Various. 1987 Library Accessions, 1753-1976, n.d.
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1987 Library Accessions, 1753-1976, n.d.
Accessions include: minutes and news clippings from the United Church Women of Salem, MA, representing all the major churches in the city, with supporting printed material (87001); papers of the Browne and Cox Families which include business documents from John Browne's ship chandlery, portage bills, estate documents and deeds for the Cox family, documents pertaining to the Oriental Powder Company of Portland, ME, obituaries, inventories of household silver, church pew deeds for the Old South Meeting House, Salem, MA, and photographs by Edward S. Moss (87005); manuscript recipes, also called receipts in this collection, for food and household substances, which also include household hints, some of which are bound into volumes with newspaper clippings of recipes and others are loose manuscript documents (87007); deeds, estate papers, receipts for Ichabod Nichols (87009); pew deeds for the Independent Congregational Church, Salem, MA (87014); an ALS letter from Nathaniel Bowditch to Messrs. Whipple & Lawrence about an incomplete journal received and returned (87016); institutional archives, which include publications, photographs, advertisements, lectures, scrapbook of shoes made, etc., for United Shoe Machinery Corp., Beverly, MA, shoes from which are in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum (87020); David Frye Papers, including correspondence, foreclosure book, realtor's license (87021); photocopy of logbook kept by Charles E. Brown on the Bark La Grange from Salem, MA to San Francisco, California in 1869 (87022); David Frye Papers, including correspondence, an insurance policy for the Schooner Sally, and receipts (87026); reminiscenses from family members of the Putnam Family of Salem, MA (87030); Endicott Family Papers, which include shipping papers of Samuel Endicott and estate papers of Henry Collins and Caroline Endicott (87031); First Congregational Church Records, of Topsfield, MA, which include administrative records, publications, photographs, Federated Church records, and women's societies (87035); Thought and Work Club Papers, a women's club in Salem, MA, which include meeting minutes, scrapbooks, committee reports, and dissolution records (87037); bills and receipts for the furnishing of George Peabody's house (87038); Salem War Chest Association Papers, including meeting minutes, correspondence pertaining to disbursement, and financial accounts of the association (87039); First Parish Church, Gloucester, MA, document about the impoverisment of the church in the 1870's, an ALS from Robert Rantoul, Jr. recommending Stephen Whitmore of Salem as Superintendent of Ropewalks at the Charlestown Navy Yard, and an ALS from Epes Sargent regarding a job for a young college man in the 1765 (87041); Dorothy Foster Papers, which include family and football team photographs, report cards from the Saltonstall School and Salem High School, and graduation exercises ephemera (87042); and the diary of Joseph Hardy Towne (87043).
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