Inventories
Subject
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Scope Note: Detailed lists of things in one's view or possession, as of all goods and materials on hand, or detailed lists of all items in a given category. For documentation of examination conducted to achieve a comprehensive view, use "surveys."
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Account books collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 29
Abstract:
An artificial collection of account books and financial volumes, ca. 1680-1930, relating to such occupations as: farmers, merchants, traders, millers, blacksmiths, lawyers, manufacturers, laborers, physicians, shoemakers, carpenters, tailors, and cigar makers. Materials relating to private organizations and businesses are also included. The collection focuses on the Connecticut and New England region.
Dates:
1680-1925
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Account books collection
G. & C. Merriam Company archive
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 370
Abstract:
The archive consists of correspondence, documents, writings, printed material, and photographs documenting the history of the G. & C. Merriam Company. The papers provide insight into the business practices of the nineteenth century publishing and bookselling trade, particularly in Massachusetts, and contain much material on lexicography, the development of American English, and the publishing history of Webster's Dictionary. Principal correspondents include Merriam Company editors...
Dates:
1797-1978, bulk 1830-1892
Elihu Geer collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1405
Abstract:
The collection consists of cashbooks, correspondence, daybooks, invoices, journals, ledgers and other materials documenting the financial operations of Elihu Geer's printing shop and stationery business in Hartford, Connecticut. Material relating to his publication of the Hartford Journal and the Congregationalist is also included in the collection.
Dates:
1827-1881
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Elihu Geer collection
Goodrich Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 242
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, business and legal documents, sermons, lectures, and other writings of the Goodrich family, descendants of Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), and members of related Webster, Coe, Ellsworth, and Fowler families. The bulk of the correspondence concerns Chauncey Allen Goodrich's publication and copyright of an abridgement and revision of Webster's dictionary and the resulting disagreements among the heirs of Noah Webster. The papers also highlight Elizur...
Dates:
1732-1905
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Goodrich Family Papers
Selden Huntington family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1064
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, and financial and legal papers of three generations of the Selden Huntington family of Old Lyme and Middlesex County, Connecticut. The papers document Selden Huntington's business fortunes in East Coast shipping and land speculation in Maine, his relationship with his son Joseph Selden, breaking up of his marriage to his second wife Jeanette Stewart, and social and religious activities in the community. Joseph Selden Huntington's letters record his years at school in...
Dates:
1762-1914
List of drawings by Joseph Southall, circa 1900
Item — Box 1, Folder: 18
Call Number: MSS 80
Dates:
circa 1900
List of drawings in cut mounts, circa 1900
Item — Box 1, Folder: 16
Call Number: MSS 80
Dates:
circa 1900
List of small drawings in white mounts, 1899
Item — Box 1, Folder: 17
Call Number: MSS 80
Dates:
1899
Mailliard Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 341
Abstract:
The major part of these papers consist of correspondence, business papers and memorabilia relating to Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Naples and Spain. These were accumulated by Louis Hypolite Mailliard who acted as secretary to Bonaparte and was later executor of his estate. Most of these papers related to the affairs of the estate, including property in Bordentown, New Jersey, where Napoleon lived in exile from 1816 to 1839. A small amount of the correspondence as well as journals kept by...
Dates:
1785-1896
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Mailliard Family papers
Joseph Southall archive
Collection
Call Number: MSS 80
Abstract:
The collection comprises 14 autograph letters from Joseph Southall to Laurence Hodson; a catalog of paintings by Southall; and three additional lists of works by Southall.
Dates:
1898-1910
Strong Family Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1198
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries, writings, autographs, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of several generations of Strong family members and related Fowler, Pond, and Huntington families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The bulk of the collection concerns the extended family of Phinehas Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts, and relates to the teaching and agriculture pursuits of family members in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia,...
Dates:
1667-1925
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Strong Family Collection