- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Blydenburgh, Jesse Smith, 1832-1900
- Title:
- Jesse Smith Blydenburgh Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/12579s30j
- Dates:
- 1856-1900
- Size:
- 7 boxes and 3.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-7
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, both personal and business, five ledgers (1859-1880), two photographs, and a diary (1869) of Jesse Smith Blydenburgh, a nineteenth-century importer-exporter in New York City.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of Blydenburgh's correspondence, both personal and business, five ledgers (1859-1880), two photographs, and a diary (1869). Letters, originals and copies, written by Blydenburgh to his brothers, Judson and Richard, during trips to South Carolina, California, Yokohama (Japan), and Hong Kong, form the bulk of the family correspondence. The business correspondence deals with Blydenburgh's New York City import-export business, much of it in the tea trade, and includes letters from associates such as the firm of Smith, Baker & Co.
- Arrangement
Unprocessed.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Blydenburgh, Jesse Smith, 1832-1900
Jesse Smith Blydenburgh operated an import-export business, much of it in the tea trade, in New York City in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Mrs. Vail Blydenburgh.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
The contents list was compiled by Rafael Abrahams in July 2010.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Jesse Smith Blydenburgh Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/12579s30j
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-7
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- Subject Terms:
- Brothers -- United States -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Tea trade -- China -- 19th century.
Tea trade -- Japan -- 19th century.
Tea trade -- United States -- 19th century.
Trading companies -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Business records -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century.
Commercial correspondence -- 19th century.
Diaries -- 19th century - Names:
- Blydenburgh, Judson
Blydenburgh, Richard
Smith, Baker & Co
