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Calendar and index to the papers of the American Fur Company at the New York Historical Society, 1925-1926

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Open book Calendar and index to the papers of the American Fur Company at the New York Historical Society [vol. 05], 1925-1926

Title Calendar and index to the papers of the American Fur Company at the New York Historical Society, 1925-1926

Creator Nute, Grace Lee, 1895-1990

Date 1925-1926

Place Great Lakes Region

Language English

Subjects American Fur Company, Fur trade, Fur traders, Indians of North America

Description Typescript carbon on onionskin.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Title in Butler: "Papers of the American Fur Company, 1831-1849: a transcript of calendar and index, and a brief estimate of their significance."
Date from p. 30-31 of Grace Lee Nute's introduction (v. 1), and from date of receipt by Newberry Library noted on verso of p. 1942 (v. 6).
Index in v. 6.
Errata on p. 1943 of v. 6.
Brown cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine titles "American Fur Company Papers"; top edges gilt.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Typescript copy from 1925-1926 of a calendar and index to the papers of the American Fur Company, prepared by ms. curator Grace Lee Nute at the New York Historical Society between Dec. 1922 and Sept 1925. The calendar, prepared through the cooperation of the state historical societies of New York, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Minnesota, Detroit Public Library, Indiana State Library, University of Illinois, and the Newberry Library, contains a chronological listing of the Company's correspondence, notes on London exchange rates, store books, order books, packing books (detailed records of skins packed between 1835 and 1842), invoices, receiving books, shipment lists (including names of shippers, vessels, and Company outfits), detailed classifications of furs and skins from 1835-1839, postage books, printed Indian treaties, inventories, and memoranda. Principal correspondents include Ramsay Crooks, Bernard Pratte, Joseph Rolette, Samuel Abbott, Robert Stuart, William Brewster, John Lawe, John Jacob Astor, Charles Borup, Frederic Baraga, John R. Livingston, G.W. and W.G. Ewing, Lyman M. Warren, Curtis M. Lampson, and officers of the Hudson's Bay Company; Pratte, Chouteau and Company; and Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Company. The papers also provide much information on the woolen blanket trade, Great Lakes transportation, American foreign relations, current events and politics, banking conditions, insurance, secondary education, the Company's subsidiary industries (fisheries, flour, maple sugar, cranberries, copper, lead, and sand for glass-making).

Extent 6 v. ; 29 cm

Format Indexes

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 17

BibID 184614

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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