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  • Collection: Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials

Randall’s Cleaning Plant drivers, posing in front of their trucks alongside the plant, c.1940s.jpg
Randall’s Cleaning Plant drivers, posing in front of their trucks alongside the dry cleaning plant, at Nassau Road and Brookside Avenue, Hempstead, N.Y.

Position: 14 (17 views)

Joseph Birdsall business note from Richard Totten-1, 1768.jpg
Business note, the front side of which is a promise to pay note of two ponds [sic] fifteen shillings from Joseph Place to Richard Toten (alternate spelling of Totten). The verso is an assignment of that note, for value received, from Totten to Joseph…

Position: 1321 (7 views)

Rushmore Farms account book (pages 1-11) for produce sales for 1906-1908.pdf
Rushmore Farms account book (pp. 1-11) for produce sales for 1906-1908. Included among the crops grown at the farm, which was located in Roslyn Heights, N.Y., were corn, potatoes, beets, and turnips. The account book covers the years 1906-1945.

Position: 722 (8 views)

Rushmore Farms account book (pages 1-11) for produce sales for 1906-1908.pdf
Rushmore Farms account book pages for produce sales for 1906-1908. Produce sold included corn, potatoes, beets, beans, carrots, etc. Note: The account book covers the years 1906-1941.

Position: 1321 (7 views)

Rushmore Farms information sheet for sales personnel at farm stands, written by Robert S. Rushmore, 1947.pdf
Rushmore Farms information sheet for sales personnel at farm stands, written by Robert S. Rushmore. Information includes how to address the rumors that the farm, which was located in Roslyn Heights,N.Y., had been sold and that the vegetables on the…

Position: 2087 (6 views)

Rushmore Farm Vegetable Stands Income and Expense Accounts ledger book cover, 1935-1938 .jpg
Rushmore Farms Vegetable Stands Income and Expense Accounts ledger book pages for 1935. The pages covered sales and expenses for vegetable stands at Powerhouse Road and at Roslyn Road. There was also another stand at Willis Avenue. The account book…

Position: 2875 (5 views)

Samuel Birdsal farm sale advertisement, 1795.jpg
Printed advertisement for the sale of a farm in Jerusalem South (present-day Wantagh, N.Y.) in South Hempstead (present-day Town of Hempstead). The farm, which was owned by Samuel Birdsal (alternate spelling for the name "Birdsall") contained about…

Position: 3478 (4 views)

Thomas Birdsall receipt for payment made to Lazarus Horton, 1753.jpg
Receipt that reads, "Received of Thomas Birdsall two pounds, Nine Shillings, & Eight pence half penny by Discount of his father [Capt. John Birdsall, Sr.] which is in full of all Accots: to this Day in behalf of William Hawxhurst." The receipt…

Position: 1321 (7 views)

Town of Hempstead Title Company advertising flier-1, c.1892.jpg
Advertising flier for the Town of Hempstead Title Company, located in Rockville Centre, N.Y. The flier describes the company's services, which included performing real estate title searches, furnishing abstracts, and "making loans on Bond and…

Position: 722 (8 views)

Two unidentified men in wagon being pulled by a team of oxen at Rushmore Farms, c.1910s.jpg
Two unidentified men in a wagon being pulled by a team of oxen at Rushmore Farms

Position: 83 (12 views)

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