Lot of approximately 400 letters, billheads, receipts, bills, and miscellaneous paper items from the 1870's onward relating to Oregon merchant Henry W. Corbett and business-related activities

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Sale 396: Americana - Hawaiiana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#396) 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #171Lot of approximately 400 letters, billheads, receipts, bills, and miscellaneous paper items from the 1870's onward relating to Oregon merchant Henry W. Corbett and business-related activities

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Sale 396: Americana - Hawaiiana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#396) 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
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(Oregon - Henry W. Corbett Archive, 1870's onward)

Title:

Lot of approximately 400 letters, billheads, receipts, bills, and miscellaneous paper items from the 1870's onward relating to Oregon merchant Henry W. Corbett and business-related activities

Author:

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Place Published:

Oregon & elsewhere

Date Published:

1870 onward

Description:

Various sizes, on various colors of paper, the majority on printed billheads, letterheads and business forms, some wholly manuscript.

Revealing archive covering the later years of the business activities of Henry Winslow Corbett (1827-1903), who ventured to Oregon in 1851 as a 24-year old businessman, and expanded from retail into transportation, banking, and eventually politics, serving as United States Senator from 1867 to 1873. Countless receipts, invoices, business letters, deeds, requests for payment, mortgages, and much more is present.

Condition:

Varying amounts of wear; a number with black paper remnants on versos where preserved in album, a few with holes from removal, some still affixed to black leaves; very good overall.

Item#:

197834

Headline:

Henry Corbett Oregon Archive 1870 onward
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Sale 396: Americana - Hawaiiana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#396) 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST

Lot #171Lot of approximately 400 letters, billheads, receipts, bills, and miscellaneous paper items from the 1870's onward relating to Oregon merchant Henry W. Corbett and business-related activities

Sale 396: Americana - Hawaiiana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#396) 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST

Sale 396: Americana - Hawaiiana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#396) 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST

Sale 396: Americana - Hawaiiana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#396) 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 01/29/2009 1:00 PM PST