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Lisa Unger Baskin collection of women's work and domestic arts ephemera, 1700s-1940s 2 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize folders)

Includes examples of some Lippincott seed catalogs from the early 1900s, art samples and calligraphy by women, and some materials related to domestic arts and homemaking, including advertisements for patterns, sewing, cooking, and landscaping or interior decoration.
Collection assembled by Lisa Unger Baskin containing printed ephemera, receipts, manuscripts, handbills, catalogs, decorative trade cards, prospectuses, circulars, political campaign materials, and other advertisements from the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and the United States. The bulk of the collection's materials advertise businesses or services offered by women, including millinery, fancy goods, hair work, tea, painting, teaching, music, bricklaying, gardening, dressmaking, apothecaries, and a clairvoyant. Also includes calling cards and bookplates with women's names, and assorted ephemera relating to women's pay, income, or work, including a pensioner's card for a firefighter's widow and a pamphlet about life insurance for women.
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John Humphrey Small papers, 1720-1946, bulk 1850-1870, 1912-1937 13 Linear Feet 9,721 Items

Correspondence during his years in Congress discusses plans for a white grade school in Washington, North Carolina, 1903-1904; conditions of large scale farming at Edgewater, North Carolina, including descriptions of seeds, fertilizer, prices, machinery, crop conditions, and marketing, 1903-1912; problems of railroads, especially the Norfolk and Southern Railroad; the presidential campaign of 1916; coastal highway development; various rivers and harbors bills; the Inlet Waterway project; transportation via an inland waterway; the National Rivers and Harbors Congress; railroad and water transportation in relation to national defense during World War I; land acquisition and construction plans for the Intra-Coastal Waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort, North Carolina; problems of labor, including the movement for the eight hour day; labor shortages in eastern North Carolina during World War I; prohibition; woman suffrage; the National Guard; military service and the draft; coal shortages during the war; army camp sites; home guards; rising prices; excess profits tax; the Red Cross; various agricultural bills, national and North Carolina politics; a Congressional trip of inspection to the Far East in 1920, including Japan, Korea, and the Philippines; the Railroad Act of 1920; and routine matters such as patronage, post office appointments, appointments to West Point and Annapolis, and pensions for Spanish-American War veterans.
Chester; copies of the Greenville (North Carolina) Daily Reflector, December 27, 1913, and the Red Triangle, Paris, April 5, 1919; seed catalogues; reprints of the House of Representatives reports and bills on immigration, 1921, and airways, 1937; broadsides of the 1920 election; plan of organization of the Democratic Party in Beaufort, North Carolina, in 1896; the "Declaration of Principles" of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 1916, and its officers for 1916-1917; and a bond pamphlet for the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company, 1879.
Lawyer and U.S. Representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, legal documents, and other papers (chiefly 1850-1870 and 1912-1937) of John Humphrey Small; of his father-in-law, Col. Rufus W. Wharton, lawyer and planter; and of Col. David M. Carter, lawyer, planter, businessman, and court official, of Fairfield, N.C. Small's papers form the bulk of the collection and concern his North Carolina agricultural interests, his legal practice, his activities in Congress, river and harbor improvements, the Intracoastal Waterway, patronage, Southern financial conditions, U.S. and North Carolina politics, World War I labor problems, and the 1929 Depression. The papers before 1850 are mainly deeds, family papers, and legal documents. Wharton's and Carter's papers relate largely to the legal profession and to their agricultural interests.
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New Bern (N.C.) Merchant's Ledger C, 1767-1785 0.5 Linear Feet 1 item

Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods.
Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods.
Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods.
Ledger of an unknown merchant in New Bern, N.C. Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods. Formerly known as Anonymous ledger C, 1767-1776.
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Michael Leib letter, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Joseph Clay, House of Representatives, Washington, 1806, Dec. 22 1 items

Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
ALS. Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
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Duff Green papers, 1818-1909 and undated 1.6 Linear Feet 1,855 Items

Mercantile ledgers and daybooks show the sale of various types of farm supplies, such as Osnaburg, ground plaster, flour, clover seed, and sundries. Unbound volumes include daybooks; ledgers; account books; records of cotton purchased, wood hauled, cloth shipped, flour sent by boat, and wheat hauled; cashbooks; memoranda; baling books; wool-carding books; time books; records of production, cash sales, wages, and expenses; letter books; invoices; notes and bills; and receiving and delivery books.
Merchant and manufacturer of Falmouth, Virginia. Correspondence, ledgers, daybooks, account books, and other business records (chiefly 1822-1875) of Green and his various associates, illustrating activities such as retailing, grain milling and merchandising, and cotton cloth manufacturing. The bulk of the collection is in the form of bound manuscript volumes. Firms represented include the Bellmont and Eagle flour mills, the Falmouth Manufacturing Company, and the Elm Cotton Factory. The papers also reflect the emergence of Fredericksburg, Va., as a business center, and the decline of Falmouth.
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Papers, 1840-1849
Box 1

Includes business correspondence and news; agricultural dispatches regarding weather, crops, and prices; correspondence to Massie about buying and selling crops and seeds, including rye; financial accounts for equipment, supplies, and crops; a 1841 report by Joseph Cabell on the a turnpike company; an invoice to Massie for postage fees due in 1842; an 1841 report card for Helen Massie and a 1845 October 10 letter about her schooling from Ellen Massie; a letter dated 1847 March 18 denouncing President Polk from James Heath; and some family and personal correspondence from William Effinger.

Assorted manuscript documents from the William Massie family, arranged chronologically. Includes business correspondence and news; agricultural dispatches regarding weather, crops, and prices; correspondence to Massie about buying and selling crops and seeds, including rye; financial accounts for equipment, supplies, and crops; a 1841 report by Joseph Cabell on the a turnpike company; an invoice to Massie for postage fees due in 1842; an 1841 report card for Helen Massie and a 1845 October 10 letter about her schooling from Ellen Massie; a letter dated 1847 March 18 denouncing President Polk from James Heath; and some family and personal correspondence from William Effinger. Includes a note to William Massie from Alexander Brown conveying disappointment that Massie was not running for state legislature in 1840. Includes receipt for the 1840 December 29 purchase of "a Negro Man Warner" (also referred to as "Boy Warner") by William Massie for eight hundred three dollars. Includes a letter dated 1841 January 3 from an agent, Bowling Clark, to Massie, containing details of typical hiring prices he witnessed for different enslaved laborers, including "middle aged men with their wives and from one to three small children with them hired from one hundred and twenty to $140 and with an express understanding that they were neither to ditch nor work on any public work." Includes a letter from John Jenkins to William Massie offering the sale of an unnamed enslaved girl, writing: "I would like to sell them to you as you have her mother," and "as she wishes to come to you I would like to accommodate her" (1847 June 8).

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  2. Massie family papers, 1766-1920s
  3. Papers, 1766-1920s

Benjamin Hedrick papers, 1848-1893 20 Linear Feet 6037 Items

Many write to Hedrick asking for seeds. One notable letter to Hedrick from February 2, 1866, comes from Milly Walker, formerly enslaved by D.L.
Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was a white professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina, 1854-1856, and U.S. Patent Office official, 1861-1886. Collection consists chiefly of letters to Hedrick. The early correspondence is between Hedrick and Mary Ellen Thompson, his future wife. Other correspondence concerns life at the University of North Carolina, Hedrick's dismissal from the University in 1856 for his Republican and anti-slavery opinions, and his life in the North during the Civil War period. Many of the post-1861 papers relate to Hedrick's position as chemical examiner at the Patent Office. Other topics include Reconstruction, the economic plight of the South, and politics, including Hedrick's attempt to win political office in North Carolina (1868). Correspondents include Kemp P. Battle, Daniel R. Goodloe, Horace Greeley, Hinton Rowan Helper, David L. Swain, John Torrey, and Jonathan Worth.
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Shopkeeper's Expense Account Book, 1850-1863 0.1 Linear Feet 1 Item

Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer.
Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer.
Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer.
The collection consists of one expense account book kept by a shopkeeper in or near Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland. Chronological entries from March 1850 to February 1863 record the date, description, and amount for each personal and business expenditure of the shopkeeper, who appears to have sold medicine and paint. Business related entries include freight bills, license fees, corporation taxes, payments for services performed at the shop, expenses in Baltimore and Philadelphia, regular purchases from wholesale druggists such as Canby & Hatch and Wilson & Merritt, and frequent checks drawn on Cecil Bank. Other firms frequently mentioned include Hugh Bolton & Co., Geo. D. Wetherill & Co., and Clark & Jones. Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer. In addition to the itemized entries, the account book contains two tabular sections that together record the daily total for nearly every week from March 18, 1850, to August 10, 1863. Overall, 122 filled and 5 partially used manuscript pages reflect the life of an educated and civic-minded rural shopkeeper in Maryland during the mid-1800s.
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Earl Dotter collection of Charles G. A. Thamm photographs, 1860s-2023 12 Gigabytes (approximately 1276 files) 5 Linear Feet (11 boxes)


Seed crops
By 1896, he had become a photographer and his photography was used to illustrate some of the company's seed catalogs. He also invented some seed packing machinery, patented in the 1890s. Thamm retired from Landreth Seed Catalog Company in 1903.
Earl Dotter is a documentarian, photojournalist, and labor activist based in Maryland. Dotter's great-grandfather, Charles G. A. Thamm, also worked as a photographer in Pennsylvania and was employed by the Landreth Seed Catalog Company. This collection contains photographs in various formats - including negatives and prints - created by Thamm and his family in the 1890s and early 1900s. It also contains digital surrogate images of Thamm's work, adjusted by Dotter.
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Lithographed trade cards with racial caricatures, 1880s
Box 37

Companies represented on the cards include: Durham Bull Fertilizer; Gleason & Robbins; Putnam Nail Company; Rice's Seeds; Rising Sun Stove Polish; Star sewing machine

Companies represented on the cards include: Durham Bull Fertilizer; Gleason & Robbins; Putnam Nail Company; Rice's Seeds; Rising Sun Stove Polish; Star sewing machine

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  2. Advertising ephemera collection, 1832-2004
  3. Printing and Publishing, 1846-1985
  4. Published Material, 1870-1985

A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.--Kellogg's Lists 1953 family weekly newspapers of the better class, 1895
Box 36

Octavo, 25 pages of photo portrait illustrations (examples of early composite photograph) of various groups of men including: piano and organ makers, agricultural seed dealers, passenger agents, advertisers of noted health remedies, makers of boots and shoes, publishers, etc,

Printed by De Vinne Press. Lists newspapers. Octavo, 25 pages of photo portrait illustrations (examples of early composite photograph) of various groups of men including: piano and organ makers, agricultural seed dealers, passenger agents, advertisers of noted health remedies, makers of boots and shoes, publishers, etc,

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  2. Advertising ephemera collection, 1832-2004
  3. Printing and Publishing, 1846-1985
  4. Published Material, 1870-1985

Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, 1895-1917
Box 2

Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, 1895-1917
Assorted examples of Carrie H. Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, based in Minneapolis, Minn., promoting her flower and seed business as well as offering horticulture expertise. Also contains a 1915 seed catalog from Emma V. White, her rival.

Assorted examples of Carrie H. Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, based in Minneapolis, Minn., promoting her flower and seed business as well as offering horticulture expertise. Also contains a 1915 seed catalog from Emma V. White, her rival.

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  2. Lisa Unger Baskin collection of women's work and domestic arts ephemera, 1700s-1940s

David Landreth Seed Seed Catalog Page with Thamm Barn Photo included, 1896
Digital-materials RL13033-SET-0001 > Image-file CT#159

David Landreth Seed Seed Catalog Page with Thamm Barn Photo included, 1896
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  2. Earl Dotter collection of Charles G. A. Thamm photographs, 1860s-2023
  3. Earl Dotter's digital images of Charles Thamm's photographs and artifacts
  4. Earl Dotter's digital photographs of Thamm's artifacts and realia

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