(NEW YORK MINING) Account book of the West Point Foundry

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(NEW YORK--MINING.) Account book of the West Point Foundry. [120] manuscript pages. Folio, 12 x 8 inches, original 1/2 calf, moderate wear; nearly disbound, moderate dampstaining. (JMR) Cold Spring, Putnam County, NY, 1827-41

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This iron foundry and blast furnace was located across the Hudson River from West Point. Most of the volume consists of unusually detailed daily work logs for a staff of about 20 employees from June 1827 to May 1828. A typical example, Philip Cowan in June 1827, spent the first day of the month drawing for the moulding house and drawing pit coal. He spent 13 to 18 June in farm labor, and spent the final week of the month drawing guns. Another employee, Reuben Travis, spent a week in September 1827 journeying with owner Gouvernor Kemble. Later in the volume are weekly summaries of iron produced from various blast furnaces from 1834-38. Provenance: sold by Harold Nestler to James M. Ransom, 1974.