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Allcott family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00173
Scope and Contents
The Allcott family papers consist primarily of letters to Sidney S. Allcott from his brother William and from business associates in Massachusetts and New York. Allcott was involved in land speculation in Eaton and Calhoun Counties, Michigan, and he built the Emerald Mills on Bear Creek in 1848. The correspondence gives a clear picture of the economy in the years 1835-1850, especially with respect to money and banking. Many of the letters discuss market prices, transportation costs, and the...
Dates:
1835 - 1850
Ansel Wells papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00065
Scope and Contents
The Ansel Wells papers consist of diaries, letters, and a tuition receipt. Wells kept the two diaries (1860, 1861-1862) while he was living in Pharsalia, New York. The brief daily entries record his farm work, social life, and religious activities. The tuition receipt (1859) represents Wells' attendance at the Cincinnatus Academy in Cincinnatus, New York. Six letters (1847-1853) from H. P. Herrick to his family in Pharsalia describe his life as a student at Amherst College and as a teacher...
Dates:
1847 - 1862
Arnold W. Miller papers
Collection
Identifier: 00008
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, receipts, account books, and diaries relating mainly to Arnold W. Miller, a Saginaw County, Michigan, farmer. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from friends and relatives of Miller, residing in Kansas, Vermont, and Massachusetts. The letters include information on agricultural and business conditions, as well as the family's intense interest in spiritualism. One folder contains correspondence from Jasper Miller, who corresponded...
Dates:
1847 - 1928
Benjamin Chenary deed
Collection
Identifier: c-00040
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a deed for land in Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, sold by Benjamin Chenary of Dedham and Elizabeth Owen of Roxbury in 1713. A typewritten literal transcription of the deed is included.
Dates:
1713
Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 282 large
Scope and Contents
Records of the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (BCLSA) and similar Massachusetts organizations. The collection includes flyers, posters, newsletters, pamphlets, research papers, internal strategy reports, correspondence, press clippings, slide-cassette kits (on Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Women Under Apartheid, First National Bank of Boston and Massachusetts South Africa Connection), a cloth banner (U.S. Out of El Salvador and South Africa) and tablecloth/hanging...
Dates:
approximately 1970-1990
Bread and roses : documents from the women's liberation movement in Boston, 1968-1971
Collection
Identifier: MSS 153 large
Scope and Contents
The collection contains pamphlets, newsletters, and ephemera on women's liberation, anti-Viet Nam, and the counter culture movement.
Dates:
1968 - 1971
Chamberlain family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.12
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of family correspondence, documents, and business records, particularly relating to Henry Chamberlain. Included are genealogies of the Chamberlain, Langdon, Woodward and Wheelock families.The letters in the early years of the collection relate to the migration of the family westward to Ohio, and then to Michigan. There is an 1830 agreement in which certain New Hampshire citizens sponsor William Chamberlain to go and scout the area above the Ohio River for...
Dates:
1795 - 1931
Crosby family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00268
Scope and Contents
The Crosby family papers consist primarily of diaries kept by family members in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Michigan. Hale E. and Mary Chamberlain Crosby, who lived in Concord, New Hampshire and later Ashby, Massachusetts, kept a journal recording their work, their religious and social activities. The Crosbys moved with Mary's parents, the Chamberlains, to New Buffalo, Michigan in 1844.Their son, J. Birney Crosby, was sent from Michigan to Massachusetts in 1860 to attend...
Dates:
1838 - 1900
Edward M. Natharius collection
Collection
Identifier: 00141
Scope and Contents
The collection contains three groups of business records from Dartmouth and New Bedford, Massachusetts. These two locations are adjacent to one another, New Bedford having been formed and enlarged from parts of Dartmouth village and town (township) beginning in 1787. New Bradford became a famous whaling port after the Revolutionary War, and much mercantile business was carried on there; some spilling over into nearby Dartmouth. Shipbuilding and associated manufacturing began in New Bedford...
Dates:
1831 - 1872
Ethel M. Paige collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00617
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 60 postcards from Canada, England, the United States, and 32 stereocards primarily of biblical scenes. Twenty postcards are scenes from communities in Massachusetts. Also included in the collection is a photograph of Calvin Coolidge taken by Allison B. Spence of Northampton, Massachusetts, and a tin type photograph of Martha Wonsey, Delos Wonsey and Seraph Wonsey Page (Paige).
Dates:
1904 - 1923