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Account book
Collection — Box: small col. 49
Identifier: Col-1038
Accounts of building labor and materials collection
Collection — Box: small col. 54
Identifier: Col-1092
Content Description
The collection contains nine pages from a builder's account recording the labor, price, and materials needed for various projects, as well as their corresponding dates. These projects appear to be based in Ashford, England, take place bewteen 1837-1840, and are for Mrs. Field's house and William Parnell's Brew House respectively. The accounts for Mrs. Field's house are requested from Ann Taylor and Son, while the accounts for Mr. Parnell's Brewery are requested from Alexander Apsley and...
Dates:
1837-1840
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Advertisements
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Col-0214
Scope and Contents
This artificial and still open collection contains printed broadsides, brochures, posters, and other advertising material. Printed processes used include: woodblock printing, engraving, lithography, and photolithography. The majority of the material was produced during the 19th century in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. The most numerous ads are for furniture, clothing and dress, pottery and glassware, and booksellers/stationers. The many illustrations depict products, mechanical...
Dates:
between approximately 1740 and approximately 1940
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Albert R. Whittier scrapbook albums
Collection
Identifier: Col-0024
Scope and Contents
Contains purchase records for Whittier's collections of books and antiques. Volume 1 contains bills and receipts from used book dealers (particularly Goodspeed's Book Shop, Charles E. Lauriat Co., N. J. Bartlett & Co., and Maggs Bros.) and antique furniture dealers (particularly Israel Sack, Inc.). Volume 2 consists of mounted photographs--many of which have identifications typed on cards and stapled above--of some of the furniture recorded in vol. 1. Penciled numbers key most of the...
Dates:
1898 - 1945
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Alfred Craven Harrison papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WA-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, invoices, and business and legal documents. The records reflect Alfred Harrison’s personal activities and involvement with the Winterthur Corporation; legal and financial matters involving the estates of Ruth Wales du Pont and Henry Francis du Pont; activities in Boca Grande Florida; and the rental matters concerning a New York Park Avenue apartment. The collection also contains a hotel bill from Claridge’s hotel in London, a letter from Elise...
Dates:
1938-1973
Found in:
Winterthur Library
American Institute for Conservation (AIC) oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: Col-0701
Scope and Contents
Interviews, both original taped interviews and transcripts of them, mostly with American conservators or cultural heritage professionals and scholars who worked closely with conservators. The oral history project is sponsored by the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (formerly Fellows of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works [FAIC]), and is ongoing, with new material added annually. Included with most of the transcripts are supporting materials, such...
Dates:
1976 - 2023
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Anne Louise Hadley White papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-0134
Scope and Contents
Includes a scrapbook, a cookbook, and a Forget Me Not Album (i.e. autograph album) created by Anne Hadley. The scrapbook consists of 101 color printed gift and trade cards advertising such products as Star cough drops, shoes, vaseline, Coats' thread, sarsaparilla, a Clinton, Mass., dry goods store, and painters' supplies. The firms represented were located in Massachusetts, New York, Washington, D.C., and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Many of the cards show either children engaged in various...
Dates:
c.1880 - c.1930
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Archie McLean Hawks papers
Collection
Identifier: WA-0002
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondence, postcards, note cards, and telegrams from Ruth Wales du Pont to her aunt and uncle, Ethel Hawks and Archie McLean Hawks; one letter from Anna Anderson, and a transcription, are also included. The collection also contains an original manuscript, "Enchantment," written by Hawks that describes his 1870 train trip from St. Louis, Mo. to Bristol, R.I.
Dates:
1892, 1943-1947
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Baltimore, Maryland merchant ledger
Collection — Box: small col. 47
Identifier: Col-1030
Content Description
Store book of an unnamed Baltimore, Maryland merchant kept between 1804 and 1808, detailing the sale of goods such as various fabrics, threads, buttons, shoes, tobacco, coffee, sugar. May detail the sale of goods such as tobacco and shoes to people of color or enslaved people. Written on the front cover is the title "store book."
Dates:
1804-1808
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Bangor Stone Ware Co. papers
Collection — Container: Col-0030
Identifier: Col-0030