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This collection holds the personal letters of Louisa Dawley Cruikshank of Oneida, New York, and includes letters from her husband, Henry Cruikshank, while he was traveling in California and serving in military during the Civil War.

The Cruikshank-Dawley papers is comprised of 57 letters between Henry Cruikshank and his wife, Louisa Dawley Cruikshank, from before and during the Civil War. The earliest set of letters is addressed to Miss Wealthy A. Dawley and from William Segun and from Louisa Dawley. These discuss general news and family life. Other pre-Civil War letters include letters to Louisa from her sisters, three love letters from Thomas Ormiston, and three letters from her aunt. Henry Cruikshank received a letter from a friend, who wrote about difficult travels on a steamship, and a letter from his sister Mary, who mentioned killing woodchucks and snakes.

A set of five letters document Henry's travels in California. He wrote from New York City in 1860 just before he set sail for California. Upon arrival, he buys a claim and a cabin for $180 and notes that "California is a hard land for a poor man to live in...there is lots of old Californians here would be glad to get a way from here" (May 26, 1861). Henry has more success by July, as he "got 1,400 dollars out of pile of dirt we washed out, was two months three weeks of work." In other letters, he wrote of coming to "near blows" with drunk railroad workers.

The bulk of the Civil War letters are from Henry to his wife Louisa, though some letters are addressed to his sister Louisa and other family members. In nearly every letter, Henry voiced his unhappiness with being in the army and mentioned his desire to come home. He complained of insufficient protection from the cold, a lack of food, and not being paid. He was particularly unhappy that all the soldiers were fighting for was to free the slaves, and he complained that, in the south, they "live better and have better houses to live in than half the white folk in York State...it makes me so mad some times that I have a good mind to run away and let them go to the devil and would not care if the rebs took Washington" (July 5, 1863). He wrote of being shot in a skirmish just before the Battle of Fredericksburg and of sickness in the army, including an outbreak of smallpox in Washington and, toward the end of 1863, an outbreak of the mumps. In general, Crukshank was critical of the management of the Union army and was relentlessly pessimistic about the outcome of the war.

The most recent letter in the collection was from Henry's son in Camden, New York.

The Cuba collection contains around 105 individual manuscripts (mostly documents) related to the economic, racial, and political history of Cuba largely from the early to the late 19th century. The collection primarily focuses on the indentured servitude of Chinese workers, as well as Cuba's enslavement, trade, and manumission of largely African people. Another subset of the materials relates to 19th century insurrections and filibusters on the Island, including the López Expedition and Cuban resistance pertinent to the Ten Years' War.

The Cuba collection contains around 105 individual manuscripts (mostly documents) related to the economic, racial, and political history of Cuba largely from the early to the late 19th century. The collection primarily focuses on the indentured servitude of Chinese workers, as well as Cuba's enslavement, slave trading, and manumission of largely African people. Another subset of the materials relates to 19th century insurrections and filibusters on the Island, including the López Expedition and Cuban resistance pertinent to the Ten Years' War. The collection includes correspondence, documents, business records, citizenship certificates, death records, and contracts. The bulk of the materials were created in or relate to activities or people in Havana. Others relate to Santiago de Cuba.

Please see the box and folder listing below for details about each item in the collection.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes various almanacs dating from 1871 to 2005. There is particularly strong representation of publications by the W.T. Rawleigh Company from the early- to mid-twentieth century.

This collection forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. It includes various almanacs, dating from 1871 to 2005. There is particularly strong representation of publications by the W.T. Rawleigh Company from the early- to mid-twentieth century.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes pamphlets and recipe booklets promoting companies and corporations, such as gas companies, insurance companies, and others. It also includes books for brides promoting the goods and services provided by advertisers within these books, as well as catalogs for household goods and some food products. Publications date from 1840-1994.

This collection includes pamphlets and recipe booklets promoting companies and corporations, such as gas companies, insurance companies, and others. It also includes books for brides promoting the goods and services provided by advertisers within these books, as well as catalogs for household goods and some food products. Publications date from 1840-1994.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials for fresh, frozen, and canned fish and seafood. Publications date from 1861-2011, with most materials dating from 1930s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to flour (primarily wheat flour); leavening agents such as yeast, baking powder, and baking soda; and some material focused generally on baked goods. Publications date from 1864-2002, with most materials dating from after 1900.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to household tasks from a variety of companies. Publications date from the 1870s-1990s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to housekeeping. Products featured include washing machines, stove polish, sewing machines, oven cleaners, vacuum cleaners, and hot water heaters. Publications date from the 1870s-1990s, with concentrations in the 1890s and 1920s-1930s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes material that documents a variety of products, companies, services, subjects, that are otherwise unable to be categorized into another subject area. Publications date from 1861-2005, with most materials dating from the late twentieth century.

This collection contains ephemera material that documents a variety of products, companies, services, and subjects that are otherwise unable to be categorized into another subject area. It includes booklets, catalogs, pamphlets, order forms, price lists, and other promotional material.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to small utensils and kitchen tools, such as meat choppers, egg beaters, pea shellers, peelers, corers, juicers, corers, pastry knives, ice cream molds, etc. Publications date from 1870-2000, with most items from the 1900s-1960s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes material related to non-edible kitchen products and household activities, including appliance manuals, catalogs, housekeeping guides, product promotions, and cook books. Publications date from the 1700s to 2005, with the majority of material dating from the mid-twentieth century.

This collection includes material related to non-edible kitchen products and household activities, including appliance manuals, catalogs, housekeeping guides, product promotions, and cook books.