Scope and content Collection comprises estate papers dealing with Massachusetts properties, mainly in Boston, including a copy of the will of William Brown Callendar (1864), deeds, examining records, leases, other legal documents, rough sketches of property and household bills; are mainly related to bequests that William Brown made to his daughter Mary, the wife of William Joseph Callendar and mother of William Brown Callendar, and thence from Brown or Callendar to various children and grandchildren,...