An interesting fair-copy manuscript account of an 1883 American tour by English carpet manufacturer William Horsfall with his wife and niece, chronicling their visits to Connecticut, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, New York City, New Hampshire and Boston. William Horsall was a manager of Naylor’s Carpet Factory in Kidderminster, located in the.....
![Letter by Pennsylvania woman to her Officer son on the 1877 Great Railroad Strike.]. Maria C. Rudder](/pictures/thumb/7210_1.jpg?v=1640289433)
An engaging letter describing the Philadelphia City Troop's response to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Writing from a hotel in suburban Philadelphia and addressing her “precious child” Louis D. Beylard (stationed at this time on the U.S.S. Trenton), Rudder describes actions taken by the “City Troop” (the First.....
![Business archive of New Hampshire mill owner Alfred I. Sawyer.]. Alfred I. Sawyer](/pictures/thumb/7036_1.jpg?v=1631726193)
A substantive archive of New Hampshire mill-owner Alfred I. Sawyer including extensive business correspondence, a journal documenting his business operation in 1841, and more; taken as a whole, the archive documents Sawyer’s operation of the mill conglomerate from the 1820s to his death in 1849, as well as the afterlife.....