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Harvard University. Records of Harvard lotteries, 1772-1814

Title: Records of Harvard lotteries, 1772-1814

The records of the Harvard lotteries are comprised of materials created in the process of administering the Harvard College lotteries sanctioned by Massachusetts General Court to raise money for dormitory-building projects. The collection consists of five series containing lottery tickets, newspaper and broadside lottery announcements, accounting records, and administrative lists used to manage the lottery drawings. Most of the documents were created by the managers of the lottery in organizing, publicizing, and drawing the lotteries, and provide a resource for studying the operations of state-sanctioned lotteries in late 18th and early 19th century Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 2.4 cubic feet (10 folders, 13 volumes, and 3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694355712 View

Jackson, Patrick Tracy, Jr. [Weaving superintendent's notebook].

Title: [Weaving superintendent's notebook]. 1898-1900.

Includes notes on cloth styles and yarn.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48433790 View

Jackson, P. T. (Patrick Tracy), 1780-1847. Patrick Tracy Jackson papers, 1766-1869.

Title: Patrick Tracy Jackson papers, 1766-1869.

Business papers, 1766-1869, of Boston merchant and textile manufacturer Patrick Tracy Jackson and his father Jonathan Jackson, as well as estate papers, including those of Francis Cabot Lowell. Jonathan Jackson business papers consist of account books of the partnerships he undertook as a Newburyport merchant, including Jackson & Bromfield; Jackson, Tracy, & Tracy; and Jackson & Higginson. His partners included John Bromfield, John Tracy, Nathaniel Tracy, and Stephen Higginson. Account books kept by Jackson, Tracy, & Tracy reflect the impact of the Revolution on trade; include privateering and distill house accounts; and contain ships' accounts, including the brigs Elizabeth, Hibernia, and Pallas, and the sloops Mermaid, Conway, and Lively. Patrick Tracy Jackson business papers consist of account books containing records of personal bank accounts, transactions with other merchants, trade in a variety of goods, and stock in textile companies including the Boston Manufacturing Co. and the Merrimack Manufacturing Co., as well as records of the brig Vancouver and the Union Canal Lottery. Estate papers include records, inventories, and accounts of the Francis Cabot Lowell estate, Louisa Higginson trust accounts, and Gardiner Greene estate accounts.

ArchivalResource: 34 cased v., 4 extra tall v., and 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54538900 View

Lowell, Francis Cabot, 1775-1817. Francis Cabot Lowell papers, 1742-1894 bulk 1794-1817.

Title: Francis Cabot Lowell papers, 1742-1894 bulk 1794-1817.

Papers of trader and pioneer manufacturer Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817). The collection consists of 9 boxes of loose manuscripts and 9 bound letterbooks and account books. The collection contains material on Lowell's Harvard years, his travels in Great Britain and Europe, Boston social life, economic conditions in the early 19th century and trade during the War of 1812. There is a small but not insignificant amount of material on Lowell's early manufacturing ventures. Other family members prominently represented in the papers are Charles Lowell, John Lowell III, Hanah Jackson Lowell, Mary Jackson Lee, Charles Jackson, Patrick Tracy Jackson, William Cabot and Francis Cabot II. Other important correspondents include Samuel P. Gardner, Elizabeth P. Gardner, Henry Lee and Anne Grant.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes and 9 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9891701 View

B.A.P. (Harvard University). General information by and about the B.A.P., 1893.

Title: General information by and about the B.A.P., 1893.

Contains one certificate of membership for Patrick T. Jackson (AB 1893), signed by secretary Robert Walcott (AB 1895) and dated 1893. The certificate was hand lettered and includes a hand drawn and colored crest of the club featuring three beer steins and two crossed pipes. The motto "dolce far niente" [literally "sweet doing nothing"] runs beneath.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228511350 View

Neal, D. A. (David Augustus), 1793-1861. Business records, 1818-1898 (inclusive).

Title: Business records, 1818-1898 (inclusive).

Business records of David A. Neal and his son Theodore A. Neal, merchants and financiers of Salem, Mass. The earlier material relates to foreign marketing and includes journals, letter books, 1818-1819, 1831-1836, ledgers, and cash books. The later material is concerned chiefly with the Neals' connections with the Associates of the Illinois Land Agency, an agency formed to develop land along the Illinois Central Railroad. These records include journals, letter books, stock books, plans, claims, and sales of titles. Also included is a typewritten copy of David A. Neal's autobiography.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 linear ft. (30 v., 5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17266606 View

Burleigh, John A. [Letter] 1843 June 22, Somersworth, N.H. : [to] Patrick T. Jackson, Boston / [from] J.A. Burleigh.

Title: [Letter] 1843 June 22, Somersworth, N.H. : [to] Patrick T. Jackson, Boston / [from] J.A. Burleigh.

The letter concerns widening a canal, evidently to power new machinery; includes arguments to procure new warp frames and mentions the suitability of a sample of burlap brought by Jackson.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50423649 View

Vertical file collection on foreign trade, 1696-1852 (inclusive).

Title: Vertical file collection on foreign trade, 1696-1852 (inclusive).

Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size including material on the following individuals, firms, and ships: William Pepperell, Portsmouth, N.H., 1696-1757; Archibald Macpheadris, Portsmouth, 1716-1728; Jonathan Warner, Portsmouth, 1751-1813; Thomas Fayerweather, Boston, Mass., 1750-1768; Levi Sampson, Duxbury, Mass., 1792-1835; Bark Apollo, Boston, 1795-1798; Schooner Rebecca, Beverly, Mass. , 1804; Henry Lee, Boston, 1804-1848; Philip Greeley, Portland, Me., 1809-1850; Joseph Austin, Boston, 1814; Patrick Tracy Jackson, Boston, 1810-1812; Cabot and Perkins, Boston; Daniel Webster, 1814-1836; Charles Treadwell; Jacob C. Treadwell, Portsmouth, 1799-1821; Sturgis family, 1823-1846; Davis and Matthews, Fayetteville, N.C., 1827-1829; Ship Edward; Talbot, Olyphant and Company, 1831-1832; and James W. Hayward, 1851-1852.

ArchivalResource: Less than 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269600865 View

Almy family. Papers, 1649-1984 (inclusive), 1832-1984 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1649-1984 (inclusive), 1832-1984 (bulk).

Correspondence, diaries, financial records, genealogical charts, composition books, speeches, poems, examinations, reports, photos, articles, pamphlets, clippings, and other material. Bulk of collection is correspondence among members of the Almy, Jackson, and Cabot families. The diaries and correspondence describe daily activities of individual women and the social network among upper-class Boston families. Civil War letters from Samuel Cabot, Jr., to his family, and courtship lettrs to Elizabeth Almy (1914-1916) are also included. Correspondents include Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Charles W. Eliot, Ellen Tucker Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Charles Sumner. Also included is material on the Massachusetts Conference on Social Work, civil service in Massachusetts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mothers' Discussion Club, Monday Lunch Club, and other organizations.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122407290 View

Neal, D. A. (David Augustus), 1793-1861. Business records, 1818-1898 (inclusive) [microform].

Title: Business records, 1818-1898 (inclusive) [microform].

Business records of David A. Neal and his son Theodore A. Neal, merchants and financiers of Salem, Mass. The earlier material relates to foreign marketing and includes journals, letter books, 1818-1819, 1831-1836, ledgers, and cash books. The later material is concerned chiefly with the Neals' connections with the Associates of the Illinois Land Agency, an agency formed to develop land along the Illinois Central Railroad. These records include journals, letter books, stock books, plans, claims, and sales of titles. Also included is a typewritten copy of David A. Neal's autobiography.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 linear ft. (30 v., 5 boxes)Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269589439 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Metzler, Christian E., collector. Transportation miscellany, 1836-1932.

Title: Transportation miscellany, 1836-1932.

Metzler's collection is a combination of original items, including documents taken from the company's official records, and clippings from newspapers and employee magazines. Many of the latter are from THE PILOT, which is available in its entirety in the Imprints Dept. The original items are mostly ephemera, such as early tickets, seat checks, timetables , scrip from the hard times of the 1840s, receipts, and autographs of Reading presidents and other officials cut from official documents.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123558 View

Jackson Family. Papers, 1602-1889.

Title: Papers, 1602-1889.

Correspondence and receipts (1851-67) of Dr. John B.S. Jackson of Boston, correspondence (1832) of Patrick Tracy Jackson, will (1806) of Henry Jackson and receipts (1806-21) for his children's school expenses at Boston and Bridgewater; other Jackson family papers; correspondence, property records for Cape Elizabeth, Me., and other papers (1702-91) of the Woodberry family of Essex Co., Mass.; papers (1802) relating to the settlement of the estate of Samuel Swett, of Marblehead, Mass.; family correspondence and other records (1839-69) of Samuel W. Swett, of Boston; other Swett family papers (1769-1869); and correspondence (1840-53) of the Andrews family.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16644841 View

Almy family. Additional papers, 1832-1984 (inclusive).

Title: Additional papers, 1832-1984 (inclusive).

Collection consists mostly of correspondence, financial documents, and photographs. The early correspondence features the letters of Samuel Cabot to his son Samuel Cabot, Jr., and the latter's letters to his wife, Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot, and their children; also of interest are letters from Theodore Parker, written while traveling abroad the year before his death. Civil War letters from Samuel Cabot, Jr., to his family, and courtship lettrs to Elizabeth Almy (1914-1916) are also included. The rest of the correspondence focuses on Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall, and includes four generations: her parents, Charles and Helen Jackson (Cabot) Almy; two of her children, Sidney Cobb and Helen (Cobb) Solomon White; and her grandchildren. Also included is material on the Massachusetts Conference on Social Work, civil service in Massachusetts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mothers' Discussion Club, Monday Lunch Club, and other organizations.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (3 cartons, 1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder, 3 oversize folders, 4 slides, 1 microfiche, 2 motion pictures)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/539585100 View

Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk) [microform].

Title: Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk) [microform].

Includes an extensive bound series of incoming letters and papers, a series of letter books, general accounting records, and payrolls. There are records for construction of canals, for collection of tolls, for kyanizing of lumber, and for a grist mill. There are papers of James B. Francis, engineer and agent, Uriah A. Boyden, hydraulic engineer, Col. James Francis, William Badger, Hiram F. Mills, Patrick T. Jackson, Kirk Boott, and George W. Whistler. Companies represented by material include Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Bigelow-Hartford Manufacturing Company, Ipswich Mills, Middlesex Company, Nashua Manufacturing Company, Saco-Lowell Shops, Pepperell Manufacturing Company, and Tremont and Suffolk Mills.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. (355 v., 2 cases, 1 box)Copies: 4 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269602657 View

Jackson, P. T. (Patrick Tracy), 1780-1847. Letter, 1828 February 11, Boston, to Daniel Webster, Washington.

Title: Letter, 1828 February 11, Boston, to Daniel Webster, Washington.

Is concerned about how the Bill for altering duties will affect carpet manufacturers.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2860816 View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View

Jackson, Jonathan, 1743-1810. Lee family papers, 1535-1957.

Title: Lee family papers, 1535-1957.

Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, writings, business records, family papers, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to free trade, Harvard University, Lee-Jackson family genealogy, the Massachusetts Militia, tariffs, and trade with China, India, South America, and the West Indies. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, John A. Andrew, John C. Calhoun, John Murray Forbes, Albert Gallatin, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Robert Young Hayne, George Frisbie Hoar, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Fanny Kemble, Abbott Lawrence, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Augustus Saint Gaudens.

ArchivalResource: 41 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71132476 View

Vertical file collection on banking and investment banking, 1740-1952 (inclusive).

Title: Vertical file collection on banking and investment banking, 1740-1952 (inclusive).

Consists of unbound material of less than a volume in size, including material on the following banks, individuals, and companies: Manufactory Scheme (Land Bank), Boston, Mass., 1740; George Cabot and Israel Thorndike, 1792; William M. D'Antignac and John Kerr, Danville, Va., 1826-1842; North Carolina State Bank, Salisbury, N.C. and William H. Horah, Raleigh, N.C., 1832-1849; Cairo City and Canal Company, 1837; D.A. Davis, Salisbury, N.C., 1838-1851; Phoenix Bank, Boston, 1842-1851; Philadelphia Clearing House Association, 1858; James Gore King (of Prime, Ward and King), London, England, 1838; Harold A. MacCallum of Estabrook and Company, Boston, 1923-1924; New England Mortgage Security Company, 1895-1896; and Union Canal Lottery and Patrick Tracy Jackson, 1813-1821. Also includes folders of miscellaneous papers on banking in Portsmouth, N.H., 1811-1913, and in Boston, 1807, 1838; papers on consolidation of Banks in New Orleans, La., 1950; and notes on the history of Shawmut Bank, Boston, by Dane Yorke, 1952.

ArchivalResource: Less than 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269602696 View

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873,. Miscellaneous western Americana manuscripts, 1836-1910.

Title: Miscellaneous western Americana manuscripts, 1836-1910.

Copies of correspondence concerning Bois Blanc and Mackinac islands, furnished to Sen. James McMillan from the archives of the U. S. War department, dated 28 Dec. 1894; letters from Salmon Portland Chase to William G. Hosea, 1858-1867; J. Jackson's Notes of the life and character of the late P.T. Jackson, Esq.; letter from P. H. Jacobs to his brother concerning his experiences as a miner in the California gold rush of 1849; letters from Swedish immigrants in the Middle West to friends and relatives in the United States and Sweden, dated 1861-1869, concerning the local land and economic conditions and requesting that friends or relatives emigrate to the U.S., with typescript translations; letters from Francis Ellington to F. A. Golder, dated 1910, explaining Leupp's reasons for retirement from the Board of Indian Commissioners; Henry S. Fluk's Brief history of the phenomenon usually denominated "the jerks," which originated in Kentucky in 1800; letter from Steffan Steffanson, giving his account of the journey from Sweden and settlement in Jefferson County, Iowa, 1849, with typescript tranlation; letter from Robert McKinley Ormsby, dated at Louisville, Ky., 25 Oct. 1836, concerning daily life as a pioneer; and other items.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear ft)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612869757 View

Darnborough, Antony. Encore : domestic version : export script, 1963 Dec. 24.

Title: Encore : domestic version : export script, 1963 Dec. 24.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 100 leaves) ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25122555 View