Creator:
Johnson, George F., 1857-1948.
Inclusive Dates:
1882- 1956
Abstract:
Papers of the American industrialist, business
executive. President of Endicott-Johnson Corporation. Finding aid includes a
personal recollection from his daughter, Lillian Johnson Sweet. Correspondence,
incoming and outgoing (1900-1945); financial records (1892-1938); articles and
speeches (1920-1967); pamphlets, broadsides and posters (1910-1953); blueprints,
scrapbooks, photographs, and other material relating to Endicott-Johnson Corporation
and Johnson's philosophy of industrial democracy and labor-management
relations.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Broadsides (notices)
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Posters.
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Endicott (N.Y.) -- Industries.
Executives.
Industrialists.
Business and Industry
New York State
Executives -- New York (State)
Footwear industry -- New York (State)
Industrial relations -- United States.
Industrialists -- United States.
Shoe industry -- Employees.
Shoe industry -- New York (State)
Manufactures -- United States.
Creator:
Wilson, George Wellington, 1870-1946.
Inclusive Dates:
1893- 1937
Abstract:
Papers of the New York businessman and manager of fundraising events
for Butler Lodge 504 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, South Butler, N.Y.
Collection includes correspondence, financial records, photographs, broadsides and
advertisements, reflecting Wilson's management of fraternal organization fund-raising
events which included fairs, plays, minstrel shows, and various entertainments for the
lodge.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Broadsides (notices)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Playbills.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Wayne County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Businessmen.
Business and Industry
Dance and theatre
New York State
Amusements -- Posters.
Businessmen -- New York (State) -- Wayne County.
Fraternal organizations -- New York (State)
Printed ephemera.
Theatrical agencies -- New York (State)
Creator:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1762- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York. Business, family and general correspondence; business and land records; writings; and maps. Notable correspondents include Susan B.
Anthony, John Jacob Astor, Henry Ward Beecher, Antoinette Blackwell, Caleb Calkins, Lydia Maria Child, Cassius Clay,
Alfred Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Charles A. Dana, Paulina W. Davis, Edward C. Delavan, Frederick
Douglass, Albert G. Finney, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady and Henry B. Stanton,
Louis Tappan, Sojourner Truth, and Theodore Weld.
Type of Material:
Agreements.
Bank statements.
Bonds (negotiable instruments)
Broadsides (notices)
Check stubs.
Correspondence.
Deeds.
Estate records.
Indentures.
Judicial records.
Land registers.
Land surveys.
Maps (documents)
Pamphlets.
Sermons.
Summonses.
Warrant books.
Wills.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Peterboro (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Temperance.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.