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040 _aDLC
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_dDLC
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_2lcmd
110 2 _aRussell & Co.
245 0 0 _aRussell & Co. records,
_f1812-1894
_g(bulk 1819-1840).
300 _a3,900
_fitems.
300 _a12
_fcontainers plus
_a4
_foversize.
300 _a10
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a5
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, financial and legal records, and miscellany relating to Russell & Co., Guangzhou (Canton), China, and to its founder, Samuel Russell, and members of his family. Includes material relating to the merger of Russell & Co. with John P. Cushing, William Perkins & Company of Boston, Mass., and Houqua, of Guangzhou, China; banking problems in the U.S.; national and international monetary matters; commerce with China; commerce within the U.S.; the Russell Manufacturing Company, producer of elastic webbing, established in Middletown, Conn., in 1831; Ithiel Town's design of Samuel Russell's Middletown mansion; land speculation in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, and Wisconsin; the Turkish opium trade; the American Colonization Society; and epilepsy and the medical care of Russell's son, John A. Russell.
520 8 _aFamily correspondence chiefly between Samuel Russell and his sons, George O. Russell and John A. Russell, and his brother, Edward Augustus Russell. Other correspondents include J.W. Alsop, Richard Alsop, Philip Ammidon, John Jacob Astor, Cyrus Butler, John Murray Forbes, R.B. Forbes, Augustine Heard, Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, S.D. Hubbard, William Henry Low, W.L. Newberry, Ithiel Town, Samuel Wetmore, and William Wetmore. Firms represented by correspondence include Baring Brothers & Co., Benjamin & Thomas C. Hoppins, Clarke & Company, of Smyrna, Turkey, Edward Carrington & Company, George Douglas & Company, Hull & Griswold, and Ward & Bartholomew.
530 _aMicrofilm edition available,
_dno. 19,140.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from the originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1985.
545 1 _aTrading house founded in 1819 by Samuel Russell of Middletown, Conn., in Guangzhou (Canton), China.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075
600 1 0 _aAlsop, J. W.
_q(Joseph Wright),
_d1804-approximately 1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAlsop, Richard,
_d1761-1815
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAmmidon, Philip
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAstor, John Jacob,
_d1763-1848
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aButler, Cyrus,
_d1767-1849
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aForbes, John Murray,
_d1771-1831
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aForbes, R. B.
_q(Robert Bennet),
_d1804-1889
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHeard, Augustine,
_d1785-1868
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHubbard, Gurdon Saltonstall,
_d1802-1886
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHubbard, S. D.
_q(Samuel Dickinson),
_d1799-1855
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLow, William Henry,
_d1816-1845
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNewberry, W. L.
_q(Walter Loomis),
_d1804-1868
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRussell, Edward Augustus,
_d1797-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRussell, George O.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRussell, John A.,
_dactive 1838-1846
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTown, Ithiel,
_d1784-1844.
600 1 0 _aTown, Ithiel,
_d1784-1844
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWetmore, Samuel,
_dapproximately 1813-1885
_xCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWetmore, William,
_d1776-
_xCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aRussell family.
610 2 0 _aAmerican Colonization Society.
610 2 0 _aBaring Brothers & Co.
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aBenjamin & Thomas C. Hoppins (Firm)
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aClarke & Company
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aClaude Daniel Crommelin & Sons
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aEdward Carrington & Company
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aGeorge Douglas & Company
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aHouqua (Trading company)
610 2 0 _aHull & Griswold
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aJohn P. Cushing, William Perkins & Company
610 2 0 _aRussell Manufacturing Company.
610 2 0 _aWard & Bartholomew
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aWilliam Perkins & Company.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zConnecticut
_zMiddletown.
650 0 _aBanks and banking
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCotton manufacture
_zConnecticut
_zMiddletown.
650 0 _aEpilepsy.
650 0 _aLand speculation
_zIllinois.
650 0 _aLand speculation
_zKentucky.
650 0 _aLand speculation
_zMichigan.
650 0 _aLand speculation
_zNew Jersey.
650 0 _aLand speculation
_zOhio.
650 0 _aLand speculation
_zWisconsin.
650 0 _aMedicine
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aMonetary policy.
650 0 _aMonetary policy
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aOpium trade
_zTurkey.
651 0 _aChina
_xCommerce
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aGuangzhou (China)
_xCommerce.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xCommerce
_xHistory
_y19th century.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xCommerce
_zChina.
700 1 _aRussell, Samuel,
_d1789-approximately 1862.
_tSamuel Russell papers.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075.3
999 _c42876
_d42876