Map shows late nineteenth century New York exchange or branch offices, toll line stations, and exchange and territory boundaries; county boundaries, roads, cities, towns, railroads, and lakes. Scale [ca. 1:399,802].

Letter from T. A. Bledsoe to Theodore Roosevelt congratulating Roosevelt on his election to Governor of New York and expressing gratitude for his contributions as a member of the Rough Riders Association. The letter is co-signed by secretary Bruce E. Oliver.

Map shows railroads, canals, cities, towns, and rivers. Inset: "Southern Portion of New York." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,200,000] and [ca. 1:1,560,000].

Map shows late nineteenth century New York railroads, canals, counties, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:1,013,760].

Map shows late nineteenth century New York railroads, canals, roads, city layouts, county and borough boundaries, cities, towns, marshland, and notable physical features. Insets: "The Hudson from Yonkers to Kingston" and "Catskill Mountains." Relief shown by contours and hachures. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Scale [ca. 1:253,440] and [ca. 1:1,013,760].

Map shows late nineteenth century New York counties, canals, railroads, cities, towns, military posts, battle grounds; gas fields, points of interest, roads, canals, railroads, military facilities, city layouts, and Native American reservations on insets. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Includes notes and dates of historic events. Scale [ca. 1:1,013,760].

Patent for wick material, "composed of raw fibrous matter in layers or slivers in adhesive substance" (lines 16-17).

Patent for a machine "for making envelopes, paper bags, and the like wherein the blank which is to form the envelope or bag is automatically fed into the machine at its receiving end by a suitable feeder and is folded and gummed on its way through the machine, being finally delivered in a marketable condition at the delivery end of the machine" (lines 10-17).

The guest-book: in which may be recorded the coming and the going of guests, with pages for autographs, incidents, and sketches pertaining to pleasant visits, social calls, and other gatherings designed and illustrated by Annie F. Cox. This book was part of the private library of Mrs. Delas A. Blodgett, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bound in olive green cloth over boards; gilt lettering and brown-stamped decorations. The signatures on the first page include that of Delas A. Blodgett, Daisy P. Blodgett of Mackinac Island and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The guest book also includes verses, encouraging friends and visitors to "leave here in the book sacred to friendship some recording of your tarrying." Many pages of autographs are interspersed throughout the book with illustrated half-titles. On the first page for signatures is the inscription, "Perfect equality of rights for women - civil & political - is the demand of yours gratefully, Susan B. Anthony - Rochester - N. Y. In this lovely home from Nov. 22 to 24 - 1897 - equality reigns!!"

Map shows Connecticut railroads, counties, townships, cities, towns, post offices, ferries, reservoirs, light houses, and notable physical features. Includes distances between points. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:372,000].

Map shows township boundaries, roads, existing and proposed railroads, aqueducts, and town layouts. Includes notes. Scale [ca. 1:108,000].

Patent for a clip for type-writers for Remington or similar type-writers that holds post-cards, envelopes, and similar short items in place. The invention prevents "the blurring or bad impression which is apt to be made, more particularly in machines having type bars with two types each, when the paper is not held firmly to the roller or platen" (lines 12-16).

A paper pertaining to the trap dikes of the region around Lake Champlain.

Patent for improvements to the hoe of the seeding machine "and attendant parts, and particularly to the means for guiding and adjusting the hoe and for guiding and adjusting the following-wheel" (lines 17-19).

Letter from Sarah Osterhout to her brother, John Patterson Osterhout, with news of how she had been doing. She and her sister had been spending time together lately and hoped that John's son, Paul, would move closer to the rest of the family. She quoted scripture to her brother and told him she expected to be home later in the fall.

Patent for improved electric motor used in motor vehicles "which may be associated directly with the driving-wheel of a motor-vehicle" (lines 40-41), bypassing the need for other power-transmitting mechanisms. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Introduction: By way of introduction a section will be described across the Devonian of the northeastern part of Monroe County, Pa., along the line of Brodhead Creek and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The base of this section will rest on the Corniferous limestone well exposed in a railroad cut a mile south of East Stroudsburg and the termination will b6 in the Pocono, as exposed on the Pocono Mountains, from Mount Pocono to the ridge northwest of Tobyhanna.

Map shows late nineteenth century New York City railroads, street car lines, street names, military facilities, public institutions, train depots, and ferries. Inset: "Outline map of New York City." Includes explanation and index to streets and points of interest. Scale [ca. 1:22,400] and [ca. 1:28,200].

Map shows late nineteenth century New York counties, railroads, post offices, cities and towns. Inset: Long Island and lower Hudson River region. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to T. A. Bledsoe discussing the various types of men he had in his regiment and how he only cares about the character of men and not where they come from. The letter is written on paper with a Rough Riders Association header, which lists T. A. Bledsoe as the president.

Patent for an effective cotton-baling machine that improves on how cotton is compressed and fed into the rotary, that stretches the cotton to its thinnest, that improves on how the core is carried, that raises and lowers the compressor roller, that improves on the rack-and pinion mechanism, that improves on how the ends of the cotton roll are pressed, and that quickly and easily finishes each bale.

Patent for a motor-propelled fan that can attach to any support, especially beds steads and other furniture. The motor is simple and can be easily manipulated.

Patent for the binder-deck of harvesters "and it consists, broadly, of a flexible deck having its lateral edges fixed and its middle portion hinged at one edge and free at the other, and means for automatically lowering the latter when the bundle of grain is to be discharged in order that the discharge may be facilitated" (lines 11-17).

Letter from The Bank of New York to I. H. Kempner discussing the death of his father and hope business continues with the bank.