COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records of the Edgett-Burnham Company, and its predecessors, Edgett & Totten and Wayne County Preserving Company, include correspondence, 1883-1920, with the Federal Trade Commission, the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, the New York State Canned Goods Packers Association, the New York State Factory Investigation Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture. Also contains brokerage accounts, cash books, check registers, farm accounts, corn accounts, daily reports of packing and canning departments, daybooks, ensilage records, inventories, labor and time books, ledgers, merchandise books, payroll records, and sales books. Includes correspondence of Edwin K. Burnham concerning the Democratic Party in Wayne County, New York, area crops, and the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women at Newark, and photographs of company personnel.
Dates
- 1854-1930.
Creator
- Edgett-Burnham Company (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
The Edgett-Burnham Company was a canning company based in Camden, Hew York. The company relocated to Newark, Wayne County, New York after 1863.
Extent
80 cubic feet. (80 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Records of the Edgett-Burnham Company, and its predecessors, Edgett & Totten and Wayne County Preserving Company, include correspondence, 1883-1920, with the Federal Trade Commission, the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, the New York State Canned Goods Packers Association, the New York State Factory Investigation Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture. Also contains brokerage accounts, cash books, check registers, farm accounts, corn accounts, daily reports of packing and canning departments, daybooks, ensilage records, inventories, labor and time books, ledgers, merchandise books, payroll records, and sales books. Includes correspondence of Edwin K. Burnham concerning the Democratic Party in Wayne County, New York, area crops, and the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women at Newark, and photographs of company personnel.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Printed material
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:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- 2010
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, 2010
- Date modified:
- Margaret Nichols, May 2016
General
Due to extreme condition problems, some framed items from the collection were photographed and the originals discarded.
- Accounts.
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
- Burnham, Edwin K.
- Camden (N.Y.)
- Canneries.
- Canning and preserving -- Industry and trade.
- Edgett & Totten
- Edgett-Burnham Company
- Food, Canned.
- Inventories.
- Ledgers (account books)
- Manufactures.
- New York State Canned Goods Packers Association
- New York State College of Agriculture
- New York State. Factory Investigation Commission
- Newark (N.Y.)
- United States. Department of Agriculture
- United States. Federal Trade Commission
- Wayne County (N.Y.)
- Wayne County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Wayne County Preserving Co
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- 2013
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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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