COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence consists of both outgoing (51 letter impression books, 1899-1926) and incoming letters (131 letterboxes, ca. 1892-ca. 1931) to and from clients, contractors, and supply companies in regard to the design and construction of schools, churches, private homes, apartment houses, commercial establishments, hospitals, public buildings, and other structures in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, including the stairs and stone walls at Watkins Glen (1908), the Arnot Art Gallery, the Corning Glass Works, Cortland County and Arnot-Ogden Hospitals, the Elmira College Library, Elmira Y.M.C.A. and Masonic Temple, and the Elmira Free Academy; also, bills, receipts, contracts, indexes (2 volumes) of jobs, and various photographs, blueprints, and detail drawings.
Dates
- 1890-1960.
Creator
- Pierce & Bickford (Firm) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
55 cubic feet.
27 mapcase folders.
Abstract
Office correspondence, bills, receipts, contracts, job indexes, photographs, blueprints, and detail drawings
SERIES LIST
Series I. 51 Letterbooks - Copies of Outgoing Correspondence, 1899 - 1926 Volumes 16-22, 24-65, 68
1. Letterbooks of Note 2. Letterbooks
Series II. Incoming letters, bills, receipts and related items Boxes 1-131
Series III. Job file drawings, #5-1791 Box 133-148, 153; Mapcase Folders 1-18 This series is arranged alphabetically by the location of the job: first by state, then by city, and finally by the name of the project.Plans for related buildings have often been grouped together.
1. Roselle Park, NJ; Albany - Eddytown, NY 2. Elmira, NY 3. Elmira Heights - Whitney Point, NY 4. Athens-Wyalusing, PA
Series IV. Recent correspondence, Bickford genealogy, photographs, printed material Box 149
Series V. Job Index, Photographs, Cartoons etc. Box 150
Series VI. Glass slides, Printing blocks, Glass plate negatives, etc. Box 132, 151
Physical Description
Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Photographs
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Nancy Dean
- Date completed:
- May 1989
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2016
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Nancy Dean
- Date
- February 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu