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Scott, Matthew T., 1828-1891. Matthew T. Scott papers, 1831-1930.

Title: Matthew T. Scott papers, 1831-1930.

A collection of business diaries, letters, rental agreements, deeds, abstracts of title, contracts, promissory notes, tax receipts relating to the establishement and development of a 55,000 acre frontier estate in McLean, Livingston, Ford, Piatt, Coles, Champaign, Iroquois, Vermilion, Woodford, LaSalle, and Macon Counties, Illinois, and a 5,000 acre estatein Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Calhoun, and Cass Counties, Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, acting in conjunction with various members of the Scott family and James Robbins, Stephen Swift, George W. Brand, William H. Latham, Richard and Joel Higgins, James Suydam, Courtney Pickett, and Samuel P. Humphreys. Earliest papers dated 1831 include two letters written by Rev. Lewis W. Green as a student at Yale and at the Theological Seminary, Princeton, to Willis Green of Danville, Kentucky. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe in detail entries of land from the Federal Government, purchases from private individuals, purchase and sale of land warrants, development of tenant farms in McLean County, costs of breaking prairie, construction of houses, fences, well digging, planting of fruit trees, purchase of farm equipment, seed, stock, hiring of farm hands, and records of crop yields. Also, information on development of Chenao, the partnerships between Scott and others, financial agreements, tax difficulties, land sales, and rental agreements.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 cubic ft., 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074916 View

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957,. [Map of the area later bounded by 37th and 43rd Streets, 3rd Avenue and the Hudson River, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 37th and 43rd Streets, 3rd Avenue and the Hudson River, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [between 1835 and 1837]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 4 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 66 x 348 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80289819 View

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957,. [Map of the area later bounded by 18th Street, 3rd Avenue, Bleecker Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 18th Street, 3rd Avenue, Bleecker Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1833]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 3 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 149 x 48 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58662604 View

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957,. Map shewing the lands required for opening & widening Wooster Street from Waverly Place to Union Place.

Title: Map shewing the lands required for opening & widening Wooster Street from Waverly Place to Union Place. [ca. 1833]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 2 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 173 x 71 cm. + 1 text (1 leaf, ms. ; 19 x 32 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78244232 View

Stillman, William James, 1828-1901. Letters to William James Stillman and John Durand from artists, 1854-1861.

Title: Letters to William James Stillman and John Durand from artists, 1854-1861.

Letters primarily concern subscriptions to the "Crayon," a journal devoted to the graphic arts and related literature edited by Durand and published by Stillman and Durand, New York. Writing to Stillman are Christopher Pearse Cranch, James William Glass, and Richard Saltonstall Greenough; to Durand are Albert Bierstadt, George Fuller, James McDougal Hart (2), Frank Blackwell Mayer, Larkin Mead, Erastus Dow Palmer, Leonard Wells Volk, and John Quincy Adams Ward; and to both Durand and Stillman are Jervis McEntee, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, and James Suydam.

ArchivalResource: 15 items (on partial microfilm reel)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122566338 View

Lienau, Detlef. Suydam hall, general theological seminary, New Brunswick, N.J. [graphic] / Detlef Lienau, Archt.

Title: Suydam hall, general theological seminary, New Brunswick, N.J. [graphic] / Detlef Lienau, Archt. 1871-1872.

ArchivalResource: 7 sheets : various media ; 75.8 x 96.5 cm. (29 7/8 x 38 in.) or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77964278 View

Suydam, James Augustus. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122403184 View