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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-701
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-134
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
Byrdcliffe Records
Collection
Identifier: Col.-209
Scope and Contents
The Byrdcliffe archives includes family correspondence, featuring letters to and from Jane and Ralph Whitehead beginning in the 1890s; photographs, many of which are dated and the people in them identified (twenty of which were taken by Jesse Tarbox Beals); more than 600 original drawings and paintings, including furniture designs by Edna Walker and Zulma Steele, and colored designs for rugs created by Marie Little; approximately 575 issues of magazines; scrapbooks; over 700 study prints...
Dates:
Majority of material found in circa 1869-2000
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Charles Graff receipt book
Collection — Container: Doc-65
Identifier: Doc-65
Scope and Contents
Twenty-nine signed receipts for a variety of goods, such as "fifteen Dollars in full for a Mattrass," and "Seven hundred twenty four Dollars 50/100 ... for 100 Kegs of Lard." Includes commodities shipped to Havana, Cuba. At the back of the book are some rough sketches of buildings, evidently done at a much later time as one appears to be a skyscraper.
Dates:
1799 - 1806
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Coates family silhouette collection
Collection — Container: Doc-139
Identifier: Doc-139
Scope and Contents
Contains 77 negative silhouettes mounted on black backgrounds, all but three of which are identified on a "List of Names" at the beginning of the volume. There are also six leaves of 'Scherenschnitten' pictures; and then eight un-mounted silhouettes (six of which are identified) laid in. These loose silhouettes are now in separate sleeves. Many members of the Coates family are pictured, as are members of the Hornor, Morrison, Evans, Redman, Randolph, Pickering, Hopkins, Snowden, and Yarnall...
Dates:
[1800?] - [1825?]
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Connecticut general store daybook
Collection — Container: Doc-122
Identifier: Doc -122
Scope and Contents
Contains daily entries of debits and credits at a Connecticut general store to be transferred to account books. The manuscript entries, made between July 1801 and April 1802, record purchases of a wide variety of goods, including spices, spoons, kettles, rum, thimbles, meat, knives, ribbon, and stockings. Perhaps most interesting are the many entries for the sale of reams of different kinds and sizes of paper, including (on p. 164) one for 21 reams of printing paper to Steman, Willard &...
Dates:
1801 - [188-]; Majority of material found within 1801 - 1802
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Daniel Smith account book
Collection — Container: Doc-162
Identifier: Doc-162
Scope and Contents
From 1772 to about 1807, Daniel Smith used this volume to keep his accounts for making and repairing shoes. Some day labor is also recorded. Beginning in 1803, the accounts are settled by John Smith, and the entries change to agricultural commodities. Some of these latter accounts (on, or facing, leaves 74, 86, 102, and 107) are "setled ... from the begining of the world up to this day." Also includes school district receipts for 1787-1807 (leaf 61); an account of "sundries of articles that...
Dates:
1772 - 1848
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Eleanor Weller Reade/Alfred S. Branam Collection of Research Files on Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele
Collection
Identifier: Col-754
Erastus B. Chase letter book
Collection — Container: Doc-76
Identifier: Doc-76
Scope and Contents
Includes business letters written from the Pacific; San Francisco, CA; England; Germany; Ireland; Scotland; and Massachusetts. In them, Chase notes cargoes of guano and coal (April 1874-October 1875). Also, letters as General Agent for the Ellis Patent Gas Burner, Regulator, and Shade Combined, NY (May 1876-March 1877). Also, letters under the name of John S. Willard, Agent, Looking Glass Manufacturer, NY (March 1877-July 1878). Includes letters attempting to settle accounts after Chase sold...
Dates:
1874 - 1878
Found in:
Winterthur Library