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Francis D. Donovan Papers., undated, 1829-1997.

Title: Francis D. Donovan Papers. undated, 1829-1997.

Francis D. Donovan (1917-2005) was a resident of Medway, Massachusetts, and an avid railroad photograph and memorabilia collector and researcher, particularly of materials associated with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and its predecessor lines. His papers consist of his writings and research files about the railroad; photographs of stations, engines, and railroad scenes; maps, scrapbooks, postcards and timetables.

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Hayter, Earl W. Collection, 1866-1958.

Title: Collection, 1866-1958.

Collection contains papers (1878-1903) of Isaac Ellwood, inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, especially those documents pertaining to contracts to provide barbed wire fencing for various railroad rights of way, and to some of Ellwood's mining interests in Idaho and Mexico (Honest John Mining & Milling Co. and Creston-Colorada Co.) Also included are papers (1866-1900) of Charles W. Marsh, inventor and manufacturer of harvesters; advertising and other documents of various wire and agricultural machinery manufacturers such as Jacob Haish, R.H. Pooler and others (1878-ca. 1927); short histories of barbed wire development and of De Kalb County, Illinois (1923-1958); and 3 photo albums of specimens of early barbed wire (1929).

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft. (2 boxes)

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Earl W. Hayter Collection, 1866-1958

Title: Earl W. Hayter Collection , 1866-1958

Materials collected by this Northern IllinoisUniversity professor relating to early inventors and manufacturers of barbedwire and farm machinery.

ArchivalResource: cubic ft. (2boxes)

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