Raymond Clark Hitchings papers, 1808-1959,-1870-1945 (bulk)
Collection Number: 2580
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Raymond Clark Hitchings papers, 1808-1959,-1870-1945 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2580
Abstract:
Accounts, correspondence, and financial and legal records relating to Hitchings's
various positions as an officer and employee of the Co-operative Grange League Federation
Exchange (ca. 1920-1928) and as a consultant and officer in various agricultural agencies;
also, other personal and family papers.
Creator:
Hitchings, Raymond Clark, 1892-
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Agricultural consultant.
Accounts, correspondence, and financial and legal records relating to Hitchings's
various positions as an officer and employee of the Co-operative Grange League Federation
Exchange (ca. 1920-1928) and as a consultant and officer in various agricultural agencies;
also, records (1930-1935) relating to Hitchings's tenure as a member and as president
of the Board of Education of Onondaga Centralized School District #1, his correspondence
with the Americanization League of Syracuse and Onondaga County (ca. 1923-1927), and
speeches he gave before farm groups. Hitchings family papers include an autobiographical
sketch; an unpublished manuscript by his brother, Harold Ramsdell Hitchings; a diary
(1884) of his father, Grant G. Hitchings; genealogical information; and other items
relating to the family farm at South Onondaga, New York, including general farm and
orchard accounts (41 vols., 1808-1926), labor reports (2 vols., 1910-1911), and records
of a sod mulch and cultivated orchard experiment (3 vols., 1904-1914).
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Raymond Clark Hitchings papers, #2580. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Hitchings, Grant G.
Hitchings, Harold Ramsdell.
Hitchings family.
Americanization League of Syracuse and Onondaga County
Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange
Onondaga Centralized School District #1
Subjects:
Farmers.
Orchards -- New York (State)
Mulching.
Farms.
Agriculture -- New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.
Genealogies.
Diaries.
Autobiographies.
Accounts.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Professional papers
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Co-operative Grange League Federation Exchange
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Ms. History of the Establishment of the Co-operative Grange League Federation Exchange
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 2-3 |
Minutes of the Meetings of the Board of Directors of the C.G.L.F.E. (incomplete carbons)
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1920-1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Minutes of the Executive Committee of the C.G.L.F.E., Inc. (incomplete carbons)
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1920-1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Minutes of the Department Head and Program Department Head Conferences (carbons)
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July 26-28, 1922 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence re: the C.F.L.F.E. including memo re: Hitchings' dual responsibilities
as warehouse manager and secretary-treasurer
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1920-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Miscellaneous correspondence re: C.G.L.F.E.
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1922 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence re: C.G.L.F.E.
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1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Miscellaneous correspondence re: the C.G.L.F.E.
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1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Miscellaneous correspondence re: the C.G.L.F.E. including proposed corporation insurance
on the life of Mr. H.E. Babcock
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1925 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Miscellaneous correspondence re: the C.G.L.F.E.
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1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Miscellaneous correspondence re: the C.G.L.F.E.
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1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous correspondence re: the C.G.L.F.E. including H.E. Babcock's letter of
resignation
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1932, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 1-7 |
Fiscal papers, largely balance sheets and statements re: the C.G.L.F.E. and Producers'
Warehouse & Elevator Company
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1921-1927 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Miscellaneous legal papers re: C.G.L.F.E.
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Sept. 2, 1924 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Miscellaneous fiscal records re: C.G.L.F.E.
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1932, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Miscellaneous inventories and statistical data re: the C.G.L.F.E.
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1922-1926 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Miscellaneous C.G.L.F.E. and Producers' Warehouse and Elevator Company periodicals,
including incomplete runs of the Warehouse Managers Weekly Newsletter and the G.L.F. Stockholder
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1920-1930 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Miscellaneous circulars re: the C.G.L.F.E. including "Some Facts about the C.G.L.F.E."
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1920-1930, n.d. |
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Government career (miscellaneous agencies)
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence and related items re: the Surplus Marketing Administration, U.S. Dept.
of Agriculture
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1940 |
| Box 3 |
"Records of Procurement Seeds from America (U.S. & Canada) through the British Food
Mission for the Ministry of Agriculture" (oversize)
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1941-1947 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence and related papers re: seed shipments, Surplus Marketing Administration,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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1941 |
| Box 3 |
Marshall Plan Commodities shipped to Europe in 1947 (looseleaf notebook)
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1947 | |
| Box 3 |
Notebook containing charge-out cards and code list (1948) of Economic Cooperation
Administration (notebook)
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1948 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Statistics on Roumanian corn, Surplus Marketing Administration, U.S. Department of
Agriculture
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n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence and related items re: rice exports, Office of Price Stabilization
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1952 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous records
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1948-1952 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1-4 |
Mimeographed material re: the International Cooperation Administration
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1955-1957 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous papers re: the International Farm Youth Exchange
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n.d. |
| Box 4 |
Correspondence, notes, and mimeograph circulars re: the 1959 National Farm Union's
Farm Training Program at Denver (looseleaf ring binder)
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1959 | |
| Box 3 |
Miscellaneous grain records (oversize record book without cover)
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1948-1949 | |
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Series II. Personal, civic, and social papers
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Personal
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
R.C. Hitchings, "My Duties for the Past 35 Years" (typescript)
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South Onondaga Central School District and Centralized School District #1
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| Box 5 | Folder 2-3 |
Miscellaneous papers re: the Suth Onondaga Central School District and the Centralized
School District #1, including minutes, legal and fiscal records
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1930-1934 |
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Americanization League of Syracuse and Onondaga County
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| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Reports and correspondence re: the American League of Syracuse and Onondaga County
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1921-1927 |
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Miscellaneous speeches
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
1. Who is Fenced In, the Dairyman or the Herd?"
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n.d. |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
2. "Fruit Growing as a Business Today"
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n.d. |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
3. Untitled
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n.d. |
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Series III. Hitchings family papers
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Genealogical records
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Genealogical records re: the Hitchings Family
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n.d. |
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Miscellaneous family papers
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Bonds
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1871-1929 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Deeds
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1865-1926 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Mortgages
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1853-1931 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Debate minutes: "Resolved, that the East offers better inducement to young men than
the West"
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1887 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Harold R. Hitchings: "Sod Mulch Orchard Management" (ms. book)
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n.d. |
| Box 6 |
Diary of Grant G. Hitchings (leather covered diary)
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Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1884 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Miscellaneous papers
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n.d. |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Legal papers re: right of way on the Hitchings Farm
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n.d. |
| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Miscellaneous photographs
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n.d. |
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Series IV. Hitchings family farm records
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Farm accounts
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| Box 8 |
Hitchings Account Book, John Hitchings property
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Dec. 1, 1808-Apr. 8, 1872 | |
| Box 8 |
Farm Accounts, Labor Records and notes (day book)
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1860-1867 | |
| Box 7 |
Personal family accounts (day book)
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1877 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1870-1878 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1878-1883 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1884 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1886 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1888 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1889 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1890 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1891-1892 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1895-1896 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm inventory and accounts (day book)
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1897 | |
| Box 7 |
Inventory, statement, and farm accounts (day book)
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1899-1900 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1903 | |
| Box 7 |
Grant G. Hitchings' inventory, statements, accounts (miscellaneous record book)
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1901-1902 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1903-1904 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1904 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1905 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1906 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1907 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1908 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1909 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1910 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1911 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1912 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1913 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts, inventory, and statements (day book)
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1914 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm inventory and accounts (day book)
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1915 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm inventory and accounts (day book)
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1916 | |
| Box 7 |
Miscellaneous accounts and inventory (bound book)
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1917 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1918 | |
| Box 7 |
Miscellaneous accounts, inventory (bound book)
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1919-1921 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1920 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1921 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1922 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1923 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1924 | |
| Box 7 |
Farm accounts (day book)
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1925 | |
| Box 7 |
"Account of operation and sales of fruit orchard owned by W.T. White which consist
of 14 A sold to him in 1909 by G.G. Hitchings"
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1910 | |
| Box 7 |
Grocery accounts (day book)
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1924 | |
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Labor reports
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| Box 8 |
United States Department of Agriculture in Farm Management Investigations ..., Regular Worker's Daily Time Sheet
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1910 | |
| Box 8 |
United States Department of Agriculture, Proprietors or Superintendents Daily Labor
Report (bound book)
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1911 | |
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Scrapbooks
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Two scrapbooks of farm clippings
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n.d. |
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Sod mulch and cultivated orchards experiment
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| Box 8 |
Records, Sod mulch and cultivated orchards experiment with Geneva Agricultural Station,
Plot A (record book)
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1904-1914 | |
| Box 8 |
Records, Sod mulch and cultivated orchards experiment with Geneva Agricultural Station,
Plot B (record book)
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1904-1914 | |
| Box 8 |
Records, Sod mulch and cultivated orchards experiment with Geneva Agricultural Station,
Plot C (record book)
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1904-1914 | |
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Miscellaneous records
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| Box 8 |
Farm records - Record for United States Department of Agriculture re: daily operations
and cost for apple orchards, oats and barley, corn, berries, wheat (work record)
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1912-1913 | |
| Box 8 |
"Orchards as planted from 1885 to 1930 on page 20" (journal)
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1885-1930 | |
| Box 8 |
Farm records, primarily re: daily operation and labor costs (record book)
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1914 | |
| Box 8 |
Miscellaneous clippings, apple basket labels, etc.
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n.d. | |