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Wood family. Wood family papers, 1926-1989, 1941-1958 (bulk).

Title: Wood family papers, 1926-1989, 1941-1958 (bulk).

Dairy farm records of Mabel and Walter Wood and their sons, Loren and Carl, Horseheads, New York, contain financial records including farm and household bills and receipts, check stubs, milk check receipts, account books, and income tax records; Farm Security Administration receipts, account statements, correspondence, farm visit reports, and farm family record books; Farmers Home Administration loan records, promissory notes and agreements, mortgages, and farm development plans. Other farm records include inventories of real estate, cattle, and machinery; cattle records for registration, tuberculosis and brucellosis testing and certification, breeding, and milk production; New York State College of Agriculture production and feeding analysis sheets; poultry records; and USDA Agricultural Conservation Program forms for acreage allotments and allowances for lime and superphosphate. Also, typescript stories and reminiscences. Also Veterans Administration correspondence, insurance policies and claims, funeral receipts, will of Walter A. and Mabel Wood, and other documents relating to death of Walter A. Wood, Walter's discharge from the army; will of Mabel Wood; oil and gas leases; application for renewal of copyright; documents regarding property ownership and sale; and savings account book.

ArchivalResource: 8.2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072438 View

R.D. Wood & Co. R.D. Wood & Co. records, 1858-1910, bulk 1877-1896.

Title: R.D. Wood & Co. records, 1858-1910, bulk 1877-1896.

The volumes in this collection primarily represent the foundry business records of R.D. Wood & Co., which fall into four main categories: financial, manufacturing, transportation, and personnel. Records are not complete, though the density of information contained during the years 1877 to 1896 provides a most detailed picture of the internal workings of the company. Contained in lesser abundance are records, primarily financial, from various other companies affiliated with R.D. Wood & Co.

ArchivalResource: 101 vols. (15 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61514554 View

Phillips, Marjorie O'Brien,. State Preparatory School : Quad class.

Title: State Preparatory School : Quad class. 1935.

ArchivalResource: 1 photograph.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427365630 View

Wood, Ira F. Ira and Walter Wood photograph collection, ca. 1911-1929. [graphic].

Title: Ira and Walter Wood photograph collection, ca. 1911-1929. [graphic].

The images were selected and reproduced from a larger collection and feature residents of the town of Iditarod, Alaska, and riverboats and activities on the Iditarod River from 1911-1929.

ArchivalResource: 20 photoprints : b&w.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50406506 View

Wood, Walter, 1849-1934. Correspondence to Henry Charles Lea, 1885-1890.

Title: Correspondence to Henry Charles Lea, 1885-1890.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63554209 View

Wood, Walter. Papers, 1889-1894.

Title: Papers, 1889-1894.

These papers include patents, agreements, and correspondence relating to gasometers, cranes, and other mechanical implements in which Walter Wood was financially interested and which he purchased from inventors in America and Europe.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/151375582 View

Wood family. Wood-Randolph family personal papers, 1813-1884.

Title: Wood-Randolph family personal papers, 1813-1884.

The papers in this accession were primarily collected by Julianna Randolph Wood and passed down to her descendants. They include her own letters to parents, siblings, husband and children, as well as those of her husband, and of her parents Edward and Mary Taylor Randolph. The letters are almost entirely limited to correspondence within the Wood-Randolph kinship group and have a distinctly domestic flavor. As such, they illuminate the social world and beliefs of an old Delaware Valley family that is maintaining its deep roots in the Society of Friends even as it enjoys increasing success through multiplying business enterprises. The papers show participation in typical Philadelphia Quaker institutions. Many letters are written to and from children while away from home at the Westtown School (which Julianna Randolph attended), the Haverford School, and Haverford College, and these are generally of a didactic nature. Other letters describe outings to Cape Island (Cape May), the Virginia Springs, or Crawford Notch. Much of the news is confined to family matters, including births, illnesses and deaths, but there are also obersvations on larger contemporary events, such as the Panic of 1857, the election and assassination of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the beginnings of Reconstruction. The letters of Edward Randolph reveal his greater involvement in the business of Quaker Meetings. In a letter from 1829, a 19-year old Julianna Randolph decribes a visit to the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's works at Mauch Chunk, then a showplace of Quaker enterprise and a popular tourist destination, and her ride on the two-year old gravity railroad. There is a handwritten family pedigree by Walter Wood and also a transcript of a poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the anniversary of the death of her son Henry Ellis Stowe by drowning at age 18, the latter doubtless created as an act of mourning after Caroline Wood died after being thrown from a horse at a similar age. The letters of Richard D. Wood discuss business as well as family matters, especially as he begins training his sons to enter the family firms. He refers to many of his business ventures, including the Millville Furnace and the Millville Manufacturing Company cotton factory, his investments in the Allentown and Cambria Iron Companies, his directorships in the Schuylkill Navigation Company and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the promotion of the Millville and Glassboro Railroad, and other investments. Many of the letters are written home while on trips that combined business and pleasure, including a cotton-buying journey through Tennessee and Alabama, and to Manchester, London, and Paris. Towards the end of his life, the Woods and their younger children took an extended trip to Egypt and the Holy Land, returning through Europe. Richard D. Wood also socialized with his extended family, especially with his brothers Dr. George Bacon Wood, an eminent physician and professor of medicine, and Horatio Curtis Wood. Julianna R. Wood published Richard D. Wood's diaries and letters with some commentary in 1871-1874 in a limited edition of 100 copies for the use of family members. This biography, which is now available on Google books, give day-by-day accounts of many of the events summarized in this collection of letters. The whereabouts of the original manuscript diaries is unknown.

ArchivalResource: 289 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318214155 View

Wawa, Inc. Historical collection, 1737-1965.

Title: Historical collection, 1737-1965.

The records are an historical collection assembled by members of the Wood family and Wawa, Inc., to document the family's business activities through publication and displays. They are not a formal archive of any of the family firms.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122547865 View