DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Edgett-Burnham Company records,
1854-1930.
Collection Number:
2522
Creator:
Edgett-Burnham Company.
Quantity:
80 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Records of the Edgett-Burnham Company, and its predecessors, Edgett & Totten and Wayne County Preserving Company, include
correspondence, 1883-1920, with the Federal Trade Commission, the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, the New
York State Canned Goods Packers Association, the New
York State Factory Investigation Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture. Also contains brokerage accounts,
cash books, check registers, farm accounts, corn accounts, daily reports of packing and canning departments, daybooks, ensilage
records, inventories, labor and time books, ledgers, merchandise books, payroll
records, and sales books. Includes correspondence of Edwin K. Burnham concerning the Democratic Party in Wayne County,
New York, area crops, and the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women at Newark, and photographs of company personnel.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records of the Edgett-Burnham Company, and its predecessors, Edgett & Totten and Wayne County Preserving Company, include
correspondence, 1883-1920, with the Federal Trade Commission, the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, the New
York State Canned Goods Packers Association, the New York State Factory
Investigation Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture. Also contains brokerage accounts, cash books,
check registers, farm accounts, corn accounts, daily reports of packing and canning departments, daybooks, ensilage records,
inventories, labor and time books, ledgers, merchandise books, payroll records, and sales
books. Includes correspondence of Edwin K. Burnham concerning the Democratic Party in Wayne County, New York, area crops,
and the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women at Newark, and photographs of company personnel.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Edgett-Burnham Company.
Burnham, Edwin K.
Cornell University.
Edgett & Totten.
New York (State).Factory Investigating Commission
New York State Canned Goods Packers Association.
New York State College of Agriculture.
United States.Dept. of Agriculture.
United States.Federal Trade Commission.
Wayne County Preserving Co.
Subjects:
Agriculture--New York (State)--Economic aspects.
Canneries--New York (State)
Canned foods industry.
Canned foods.
Manufactures--New York (State)
Places:
Camden (N.Y.)
Newark (N.Y.)
Wayne County (N.Y.)
Wayne County (N.Y.)--Politics and government.