COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, accounts of a general store, promissory notes, receipts, teachers' certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of a family living in Richford, Tioga County, New York; includes diaries (1869-1929) of H. B. Rawley; correspondence (1895-1898) of B. C. Rawley; material relating to local amateur theatricals; essays and miscellaneous papers of Daniel and Hiram Rawley; legal papers (1874-1914) of the Pheylon family; local political records (1859-1914); trade papers (1897-1901) of the National United Press Association; minutes of the Society of Columbia of Richford and North Berkshire, the International Order of Good Templars, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Village Improvement Society, and the Women's Missionary Society of Richford; also, a letter concerning Rockefeller genealogy.
Dates
- 1822-1953.
Creator
- Rawley family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
H. B. and B. C. Rawley owned a general store and print shop in Richford, Tioga County, New York.
Extent
11.5 cubic feet. (11.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, accounts of a general store, promissory notes, receipts, teachers' certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of a family living in Richford, Tioga County, New York.
Physical Description
Correspondence, accounts, promissory notes, receipts, teachers' certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, photographs, essays, legal papers, minutes, and other papers.
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:
- B. Huth
- Date completed:
- January 1979
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, September 2003
- Account books.
- Amateur plays -- New York (State) -- Richford.
- Diaries.
- Families -- New York (State) -- Richford.
- Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- Tioga County.
- General stores -- New York (State) -- Tioga County.
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- International Order of Good Templars
- National United Press International
- Pheylon family.
- Politics, practical -- New York (State) -- Tioga County.
- Printing plants -- New York (State) -- Richford.
- Rawley, B. C.
- Rawley, Daniel.
- Rawley, H. B.
- Rawley, Hiram.
- Richford (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Richford (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.
- Scrapbooks.
- Society of Columbia of Richford and North Berkshire (Tioga County, N.Y.)
- Theaters -- New York (State) -- Richford.
- Village Improvement Society (Richford, N.Y.)
- Woman\'s Missionary Society (Richford, N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Huth
- Date
- September 2003
- 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