Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Weeks, Gardner B.
- Abstract:
- Syracuse (New York) businessman. Scrapbook (news clippings, letters, programs, brochures, prospectuses, circulars, more) relating to Weeks' business and to the Weeks family in general.
- Extent:
- 1 volume (SC)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Gardner B. Weeks Scrapbook, &su_name;
Background
- Scope and Content:
The Gardner B. Weeks Scrapbook consists of a large scrapbook containing prospectuses, circulars, trade catalogs, broadsides, samples of printed ephemera, and news clippings. There are also foreign queries, testimonials, and two letters from W.E. Dodge and Russell Sturgis. Interspersed are personal items such as concert programs, a Central City bank note, letters and drawings from family and friends, and more.
Companies with which Weeks was involved, and which are represented in the scrapbook, include the Pendery Mining Co. of Syracuse and Little Falls, the Syracuse & Dumont Consolidated Mining Company, Fisher & Millis Hills Mining & Smelting Co. (with mine in North Carolina), Grappling Hay Forks and Railway Conveyors, and Weeks, Thompson & Co. Road Carts.
- Biographical / Historical:
Gardner B. Weeks (d. 1886) was an American businessman. He was intensely active in agricultural matters in Central New York, including serving as Secretary of the American Dairymen's Association. He was involved in mining and smelting businesses and was apparently the owner of a Syracuse, New York company that manufactured hay forks, railway conveyors and other items.
- Acquisition information:
- Transfer from Rare Books, 1984.
- Arrangement:
Single item.
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Business and Industry
New York State
Agricultural machinery.
Dairy plants -- Equipment and supplies.
Haying equipment.
Mining corporations.
Businessmen.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Memorabilia.
Programs (documents)
Prospectuses.
Scrapbooks.
Trade catalogs. - Names:
- Fisher & Millis Hills Mining & Smelting Co.
Pendery Mining Co.
Syracuse & Dumont Consolidated Mining Co.
Weeks, Gardner B. - Places:
- New York (State) -- History.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Access
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- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Gardner B. Weeks Scrapbook, &su_name;
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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Special Collections Research CenterSyracuse University LibrariesBird Library, Room 600Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
- CONTACT:
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315.443.2697scrc@syr.edu