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- catalog abstract "Records of lumber dealers: Hopestill Foster, Boston, Mass. (1759-1772); Asa Tarbell Newhall, Lynn, Mass. (1810-1822); Hugh Anderson, Warren, Me. (1819-1849); East Boston Timber Company, Boston (1834-1840); and an unidentified person from the New Bedford, Mass. area (1852-1854), including some accounts of Moses H. Bliss and Moses A. Fellows, Ipswich, Mass. (1883). Records of sawmills: John H. Clindennin, Salem, N.H. (1822-1836); an unidentified sawmill, probably of Oxford or Sutton, Mass. (1830-1832); and John Capen, Goshen, Vt. (1849-1867). Records of coopers: Daniel Tourtelot, Smithfield, R.I. and Sutton, Mass. (1795-1824); and Nathaniel Andrews, Jr. (1864-1865). Records of furniture makers: Edward Slead, Dartmouth, Mass. (1797-1827); and L. White and Company, Boston (1864-1869). Records of a wood fiber firm: Shawmut Fibre Company, Boston, Mass. and Somerset Mills, Me. (1885-1889). Records of an odd-job worker about boats: Israel French, Taunton, Mass. (1868-1887). Records of a casket maker and farmer: Aaron Wright, Fishkill, N.Y. (1822-1851). Records of the Henniker Crutch Company, Warner, N.H. (1936-1961), which also made lawn furniture under the name Kearsarge Wood Products Company.".
- catalog abstract "Unidentified account book from Portsmouth, N.H. for sales of fish, rum, and oil (1719-1720) and including notes on law cases (1749-1755); license bonds issued by the collector of the District of Kennebunkport, Me., to owners of various ships authorizing them "to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries" (1817-1862); log-book of a fishing voyage on the Sea-Witch, out of Gloucester, Mass., kept by John R.McKinnon and Charles Gill (1859).".
- catalog abstract "Daybook of a Michigan firm whose business seemed to be salt mining and lumbering. There are some accounts from 1900 of trips from Bucksport, Me. to New York and Boston which may have no relation to the earlier records.".
- catalog abstract "Incoming letters and bills of Zacchariah Chaffee and the Builders Iron Foundry, Providence, R.I. Prior to 1853 the firm was called the High Street Furnace Company. They were distributors of Henry Clay and Macgregor stoves, as well as various building supplies.".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete records of Saco-Lowell and of predecessor and affiliated firms. Included are papers of Saco-Lowell, 1912-1957; Saco Water Power Machine Shop, 1867-1897; Saco and Pettee Machine Shops, 1897-1912; Saco-Pettee Company, later the Textile Securities Company, 1910-1912; Pettee Machine Works, 1879-1897; Kitson Machine Shops, Lowell, Mass., 1875-1912; Potter-Atherton Machine Company, 1888-1896, and A. T. Atherton Machine Company, 1896-1913, Pawtucket, R.I.; Metallic Drawing Roll Company, 1894-1928, Indian Orchard, Mass.; and Pawtucket Spinning Ring Company, 1917-1940. Particular emphasis has been placed on stock records. There are letters for Saco Water Power Machine Shop, 1867-1871 and 1880-1894; minute books for Saco and Pettee Machine Shops, Textile Securities Company, and the Atherton Companies. Journal, ledger and balances of Augustine H. Amory, in one volume, 1896-1918, are to be found in the collection as are the office files of David F. Edwards, ca. 1927-1957, president of Saco-Lowell. There are several folders of summaries and other materials collected by George S. Gibb in writing the history of Saco-Lowell. Includes papers concerning a holding company, the Eastern Machinery Company.".
- catalog abstract "Farming accounts, 1859-1895. Also time book for paving roads, 1872; also teamsters' accounts, 1856-1857, showing work on roads, hauling of coal and wood, etc.; also register for the Dorchester Workhouse, 1864-1870.".
- catalog abstract "Directors' minutes, 1845-1905; dividend books, 1846-1911; incomplete runs of general accounting records. The coverage is more complete for the early years (1845-1850) and for 1912, the year of the merger. Fairly lengthy series include bills rendered, 1864-1912; suppliers, 1864-1912; orders, ca. 1859-1906; work in progress, 1880-1912; and outgoing letters, 1870-1894 and 1899-1907. Includes letters of J. Thomas Stevenson, Robert H. Stevenson, William A. Burke, and H. C. Perham, treasurers; and Charles L. Hildreth and A. H. Morton, agents. Subsequent records of the Lowell Shops can be found in the Saco-Lowell Shops Collection.".
- catalog abstract "The Whitin Machine Works records include correspondence, financial material, labor and payroll records, affiliated business records, administrative records and photographs. The correspondence includes letters written by Whitin Machine Works executives to agents in Southern states and abroad in foreign countries, letters sent by field representatives fitting replacement parts in clients' factories, letters with account information, and correspondence to and from the machine shop. Much of the early correspondence was sent to the machine shop run by John Crane Whitin, a subsidiary arm of the textile manufacturing firm, P. Whitin & Sons. The correspondence details an extremely fast paced textile machine manufacturing firm at the height of the industrial revolution. The letters detail the type of machine parts required for regional textile manufacturing factory operations, advances in machinery innovation, issues with transportation, and cost of parts. The financial records detail the day to day transactions, business dealings of the company and the fiscal health of the firm. Cash books, day books and ledgers contain information on suppliers, customers and the amount of business that occurred on a given day. The tax records include information on real estate and property holdings in Whitinsville and various locations Whitin Machine Works had factory buildings or held taxable property. Whitin Machine Works was heavily invested in the town, it's residents and the surrounding area. Whitin built and rented tenements for its employees, ran a grocery store, provided a doctor, school and library and during the depression eras found odd jobs for it's employees instead of laying them off. Also included are records of the Holyoke Machine Shop, 1860-1864 and Castle Hill Farm, 1887-1888.".
- catalog abstract "Ledgers, journals, cashbooks, shop books, sales records, and miscellany. Also found in the collection are minutes of the Haverhill Brick Company, 1874; of J. C. Hoadley Company, of Lawrence, 1873-1879; and of Keith Wire-Lock Stitch Association and Metallic Seam Company, 1872-1874. There are also accounts of a painter and dealer in paints, 1867.".
- catalog abstract "Ledgers, daybooks, and unbound papers of a shoemaker from Bridgton and North Bridgton, Maine. Includes some records of Isaiah S. Webb of NorthBridgton, who worked in leather and was an agent for Singer Sewing Machine. The volumes also include farm records, accounts for highway work from the town and similar matters.".
- catalog abstract "Sales book of an oil factory in Toronto, Ontario. The record gives the name of purchaser, date of sale, kind of oil, quantity purchased, price, terms of payment, and profit.".
- catalog abstract "Scattered early records of a firm in Worcester, Mass., which turned from carriage making to railroad cars. Includes a book of orders (1843-1874), record of cash paid (1861-1862), list of patterns, and stock inventory (1865-1890). The firm had already given up carriage making by the time these records start.".
- catalog abstract "Incoming letters (1888-1895, 1909-1912), ledgers, journals, cashbooks and other records of a manufacturer of saddles and harnesses located in Hartford, Connecticut. Includes some records of predecessor firms: Smith, Sheldon and Bigelow; Smith, Bourn and Company; J. T. Smith and Company; and C. B. Smith and Company.".
- catalog abstract "Account book of a picture framer in Albany, New York.".
- catalog abstract "Daybook of a paving firm in Boston, Mass., showing work done for Daniel Webster, Robert G. Shaw, Francis Parkman, Israel Thorndike, Cornelius Coolidge, Daniel Draper, Harrison G. Otis, A. and A. Lawrence, and others.".
- catalog abstract "Letter books (1891-1904), scrapbook of advertising forthe $3 shoe (1883-1887), minutes of James Means Company (1900-1904), manuscripts, and letters. Includes scrapbook of James H. Means, James Means's father, and materials collected by his son, James Howard Means, for the publication of his book "James Means and the Problem of Manflight during the Period 1882-1920." There is one letter from the Wright brothers (1903) and two from Orville Wright (1921, 1942).".
- catalog abstract "Letters, deeds, maps, and other papers relating to timber holdings in Maine and to Maine railroads in which Crosby was interested. Includes papers of a son Wilson Crosby and of a brother-in-law, George W. Ingersoll.".
- catalog abstract "Letterpress copybook, with only thirty-five pages used, of a manufacturer of supplies for shoemakers, Boston, Mass. Whitcher was also the selling agent for the American Shoe Tip Company, Boston, and several of the letters are from this firm.".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete series of ledgers, journals, and daybooks, trial balances, a volume of minutes of directors, scattered order and sales books, and extensive series of incoming and outgoing correspondence.".
- catalog abstract "Five letter books of outgoing letters of a railroad construction engineer who helped construct several New England railroads. The letter books cover the years 1837 through 1850, 1857 through 1878, and 1886. Also included are notes and reports.".
- catalog abstract "A fragmentary collection consisting of one ledger, 1851-1873, bills and letters.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, clippings,, and leaflets collected by Dean S. Paden while preparing a history of the King Hardware Company of Atlanta, Ga., with which Paden was connected. The history was published in 1946 as King Hardware Company and Atlanta.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, journals, ledgers, cashbooks, production records, payrolls, timebooks, and bills, 1845-1886, of Parker Mills; and some records, 1886-1918, of Tremont Nail Company, successor to the firm; together with some records of Bridgewater Iron Company, Bridgewater, Mass.; and records, 1851-1855, of C. C. Sprague, also engaged in nail manufacturing.".
- catalog abstract "Account book of Samuel R. Duren, a shoemaker of Woburn, Mass. (1824-1857), and family expense and property accounts, Lexington, Mass. (1814-1869).".
- catalog abstract "Scattered records of a firm headed by Lewis W. Gillett which manufactured augers, bits, knives, and other metal tools. Located in Elmira, N.Y. Preceded by Elmira Nobles Company, which failed. Includes bills and letters from suppliers of emory, iron, and other raw materials, mostly in Boston and Massachusetts. Also includes orders and letters from customers.".
- catalog abstract "Account books and unbound papers, largely for the period 1867-1941. Included are records of directors' meetings (1879-1937), stockholders' accounts, journals, general ledgers, advertising ledgers, cashbooks, circulation accounts, accounts receivable, notes and bills, time books, payrolls (incomplete), bills and invoices, and tax records. There are also nine volumes and a case of unbound materials relating to H. W. Dutton and Sons, publishers of the Transcript, and two cases of records of radio station WBET. Also includes a collection of letters and information received by the Transcript concerning the status and history of existing firms in New England which were one hundred years old or more in 1930.".
- catalog abstract "Account books and sales books of a firm in Lambertville, New Jersey which produced stationery supplies.".
- catalog abstract "Ledgers and other account books, correspondence, deeds, bills, receipts, and other papers relating to lumbering interests in the Saco River area, accounts of a general store, and estate papers. The records concern transactions in Buxton, Hollis, and Phillipsburg, Maine.".
- catalog abstract "Ledger with names of subscribers to the Boston Gazette, 1798-1826; accounts of Allen Danforth, Plymouth, Mass., for publishing The Old Colony Memorial, 1822-1828, including accounts of Danforth and Wells, a general store in Concord, N.H.; two cost books of the University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1879-1880, 1886; and ledger of Seth H. Clark, an engraver of Hartford, Conn., 1838-1858.".
- catalog abstract "Completion cost reports, 1908-1950, and booklets relating to projects of the construction and engineering division of a Boston firm of consulting engineers. Includes a letter book, 1892-1901, of W. Cameron Forbes relating to the business. Forbes was chief of Stone & Webster's financial department from 1897 to 1902.".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete accounts of a firm in Billerica, Mass., which manufactured knives and steam engines. Also includes some records of Alfred Hobbs and the Arlington Machine works, Arlington, Mass.".
- catalog abstract "Cash book (1884-1888) and miscellaneous cost data (1900-1903) of a shoe manufacturing firm in Whitman, Mass. There are papers of Charles H. Jones, President, relating to the United Shoe Machinery Corp. royalty case (1908-1913), to New England railroad mergers (1905-1908 and 1929-1931), and to the tariff on hides and shoes (1905-1909, 1921-1922, and 1930-1931). There are also a merchandise record (1884-1885) of C. H. Jones Company, Boston and South Abington, Mass.; and papers of the Boylston Shoe Machinery Association (1913-1916), which was formed to oppose the United Shoe Machinery Corp.".
- catalog abstract "Daybooks, ledgers, and an order book of Darius Eddy and Philip W. Goodridge, refrigerator manufacturers in Dorchester, Mass.".
- catalog abstract "Records of John and Samuel Reed, Weymouth, Mass. (1740-1818); Isaac Thayer, Braintree, Mass. (1770-1790); David Collin, Amenia, N.Y. (1770-1813); Jeremiah Hunt, Northboro, Mass. (1790-1813); John Currier, Salem, N.H. (1795-1807); Chillis Fay, Charlotte, Vt. (1803-1804); unnamed, Westfield, Mass. (1803-1810); Jonas Richardson, Jr., Gardner, Mass. (1804-1815); Ebenezer Belcher, Randolph, Mass. (1808-1842); Hosea Hollis, Randolph, Mass. (1816-1843); unnamed, New Bedford, Mass. (1823-1826); John G. Farwell, Poultney, Vt. (1828-1855); John Pearson, Newbury, Mass. (1830-1841); Adoniram J. Dyer, Randolph, Mass (1832-1858); Aaron Claflin, Milford, Mass. (1839-1845); A. J. P. Martin, West Poultney, Vt. (1839-1845); Jeremiah Hunt, Jr., Northboro, Mass. (1839-1873); Mellen C. Bragg, Milford, Mass. (1840-1848); French, Howard and Company, Randolph, Mass. (1842-1855); George Card, Dorchester, N.B. (1843-1870); unnamed, New Bedford, Mass. area (1849-1850); C. Gilmore and Sons, Raynham, Mass. (1859-1869); Potter, Hitchcock and Company, Boston, Mass. (1860-1864); and Silas Potter and Company, Boston, Mass. (1879-1884).".
- catalog abstract "Papers concerning the exploitation of the vitascope in motion picture production. Norman C. Raff and Frank R. Gammon were acting as agents for Thomas A. Edison in the promotion and distribution of the vitascope. Includes an invoice book, letter books, scrapbook of clippings, incoming letters, bills, and contracts. Business was conducted as the Kinetoscope Company and the Vitascope Company.".
- catalog abstract "Records of a vaudeville theater at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, N.Y. Contracts with performers, vaudeville collection agency accounts, and programs. Includes advertising accounts submitted by Ward and Gow.".
- catalog abstract "Letters, general accounts, and production and sales records, relating to the manufacturing of hoop and bar iron and nails. Includes records of several enterprises founded and controlled by the Fall River Iron Works: records of Annawan Manufactory (producers of printed cloth), 1825-1899; letters and general and production accounts of Metacomet Mills, 1846-1903; records of Fall River Gas Works, 1847-1879; records of Bay State Steamboat Company, 1850-1870; and accounts for individual ships and general accounts of a steamboat line operating between Fall River and Providence, 1829-1881.".
- catalog abstract "Records of a firm in Fitchburg, Mass., which made scythes, palm leaf hats, bonnets, and other goods. Includes outgoing letters, 1834-1835; goods purchased, bills, 1835-1837; and notes, 1835-1839. The business was also known as J. Farwell and Company.".
- catalog abstract "Trapping accounts and accounts of trading with Indians.".
- catalog abstract "Records and business papers of William Jackson, Newton, Mass. (1809-1853) relating to Western Railroad, Boston and Worcester Railroad, and Millbury Branch Railroad; Samuel Abbot, Woburn, Mass (1832-1834) relating to Boston and Lowell Railroad; Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, Greenfield, Mass. (1844-1881) including papers of Herman Haupt (1856-1861) and reports on Hoosac Tunnel; Strong and Bradley (1850-1854) relating to Chester Valley Railroad Company in Pennsylvania; and New York and Boston Railroad Company, Providence (1851-1855).".
- catalog abstract "Records of Ancrum Turnpike Company, New York and Connecticut, 1803-1821; Monson and Petersham Turnpike, Massachusetts, 1804-1815; Blue Hill Turnpike Association, Randolph to Milton, Mass., 1804-1835; and Cornish Bridge Corp., Cornish, N.H., 1846-1847.".
- catalog abstract "Minutes of executive committee and directors' meetings, lists of shares of stock, memoranda of agreements, production records, statements of financial condition, and correspondence.".
- catalog abstract "An unpublished history of heating apparatus covering the period from 1290 to 1915 but chiefly concerning the development of stoves in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries.".
- catalog abstract "Daybook of a livery stable (1829-1831) and two daybooks for a grocery store in Charlestown, Massachusetts (1816-1823).".
- catalog abstract "Account book of a brickmaker, Samuel Capen of Dorchester (1800-1817); account books of three potters: John Parker of Charlestown (1747-1764), George Shove of Dighton (1768-1810), and Abraham Hews of Weston (1780-1813).".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, minute books, stockholders' records, clerks' papers, and other records of Boston & Albany Railroad Company and of the railroads which became part of the Boston and Albany system: Boston & Worcester Railroad Corporation, 1835-1870, 119 volumes; Western Railroad Corporation, 1833-1898, 175 volumes (included in the latter are papers of George W. Whistler, engineer, 1839-1841, William H. Swift, 1837-1839, and George Bliss, agent, 1839-1841); Albany & West Stockbridge Railroad Company, 1834-1877, 25 volumes; Pittsfield & North Adams Railroad Corporation, 1846-1872, 2 volumes.".
- catalog abstract "Records of Nathaniel Blake, Boston (containing accounts of Boston & New Bedford Mail Line and Stoughton & Boston Stage Coach Company, 1824-1845); Eastern Stage Company, Augusta, Me., 1831-1838; Boston & Methuen Stage Company, Methuen, Mass., 1832-1833; Boston and Keene Stage Company, 1833-1835; and Charles Dunmore, Dorchester, Mass. (records of a stage and express line, 1837-1844).".
- catalog abstract "Records of a shoe manufacturing firm of Boston, Mass. This firm was one of the first among shoe manufacturers to establish its own retail selling organization. There are extensive series of general accounting records, purchase ledgers, sales ledgers, and records pertaining to agencies and outlets. The firm controlled factories in Marlboro, Rockland, South Braintree and Stoneham, Mass. and maintained outlets throughout the United States and in England. Affiliated companies, for which there are scattered records in the collection, include J. C. Penney Co., Mullen Shoe Company, Middle West Shoe Company, Middlesex Shoe Company, and Hosmer, Codding Company.".
- catalog abstract "Letters, accounts of ships and account books of a general store kept by Lord in Kennebunkport. The shipping records concern the brig Union, ship Commodore Preble, barque Commodore Morris, and ship Mary Lord. Daniel W. Lord dealt in such commodities as rice, beans, flour, sugar, molasses, rum, coffee, tobacco, hay, salt, brick, shoes, copper, wool, quicksilver, wine, and olives. In addition to the numerous American ports he visited, his ships touched at such European ports as Liverpool, Antwerp, Hamburg, Havre, and Cadiz.".
- catalog abstract "Accounts of a comb maker, Bolton and Northborough, Mass. Includes some personal expenses. The marketing seems to have been handled by Wilder Bush, Gibson's brother-in-law.".
- catalog abstract "A portion of the original typescript for a series of articles on the history of motion pictures published in Photoplay magazine. There are marginal notes by Thomas A. Edison. Ramsaye's articles formed the basis for his two-volume history of the development of motion pictures, A Million and One Nights, published in 1925.".
- catalog abstract "Records of the building of a stone dam in Windsor, Vermont. Includes memorandum of small contracts, lumber used, and time of workers.".
- catalog abstract "There are three volumes for the Washington Turnpike Company (Frederick, Maryland) consisting of stockholders' records, directors' records, and dividends; and nine volumes of records for the Washington, Colesville and Ashton Turnpike Company (Montgomery County, Maryland), 1870-1911, including directors' records, a stock ledger, dividend ledger, and other account books. The unbound papers relate to both companies. The former company was sold to the State Roads Commission, Baltimore, Maryland, October 27, 1916.".
- catalog abstract "Records of a firm of contractors from Rutland, Vt. for construction of the Rutland and Washington Railroad and the Rutland and Whitehall Railroad in Vermont and New York. Includes letters, payrolls, bills, estimates, and receipts.".
- catalog abstract "Papers of an English civil engineer, the son of the astronomer Sir George Airy. Includes materials on several of his consulting jobs as well as documents relating to the Isle of Wight Railway (ca. 1862).".
- catalog abstract "Letterbooks, incoming letters, bills, and payrolls. Most of the material concerns the activities of D. L. Harris, who was president of the Connecticut River Railroad, and was connected with the Vacuum Air Brake Company, the Hoosac Tunnel, and the Union Pacific Railroad.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence and notes relating to Swain's consulting work. The projects relate mainly to railroads in New England, New York, New Jersey, and Toronto, Canada. They involved such matters as grade crossings, bridges, valuations, damages, and accidents.".
- catalog abstract "Letters, publicity matter, and printed copies of patents for a monorail transportation system invented by E. Moody Boynton (1840-1927). These papers were sent to William B. Lawrence, a principal stockholder of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Boynton was apparently trying to interest Lawrence in his invention. Included is a map of a proposed route for the Boston, Quincy, and Fall River Bicycle Railway.".
- catalog abstract "Monthly statements of a street railway and electric company in Bangor, Maine, and its controlled companies.".
- catalog abstract "Bill books showing goods carried, where loaded and landed, weight, miles, rate per ton, and amount. Coal was frequently carried. There are some gaps in the sequence.".
- catalog abstract "Treasurers' correspondence (one box), 1863-1929; records of directors, 1813-1909, and stockholders, 1813-1874; semi-annual reports containing general financial statements, summaries of production costs, amounts produced, and values of products, 1835-1888; payrolls, 1817-1872; tax reports; and other papers relating to the production of ginghams, zephyrs, shirtings, draperies, hosiery, and other cotton goods. Includes papers of the Waltham Textile Co., 1926-1928; and a few letters of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Dwight, A. M. Goodale, Arthur T. Lyman, and John A. Sweetser, treasurers.".
- catalog abstract "Hearings before the Committee on Railroads of the Massachusetts legislature concerning the acquisition of the Boston and Maine Railroad by the New Haven. These are the working papers of William B. Lawrence and also include operating expenses, reports, exhibits, and clippings.".
- catalog abstract "Operating, comptrollers' and general statements. The railroad ran from Elkhorn City, Ky. to Spartanburg, S.C.".
- catalog abstract "Records of Old Colony and consolidated companies. Includes correspondence, general accounting records, time books, freight records and other papers. Includes records of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation, the Fall River Railroad Company., the Fall River Steamboat Company, the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Company, the Narragansett Steamship Company, the Old Colony and Newport Railroad Company, and the Old Colony Steamboat Company; and petitions, South Shore and Boston & Worcester Railroad vs. Old Colony (1848-1859). Among the letters is one from Daniel Webster to Isaac L. Hedge (1851).".
- catalog abstract "Ledger, 1821-1837, of the Water Queechie Canal, Vt; recollections and abstracts, 1821-1876, from the Laws and Act of Incorporation for the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, Portland to Lake Sebago, Me.; one volume of rules and specifications relating to the construction of the Ohio Canal, 1825-1827; and one letter book, 1835-1838, of the Blackstone Canal, Pawtucket, R.I. containing letters on a controversy between the commissioners and mill owners.".
- catalog abstract "Drawings, blueprints, and technical materials prepared for various companies; printed articles; and slides used for Barth's lectures. A collection of slide rules has been transferred to the Historical Scientific Instruments Collection at Harvard.".
- catalog abstract "Manuscript diary of Horatio Allen, February-March 1828, kept during a trip to England to purchase railroad iron and order locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson and to study railroad development.".
- catalog abstract "Minute books, stock records, reports, plans and blueprints.".
- catalog abstract "Information received yearly from railroad and electric lines by Rand McNally regarding changes in routes, for inclusion in atlases. Maps are often included. Electric lines are filed with steam railroads after 1945; before that they are kept separate.".
- catalog abstract "Records documenting the reorganization of the Florida East Coast Railway, which went into receivership in 1931. Includes legal documents, correspondence, financial accounts and statements. These records were kept by the S. A. Lynch Corporation of Miami, one of the chief participants in the reorganization.".
- catalog abstract "Density charts and other statistical data on railroads issued by H. H. Copeland and Son of New York City. This material is from the files of Prof. Kent T. Healey of Yale University.".
- catalog abstract "Fragmentary collection of account books of a yarn manufacturing company in Plympton, Mass. Includes 5 daybooks (1817-1841), ledger (1830-1840), time books (1813-1816, 1824-1827), accounts (1818-1826), shipments (1818-1826). Also daybook of Ezra White for a general store (1827-1828). White was mill agent in 1820.".
- catalog abstract "Reports and papers on various railroads, including the Baltimore and Ohio; Boston and Maine; Chicago and Alton; Chicago Great Western; Chicago Subway Company; Cincinnati, Chicago, New Orleans and Texas Pacific; Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton; Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling; Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo; Great Northern; Kanawha and Michigan; Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Gulf; Lima Northern; Los Angeles Terminal; Louisville, New Albany and Chicago; Northern Pacific; Ohio River and Charleston; Ohio Southern; St. Louis, Chicago and St. Paul; and Toledo and Ohio Central.".
- catalog abstract "A selection of account books of lines which went to make up the railroad. The most extensive series are for the Central New England Railroad (1899-1927), the Hartford and New Haven (1835-1872), and the New York and New Haven (1845-1887). Ledgers and occasionally other volumes for the following: Boston and New York Air Line Railroad; Boston and New York Central Railroad; Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; Central New England and Western Railroad; Charles River Branch Railroad; Charles River Railroad; Hampshire and Hampden Canal Co.; Housatonic Railroad; Hudson Connecting Railroad Co.; Joy Steamship Co.; Maine Steamship Co.; Naugatuck Railroad; New York and Boston Railroad; New York and New England Railroad; New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; New England Railroad; New England Terminal; New England Transfer; Old Colony Railroad; Old Colony Steamboat Co.; Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad; Philadelphia, Reading and New England Railroad; Poughkeepsie, Hartford and Boston Railroad; Providence and Springfield Railroad; Providence and Stonington Steamship Co.; Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad; Shore Line Railway Co.; and Union Wharf Co. Also included are letters, 1847-1852, to Charles F. Pond, president of the New York and New Haven Railroad, and daily record of engines, 1868-1882. There is also an extensive file of miscellaneous materials on the various lines which made up the New Haven. An additional group of papers consists of the files of Prof. Kent T. Healy who taught transportation at Yale and was a member of the New Haven reorganization committee, ca. 1947-1953. These relate to the reorganization and finances of the railroad from 1947 to 1964.".
- catalog abstract "Monthly reports of the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railway Co. (1919-1927); account books for the Malden Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad (1857-1865); records of the Easton Branch, Boston and Providence Railroad (1855-1866); time book for the Cheshire Railroad, Keene, N.H. (1891-1896); financial records of the Eastern Railroad, Boston (1839-1840, 1874-1877); records of the Harvard Branch Railroad, Cambridge, Mass. (1848-1855) and of the Hudson River Railroad, N.Y. (1848-1854); papers of the Machias Port Railroad Co., Machias, Me. (1836-1855); minutes of the Marginal Freight Railway, Boston (1867-1882); ticket agent accounts for the Newburyport Railroad Co., including some personal accounts of Lewis K. H. Lane; account book of Passumpsic River Railroad, N.H. (1877); by-laws and reports of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway (1893-1898); statements of the Portland and Rochester Railroad (1881-1895); records of the Portsmouth and Concord Railroad (1845-1857); freight record of the Rutland and Washington Railroad (1858-1860); records of the South Shore Railroad, Weymouth, Mass. (1854-1874), the Stoughton Branch Railroad, Stoughton, Mass. (1842-1853), Sudbury Railroad Co., Sudbury, Vt. (1850-1854), the Sullivan Railroad, N.H. (1849-1861), and Vermont Central Railroad, Northfield, Vt. (1845-1867); freight records of the Western Vermont Railroad (1852-1858); and payroll book of York and Cumberland Railroad, Maine (1857). There are also a volume of letters and memoranda relating to various small railroads in the Mohawk Valley which became parts of the New York Central (1830-1851); a collection of agreements relating to various railroads in Maine from the office of Josiah Drummond; one volume of tables of C. W. Kettell relating to the arches of the Boston and Providence Railroad Depot in Boston (1873); records of railroad cases in Vermont from Judge John Prout (1848-1858); and Interstate Commerce Commission statistics on New England railroads (ca. 1915).".
- catalog abstract "Account books, ledgers, and stock dividend records, annual reports, and unbound papers covering period of independent operation (1838-1857, 1878-1880); with other records covering the period the line was leased, first to the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corp. (1857-1878, 1880-1887) and later to the Boston and Maine Railroad (1887 and following years). Includes letters of Presidents Daniel Abbott (1848-1851) and F. A. Brooks (1879-1883); from Treasurers T. H. Woods (1871, 1874), C. V. Dearborn (1877-1881), and Charles B. Brooks (1881-1886); from Superintendents A. Mitchell (1848-1850), Onslow Stearns (1845-1863), Bernard Stearns (1846-1847), Charles F. Gove (1849-1853), George Stark (1847-1868), and others. Also included are papers relating to many other New England railroads with which the Nashua and Lowell had dealings.".
- catalog abstract "Records of the following men and firms in building construction: Edward H. Robbins, Milton, Mass., receipt book of workmen on State House, Boston, 1795-1800 (including receipt signed by Charles Bulfinch, architect); Jacob D.Cox, New York, payroll during construction of the Church of Notre Dame, Montreal, 1826-1829; George W. Snow, Providence, R. I., 1862-1863. Records of masonry and brick work: Committee for Building the Brick Market, Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-1802; Zeph Sampson and Charles Wells, Boston, 1813-1817; an unidentified workman, probably from Boston, 1820-1821; an unidentified workman, probably from New Bedford, Mass., 1831-1836; W. H. Carr, Brookline, Mass., 1836-1857; an unidentified workman from New Bedford, 1841-1842; John Norton, Addison, N.Y., 1848-1863; and Nathaniel Tolman, Dorchester, Mass., 1867. Account books of carpenters: Ebenezer Floyd and others, traveling carpenters, Massachusetts and New York, 1764-1800; Aaron Baker, West Dedham, Mass., 1801-1830; and Smith Aldrich, Mendon, Mass., 1827-1876. Account books of house painters: Daniel Rea and Son and Rea & Johnston, Boston, 1764-1802; Samuel Perkins, Boston, 1817-1824; and Clark and Goodnow, location undetermined, 1855-1870. Records of a plasterer: Laurence Cleary, Boston, 1849-1865.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, daybooks, inventory books, payrolls, invoices, sales records, and order books. Letter books cover the Chicago and New York City stores as well as the Waterbury, Conn., office. Includes correspondence with the Welsbach Company, a customer, 1898-1913. Also includes World War I office files; employment office records and advertising material from the post-World War I period; maps, plans, and photos; recordings of World War II events; and research reports.".
- catalog abstract "Letters, memos, statistics, and other papers relating to consulting work for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and for the Boston and Maine Railroad. There are letters from Patrick B. McGinnis, president of the New Haven, and papers of Southworth Lancaster relating to the port of Boston.".
- catalog abstract "Principally correspondence (both incoming and outgoing) of a firm of wholesalers in Boston, Mass., dealing in the importation of metals, chiefly rails. There are some sales records, bills, and receipts.".
- catalog abstract "Daybooks, journals, ledgers, cashbook, letters, bills, and other unbound papers of a firm which conducted a wholesale general merchandise business in Georgetown, District of Columbia. The business was founded by Philip T. Berry, and at various times he operated the business alone, then later as Berry and Woodward, and eventually with his son John as P. T. Berry and Son.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly order books of a firm in Boston, Mass., which dealt in coal on a wholesale basis. The volumes show the decline in the shipment of coal by water. The collection was preserved by G. G. Wolkins, general manager of the firm.".
- catalog abstract "Invoice of stock, 1850-1856; daybooks, 1852-1859; order book, 1857-1861; payrolls, 1871-1895.".
- catalog abstract "Minutes, treasurer's reports, journals, ledgers, and other papers. Includes auditor's reports (1939-1944) and legal papers (1838-1880) of the Locks and Canals Co.".
- catalog abstract "Account books, sales books, letter books, and other records of a firm of Boston wool merchants. The bound series are fairly complete, especially the outgoing letter books. There is also a sampling of unbound materials such as bills and invoices. The company had branch offices in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Providence.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, copies of letters to newspapers and railroad magazines on local transportation problems, and papers relating to Lancaster's connection with the Port of Boston, the New England Governors' Committee on Public Transportation and to his teaching at Harvard Business School and Boston University.".
- catalog abstract "Daybooks, ledgers, cash books, time books, letter books, and unbound manuscripts. There are incomplete records for a cotton factory and a screw factory at Ramapo, an outlet and office in New York City, a store, a mill, a farm and a wood-lot operated for the employees, and the Ramapo post office. The collection is strong on day-to-day matters involving the workmen, especially for the early period, but weak on sales and production records.".
- catalog abstract "Ledgers, journals, blotters, and unbound statements of a firm of cotton brokers in Boston.".
- catalog abstract "Papers, mainly incoming letters and miscellaneous ship documents, of a firm of shipping agents of Boston. They had a number of customers in Nova Scotia. There are no bound volumes, and there are gaps in the series of letters.".
- catalog abstract "Records of a firm of commission merchants of New York City, including daybooks, ledgers, cash books, accounts current, and a letter book.".
- catalog abstract "Blotters, daybooks or journals, ledger, cash books, account books, letter book, of a firm in Busksport, Maine dealing in ship supplies. The firm was known as E. Barnard and Company until the death of Enoch Barnard in 1863, after which Ambrose White carried on the business. There are records of shares the firm had in fishing voyages. The business began as a general store carrying some ship supplies and gradually evolved into a business dealing principally in ship supplies.".
- catalog abstract "Ledgers, accounts current, and daybooks of a wool importing firm located in New York City.".
- catalog abstract "Samuel Griffitts Morgan acted as supercargo on the clipper ships, Flying Cloud, John Jay, Sea Serpent, and St. Lawrence, and sold a great variety of goods in San Francisco in the gold rush days. Many of these commodities were consigned to him by Grinnell, Minturn and Company of New York; he also did business with Hathaway, New York, Donald McKay, Boston, Nye, Perkins and Company, China and Charles Waln Morgan, New Bedford. The collection includes waste books, journal, ledger, invoice books, letter books, 1850-1853, cargo books, and unbound papers.".
- catalog abstract "Papers of Samuel Abbot (1732-1812), Boston merchant, who set up in the city in 1754, and went back to his home town of Andover at the time of the Revolution. The business was then carried on by his step-son, John Kneeland, whose letters descriptive of Boston during the War are in the collection. Bound volumes include account books and letter books (in incomplete series); unbound papers include domestic and foreign letters, invoices, accounts, and miscellany.".
- catalog abstract "An unusually complete collection, from founding to liquidation, especially strong in payroll and production records. There are also directors' and stockholders' records, journals, ledgers, cash books, and extensive files of letters. Minot, Hooper & Company, selling agents, are represented by numerous files. Treasurers' letters include those of G. W. Lyman, F. H. Story, J. K. Mills, G. L. Lyman, S. L. Bush, Theophilus Parsons, and Ernest Lovering. Agents' letters include those of William Melcher, Stephen Holman, J. S. Davis, J. W. Lovering, Theophilus Parsons, George H. Hills, Ernest Lovering, and James A. Burke. An interesting series of papers concerns the importation of labor from abroad in the 1850's. The collection includes records of the Hadley Falls Company, which preceded Lyman; papers relating to the Holyoke Water Power Company; letter books of the Deane Steam Power Company (1896-1897); and an account book of Springfield Canal Company (1833-1846).".
- catalog abstract "The material includes one log book, four account books, and miscellaneous letters and invoices. Ephraim Emerton was a shipping merchant of Salem, Mass., who traded primarily with Madagascar. James Emerton was captain and supercargo. The account books were kept by the latter, and include records of disbursements, sales of cargo, and purchases of return cargo at Majunga, Mozambique, and other places. The merchants were shipping hams, mackerel, cotton goods--especially sheeting, muskets, powder, rum, swords, epaulets, "rich fringe," lace, and looking glasses. The supercargo was buying for return cargoes tortoise shell, ivory, ebony, gum copal, gum arabic, raffia, pepper, horn, and hides.".
- catalog abstract "Daybooks of Ebenezer Thompson of Portsmouth, N.H., 1815-1821, and Schuyler Cobb and Company of Bucksport, Me., 1840-1852; and account books of unidentified ship chandlers from Newburyport, Mass., 1809-1815, and from New York City, 1811-1815.".
- catalog abstract "Ledger, journals, cash books, voucher and check registers. The company incorporated in 1912 in Maine, operated a number of ships successfully (some of them through the Crowell and Thurlow Intercoastal Company) through World War I. An unlucky investment in the Atlantic Coast Company (which Crowell and Thurlow took over in 1923) resulted in the company's going into receivership in 1924. Most of the unbound papers relate to the affairs of the receivership under Paul J. Bertelsen, receiver, and Lee M. Friedman, his attorney.".
- catalog abstract "The records date from 1855 to 1917, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1860 to 1892. The largest part of the collection consists of a set of sixty-three ledgers and daybooks that document the finances of the general store that Minott owned in Phippsburg, Maine. The general store records date from 1861 to 1915. Also included are correspondence between Charles V. Minott and his agents in many ports concerning his ships and their cargoes, bills and receipts for provisions and supplies for ships and crews, insurance documents, and shipping contracts. The bulk of these shipping records document the career of the ship St. Charles.".
- catalog abstract "Partial records of a company of steamship agents of Philadelphia, including records of charter parties issued and import and export statistics on coal, iron, grain, and sugar. The material seems to have been gathered by Frank L. Neall, who was connected with Wright and with the Cosmopolitan Shipping Company. A scrapbook of bills of lading contains examples from 1825. Clippings and pictorial material relating to shipping accompanied the collection.".