George Crawford papers

Collection

Identifier: Col-0047

Dates

Creation: 1797-1890

Creator

Crawford, George, 1864-1841. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

George Crawford was a merchant in Hudson and Albany, New York, dealing mainly in textiles and in ready-made clothing and apparel. His business also included foodstuffs and common household and farm items such as pots and pans. Additional biographical information is in the finding aid, but little was learned about him. A trigonometry notebook, writing exercise, and some personal letters are found.

Full Extent

4 cubic ft. (10 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.

Additional Description

Other Finding Aid

Folder list and indexes of occupations and names are available at repository.

Summary

Consists mainly of business papers documenting Crawford's purchases from other merchants. Receipted bills dating from 1797 to 1846 also include bills for doctors, tuition, insurance, advertising, and newspaper subscriptions, and for taxes and postage. The collection contains quite a number of tow boat bills (1827-1839), orders (1823-1843), and promissory notes (1819-1844). Finally, there are two boxes of miscellaneous personal and business papers and two boxes of account books.

Processing Note

Action: Accessioned--Time/Date of Action: 12/--/75

Processing Note

Action: Processed--Time/Date of Action: 10/--/90--Method of action: Refoldering, reboxing, describing--Action agent: KATB--Status: Discovered large amounts of material already in collection from Crawford that were accessioned as far back as 1955. Mostly bills and receipts, these items must all be brought together some time in the future. List of accession numbers in 75x334 case file & 90A162 data sheet.