Collection of catalogs, trade cards, merchants' scrip, letterhead, photographs, and other ephemera from businesses in and around Syracuse, New York. Towns represented include Elbridge. Syracuse, Marcellus, Litchfield, Morristown, Scipio, and others. Also includes records and ledgers from some businesses, including L. C. Smith Typewriter (forerunner of Smith-Corona).
Correspondence and receipts from William N. Brockway, manufacturer of carriages in Homer, New York; all but one are to Otis Greenleaf, evidently a carriage dealer, in Otisville, New York.