This form was used to keep track of each railroad car as it was in each depot, loading, unloading plus the cause for any delay. Reports sent daily to both headquarters and division offices.
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Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This advertisement was sent to Joseph Durland, a founding member...
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
A newspaper article reporting a slave ship captured along the coast of Cuba in 1857. The captives, aged from ten to eighteen years, described as unfortunate creatures, taken from a place called Kabinda, on the coast of Africa. Of the 500 taken,...
March 3, 1944 V-mail written by Joseph R. Barrs to Henry Staley of Cottage Farm in Rhinebeck, New York from "somewhere in England" during World War II.
Detailed account book kept by Ann DeWitt Bevier after the death of her husband, Philip DuBois Bevier. The majority of the entries fall between the years 1802-1805. The account book shows that she was part of a network of farmers, laborers, and...
James writes to his friend Phil about the difficulties of army life. He has been marching for three weeks straight though serious weather conditions. One night the troops had to camp right down in the snow. He mentions that there are strong Union...
Meeker and his company are now at the new barracks which are almost completed. His company has lost men due to small pox and other diseases. A funeral procession took place which Meeker commented on as being particularly sad because it was the day...
One page death notice of Levi Hasbrouck who died March 7th, 1861. A small black border surrounds the entire obituary. The paper, on which the obituary is printed on, has been folded and opens like a book, with the obituary on the first page.
