Guide to the Lester Badgley, Collector Papers,
1799-1919

Collection Number: 2176

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Lester Badgley, collector papers, 1799-1919.
Collection Number:
2176
Creator:
Lester, Badgley
Quantity:
.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuscript, letter, bills, and shipping documents.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Trans-Atlantic and coastal bills of lading, insurance policies, and other shipping documents issued in New York City, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Savannah, Bordeaux, Liverpool, Hamburg, and Guadeloupe to John Juhel & Company and other firms, 1799-1807. Other items include a letter, 1815, to Ichabod Parsons of Denmark, New York, from a brother in Boston telling of plans to sail on privateer schooner, and items from Lowville and Denmark, New York, including a miscellaneous manuscript.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Trans-Atlantic and coastal bills of lading, insurance policies, and other shipping documents issued in New York City, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Savannah, Bordeaux, Liverpool, Hamburg, and Guadeloupe to John Juhel & Company and other firms, 1799-1807. Other items include a letter, 1815, to Ichabod Parsons of Denmark, New York, from a brother in Boston telling of plans to sail on privateer schooner, and items from Lowville and Denmark, New York, including a miscellaneous manuscript.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Badgley, Lester,
Parsons, Ichabod.
John Juhel & Company (New York, N.Y.).

Subjects:
Shipping.

Places:
Lowville (N.Y.)
Denmark (N.Y.)

Form and Genre Terms:
Bills of lading.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Lester Badgley, collector papers, #2176. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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