Series 6: Miscellaneous, 1843-1915, inclusive
Language of Materials
English.
Extent
3.8 Linear Feet
Extent
in 4 manuscript boxes and 1 flat box
Scope and Contents
The series comprises a wide variety of material including administrative files, legal notes on unidentified cases, publications, payrolls, and other items. The records span the years 1843 to 1915. Of particular note are files related to civil service employment, the Wallabout Market, city water supply, the sanitation of the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, and an audit of the accounts of the City of Brooklyn.
Arrangement note
This series includes miscellaneous material that did not fit within the scope of the other series. The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Folder titles are derived from the documents.
Please see the Processing Information note for additional general information regarding the arrangement of the series in this collection.
6th District Brooklyn cases, 1906
Box: 232, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, circa 1860s-1870s
Box: 232, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, 1889-1891
Box: 232, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, circa 1890s
Box: 232, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, 1896-1897
Box: 232, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, 1899
Box: 232, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, circa 1905
Box: 232, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, 1906
Box: 232, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Administrative, 1910
Box: 232, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Agreement between the Village of College Point and the Snow Steam Pump Company of Buffalo, N.Y., 1897-1898
Box: 232, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Appraisal of Building #174, circa 1890s
Box: 232, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Assessment forms, circa 1880s
Box: 232, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Assessments for local improvements, 1898
Box: 232, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Assessors and their terms of office, circa 1867
Box: 232, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Audit of accounts (1 of 2), 1905-1906
Box: 232, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
This file relates to audits of accounts from 1892-1895. The following claims were referenced in the files: Dionus Frankel, Charles Hart, Edward B. Lansing, George F. Miller, Peter J. Montague, James O'Connor, Patrick Ross. It includes numerous receipts for excise license fees and audits of expenditures for the joint celebration of the completion of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and the Discovery of America.
Audit of accounts (2 of 2), 1905-1906
Box: 232, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
This file relates to audits of accounts from 1892-1895. The following claims were referenced in the files: Dionus Frankel, Charles Hart, Edward B. Lansing, George F. Miller, Peter J. Montague, James O'Connor, Patrick Ross. It includes numerous receipts for excise license fees and audits of expenditures for the joint celebration of the completion of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and the Discovery of America.
Bills, 1880
Box: 232, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bills, 1897-1898
Box: 232, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Board of Education, circa 1887
Box: 232, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Board of Supervisors Minutes, 1893-1895
Box: 232, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Regarding insane asylums
Business Cards, circa 1890s
Box: 232, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Campbell, Catharine - Certification of death, 1869
Box: 232, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Certain pretended arrears of taxes, circa 1890s
Box: 232, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Charitable Institutions - Distribution and appropriation of excise money, 1890s
Box: 232, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Check book, circa 1890s-1900s
Box: 232, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Civil Service notes, circa 1871
Box: 232, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Civil Service notes, 1889
Box: 232, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Civil Service notes, circa 1895
Box: 232, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Civil Service notes, circa 1896
Box: 232, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings, 1861
Box: 232, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings, 1867
Box: 232, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Commissioner of Charities - Lunacy Examination Bills, 1877
Box: 232, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Commissioner of Estimate and Assessment appointment paperwork, 1899
Box: 232, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Commissioners meetings, circa 1890s
Box: 232, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Commissioners meetings, 1895-1896
Box: 232, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Common Council Stated Session, 1876 October 30
Box: 232, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Common Council Stated Session, 1881 December 12
Box: 232, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Common Council Stated Session, 1896 December 1
Box: 232, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Common Council and Board of Supervisors joint session, 1895 August 5
Box: 232, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
County Employees, 1893
Box: 232, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crosstown Line running times, circa 1890s
Box: 232, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Daily Calendar - Assistant Corporation Counsel, 1904
Box: 232, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Daily Calendar - Assistant Corporation Counsel, 1907
Box: 232, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Delinquent Corporations in the City of Brooklyn, 1897
Box: 233, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Department of Charities and Corrections balances, circa 1896
Box: 233, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Department of City Works, 1887
Box: 233, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Department of Health regulations, 1887
Box: 233, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Department of Health - Weekly report, 1899
Box: 233, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Calendar July Term - Before the Assistant Vice Chancellor of the First Circuit, 1843
Box: 233, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Empty Envelopes, circa 1870s
Box: 233, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Empty Envelopes, circa 1890s
Box: 233, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ephemera, 1862-1866
Box: 233, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Includes handwritten prayer, life insurance policy, Catholic Library Society invitation, and other items.
Far Rockaway sewers, 1896-1898
Box: 233, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Includes specifications and contract
Free Public Libraries, 1895
Box: 233, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton
Gowanus Canal - List of signers to the petition for the improvements in the sanitation of Gowanus Canal, 1895
Box: 233, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Institute of Arts and Sciences - McKim, Mead and White architects agreement, 1895
Box: 233, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Now the Brooklyn Museum
Kings County Treasurer's Office, 1890
Box: 233, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Laws for the organization and government of the Democratic Party of Kings County, 1904
Box: 233, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, circa 1870s-1880s
Box: 233, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, circa 1883
Box: 233, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal notes and clippings, 1886
Box: 233, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, 1890s
Box: 233, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, circa 1890s-1900s
Box: 233, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, 1892
Box: 233, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes: Sewer claims, 1895
Box: 233, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, 1897
Box: 233, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Associated Cycling Clubs of Long Island memorandum
Legal Notes, 1898
Box: 233, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, circa 1899
Box: 233, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, circa 1900s
Box: 233, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes: Intention of law, circa 1900s
Box: 233, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, 1902
Box: 233, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes: Personal injuries, 1902
Box: 233, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, 1909
Box: 233, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Legal Notes, 1911
Box: 233, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Library Fund - Ira Whitman, 1863
Box: 233, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
List of flooding claims, 1904
Box: 233, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
List of licenses filed, circa 1890s
Box: 233, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
List of motormen, conductors, and plumbers, 1893
Box: 233, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
List of names, occupations, and addresses, circa 1890s
Box: 233, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Possibly related to claim of John H. Keppel?
List of tasks completed, circa 1890s
Box: 233, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mail receipts, 1896
Box: 233, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
McHugh, Neil M. - Property costs, circa 1865
Box: 233, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorandum to Judges, circa 1890s
Box: 233, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nassau National Bank of Brooklyn checks, 1902
Box: 233, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Signed by Richard B. Greenwood (Assistant Corporation Counsel)
Nassau National Bank of Brooklyn checks, 1907
Box: 233, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Signed by Richard B. Greenwood (Assistant Corporation Counsel)
New York and New York City civil service regulations, 1896
Box: 234, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York State Service, 1894
Box: 234, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Supplement and State Reporter, 1897 June 3
Box: 234, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newtown Creek sanitation, circa 1890s
Box: 234, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Old South Historical Work booklet, 1887
Box: 234, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Payroll for Street Repairs, 1861
Box: 234, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photographs of shacks in a coastal region, 1915
Box: 234, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Possibly related to water supply
Plans - Wall (?), circa 1890
Box: 234, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Police force rules, circa 1890s
Box: 234, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political speeches, pamphlets, and clippings, 1896
Box: 234, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Fragile
Prospect Engine House Payrolls, 1887-1893
Box: 234, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Public Baths, 1879
Box: 234, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Public Markets and Restaurants, circa 1890s
Box: 234, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Record of street reports, 1892
Box: 234, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reports of Work and Time - Sewer Inspectors, 1861
Box: 234, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rules and Orders of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Kings, 1895
Box: 234, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Salary for "Labor inspecting for leaky plumbing", 1897
Box: 234, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Schematic, 1905
Box: 236, Folder: - (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Used as exhibit in unidentified 1905 trial
Sealers of Weights and Measures, circa 1890s
Box: 234, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Fragile
Settled cases, 1895-1896
Box: 234, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Specifications for alterations and additions to Public School 105, 1900
Box: 235, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
59th St. and Fort Hamilton Ave.
Street cleaning bill, 1897
Box: 235, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Street cleaning contract notes, 1896
Box: 235, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Street opening expenses, circa 1869
Box: 235, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tax bill fragment, 1873
Box: 235, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unidentified, circa 1890s
Box: 235, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Wallabout Market, 1884
Box: 235, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Wallabout Market: James Carroll and James Welin permit, 1886
Box: 235, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Related to an unidentified 1890s matter (File no. 17)
Wallabout Market: Cold storage plant report, 1898
Box: 235, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General note
Report of Local Board, 4th Senatorial District, Borough of Brooklyn
Wallabout Market: Payroll, 1899
Box: 235, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Water rates complaint, circa 1890
Box: 235, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Water Supply, circa 1900
Box: 235, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Water Supply: Gravesend water use, circa 1900
Box: 235, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Water Supply: Valuation of buildings at the pumping stations, circa 1900
Box: 235, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
