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- catalog abstract "General investment records, chiefly account books and statements, of Robert A. Taylor of Baltimore, Md., 1830-1844; Samuel Sheafe of Portsmouth, N.H., 1835-1849; Henry Grew of Boston, Mass., 1851-1862; Milton Judd of Tyringham, Mass., 1855-1883; estate of Samuel P. P. Fay of Boston, 1857-1866; Samuel T. Morse and Henry Lee Morse of Boston, 1874-1894; Henry P. Bowditch of Brookline, Mass., 1890-1911; Ella Lyman Cabot of Cambridge, Mass., 1913-1936; and two volumes of the Wigglesworth family of Boston, 1854-1907. Records of real estate investments: letters of Robert Morris concerning the North American Land Company, 1789-1799; records of Kittredge and Maynard of Boston, 1831-1837; correspondence of Nathaniel Gordon of Exeter, N.H., 1847-1871; and correspondence and other papers of William H. Fernald of Davenport, Iowa, 1885-1945. Records of estate management, chiefly account books and legal papers: Hall family of Medford, Mass., 1765-1840; William Bant of Boston, 1776-1779; Edward Whitman of Henniker, N.H., 1808-1810; William Howland of New Bedford, Mass., 1833-1879; Emery family of Springfield, Mass. and later of Scarsdale, N.Y., 1841-1846 and 1902-1923; Henry Burroughs of Boston, 1846-1863; James Bolton of Richmond, Va., 1853-1861; estate of James K. Wyman, 1854-1877; and trustees under the will of Ebenezer Francis of Boston, 1858-1892. Also included are records of estates administered by Nathan Nichols of Malden, Mass., 1818-1837: Samuel Pain, Hannah Floyd, Captain Richard Williams, and John Nichols.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly account books and ledgers of the following hotels, taverns, and hotel keepers: William Manning of Billerica, Mass., 1753-1778; Randall and Burr of Freetown, Mass., 1787-1788; Abel Jacobs of Thompson, Conn., 1794-1809; William Peck of Providence, R.I., 1800-1801; Exchange Coffee House of Boston, Mass., 1821-1839; Dexter Brewer of Cape Elizabeth, Me., 1823-1848; National House of Charlestown, Mass. (James Walker, proprietor), 1852-1863; Oak Grove House, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (James Walker, proprietor), 1872; Hotel Manhattan, New York City, 1903-1912. There are also two unidentified hotel account books from Charlestown, Mass., 1830-1831 and 1836-1837.".
- catalog abstract "Ledger-type record of sales for a bakery in Dorchester, Mass.".
- catalog abstract "Records relating to the production of ginghams, cheviots, normandies, zephyrs, Tiffany flannels, and other cotton goods. This is an incomplete collection, strong on the later years of the Company, and on engineering aspects. The Lancaster Mills succeeded to the property of the Clinton Company, Clinton, Mass., and also controlled Sawyer's Mills in Boylston, Mass. and the Winnsboro Mills. The directors' records extend from 1844 to 1918, but there are few letters. The material includes general account books, records of accidents, payrolls, and tenement records. Correspondents include treasurers J. Amory Davis, Harcourt Amory, J. D. Winslow, Henry C. Everett, Jr., and Charles E. Inches; and agents Franklin Forbes, George W. Weeks, and Charles H. Richardson. Lockwood, Greene managed the affairs of the Company from 1914; Amory, Browne were selling agents.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, legal papers, accounts, printed documents, and clippings relating to personal and business matters. Includes material relating to the Kansas Pacific Railway, Northern Pacific Railroad, Wisconsin Central Railroad, and other railroads; Oregon enterprises including the Oregon Improvement Company, Oregon Steamship Company, Oregon and Transcontinental Company, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, Oregon and California Railroad, and North American Company; and to the Deutsche Bank, Siemens & Halske, American Liquid Fuel Company, Edison Electric Light Company, the Northern Transcontinental Survey, and the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Correspondents include Thomas F. Oakes, Raphael Pumpelly, C. A. Spofford, Lewis N. Tappan, and James B. Thayer.".
- catalog abstract "Account books, daybooks, and ledgers of men performing a variety of labor, including farm work, carpentry, blacksmithing, and shoe mending: Jacob Nash of Boston, Mass., 1705-1710; Cockerl Reeves of Salem, Mass., 1708-1729; Pyam Cushing of Hingham, Mass., 1739-1777; Adonijah Upton, a glazier of Dighton, Mass., 1770-1814; an unidentified laborer of Plymouth, Mass., 1776-1812; Thomas Fillebrown of Cambridge, Mass., 1788-1807; Nehemiah Healy of Winchester, Mass., 1811-1835; John Hobbs of Andover, N.H., 1818-1845; Alpheus Jewett of Sharon, Conn., 1819-1835; Jacob Curtis of Hampden, Me., 1819-1836; an unidentified laborer of Bennington, Vt., 1824-1848; David W. Campbell of Cherryfield, Me., 1828-1830; Captain Lott Forbush of Westboro, Mass., 1830-1851; Calvin Fullerton of Fayston, Vt., 1831-1842; Benjamin B. Hall of Plymouth County, Mass., 1835-1857; and Caleb Pratt of Chelsea, Mass., 1843-1844.".
- catalog abstract "Selected records of a fund-raising service in New York City founded in 1919 by John Price Jones (1877-1964) and Robert F. Duncan (1889-1974). Includes financial records, 1919-1944; samples of campaign records, 1919-1950; selected office files; and published materials.".
- catalog abstract "Account books, daybooks, and ledgers of the following blacksmiths: an unidentified blacksmith of Rehoboth, Mass., 1703-1738; Nathaniel Chamberlin of Pembroke, Mass., 1743-1751; William Kilby of Dennysville, Me., 1795-1812; Joshua Mellen of Westboro, Mass., 1798-1802; Samuel Bunker of Huntington, Vt., 1802-1828; John Rice of Auburn, Mass., 1809-1813; Isaac Kimball of Mason Village and Temple, N.H., 1817-1845; Hiram H. Bedwell of Berkshire or Richford, N.Y., 1826-1836; Charles Bird of West Needham, Mass., 1833-1858; William T. Wood, blacksmith and ice tool maker of Arlington, Mass., 1835-1849.".
- catalog abstract "Account book of the Rev. John Lathrop, who was minister of the Second Church in Boston (Old North Church) from 1768 to 1816.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, reports, and circulars which primarily concern the tariff.".
- catalog abstract ""Hearse book," 1812-1813, of Benjamin Eaton of Bridgewater; daybook, 1866-1871, of H. S. Porter of Lawrence; and daybook, 1868-1878, of Daniel Clarke of Ipswich, who was also a cabinet maker.".
- catalog abstract "Forty-seven volumes of letterpress copybooks, 1912-1936, scrapbook, and scattered papers, 1882-1947.".
- catalog abstract "Contains a receipt book, 1820-1829, of Richard Anthony and Son; bills, deeds, and accounts of James Anthony, his wife Sarah P. Anthony, and their estates; a ledger, with general store accounts, 1815-1849, of George Waterman, which includes accounts of Lewis A. Waterman and Edgar N. Anthony, printers; a cash book, 1851-1855, and bills of Lewis W. Anthony; and legal documents and accounts for the Graystone Mill and Center Manufacturing Company.".
- catalog abstract "Accounts of a trustee for the estate of Maria E. Hatch pertain to the building of the Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston, Mass. Also includes an album of photographs of the Shell and other papers.".
- catalog abstract "Records relating to the fishing business, coastwise shipping, and a general store. The material on fishing includes fish books, schooners' outfits, shares books, and unbound papers. On coastwise shipping there are unbound papers for a number of vessels, schooners' outfits, coasting books, and waste books. The general store, Newcastle, N.H., is represented by blotters, day book, and stock book.".
- catalog abstract "Collection relates to his investments, property, and the division of his estate. Included are correspondence, bills and receipts, financial statements, a volume of accounts, and a letter from Cornelius Vanderbilt.".
- catalog abstract "Financial and legal papers of a man who acquired plantations in Mississippi and other interests. Includes papers pertaining to Brimfield Cotton Manufacturing Company, the Chicopee Canal, cotton growing and slaves, and papers relating to his estate, that of his widow, and financial accounts of his children. Also copies of letters and papers that were given to Amherst College.".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete series of order books, invoices, freight books, insurance, and letter books. The earlier material consists of letter books of Perkins and Company, Canton, 1820-1823; the rest of the material dates from after 1856. Also included are abstracts of letters of J. and T. H. Perkins made by James Elliot Cabot.".
- catalog abstract "Photocopies of documents collected by Antitrust Division of Justice Department. Copies made for a research project at Harvard Business School, and only partially organized. Includes copies of letters, contracts, agreements, marketing arrangements from such companies as Atlantic Refining, Gulf, Socony-Vacuum, Standard Oil, and many others, as well as foreign affiliates.".
- catalog abstract "Invoices, letter books, and unbound letters and papers relating to the China trade, the Dwight Manufacturing Company and to property holdings in Galveston and Kansas City; personal correspondence and papers; and papers, 1894-1896, of Howard Gardner Nichols, son of J. Howard Nichols. There are papers relating to Nichols' interest in missions and other religious work. The bulk of the collection relates to the China trade.".
- catalog abstract "Records of dividends paid by corporations--mainly pipeline companies in the Standard Oil group. The volume is indexed.".
- catalog abstract "Account books, 1772-1807, of Francis Norton of Edgartown, Mass.; pilot book, 1808-1810, of Robert Knox of Charlestown, Mass.; and receipt book, 1822-1823, of lighthouse at Libby Island, Me.".
- catalog abstract "Laws and orders, ca. 1734, regulating the operation of an iron and steel foundry near Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, operated by Ambrose and John Crowley; daybook, 1835, and letters, 1828-1849, ordering metal products from Lazelle, Perkins and Company of South Bridgewater, Mass.; minutes, 1846-1910, of directors' and stockholders' meetings of Plymouth Mills, Plymouth, Mass.; and ledger, 1849-1856, of a forge operated by the Bellamy family in Dover, N.H., which supplied material for the Cocheco Railroad Company.".
- catalog abstract "Business records and some personal papers of Benjamin Newton, merchant engaged chiefly in the China trade. The collection includes letters, charters, agreements, account sales, accounts current, invoices, bills for cargoes, and bills of lading.".
- catalog abstract "Directors' records (1850-1879), stockholders' journal (1827-1843), and payrolls of various mills (1836-1845). Includes ledger, payrolls, and time book of the company's predecessor, Dover Manufacturing Company (1821-1829).".
- catalog abstract "Contains reports, 1931-1965, on economic conditions prepared for Lehman Corporation, and John Hancock Company; the manuscript of a much enlarged version of his The Dynamics of Nation Building (Boston, 1951) in which he elaborates his theories relating to the economic causes and effects of wars in Anglo-American history; and scattered correspondence, especially with Arthur H. Bunker, executive vice-president of Lehman Corporation, and with members of the Harvard Economics Department.".
- catalog abstract "Records of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, Local 357 of Bridgewater, Mass., consisting of minutes of union meetings, 1910-1916; minutes of the executive board's meetings, 1903-1912; and minutes of the Central Labor Union in Bridgewater, 1910-1914. Records of the Stove Founders' National Defense Association of Pittston, Pa., consisting of letters, agreements, and other papers, mainly of George Mitchell, its president. Relations with the International Molders' Union of North America are noted. A member was connected with Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Company, Boston.".
- catalog abstract "Papers drawn from files of the treasurer; includes material on valuation, jury fees, payment of salaries by check, plan of the company president relating to taxes, Gallagher Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, and other matters.".
- catalog abstract "Production, purchase and sales records, price lists, inventories, and letter book of a general store in Windsor, Vt. Includes some unbound papers, 1835-1841, of A. Wardner.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection pertains to operations at various ports and canals. Included are Marblehead Custom House records, 1789-1870, consisting of letters and circulars, mainly from the U.S. Treasury Dept. or other custom houses, fishermen's agreements, crew lists, vessel registrations, and manifests of cargoes; Philadelphia Custom House records, 1796-1802, consisting of a cashbook which contains the names of hundreds of ships sailing from Philadelphia and the names of their owners and captains, and a receipt book for bounties on exports from the U.S. and for damages on imports; Kennebunkport, Me. port records, 1804-1830, containing seamen's oaths, crew lists, and oaths to property; New York State Comptrollers' Office (Albany) records, 1823-1850, consisting of letters from collectors of tolls at New York State canals including Cayuga, Seneca, Erie, Chenango and Genesee Valley canals, and two letters relating to convict labor; and Boston Custom House records, 1843, consisting of letters, mainly to Hon. Levi Lincoln, former governor of Massachusetts, concerning smuggling. Also includes a U.S. government bond book, 1791, with the names of New Yorkers who loaned money to the American government during the revolution; and a U.S. Treasury Dept. letter book, 1861, containing letters from the U.S. Treasury Dept. to banks, insurance companies and individuals in New England regarding government loans, and receipts from the Treasurer of the Associated Banks in Boston to the U.S. Treasury Dept. for payments on the public debt.".
- catalog abstract "Contains a journal, 1849-1851, kept by midshipman R.C. Chandler on a cruise to South America aboard the U.S. sloop of war Vincennes, commanded by W.L. Hudson; invoices, 1862-1864, of food supplies for the Army handled through the Office of Assistant Commissary General of Subsistence, New York; and a letterbook of Henry Stone, lawyer of Nashville, Tenn. and Lt. Col., 100th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, concerning payment of property claims against the U.S. government and back pay of soldiers.".
- catalog abstract "Minute books of the Chamber and its predecessors, the Boston Commercial Exchange, and the Boston Merchants Association, 1872-1909. Office files, ca. 1910-1949, arranged by the Chamber's own subject classification; there are some gaps.".
- catalog abstract "Manuscripts, letters, and notes relating to Barnard's writings and lectures on management subjects. There are six folders of material by or about Lawrence J. Henderson of Harvard. Correspondents include Adelbert Ames, Jr., James B. Conant, William E. Hocking, George C. Homans, Robert K. Merton, Talcott Parsons, and others.".
- catalog abstract "Records of orders and transfers made, chiefly for kalburnie ginghams, for Lancaster Mills of Clinton, Mass.".
- catalog abstract "Typewritten research notes drawn from interviews and from decisions of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission. The notes are arranged by topics, by company or agency name, and by a numerical system used by Morehouse.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, directors' records, and records of incorporation, liquidation, production, and annual meetings of a textile factory in Somersworth, N.H. Includes correspondence of John A. Burleigh, clerk at the mill, and letters received by George H. Kuhn, Patrick Tracy Jackson, John T. Morse, John Clark, and Robert Hooper, treasurers.".
- catalog abstract "Waste books, journals, ledgers, and letter books (including one of John P. Cushing). There are two account books of John Bryant, 1801-1812; statements of account of William Sturgis, 1827-1861 (with gaps); a journal (diary) of Charles H. Hammatt, Sandwich Islands, 1823-1825; and an exchange reckoner of John Sturgis, 1821.".
- catalog abstract "Records which supplied the evidence in the case of Henry S. Parker vs. New England Oil Corporation. Material includes letters, reports, and minutes of meetings. Twenty-five volumes of the material comprise the stenographic record of the case.".
- catalog abstract "Contains patents, drawings, scattered legal and business papers, and photographs of some of his inventions in use.".
- catalog abstract "Includes work notes, correspondence, reports, and articles, largely relating to a number of Massachusetts towns and cities, whose gas and light companies Barber investigated.".
- catalog abstract "Contains a journal, 1890-1894, of the General Electric Company, Boston, containing prices paid for labor and commissions, and the names of customers; and papers, 1882-1905, including act of incorporation, 1892, bylaws, and a history of the Portland General Electric Company, Portland, Or.".
- catalog abstract "Ledger, 1872-1877, of the Barden and Murphy Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable in Pittsfield, Mass.; and daybook, 1877-1879, of the livery stable of Tillson Waterman and Company in Mechanic Falls, Me., which includes a list of personal property, 1887, inserted.".
- catalog abstract "Four volumes, 1831-1845, of I. Goodwin and S. E. Coues of Portsmouth, N.H. (including one volume of risks of Ocean Insurance Company, Boston, Mass.); one volume of registered risks, 1834-1836, Eagle Insurance Company, Portsmouth, for Gloucester Insurance Company; and one volume of registered risks, 1840-1841, of Piscataqua Insurance Company, Portsmouth.".
- catalog abstract "Logbooks of the following ships, principally from Portsmouth, N.H., in which the Wendell family, in its various branches, had interests: sloop Endeavor, 1783; brig Nancy, 1784; schooner Mary, 1786; brig Hero, 1791; brig Maria and Eliza, 1788; ship Charles, 1796; brig Gustavus, 1798; ship Baltic, 1802; brig Brutus, 1815-1820; ship Thomas Gordon, 1817-1820; brig Ann and Louisa, 1818-1819; brig Arno, 1821-1823; an unidentified whaler, 1836-1838; ship Isaac Newton, 1842-1844.".
- catalog abstract "An extensive collection of account books and unbound papers, largely of Jacob Wendell. Among the individuals and businesses included (with dates covered) are: Joshua Peirce, 1722-1734; Daniel Rindge, 1748-1750; Samuel Sloper, 1733-1802; Jedidiah Smith, 1786-1809; William Fernald estate, 1790-1802; Abner Newhall, 1801-1803; Meshach B.Trundy, 1818-1842; James Neal, 1832-1837; Abel Weaver, 1840-1874; I. Goodwin and S. E. Coues, 1831-1845; Eagle Insurance Company, 1834-1836; Piscataqua Insurance Company, 1840-1841; and William F. Parrott. There are family papers of the Wendell family as well as family papers of the Dorr and Barrett families, exercises in navigation kept by John Orn and Jacob Wendell, and a memoir of the Wendell family. The collection includes logbooks for several ships, and these have been treated in a separate record: Logbooks from the Wendell Collection, 1783-1844. Similarly, records of three insurance companies are described in a separate record: Records of insurance companies from the Wendell Collection, 1831-1845.".
- catalog abstract "General accounting records, production records, and letters representing Slater interests, mainly in textile manufacturing. Includes cotton textile accounts of Almy, Brown and Slater, North Providence, R.I., 1793-1833; Slater and Tiffany, Oxford, Mass., 1812-1847; Steam Cotton Manufacturing Company, Providence, R.I., 1824-1839; Slater and Kimball, South Oxford, Mass., 1827-1839; Union Mills, Webster, Mass., 1827-1907; S. Slater and Sons Company, Providence, 1829-1900; Sutton Manufacturing Company, Wilkinsonvillle, Mass., 1830-1896; Phoenix Thread Mill, Webster, 1834-1860; S. and J. Slater, Providence, 1834-1867; Slater and Robinson, Webster, 1852-1864; J. and W. Slater, Slatersville, R.I., 1854-1900; Crompton Print Works, Warwick, R.I., 1860-1864; Samuel Slater and Sons, New York office , 1866-1880; Webster Cotton Company, Webster, 1869-1879, H. N. Slater Mills, Webster, 1870-1915; H. N. Slater Manufacturing Company, Webster, 1871-1906; Webster Mills, Webster, 1876-1884; and S. Slater and Sons, inc., Webster, 1878-1926. Woolen cloth records of Slater and Howard, Oxford, Mass. 1815-1837; Dudley Manufacturing Company, Dudley, Mass, 1827-1845; Webster Woolen Company, Webster, 1837-1866; Slater Woolen Company, Webster, 1866-1880; Slater Woolen Company, New York office, 1866-1880; and Slater Woolen Company, Providence office, 1876-1878. Accounts of the Providence Iron Foundry, Providence, 1817-1832 and general store records of Slater and Wardwell Company, Providence, 1821-1837.".
- catalog abstract "Cash entries and accounts of shipments and sales of a grape farmer in Gates, New York, covering the months of October and November, 1867.".
- catalog abstract "Twenty-seven small notebooks and two boxes of unbound papers relating to road building, experiments at the Mill Dam and City Mills, Boston, construction work on Worcester and Providence, Vermont Central, and Fitchburg Railroads, proposals for grading Bunker Hill Monument; there are also plans of wharves, family deeds, and miscellaneous engineering papers. Items not specifically connected with Felton relate to the Boston and Roxbury Water Supply Company, Taylor's Falls Bridge, Nashua, N.H. (Loammi Baldwin et al vs. David Ames, Jr.), and S. F. Johnson, surveyor on the Worcester and Providence railroads. There is also one volume recording tolls paid, 1828-1834, on the Warren Bridge, Boston to Charlestown, Mass.".
- catalog abstract "This collection consists of hundreds of rotographs (and some transcripts), principally of customs accounts, taken at the Public Record Office in London in 1911-1912. They contain the records of goods exported from England and imported into England, some goods confined to the coast trade, and some entering and leaving Calais, as well as the tolls charged in certain towns. The names of the merchants and of the captains of the ships are given. The value of the collection lies in the information provided on the subject of the English customs system, the shipping of the period, and the trade carried on.".
- catalog abstract "Contains record of prices, 1708-1788, in the Baltic region kept for the use of a Dutch firm, and record of prices, 1802-1821, of mainly agricultural products in Holland. Also includes information on Dutch exports and ship arrivals.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly business records of James De Wolf, shipping merchant of Bristol, R.I. The material consists of one box of unbound papers, 1795-1865; letter book, 1817; letter book, 1830-1833; and an invoice book, 1827-1837. There is also a volume of accounts, 1883-1904, of a trust for his daughter, Josephine M. Lovett.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence and other papers, mainly letters from Henry Bromfield in London to Daniel D. Rogers in Boston, relating to the commission business. Also includes some papers of the Bromfield family and papers relating to the Boston and Canton Manufacturing Company in which Henry Bromfield Rogers, son of Daniel D. Rogers, was interested.".
- catalog abstract "Cash book recording accounts of "adventures" to London, Barbados, St. Eustatius, Antigua, Louisburg, and Halifax. Henry Bromfield shipped spermaceti oil to London, New England rum and sugar to Halifax and Louisburg. There are also accounts in the volume of more local, coastwise shipping.".
- catalog abstract "Account book, 1562-1566, of William Patten, teller of the Exchequer; farm accounts compiled for Sir Thomas Belasyse, 1602-1606; records of payments to troops in Flanders by an English banker in Antwerp, 1695-1698; transcript of the book of managers, New Mills Cloth Manufactory, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, 1701-1703; letters, 1710-1711, from Joseph Quash of Exeter to Oswald Hoskyns, his London agent, relating to financial transactions; daybook of a customs department, 1721-1724; daybook of a carpenter, 1730-1732; accounts of Chapel Bank Colliery, 1770-1777 (also including accounts of William Stead, 1787-1810, and of the Lowea Iron Works, 1804-1806); accounts and vouchers of Braithwaite Colliery, 1770-1771 and 1778-1779; and account of receipt and expenditure of King's Theatre, London. There is also a volume of miscellany, 1597-1818, including Exchequer receipts and orders and autographs.".
- catalog abstract "Contains an account book, 1752-1758, of the Spanish Royal Company, Cuba, which engaged in tobacco and slave trading, manufacturing, shipbuilding, and privateering; a tax journal, 1776, kept by Juan Ignacio de Urriza, of tolls on the Puente Nuevo, for Castle "La Fuerza," Cuba; and account books and letter books, 1794-1821, of Don Juan Stoughton, Spanish consul, Boston, concerning commercial conditions in Boston, captured Spanish vessels, and claims of the owners.".
- catalog abstract "Records, chiefly account books and letter books of the following merchants of Boston, Mass.: Thomas Cushing, Jr., 1739-1742; John Rowe, 1759-1762; Henry Lloyd, 1765-1767; Joseph Barrell, 1770-1803; Cornelius Fellows, 1775-1791; Codman and Smith, 1780-1783; John Welsh, Jr., 1781-1786; William and Joseph Hurd, 1782-1827; John Codman, 1783-1785; Samuel Hewes, 1795-1834; Brazer and Davis, 1796-1810; Samuel and Joseph Cabot, 1814-1821; Samuel Sanford, 1818-1825; Nichols and Pierce, 1819-1873; William H. Bordman, 1824-1829; Henry Bancroft, 1824-1846; Osborn Howes, 1828-1834; Henry Lee, Jr., 1837-1843, 1839-1859; A. and G. A. Kendall and Company, 1841-1843; William H. Goodwin, 1842-1866; Horace H. Soule, 1844-1878; Larkin and Stackpole, 1852-1879; William Perkins and Company, 1860-1887; and Simes and Farley, 1878-1883. There are also four unidentified account books from Boston, 1756-1826.".
- catalog abstract "Records, chiefly account books and letter books, of the following merchants: Jacob and William Wildes of Arundel, Me., 1772-1815; Thomas and William Davis of Plymouth, Mass., 1782-1805; Richard S. Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., 1792-1811; a Hanseatic merchant of Bergen, Norway, 1795; Elias Smith of Montreal, Canada, 1799-1800; George A. Cushing of Havana, Cuba and Boston, Mass., 1799-1802; A. P. Gibson and Company of New York City, 1816-1818; Arthur Hall of Bath, Me., 1821-1829; John Fox of Portland, Me. and the brig Fountain, 1823-1825; George W. Claflin, location unspecified, 1835; W. W. Woodbury of Portland, Me., 1847-1853; John McCracken of New York City, 1852-1881; E. Perkins and Son of Kennebunkport, Me., 1854-1872; Gideon Nye, Jr. of Macao and Canton, China, 1858-1898; William J. Blydenburgh of New York City and Shanghai, China, 1864-1876; Charles W. Dabney and Sons of Fayal (Azores), 1864-1898; and Hudson Bay Company, Martens Falls Post, Canada, 1865-1920. Also included is a photostat copy of the letter book of Houqua of Canton, China, 1841-1843; microfilm of despatches from the United States consul in Manila, Philippines to Washington, 1864; and a report on imports of cotton goods at the port of New York, 1909-1910.".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete series of account books, ledgers, payrolls, and letter books of a producer of printed cloth in Willimantic, Conn. Many of the account books relate to a general store run in connection with the factory. The company merged ca. 1911 with the Quidnick Manufacturing Company of Anthony, R.I. and became the Quidnick-Windham Manufacturing Company.".
- catalog abstract "Reports, research papers, and interviews, relating to studies in industrial and employee relations carried out at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works, Chicago, Ill. Includes 300 employee interviews and several hundred units of performance tapes.".
- catalog abstract "Includes an unidentified petty ledger, 1797-1799, probably from Boston, Mass., with charges for "schooling"; a diary, 1836-1841, of Jonathan Battles, a teacher in Massachusetts; two volumes of treasurer's reports, 1850-1858, of Franklin Library Association, Cambridgeport, Mass.; and account books, 1855-1865, of Algernon Parker Shattuck who gave penmanship lessons in the areas of Danvers and Beverly, Mass. and New Hampton and New London, N.H.".
- catalog abstract "One journal, 1851-1854, of John M. Barnard and Company, manufacturer of distilled beverages, Boston, Mass.; and one volume, 1866-1873, of minutes and accounts of the Association of Bottlers and Soda Manufacturers, Boston.".
- catalog abstract "Scrapbooks, clippings, card indexes, transcripts of hearings (1943-1945), proceedings of a trial (1943), issues of the company magazine The Friendly Forum, company releases and memos to employees. The material was gathered together by Frank K. Dossett, superintendent of supervisory training. The focus of the collection is on the firm's labor relations policies.".
- catalog abstract "Letters and other unbound papers relating to inventions and to mining ventures in the United States, Canada, and Cuba.".
- catalog abstract "These New England town records include an account book, 1771, from New Bedford, Mass., containing the names of taxpayers and the amounts paid; three treasurer's books, 1781-1860, from Rehoboth, Mass., primarily recording taxes collected; an account book, 1796-1824, of John L. Johnson, the treasurer of Lynn, Mass.; an account book, 1814-1816, of J. K. Smith, a tax collector for the third federal district of New Hampshire, including Amherst, Manchester and Milford, who received federal taxes for carriage duties, retailers' licenses, sales at auctions, and measuring stills and boilers; records, 1825-1855, of public institutions in Northfield, Vt., consisting of a record book of the Fifth School District and an account book of the Overseer of the Poor; a selectman's journal and records, 1827-1852, of town expenditures including teachers' salaries, highway work, and care of the poor for Paxton, Mass.; an account book, 1839-1846, for the House of Industry in South Boston, Mass.; an account book, probably 1845, of Horace Collamore of Pembroke, Mass. containing a census of Hanson and East and West Bridgewater, Mass.; an account book, 1850-1856, of the treasurer of Donations for Education in Liberia in Boston; and original and photostat lists of polls, rates and valuations, 1658-1850, for various New England towns including Cambridge, Mass., 1783-1796, Groton, Vt., 1828-1841, and papers of the Valuation Committee (Mass.), 1785 and 1850.".
- catalog abstract "Records of the growth of investment of T. Jefferson Coolidge over the years, and of his estate (after 1920), and of various trusts. Includes ledgers, cashbooks, trial balances and valuations, and both incoming and outgoing letters. Also letterbooks, 1890-1911, of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr.".
- catalog abstract "Credit reports, arranged by state, thereunder by county or city. Handwritten entries , made in the New York office, from field reports. Most volumes have name indexes. Here may be found reports on thousands of firms across the country, many for a considerable span of time. The reports are fullest from the 1850's to the 1870's. A few records of the firm's own business before 1900 are included. A separate sequence of volumes contains reports on lawyers.".
- catalog abstract "Principally correspondence, business and personal, of Henry B. Hyde and his son, James H. Hyde, vice-president of Equitable from 1899 to 1905. There are long runs of letterpress copybooks, 1870-1899, of Hyde and two letter books, 1881-1882, of Samuel G. Goodrich of Equitable's London office. Includes letters and other papers relating to the investigation and struggle for control of 1905.".
- catalog abstract "Contains photostats of pages from a communal steward's account book, 1340, in Genoa, Italy; an account book, 1531-1564, of a Convent of Benedictine Nuns, Empoli, Italy, showing land sold and provisions bought and sold; 3 account books, 1568-1590, containing the personal accounts of Andrea di Luca di Jacopo di Messer Luca Pitti of Florence and Mugello, Italy; 3 account books, 1574-1643, of the Monte di Pietà, Rome, Italy; one volume, 1610?, "Quadernuccio di ragguagli di diverse piazze con Veneti.."; one volume, 1675, of laws and regulations of Proxenetae; one volume, ca. 1750, of C. A. Broggia's Dissertazioni Varie; and one manuscript essay, 1881, on the Carbonari.".
- catalog abstract "Records of Naumkeag to 1914, with a few main series to 1945. Minutes, stockholders' records, general ledgers, journals, cash books, trial balances, six-months accounts, production records, outgoing correspondence, but few payroll or sales records. Includes letters of Edmund Smith, David Pingree, Edmund Dwight, Henry D. Sullivan, Frederick Dexter, and N. G. Simonds, treasurers; Josiah Brown, John Kilburn, E. F. Balch, and William P. McMullan, agents; and John Howard Fallon, trustee; and records of the Danvers Bleachery and Dye Works, Peabody, Mass., which was controlled by Naumkeag.".
- catalog abstract "This collection relates mainly to banking and real estate activities in Rome, and agricultural estate management in the surrounding area. It includes 27 volumes of bank records, 1630-1818, which throw much light on the administration of two very important Roman banks that are still functioning: the Banco di Santo Spirito and the Monte di Pietà; 27 volumes of estate records for such holdings as Monte Libretto, Monte Maggiore, Monte Rotondo, Monte Flavio, and Bassanello: all important for the study of the last of the feudal regime in Roman Campagna; and 13 volumes of letter books, 1645-1801, containing letters relating largely to estate affairs. Two of these volumes belonged to Principe Taddeo Barberini; the others were those of Principe Urbano Sciarra Colonna. There are also 14 account books, 1645-1802, recording personal expenses of various members of the Barberini family.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size, including the following material: accounts, 1810-1828, of the sale of grass, Straits Pond Flats (Hull or Hingham, Mass.); letters, 1831-1847, of De Wolf and Seymour, sugar plantation, Mount Hope Estate, Matanzas, Cuba; annual statement, 1914, Wood Live Stock Company, Spencer, Idaho; orders, 1792-1794, on the Connecticut State Treasurer to pay individuals in various towns the bounty for making raw silk from silk worms; and papers, 1854-1859, of Nathaniel J. Miller of Portland, Me. concerning lumbering.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size, including material on the following: ship Liverpool, a whaler from New Bedford, Mass., 1850-1853; and Captain Thomas W. Williams of New Bedford, 1851-1865.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size including material on the following individuals, unions, and commissions: Baltimore Agreement Commission, Maryland, 1923; American Arbitration Tribunal, concerning the American Federation of Radio Artists, 1940; Ralph F. Albert, arbitrator, Boston, Mass., 1944-1948; and International Chemical Workers Union, papers on Lever Brothers, soap manufacturers in Cambridge, Mass., 1948-1950.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size including material on the following individuals, families, and trusts: James Allen, Boston, Mass., 1736-1755; John Gleason, Worcester, Mass., 1788-1822; Thomas G.Appleton, Boston, 1907-1937; Washington Building Trust, Boston, 1825-1935; Samuel Cabot, Boston, 1844-1854; and the Brandenburg family, Boston, on household expenses, 1933.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size including material on the following firms: Puget Sound Wire and Nail Company, 1891; Allegheny Furnace Company, 1899; American Steeled Rail Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1860; American Wire Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1882; American Wire and Screw Nail Company, 1878; Baker Wire Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1889-1897; Columbia Wire Company, 1892; Consolidated Barb Wire Company, 1883; Consolidated Steel Wire Company, 1892; I. L. Elwood and Company, 1874-1876; Glidden Wire, 1876-1877; H. P. Nail Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1877-1895; Iowa Barb Wire Company, New York, N.Y., 1892; Joliet Wire Fence Company, 1876; Lambert and Bishop Wire Fence Company, 1883-1893; Lawrence Barb Wire Company, 1884; Missouri Barb Fence Company, 1879; Missouri Wire Fence Company, 1882; National Wire Corporation, 1902; New Castle Wire Nail Company, 1891; Oliver Wire Company, 1883-1899; Pencoyd Iron Works, 1859-1860; South Hutchinson Barb Wire Company, 1887; Stone, Chisholm, and Jones, 1861-1864; Thompson Barb Wire Company, 1883; Thorn Wire Hedge Company, 1876; Trenton Iron Company, 1857-1880; Trenton Locomotive and Machine Manufacturing Company, 1862; Troy Steel and Wire Company, 1813 (copy)-1889; and Worcester Barb Fence Company, 1868-1884.".
- catalog abstract "Contains reports, 1690-1696, of Louis Colbert on revenues from the priories Nogent, Rotrou, Bonport, and Longueville; papers concerning a lawsuit between the owners and the purchaser of the usufruct for life of a mansion in Paris which was sold to Claude Colbert in 1784; copies of documents, 172?, relating to the Canal de Languedoc; papers, ca. 1724-1798, of the Manufacture Royale de Montolieu, an early French woolen factory in the Province of Languedoc connected with the Thoron family; and a treatise, 1756?, "Traité sur l'utilité et la necessité des chemins publics et les moyens de les exécuter".".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size concerning numerous railroads and electric railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size including material on the following individuals, firms, and ships: William Pepperell, Portsmouth, N.H., 1696-1757; Archibald Macpheadris, Portsmouth, 1716-1728; Jonathan Warner, Portsmouth, 1751-1813; Thomas Fayerweather, Boston, Mass., 1750-1768; Levi Sampson, Duxbury, Mass., 1792-1835; Bark Apollo, Boston, 1795-1798; Schooner Rebecca, Beverly, Mass.(?), 1804; Henry Lee, Boston, 1804-1848; Philip Greeley, Portland, Me., 1809-1850; Joseph Austin, Boston, 1814; Patrick Tracy Jackson, Boston, 1810-1812; Cabot and Perkins, Boston; Daniel Webster, 1814-1836; Charles Treadwell; Jacob C. Treadwell, Portsmouth, 1799-1821; Sturgis family, 1823-1846; Davis and Matthews, Fayetteville, N.C., 1827-1829; Ship Edward; Talbot, Olyphant and Company, 1831-1832; and James W. Hayward, 1851-1852.".
- catalog abstract "A composite collection of records and papers relating to business activity in Great Britain. Includes estate papers, 1681-1719, of the Marquis of Annandale (also including a map, 1835); microfilm of subscription book of the Bank of England, 1697; statistics of cotton manufacturing in Great Britain, 1771-1789, by Patrick Colquhoun of Glasgow; letters, tracts, and notices relating to the infancy of railways in England, primarily concerning the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company, 1796-1833; letters, 1802-1806, from Barnard and Hughes, Manchester commission merchants, to American firms in regard to the importation of Sea Island and other cottons (including also letters to firms in Great Britain); correspondence, deeds, agreements, and leases of Llangennech Tin Plate Works, Carmarthen, Wales, 1858-1907; and documents and correspondence regarding loans by the Bank of Saxe Meiningen to the Egyptian government, 1862-1866 (with some material running to 1884). Frühling and Göschen, merchants and bankers of London, acted as agents for the bank.".
- catalog abstract "Notes and extracts of sources used by Clark in the writing of his History of Manufactures in the United States, a multi-volume work published by the Carnegie Institution with coverage from the colonial period through 1928.".
- catalog abstract "Thirty-three account books, 1766-1770, 1777, 1788; one journal, 1779; and one ledger, 1783, containing estate records of the Paar family of Bohemia (Czechoslovakia).".
- catalog abstract "These records cover the activities of several generations of one family and one firm devoted largely to the manufacture of wool. They cover a period of great significance in the history of international trade, a period which also marked the acme and decline of the wool industry in Florence. The collection falls into three groups: account books, letter books, and letters. The account books include ca. 136 volumes, and belong for the most part to the firm of Medici & Company, merchant-employers, a firm established in 1431 and continuing until 1579. The entries record the management of estates, and the sale and purchase of raw wool, finished cloth, Spanish leather, works of art, land, and houses. The 4 letter books cover the years from 1500 to 1521 in unbroken sequence and contain copies of the letters written by Francesco de Medici and his son Raffaello to their agents in Italy and France, as well as copies of letters written by Giovanni di Francesco Maringhi (later associated with them in business) to his principals in Florence. These letters are copies of business correspondence and are concerned for the most part with shipments and sales of merchandise. The unbound letters include a few written to Cosimo de Medici; a much larger number written by Lorenzo the Magnificent to Pietro Alamanni, Florentine ambassador; and even more written by the order of the Otto di Pratica to Alamanni.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size including material on the following individuals: John Plankinton, 1883; Daniel Hinckley, who had a starch factory in Frenchville, Me., 1884-1887; and James Baxter of Stanstead, Quebec, who ran a general store and made whiskey from potatoes, 1829-1854.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of unbound material of less than a volume in size, including material on the following ships, companies, and individuals: Schooner Caroline, 1795; Schooner William Barker, 1819; Sloop Rhode Island, 1834; Brig Lavinia, 1835; Old Colony Steamboat Company, 1891; Ship Little Betty, 1733; Capt. Joseph Hubbard, Middletown, Conn., 1799-1818; Capt. Nathaniel F. Adams, 1803-1806; Schooner General Lincoln, 1821; Schooner Convert, 1837-1859; Schooner Evelina, 1840; Fernald and Pettigrew, 1844-1863; John Weld Company, 1844-1863; Ship Sierra Nevada, 1855; Ship Judah Touro, 1856-1861; National Steamship Company, Boston, Mass., 1859-1867; Ship Alhambra, 1863; Ship Speedwell, 1864-1865; Schooner Centennial, 1876-1879; Brig Stacy Clark, 1881-1883; Alabama Claim Papers, 1886; Steamship Ottoman, 1891; Barkentine Antigua, 1897; and branch pilot George Moxon, 1849.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, reports, plans, clippings, and other papers, mainly in German, relating to the construction of the Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway, 1898-1909, and to the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, 1909-1916.".
- catalog abstract "Accounts, bills, notes, receipts, deeds, writs, memoranda, correspondence, and the records of a 1771 Connecticut General Assembly decision in Smith's favor against his former partner George Caldwell. There are no papers in the collection for the years of the American Revolution, 1776-1781. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from Jared Lane in Salisbury to Richard Smith in Boston.".
- catalog abstract "Records of various coal mines in which Boston investors, headed by Leverett Saltonstall, S. L. French, and William D. Coolidge, were interested. Included are records of Pennsylvania Cannel Coal Company (1860-1865), Shawmut Cannel Coal Company (1861-1865), Shawmut and Ridgway Railroad Company (1862- ), Pennsylvania Cannel Coal and Railroad Company (1865- ), Shawmut Coal Company of Elk County (1867- ). There are records of properties in Shawmut Village, including a general store. By 1869 the properties were being operated in the name of the Trustees of Pennsylvania Coal Lands. In 1875 some of the properties were disposed of to Northwestern Mining and Exchange Company of Erie, Pa.".
- catalog abstract "Reports of meetings, stock shares, unbound papers of the Washington Mining Company, Newfield, Me. (1792-1810); records of directors' and stockholders' meetings of the Mount Hope Iron Company, Somerset, Mass. (1855-1913); memorandum book, Pomeroy Iron Works, Pittsfield, Mass. (1865-1870).".
- catalog abstract "Two ledgers of the Claflin Milk Farm, Milford, Mass., 1812-1816 and 1862-1868; diary and memo book of E. W. Peirce, Northboro, Mass., 1877-1885, containing milk production records for 1880-1881 and also diary entries, 1906-1911, probably of a young girl; account books, 1892-1894, and copies of outgoing letters, 1905-1908, of Waterford Creamery, South Waterford, Me.".
- catalog abstract "Business papers of a New York and San Francisco firm of hat merchants, consisting of William H. White and Henry A. Burr, partners. The later papers reflect consignment sales of hats and other merchandise in San Francisco. The unusual feature of these manuscripts is the record of convict labor engaged in the manufacture of hats. From 1851-1856 William H. White was in San Francisco, selling hats and caps and other merchandise on consignment for John Randall of New York City. One of the principal commodities consigned to him was buckwheat.".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete records of D. Mackintosh and Sons with some records of Mackintosh Spinning Mill: Ledgers (1900-1930, 1941-1956), journals (1882-1887, 1955-1956, 1961-1962), cash (1909-1956), financial statements (1915-1950), cotton books (1937-1948), finished stock (1929-1952). Included are private ledgers of Donald Mackintosh (dating from 1872 to 1902) and of Henrietta P. Mackintosh (dating from 1903 to 1917); also a volume of revenue accounts (1920-1945) of Crystal Springs Aqueduct Company and a volume showing products and sales (1957-1961) of Bonnie Brae Conservatories.".
- catalog abstract "Accounts of tailors: Daniel Rea, Boston, 1736-1784; Edward Marrett, Cambridge, Mass., 1750-1780 (including one volume relating to lumber dealings); Barnabas Thayer, Braintree, Mass., 1778-1793; Endicott and Oliver, Boston, 1804-1833; James Waldock, Boston, 1841-1843; and N. F. M. and J. H. Dykeman, Richford, N.Y., 1849-1850 (including post office records of Matthew Westcott, postmaster). Accounts of hatmakers: Zalmon and Seymour Wildman, Danbury, Conn., 1800-1828; India Rubber Hat Company, Lexington, Mass., 1829-1857; and Nahum Burke, Anson, Me. and Nashua, N.H., 1811-1843 (including entries relating to soap, grease, and ashes).".
- catalog abstract "Accounts of Brainerd Stebbins, Barre, Vt., 1813-1824; Samuel H. Whitney and Otis Dickinson, Granville, Mass., 1823-1832; Malden Dye House, Hingham and Boston, Mass., 1830-1846; and an unidentified dyer from Byron, N.Y., 1834-1838.".
- catalog abstract "The Winthrop Mills were established in Winthrop, Maine, in 1865-1866, specializing in the manufacture of blankets. In 1913 they acquired the Annabessacook Mill in North Monmouth, Maine, and reorganized as a Massachusetts corporation. The collection is an incomplete one; there are minute books to 1913, and considerable material for the period immediately preceding the liquidation in 1932 and 1933, but there are no payroll books and few letter books. The collection includes papers of F. H. Cabot and Company (selling agents), the Cabot Manufacturing Company, and the Fisher Manufacturing Company, Grafton, Massachusetts. Letters include those of treasurers, Frederick P. Cabot (1921), Walter H. Bradley (1929), and agents, R. Crawford McIlroy and Herman Wilson (1926).".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete records of a family woolen firm in Dover, New Hampshire, which began as F. A. and J. Sawyer, became Sawyer's Mills, Sawyer Woolen Mills, and Sawyer Woolen Company. There are daybooks, cash books, production and sales records, and unbound papers, the last-mentioned for the 1894-1900 period. F. A. and J. Sawyer were selling agents. The business was taken over by the American Woolen Company in 1899.".
- catalog abstract "General account books, a few production records, sales books, and a long series of payrolls (1889-1925).".
- catalog abstract "Payrolls (1895-1921), letters sent (1864-1903), letters received (1884-1903), and miscellaneous sales and production records. Treasurers represented were T. Clapp, J. Dwight Francis, W. F. Bacon, and George E. Humphrey; agents are T. Clapp and Henry A. Francis; and selling agents were Fisher and Company and Fisher and Francis.".
- catalog abstract "Some correspondence, production and sales materials, but mainly general accounting records. Includes records of Wolcott Woolen Company (1816-1829), Central Manufacturing Company (1836-1882), Central Mills Company (1863-1928), and Charm Fabrics, inc. (1934-1935).".
- catalog abstract "Incomplete records of Bigelow-Sanford and many of its predecessors. Included are minutes and accounts books for Thompsonville Carpet Manufacturing Company (1828-1854); Hartford Carpet Company (1854-1901); Hartford Carpet Corporation (1901-1914); E. S. Higgins Carpet Company (1837-1901); Lowell Manufacturing Company (1828-1899); Stephen Sanford and Sons (1838-1929); Bigelow-Hartford (1914-1929). There are also minutes and reports for some of the divisions of Bigelow-Sanford. These materials were collected in the writing of a history of the Company at the Harvard Business School, and some of the history project files are also in the collection.".
- catalog abstract "Journals, ledger, sales books, bills, letters and other unbound papers of a dairy products company in Barre, Mass.".