Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials
Newspaper advertisement for Willis B. Burt, builder of carriages, buckboards, spring wagons, sleighs, 1885
The Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials digital collection, which spans from 1715-c.1950s, is composed of images of 340 items from Long Island Studies Institute (LISI) collections that contain business and industry related materials, but which are not specifically considered "business collections." The majority of materials come from the collections of the Carman and Rushmore families, as well as from the Newspaper Collection.
The collection includes materials that document the operations of both the Birdsall and Garner (ancestors of the Carman family) farms and general store at Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh, N.Y.) and the Rushmore family farm at Roslyn Heights, N.Y. In addition, newspaper advertisements from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth century document the services of a variety of types of businesses, including agricultural nurseries, brickmakers, carriage and wagon makers, drug stores, farm supply and feed stores, general stores, livery stable and stagecoach operators, plumbers, and sailmakers. Advertisements were taken from Nassau and Suffolk County newspapers, including the Hempstead Inquirer, Hempstead Inquirer and Long Island Advertiser, North-Hempstead Gazette, Riverhead Weekly, South Side Observer (Rockville Centre), and the Suffolk County Journal (Bay Shore and Northport editions).
Included in the collection are advertising fliers and cards, broadsides, business papers (account books and statements, business notes, indentures, ledger pages, promise to pay notes, receipts, etc.), newspaper advertisements, and photographs.
While this collection is very useful in helping to identify the location of business and industry related materials housed at LISI, it is also a valuable resource for those looking to conduct online research.
The Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials digital collection was created with a grant from the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation.
Joseph Birdsall business note from David Seaman, 1765
Joseph Birdsall business note from James Conkline, 1770
Birdsall & Seaman (general store) memorandum of agreement, 1805
Birdsall & Jackson promise to pay note from Thomas Hendrickson, 1812
Birdsall & Jackson (general store) notice of dissolution of partnership, 1812
John C. Birdsall Liquor License, 1833
Advertisement for a new grist mill operated by Samuel G. Smith and Thomas H. Clowes, 1859
William Garner, Sr. receipt for purchase of guano from S.N. Snedeker & Co., 1864
William Garner, Sr., receipt for purchase of building supplies from J. Hicks & Son, 1865
William Garner, Sr., receipt for building materials and harness snaps from Snedeker Powell & Co., 1868
William Garner, Sr., receipt for purchase of clothing from Jacob Siedenberg, Mechant Tailor, 1873
Newspaper advertisement for Brown and Jackson's general store, 1880
Advertising card for A.G. Patterson, road making, threshing, c.1880s
Advertising card for Charles Wood, dealer in lumber, posts, coal, etc., c.1880s
Advertising flier for Herzog & Son's General Store, c.1890s
Leon A. Rushmore, Jr., standing in front of a fully loaded market wagon at Rushmore Farms, c.1914
Leon A. Rushmore, Sr. [?], on a potato planter that is being loaded by an unidentified worker, at Rushmore Farms
Leon A. Rushmore, Sr., and an unidentified worker, loading pumpkins into a wagon at Rushmore Farms, 1916
Leon A. Rushmore, Sr., on horse-drawn corn cultivator [?] in a field at Rushmore Farms, 1918
Unidentified worker piling up pumpkins in a field at Rushmore Farms, 1918
Hall-Simonson Motors Co. tractor advertisement, 1919
Randall’s Cleaning Plant drivers, posing in front of their trucks alongside the plant, c.1940s
P-47 Thunderbolt (Republic Aviation Corporation) kerchief with date Oct. 3, 1943, handwritten on it.
Milkman with a full bottle carrier in his hand, standing in the door of his delivery truck on a snowy day, c.1950s