A Collection of C. 150 pieces of Busines & Financial Correspondence and records From Sag Harbor Businessman George Tindall 1865 -1901
(Sag Harbor)
Sag Harbor, New York: Collection of billheads, letters, notes, receipts, ledger-sheets; all addressed to or directly concerned with Sag Harbor Businessman George Tindall; (note: there are several spellings of the name, variations-Tindale, Tisdale, Tindell, Tyndall, etc.); dated 1865 -1901, mostly 1870s-1890s; for various purchases and transactions, including: revenue-stamped bank-notes from the 1860s with interesting job-printing; purchase of a horse; C.d. Boss & Son Crackers & Biscuits, New London; Brinckerhoff & Co. Crackers & Biscuits NY; subscription receipt for "The Sun" of NY, nice vignette of Sun office building; Henry Wells Greenport fish oil & guano; Lyon & Co. trimming for coats; highway tax receipt; fertilizer; phosphate & coal; bills for labor, kerosene, deliveries; intereresting ledger-sheet for "...contract for care of mother" renting rooms; paying for "...boys wages..."; to Obadiah Havens Jr. for "...5 1/2 days work on Scow..."; payment for Davis Sewing Machine bought from a Bridgehampton LI agent; buying wheels and gears, equipment; dress goods, blankets, of Lyons Co. Sag Harbor; Ascularius Co. wheet, oil, corn, kerosene; tuition received for "...last years term..." Union School Sag Harbor, several records; a bay mare sold to George Tindall by Isaac H. Billard agt.; threshing services; various receipts for accounts, several with revenue stamps; molasses & oil; service for "ironing buggy"'; for 50 yards eight ounce duck & twine, needles of Fordham Sag Harbor; various personal and business debts & obligations, notes & bills, receipts; 1901 Dist. No. 12 Southampton school tax assessment receipt; credit and fares over ferry (probably to Shelter Island); for pants, ordered from Edwin B. Griffing Amagansett; interesting group of billings from the Montauk & New-York Steamboat Co. for goods carried-lard, raisins, sugar, paint, oats, tea, coffee, starch, corn, more; group of billings from Sturges & Wescott, linseed oil, monarch oil, station lamp with climax burner-special chimney, reflector; C.T. Raynolds & Co. white lead & paints, vignette of their building; Leggett, grocver with vignette; Darrow & Comstock ship chandlers; John I. Brower hardware; Ellswoth Tuthill & Co. of Promised Land NY fertilizers; Sag Harbor Wharf Co.; Titus, Wells & Willets grain, flour, meal; many more; ledger-tally sheet for horse boarding, ferry trips with horse wagon; with notes of expenses; all sizes and types of paper; mostly all written very clearly and legibly; light edge, tips wear in generally very good condition and an interesting view of Long Island New York business history, depicting extensive connection with New York City, New England, personal & business activity in the late nineteenth century Very Good (Item ID: 17338)
$450.00
