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Papers are chiefly comprised of correspondence, almost all of which consists of letters from Alfred Aldrich in Barnwell (S.C.) to George A. Wagener concerning the financial affairs of the Blackville, Alston, and Newberry Railroad Company and the Carolina Midland Railway, and negotiations with other railroad companies. Other topics include Aldrich's objections to or support of certain employees, and legislative matters affecting the railroads. One of Aldrich's letters dated March 29, 1893, bears a letterhead naming him as the president of the [Southern?] Barnwell and Western Railroad. There is one letter addressed to Frederick W. Wagener dated April 4, 1893, and an undated letter to Rudolph Siegling. Also included is a legal decision (1899?) in the case of Alfred Aldrich vs. The Southern Investment Company, the Carolina Midland Railway Company, and others

Records consist of legal documents, financial statements, and other items

The collection includes a set of 392 letterbooks, 1877-1918, with letters written by or for Mr. Rockefeller. There are two volumes from the firm of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler, 1867-1868. There are two chronological groups of correspondence, 1879-1894 and 1918-1937. The collection also contains Mr. Rockefeller's personal ledgers and journals, 1855-1937, his subsidiary books of account, and several sets of expense vouchers, 1893-1918. There is a set of 288 scrapbooks, 1904-1930, which include press coverage of the Rockefeller Family. The Inglis series concerns conversations between Mr. Rockefeller and William O. Inglis in preparation for a biography which was never published

This collection consists of correspondence and legal documents relating to the legal, business, and estate affairs of various members of the Wagener family of South Carolina. Correspondents include George A. Wagener, Henry A. Wagener, J.A. Wagener, Jr., Mrs. Charlotte C. Wagener, and Frederick W. Wagener. Several letters dated 1915 concern Karl A. Wagener of Cades (S.C.). These papers also include copies of the wills of Frederick W. Wagener, Johanne Sophie Kranz Wagener, George A. Wagener, and J.A. Wagener, Jr.; and memorials of General Johann Andreas Wagener (1816-1876) and Frederick W. Wagener. One series of documents (1889-1892) pertain to the F.W. Wagener & Company of Charleston; and another series, relating to the Southern Investment Company and the Carolina Midland Railway Company, mostly consists of documents in the case of Jennie Brown v. the Southern Investment Company

Records consist of business correspondence, financial statements, contracts and other legal documents, receipts, stockholders' proxies, minutes, notes, invoices, lists of stockholders and company holdings, and other items

Contains correspondence and business papers; includes records of the Manhattan Beach Company

The Hackley and Hume papers contain the business records of several inter-related Michigan-based business firms and some of the private papers of the families of Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume. The papers span the years 1859-1955. The papers document lumbering and lumber investments in Michigan and other states. The papers also document Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume, both prominent timbermen and philanthropists, as well as other family members. Hackley and Hume were active in their hometown of Muskegon, Michigan, which is documented in the collection as well. Types of Records in the Collection: Correspondence Corporate and personal correspondence are included in the papers of Hackley and Hume. The letterpress books, 1870-1946, provide a major portion of the corporate correspondence for all of the companies controlled by Hackley and Hume. Because the letters were reproduced using the mechanically hand-driven letterpress of the nineteenth century, the print in the ...