COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Dairy farm records of Mabel and Walter Wood and their sons, Loren and Carl, Horseheads, New York, contain financial records including farm and household bills and receipts, check stubs, milk check receipts, account books, and income tax records; Farm Security Administration receipts, account statements, correspondence, farm visit reports, and farm family record books; Farmers Home Administration loan records, promissory notes and agreements, mortgages, and farm development plans. Other farm records include inventories of real estate, cattle, and machinery; cattle records for registration, tuberculosis and brucellosis testing and certification, breeding, and milk production; New York State College of Agriculture production and feeding analysis sheets; poultry records; and USDA Agricultural Conservation Program forms for acreage allotments and allowances for lime and superphosphate.
Also, typescript stories and reminiscences.
Also Veterans Administration correspondence, insurance policies and claims, funeral receipts, will of Walter A. and Mabel Wood, and other documents relating to death of Walter A. Wood, Walter's discharge from the army; will of Mabel Wood; oil and gas leases; application for renewal of copyright; documents regarding property ownership and sale; and savings account book.
Dates
- 1926 - 1989
- Majority of material found within 1941 - 1958
Creator
- Wood family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
8.2 cubic feet. (8.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Dairy farm records of Mabel and Walter Wood and their sons, Loren and Carl, Horseheads, New York
Physical Description
Financial Records, Legal Documents, Printed Materials
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:
- Various
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, September 2007
- Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Horseheads.
- Chemung County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Dairy farmers.
- Dairy farming -- New York (State) -- Horseheads.
- Horseheads (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Milk yield.
- Poultry -- New York (State) -- Horseheads.
- Wood, Carl.
- Wood, Loren.
- Wood, Mabel.
- Wood, Walter.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- September 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