Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859

Description

1. .21 linear foot (1 box)

Summary

1. Collection consist predominantly of financial records relating to the personal investments of American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould, including his business with the Whitehall Gas-light Company, including receipts, promissory notes, and financial statements. Very little correspondence is present, and only one letter to William Cranch Bond dating from 1855 addresses his work in the field of astronomy.

Subject

1. Business records
2. Receipts
3. Scientists > United States > 19th century
4. Gas-lighting > United States
5. Accounts
6. Whitehall Gas-Light Company
7. Astronomers > United States > 19th century

Genre/Form

1. Accounts.
2. Business records.
3. Receipts.

Call number

1. MssCol 10653

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Provenance (note)

1. Material was originally received as part of the United States Sanitary Commission records and the Thomas J. Taylor collection.

Author

1. Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896.

Title

1. Benjamin Apthorp Gould papers, 1855-1867.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Provenance

1. Material was originally received as part of the United States Sanitary Commission records and the Thomas J. Taylor collection.

Occupation

1. Astronomers United States 19th century.
2. Scientists United States 19th century.

Added author

1. Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859, recipient.

Research call number

1. MssCol 10653