COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters written to Caleb and Emily Pierce Carr of Hillsboro, Wisconsin, from family members in Genoa, Locke, and Elmira, New York. Subjects include family and local news, farm conditions, politics, temperance, spiritualism, the Panic of 1857, and homefront reactions to the Civil War. Also, 13 letters to Carr from Henry Queripel, Jr. of New York City, mostly concerning his farm property in Wisconsin, but also commenting on commodity prices and trading conditions, religion, a smallpox epidemic in New York, and the Civil War.
Dates
- 1856-1867.
Creator
- Carr, Caleb. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
53 items. (53 items.)
Abstract
Letters written to Caleb and Emily Pierce Carr of Hillsboro, Wisconsin, from family members in Genoa, Locke, and Elmira, New York.
Physical Description
Correspondence.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- February 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2016
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, February 2016
- Agriculture -- New York (State)
- Carr, Emily Pierce.
- Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Commodity exchanges.
- Depressions -- 1857.
- Hillsboro (Wis.) -- Social life and customs.
- Queripel, Henry, Jr.
- Religion.
- Smallpox -- New York (N.Y.)
- Spiritualism.
- Temperance.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2016
- 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