- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Brinkerhoff, Abraham
- Title:
- Abraham Brinkerhoff Business Records
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/j098zb142
- Dates:
- 1797-1844
- Size:
- 21 boxes and 1 package
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-17
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of business records relating to the nineteenth-century dry goods (especially cotton) business of Abraham Brinkerhoff in New York City.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Brinkerhoff's business records relating to his dry goods (especially cotton) business in New York City. The collection contains the accounts of individuals and companies, such as the Oriskany Manufacturing Company, orders, receipts, shipping invoices, records of property purchased and land holdings, and miscellaneous other business papers. In addition, there is a letterbook containing copies of correspondence, accounts, and invoices.
- Arrangement
Arranged in this order: correspondence (1797-1833), business receipts (1804-1829), miscellaneous business papers (1800-1830), miscellaneous business and personal correspondence, assorted business papers, letterbook, ledger.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Brinkerhoff, Abraham
Abraham Brinkerhoff was an American dry goods merchant in New York City.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Reverend Samuel R. Knight and Miss Elizabeth Knight.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
The contents list for this collection was created by Jerome Jackson in August 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.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Abraham Brinkerhoff Business Records; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/j098zb142
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-17
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Cotton fabrics -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century.
Dry-goods -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century.
Textile fabrics -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Business records -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century.
Commercial correspondence, American -- 19th century. - Names:
- Oriskany Manufacturing Company
