Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Special Collections Research Center |
| Title: | Central New York Trade Catalogs and Business Ephemera |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1816-1962 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1865-1900 |
| Quantity: | .75 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Collection of catalogs, trade cards, merchants' scrip, letterhead, photographs, and other ephemera from businesses in and around Syracuse, New York. Towns represented include Syracuse, Marcellus, Litchfield, Morristown, Scipio, and others. Also includes journal and correspondence from auto garage in Navarino, NY. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Central New York Trade Catalogs and Business Ephemera contains correspondence, photographs, and printed material from a wide variety of businesses in and around Syracuse New York.
Correspondence contains miscellaneous letters, receipts, orders, etc relating to central New York businesses and on business letterhead.
Photographs contains a photograph of the staff of a machine shop, September 1892.
Printed material contains ephemera, privately printed merchants' scrip, and trade cards and catalogs.
Ephemera contains announcements, publicity, checks, stock certificates, and other miscellaneous items. Among other things, there is a small publication giving a brief history (with photos) of Mary Elizabeth Evans' Candy Kitchen, a business based in Syracuse but with outlets in other cities including one on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and an announcement of the formation of National Banker's Express Company (similar to Wells Fargo). Also here, from Litchfield, is a subscription form for a book to be published: "an octavo volume...on the domestic relations of husband and wife, guardian and ward, parent and child, master and servant."
Merchants' scrip contains 39 private issue notes, most from banks in the area.
Businesses represented by Trade cards include confectioners, liquor stores, shoe companies, dry goods, clothiers, and artists' supplies. Trade catalogs also cover a wide range of businesses, including Syracuse Cart Company, Protectall (safes and chests), Baker Dash Works (carriage tops and trimmings), J.R. Clancy (theatrical stage supplies), Perry Seed Store, Elmwood Stud (Percheron horses, in Scipio), American Seating Company (school tables and chairs), and Smith Typewriters.
Miscellaneous includes a journal and related correspondence for an auto garage in Navarino, New York.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
See also the Central New York Local History Collection and Central New York Cultural Ephemera.
For full descriptions of the merchants' scrip, see New York State scrip and private issues by Gordon L. Harris (S.l. : G.L. Harris, c2001), call no. New York HG627 .N4 2001 (refer to SUMMIT, our main catalog to locate).
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Central New York Trade Catalogs and Business Ephemera,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Scrip gift of Gordon L. Harris, July 2003. Other material purchased with funds from the Library Associates.
Created by: MRC
Date: 11 Jun 2007
Revision history: 24 Jul 2007 - additions (MRC);
1 Nov 2007 - additions (MRC);
3 Jun 2008 - change to regular coll; additions (MRC);
3 Dec 2008 - additions (MRC);
12 Feb 2009 - additions (MRC)
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
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| Box 1 | Ephemera | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Ephemera (oversize) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Merchant's scrip | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Trade cards | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Trade catalogs (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Trade catalogs (oversize) | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Auto garage, Navarino, New York - journal, correspondence, invoices, receipts | ||||||||||