Guide to the Pierce And Bickford Records,
1890-1960

Collection Number: 2299

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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:
Nancy Dean
Date completed:
May 1989
EAD encoding:
Evan Fay Earle

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Pierce and Bickford records, 1890-1960.
Collection Number:
2299
Creator:
Pierce and Bickford (Firm).
Quantity:
55 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Photographs
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence consists of both outgoing (51 letter impression books, 1899-1926) and incoming letters (131 letterboxes, ca. 1892-ca. 1931) to and from clients, contractors, and supply companies in regard to the design and construction of schools, churches, private homes, apartment houses, commercial establishments, hospitals, public buildings, and other structures in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, including the stairs and stone walls at Watkins Glen (1908), the Arnot Art Gallery, the Corning Glass Works, Cortland County and Arnot-Ogden Hospitals, the Elmira College Library, Elmira Y.M.C.A. and Masonic Temple, and the Elmira Free Academy; also, bills, receipts, contracts, indexes (2 volumes) of jobs, and various photographs, blueprints, and detail drawings.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence consists of both outgoing (51 letter impression books, 1899-1926) and incoming letters (131 letterboxes, ca. 1892-ca. 1931) to and from clients, contractors, and supply companies in regard to the design and construction of schools, churches, private homes, apartment houses, commercial establishments, hospitals, public buildings, and other structures in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, including the stairs and stone walls at Watkins Glen (1908), the Arnot Art Gallery, the Corning Glass Works, Cortland County and Arnot-Ogden Hospitals, the Elmira College Library, Elmira Y.M.C.A. and Masonic Temple, and the Elmira Free Academy; also, bills, receipts, contracts, indexes (2 volumes) of jobs, and various photographs, blueprints, and detail drawings.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Pierce and Bickford (Firm).
Arnot Art Gallery.
Arnot-Ogden Hospital.
Corning Glass Works.
Cortland County Hospital.
Elmira College.
Elmira Free Academy.
Elmira YMCA (Elmira, N.Y.)
Masonic Temple (Elmira, N.Y.)

Subjects:
Architecture.

Places:
Elmira (N.Y.)--Buildings.

Form and Genre Terms:
Architectural drawings.
Blueprints.
Photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Pierce and Bickford records, #2299. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Contents
Link to a copy of the paper guide, 2MB PDF