Whitney & Burnham (New Orleans, La.) records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1000
Subjects: Cotton manufacture; Merchants; Cotton trade; Cotton gins and ginning; Labor disputes
Description: Correspondence and letterbooks, diary, bills, invoices,  notebooks, purchase orders, receipts, and rent statements of a cotton mercantile firm, headed by Israel Whitney and W.A. Burnham, engaged in international trade through the ports of New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., and Boston, Mass. Includes material relating to the cotton gin, labor disputes, and relations between cotton mills.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1937.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008045