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West Point Foundry Association. West Point Foundry Association drawings, 1846-1878.

Title: West Point Foundry Association drawings, 1846-1878.

Oversized volume (26 x 36 in.) of designs for guns, mortars, sights, carriages, projectiles, parts, and miscellaneous equipment from the records of the West Point Foundry, 1846-1878, with the majority dating from the Civil War era.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (161 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58782680 View

Stewart, William George. William G. Stewart correspondence and papers, 1839-1859.

Title: William G. Stewart correspondence and papers, 1839-1859.

Correspondence and papers, 1839-1859, including letters received; Stewart's bank book with the Ocean Bank of New York for 1849-1852; press copies of letters sent; accounts, invoices, shipping papers, et al. The material pertains to his business with persons in Mexico, Cuba, New Orleans, Liverpool, Philadelphia, and some other places, for a while in partnership with B.M. Picabia, particularly in the sale of printing equipment and type in Mexico; the setting up of a plant for the manufacture and printing of letter paper in Cuba (with equipment furnished by William Kemble and the West Point foundry, and by Smith, Winchester & Co., Windham (Conn)); the Mexico and Vera Cruz Telegraph Co. (including correspondence with Henry F. Makepeace, whom he hired to erect the line); his duties as Mexican vice-consul in New York during 1848-1852, including correspondence with Mexican officials, other consuls, Mexican businessmen and travelers, Americans with trade or personal connections with Mexico, etc.; and his agency for the sale in Mexico of "Dr. S.P. Townsend's Sarsaparilla." His more frequent correspondents were: in Mexico City: Ignatio Camplido, José Marroquin, Tomàs S. Gardida, David Macfadden, and Luis G. Bossero (also at Washington); in Vera Cruz: Eduardo Cabrera (also at New York and New Orleans), Markoe, Price & Co., Don Pedro Palhouzie, Joaquim de Muñoz y Muñoz, J. Modesto Muñoz; in Havana, Cuba: Servanda de la Huerta, Juan Diaz de Castro, Pedro Giol, Gregorio Iglésias y Pardo, Estevan Mestre, José Gomez y Gomez, Miguel Venancio Marco, Carlos Marti, and Jacobo de la Pezuela; in New York: Juan de la Granja (Mexican consul), William Hagar, A.B. Taylor & Co., B.M. Picabia, Vital Lepeyre, J.B.G. Ladeveze; and also Luis de la Rosa of Philadelphia and Washington; José M. Gonzalez de la Vega, Washington; Smith, Winchester & Co., Windham (Conn.); William Kemble, West Point Foundry; A.D. de Pascual, Philadelphia; Magdalena Parrott; Manuel Ponz y Ardil, Tabasco, Mexico; William H. Prescott, Boston; his father, William Stewart, of Liverpool (an iron and steel merchant); his brother, George Charles Stewart; José M. Caballero, New Orleans; Pedro Macia, Cartagena, Mexico; Fernando Matute, Pncé, Puerto Rico; David Bruce, Jr.; J.A. Garcia deel Rio, Kingston, Jamaica; O.L. Dabelsteen, New Orleans; and Salvador Darqui, Tampico, Mexico.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 linear feet (9 boxes, 2 oversize)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475920143 View

Allen family. Papers, 1818-1925.

Title: Papers, 1818-1925.

The Horatio Allen papers consist of fragments handed down in the family of his sister Mary Louisa Allen and her husband Edmund C. Evans. Associated with them are fragmentary papers of other Allen family members and genealogical materials.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122333708 View

West Point Foundry Association. West Point Foundry Association collection, 1817-1878.

Title: West Point Foundry Association collection, 1817-1878.

Employee time books, wage records, diary, shipping manifests, bills, stock certificates, pattern books, pamphlets, and a few items of correspondence, 1817-1878, from or pertaining to the West Point Foundry Association and the operation of the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (7 v., 30 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58780294 View

Serrell, James E. [Map of the area later bounded by Hubert Street, Washington Street, Beach Street, and West Street or the Hudson River, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by Hubert Street, Washington Street, Beach Street, and West Street or the Hudson River, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1880]

A collection of 13 cadastral maps covering a single block in New York City. All are freehand copies taken from larger originals made at various dates between 1814 and 1880. Most emphasize the water or bulkhead line intersecting the proposed West Street and give dimensions. Some show other property and lot lines, buildings and owners' names. A few show piers.

ArchivalResource: 13 maps : mss. ; 27 x 61 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58660527 View

Wright family. Papers, 1785-1902 (bulk 1809-1876).

Title: Papers, 1785-1902 (bulk 1809-1876).

The papers of Samuel G. Wright document his activities as a New Jersey gentleman farmer, a Philadelphia merchant, an ironmaster and a member of the New Jersey Legislature as well as his private investments in land and securities. As such it is a valuable source on the details of the early nineteenth century iron industry and its allied activities, including coastwise shipping, on the impact of economic fluctuations during the Jacksonian Era, on the linkages between eastern merchants and the developing West, and on everyday life in rural New Jersey and Delaware.

ArchivalResource: 16.67 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503422 View

Wood, William W., 1816-1882. Papers of William W. Wood and Thomas Newton Wood, 1836-1906.

Title: Papers of William W. Wood and Thomas Newton Wood, 1836-1906.

Papers of William W. Wood consist of correspondence, including three letters from F. H. Elmore; indenture of Wood's apprenticeship to West Point Foundry Association; and printed matter. Papers of his son Thomas Newton Wood consist of correspondence with Anderson C. Quisenberry and Edwin Longnecker; diary kept as a student at the U.S. Naval Academy; notebook (1873) describing the East Indies, Morocco, and Japan; unpublished article (1891) entitled The Marines; commissions; and scrapbook (1872-1884) containing newspaper clippings, photographs, telegrams, and visiting cards.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79041416 View