Fox-Clark business and family papers, 1805-1961, 1805-1855 (bulk).

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Fox-Clark business and family papers, 1805-1961, 1805-1855 (bulk).

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Business papers include bills, receipts, accounts, legal papers, promissory notes, leases, and correspondence, 1805-1855, concerning shipping, work records, orders of stoneware, financial transactions, and building kilns. There are also letters from branch potteries in Lyons, Oswego, and Mt. Morris, N.Y. concerning clay supplies, shipping on the canal, firing problems, and local business conditions, 1837-1855. Personal papers, 1814-1816, consist of household bills and receipts, agreements, leases, the will of Reuben Clark, 1813, estate papers of Thomas Howe, and letters including those of Nathan Clark to his wife Julia about his trip through Indiana, 1839; Nathan Clark, Jr. to his father concerning pottery sales, anti-rent issues, and other Athens news, 1845; and letters from Edward Clark and his wife Caroline to his father Nathan and brother Nathan, Jr. concerning buying a house in New York City, the monetary and social demands of pursuing a law career in New York, and Edward's complaints about his father boarding a minister in his home, 1840-1846. Miscellaneous items include a Sanborn map of the Athens Pottery premises, 1895; clippings and photographs taken in the 1950s of samples of Clark pottery; and correspondence concerning these papers, 1961.

1.5 cubic ft.

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Howe, Thomas A.

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Clark, Nathan, d. 1891.

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Clark, Edward, 1811-1882

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Sanborn Map Company

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The Sanborn Map Company was founded in 1867 with headquarters in New York City. Its purpose was to produce maps that would show "at a glance the character of the fire insurance risks of all buildings" in a give community. Since these maps had a very specialized use, "there were usually fewer than twenty orders for a single map sheet". Consequently, even though Sanborn maps are printed works, their rarity is similar to that of manuscript maps. The Sanborn Map Company ceased making its insurance r...

Clark, Caroline Jordan, d. 1874.

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Clark, Nathan, 1787-1880.

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Fox, Ethan S.

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Athens Pottery (Athens, N.Y.)

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Loomis, Kate,

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Nathan Clark (1787-1880) operated a pottery business in Athens, N.Y. with his brother-in-law Thomas Howe, and later Ethan S. Fox. From the description of Fox-Clark business and family papers, 1805-1961, 1805-1855 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155506114 ...

Clark, Reuben, 1743-1813.

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Clark, Julia Nichols, d. 1873.

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