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Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials
Description
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<p>The Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials digital collection, which spans from 1715-c.1950s, is composed of images of 340 items from <a href="https://www.hofstra.edu/long-island-studies-institute/">Long Island Studies Institute</a> (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 <a href="https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/library/libspc_lisi_carman_family_fa.pdf">Carman</a> and <a href="https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/library/libspc_lisi_rushmore_fa.pdf">Rushmore</a> families, as well as from the <a href="https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/library/libspc-newspaper-collection-fa.pdf">Newspaper Collection</a>. </p>
<p>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 <em>Hempstead Inquirer</em>, <em>Hempstead Inquirer and Long Island Advertiser,</em> <em>North-Hempstead Gazette, Riverhead Weekly, South Side Observer </em>(Rockville Centre)<em>, and the Suffolk County Journal</em> (Bay Shore and Northport editions). </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>(For information concerning traditional LISI business collections, visit our <a href="http://omeka.hofstra.edu/exhibits/show/long-island-business-and-indus">Long Island Business and Industry Catalog</a>.) </p>
<p>The Selected Long Island Business and Industry Materials digital collection was created with a grant from the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation.</p>
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O'Connor, Michael
Rights
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Subject
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Brickmakers
Bricks
Business enterprises
Business records
Businesses
Carriage and wagon making
Drug stores
Farming
Farms
Feed stores
General stores
Nurseries (Horticulture)
Plumbers
Sailmakers
Sails
Stables
Stagecoach lines
Stores, retail
Source
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Carman Family Collection<br />Rushmore Family Collection <br />Newspaper Collection <br /><em>Hempstead Inquirer</em><br /><em>Hempstead Inquirer and Long Island Advertiser</em> <br /><em>North-Hempstead Gazette</em> <br /><em>Riverhead Weekly</em> <br /><em>Suffolk County Journa</em>l (Bay Shore) <br /><em>Suffolk County Journal</em> (Northport)
Publisher
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Hofstra University Library Special Collections
Date
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1715-c.1950s
Format
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Advertisements
Account books
Account statements
Advertisements (newspaper)
Advertising fliers
Advertising cards
Broadsides
Business notes
Business papers
Indentures
Ledger pages
Memorabilia
Photographs
Promise to pay notes
Receipts
Coverage
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Bay Shore, N.Y.
Hempstead, N.Y.
Jerusalem, N.Y.
Long Island, N.Y.
Nassau County, N.Y.
Northport, N.Y.
Town of Hempstead, N.Y.
Town of North Hempstead, N.Y.
Riverhead, N.Y.
Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
Suffolk County, N.Y.
Wantagh, N.Y.
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Joseph Birdsall business letter from Joseph Burr, 1767
Description
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Business letter from Joseph Burr to Joseph Birdsall, to whom Burr sold wholesale goods. In the letter, Burr requests that Birdsall come and "fetch the salt soon." He also mentions that he may able to obtain some rum should Birdsall want some.
The address on the top of the letter is "Cow Neck," which was the name settlers gave to the peninsula that juts into Manhasset Bay to the west, Long Island Sound to the north and Hempstead Harbor to the east.
Note: Birdsall owned a general store in Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh), N.Y. He was also a surveyor, a partner in a grist mill, a teacher in the Jerusalem school, and a lieutenant in the loyalist militia.
Date
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June 6, 1767
Subject
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Birdsall, Joseph, 1739-1824.
Burr, Joseph
Business correspondence
Business enterprises
General stores
Salt
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O'Connor, Michael
Format
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Letter
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Carman Family Collection (Box 5, Folder 4)
business correspondence
business letters
Cow Neck
General stores
Joseph Birdsall
Joseph Burr
letters
Port Washington
salt
wholesale goods