Business
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 114 Collections and/or Records:
Johnson family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 305
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, papers, volumes, deeds, and other material documenting several generations of the Johnson family of Connecticut and New York. Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), William Samuel Johnson (1795-1883), and Samuel William Johnson (1828-1895) are prominent figures in the papers. The correspondence of William Livingston (1723-1790) and Noah Welles (1718-1776) is also arranged in the papers. In addition to extensive correspondence...
Dates:
1631-2017, bulk 1631-1918
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Johnson family papers
Samuel C. Johnson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1023
Overview:
Chiefly financial and legal records, including inventories and prices for shipments of merchandise, on the sloop Clarissa, sailing out of Naugatuck and Guilford under Captain Isaac Meigs. Also papers for other business transactions carried on by Samuel C. Johnson.
Dates:
1802-1834
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Samuel C. Johnson papers
Albert Galloway Keller papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 768
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, student and teaching files, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Albert G. Keller, a sociologist, author, and student and colleague of William Graham Sumner. Keller frequently corresponded with individuals on the subject of Sumner, and Yale University figures such as Arthur T. Hadley, James Rowland Angell, and Charles Seymour often felt Keller's displeasure over the University's treatment of the Sumner legacy....
Dates:
1888-1956
Leffingwell family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 320
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, legal and financial records and memorabilia by and about the descendants of Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut. The major groups of papers are those of Christopher Leffingwell (1734-1810), a merchant in Norwich and William Leffingwell (1765-1834), a stockbroker in New York and later a resident of New Haven. These groups contain papers on legal, financial and business transactions. Family correspondence during the Revolutionary War...
Dates:
1688-1954
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Leffingwell family papers
Sylvanus Dyer Locke papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 327
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, patents, and printed material which relate to Sylvanus Dyer Locke's patented self-binding harvester and other inventions. Correspondents include attorneys, patent solicitors, and other manufacturers of farm equipment and heavy machinery. Some materials also relate to Sylvanus D. Locke, Jr. and the Locke Steel Chain Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The additions to the papers contains family correspondence, photographs, and academic reports...
Dates:
1859-1957
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Sylvanus Dyer Locke papers
Makepeace family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 977
Overview:
Account books and autograph albums kept by various members of the Makepeace family of Connecticut. One, kept by Orlando Porter, relates to the clock manufacturing company of Samuel Harrison and Company. Another, kept by Ward Peck betweeen 1818 and 1842, records his farming activities in Waterbury. The four autograph albums (1827-1885) contain the signatures of such notables as John Burroughs, Leonard Bacon, Timothy Dwight, James A. Garfield, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward...
Dates:
1773-1925
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Makepeace family papers
Massachusetts railroads collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 971
Overview:
Correspondence, financial and legal documents, maps, schedules, and newspaper clippings from the records of various Massachusetts railroads eventually incorporated by lease or merger into the Boston and Maine Railroad or the New York Central Railroad.
Dates:
1822-1909
Albert McClellan Mathewson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 990
Overview:
The Albert Mathewson Papers consist of correspondence, financial, business and legal records and genealogical material of the Lanman, Trumbull and Huntington families, ancestors of Mathewson. His own personal papers (1888-1941) are largely related to his professional activities, with the Connecticut State Shellfish Commission, among others.
Dates:
1735-1941
Joe Vincent Meigs papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 334
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, pamphlets, scrapbooks, genealogical materials and papers related to the Meigs Transit System in Boston and the American Civil War, including the formation of a black light artillery battalion. Meigs’ Civil War service in the Tennessee army is documented in correspondence, a memoir, and a scrapbook. Meigs designed and installed his elevated rail system in 1885 and over 400 drawings as well as other materials connected with the enterprise are included in the...
Dates:
1858-1915
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Joe Vincent Meigs papers
Miller-Auchincloss papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 825
Overview:
Correspondence and memoranda related to the work of David Miller and Gordon Auchincloss (who were law partners) as special representatives of the State Department. Their task was to gather information about commercial and financial activities based in the United States that might benefit Germany and her allies.
Dates:
1917-1918
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Miller-Auchincloss papers
Ray Millholland papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1204
Overview:
Typescripts of two books, a screenplay, and several short stories with related correspondence and memorabilia. Splinter Fleet, published in 1936, concerns his experiences in World War I in the U.S. Navy. Pay Day, published in 1946, is about labor and management in America.
Dates:
1936-1946
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ray Millholland papers
Charles Gould Morris family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 622
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, family papers, financial records, scrapbooks, daguerrotypes, and other material documenting the professional career of Charles Gould Morris and the personal lives of several family members. Morris's political career, his dairy business activities, and his municipal and civic concerns in Connecticut are documented. The letters and papers of family members involved in the settlement of the American frontier and in the Civil War are included, as are...
Dates:
1742-1961
Nevins and Townsend papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1179
Overview:
Letterbooks (1833-1847), ledgers, and other account books (1817-1848) of Nevins and Townsend, a brokerage firm in New York City.
Dates:
1816-1858
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Nevins and Townsend papers
Daniel Washington Norton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 376
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence and other records of Loomis and Norton, a paper manufacturing firm in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The papers also contain records of several textile and mining companies and those of Connecticut Canal Railroad and other companies. A small amount of personal correspondence and account books are also found in the papers.
Dates:
1813-1878, bulk 1830-1878
Old Colony & Fall River Railroad company records
Collection
Call Number: MS 378
Overview:
The records date largely from the merger period and include correspondence, reports, financial and legal papers, diagrams relating to the railroads and miscellaneous printed matter such as passes, tickets and clippings. Included in the correspondence are several family letters of Alexander Holmes, president of the company. Other correspondents are Julia Ward Howe, George Stillman Hillard and Samuel Hill. Of the two account books, one lists the shareholders and the other tabulates revenues for...
Dates:
1836-1893
Shadrach Osborn papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1035
Overview:
Correspondence and financial papers of Shadrach Osborn, a general merchant of Southbury, Connecticut, who was also active as a commissary during the Revolutionary War. Also included are the records of his business associate, Truman Hinman and his son, Erastus Osborn, who was sheriff of New Haven County. An account book for purchases from wholesale suppliers covers the period 1783-1792. The three letters in the papers are from Erastus Osborn. One dated 1812 describes a town-gown riot in New...
Dates:
1765-1838
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Shadrach Osborn papers
Parker Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 685
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence, poems, estate papers, notebooks, account books, logbooks, legal books, and miscellaneous papers of the Lay, Parker, Pratt, Shaler, Smith, Stark, Tyler, and Williams families of eastern Connecticut.
Dates:
1747-1930, bulk 1789-1866
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Parker Family Papers
Pierpont's Store records
Collection
Call Number: MS 399
Overview:
Sixty-four volumes of accounts, 1850-1884, of Pierpont's Store in North Haven, Connecticut. Also included are 161 loose papers: 13 of these were removed from the account books; the remaining 148, Sept. 1854-Sept. 1857, are mainly authorizations by various doctors for sale by Pierpont's Store of liquor for medicinal uses.
Dates:
1820-1884
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Pierpont's Store records
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1196
Overview:
Correspondence, legal and financial papers relating to Samuel Clarke Pomeroy's personal affairs and bribery charges brought against him in the U.S. Senate.
Dates:
1865-1895
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Samuel Clarke Pomeroy papers
Potter family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 16
Overview:
Account books (1846-1868) relating to surveying and highway repair in Hamden, Conn.; ledgers, daybooks, and pay books concerning the breeding of cattle, sale of hides and wood, and quarrying of stone; accounts (1825-1882) of the firm Rowe and Tuttle of Fair Haven, Conn., covering the sale of general merchandise; and deeds for land acquired by the Potter family in North Branford, New Haven, North Haven, Fair Haven, and Hamden, Conn.Represented in the collection are Jabez Turner Potter...
Dates:
1823-1888
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Potter family papers