Legal Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
setName: label: See more items in
content: Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer Family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 4; 4 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891-1927
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thayabbo, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Items are arranged chronologically within each folder.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Legal records include a copy of the patent office record given to Gerome Brush and Abbott Handerson Thayer for the "process of treating the outsides of ships & for making them less visible." Also included in that folder is a contract handwritten by Thayer giving Brush claim to use of the original invention. Other documents in this series are legal agreements, including a draft agreement among landowners in Dublin, New Hampshire to create a nature reservation, and deeds of property belonging to Abbott Thayer and Emma Beach Thayer. Also found is a map of the property owned by Thayer and surrounding properties in Dublin.