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Correspondence, legal, and other papers, relating to Alden's political and professional activities; correspondence of others relating to local affairs and politics during the Jacksonian period; and other business and legal papers -- Correspondents include Leonard Jarvis, Daniel Lane, Benjamin Shaw, Francis Ormond Jonathan Smith, Joseph Williamson, William Durkee Williamson, Joseph Ferdinand Wingate, and Joshua Wingate

Business papers, mainly 1904-1919, relating to the building, operation, and dismantling of the Roanoke River Railroad; a lumber business; the Tobacco Warehouse Company; the Northwestern Telephone and Telegraph company at Townsville; and miscellaneous local enterprises. Manuscript volumes are account books, 1884-1917

Contract specifications providing detailed engineering plans for several City of Manchester, N.H., construction projects, including specifications for the city's first telegraph system (installed in the 1870s), street layouts, alterations to the Vine Street engine house, and plans to make additions or improvements to already existing school buildings and for the construction of new ones -- The specifications are usually textual and describe how the projects in question were to be carried out, types of materials to be used, personnel involved, and a cost forecast

The Adirondack Company's Telegraph's first account book lists telegrams sent or received between 1873 and 1882 from the company's telegraph offices in Warren County, especially those located in Chester, Pottersville, Schroon Lake, and Wevertown. Listings for each telegram mention the office handling it, from what place sent, at what place received, names of sender and recipient, number of words, and cost. Entries are arranged chronologically. A second similar volume lists accounts from Levitt's exchange, Chester exchange, Riverside, and others in the 1880's. Years are usually not provided but 1882 and 1886 are mentioned. No names of senders and recipients of telegrams are provided in this volume

Approximately half of this collection consists of photographs of Robert James Needham, his family and his co-workers. The rest of the collection consists mostly of official work and personal documents, as well as a few letters, detailing the life and (especially) the work of Needham, who was a telegraph operator, and his family. Businesses and associations represented include Western Union and the Old Time Telegraphers and Historical Association

Papers (1741-1771) of James Hudson, ship captain, shipping merchant, and general store owner, include shipping accounts, general store records, diagrams of salt works in Salisbury, Mass. (founded by Hudson), and biographical materials. Henry Hudson's (son of James) papers (1765-1818) contain business, personal, and church papers, including correspondence with his father- and brother-in-law, John Rogers, Sr., and Jr., and his sons, John Rogers (1784-1831) and Henry (b. 1787) Hudson; financial papers and account books, reflecting his shipping and insurance agent businesses, management of the family wharf, and work as appraiser and auctioneer of ship cargos and estates; legal and miscellaneous papers containing auctioneer licenses and deeds; records of First Religious Society (Unitarian) of Newburyport, of which he was church assessor

Enterprise Telegraph company operated in Philadelphia, 1865

Nine telegrams collected by Charles E. Stoughton (1900-1981), a U.S. Marine, sent to Adm. Richard E. Byrd in March 1934 and February 1935. Senders include McNeil, Alan, Granville Lindley, B.W. Paul, and Jane

Collection consists primarily of letters between the immediate and extended family members and friends of Edmund Pike Graves who resided in Newburyport, Mass., France, England, Germany, Barbados, and elsewhere

Many letters from Sabrina and her sons to their father while he was in California. A few letters from Hale to his family. They give news of the family both in Illinois and New York. The farm, William's work as telegrapher and Edwin's as teacher. They discuss their friends in Lockport and Joliet. William frequently gives the political news both state and national, whether California will be a state, the Free Soilers, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Whig party and local political elections and leaders. There is a discussion of a Congregational Church fight re: Rev. Ichabod Codding. There are a number of letters from Edwin to his wife and then to his daughter Ella and a number from Ella to her father. A letter of reference from Owen Lovejoy to Governor Yates re: Edwin a job. Several letters from the Civil War from George and from George Codding. Occasional mentions of William Gooding and one letter from him re: the Illinois Michigan Canal