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3 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) West Indies--Commerce.
Nicholas Low papers, 1773-1897
36,000 items. 100 containers plus 4 oversize. 40 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
New York merchant, financier, land speculator, and state legislator. Family and business correspondence, business and ship's papers, legal papers, accounts of voyages to Asia, Europe, and South America, and printed matter. Includes correspondence with foreign merchants and relates to trade conditions, Loyalist matters, and to events in Congress during the first session following the adoption of the Constitution.
Waldemar Westergaard collection, 1558-1806
15,000 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet. 20 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Transcripts of selected documents from the Rigsarkivet (Danish State Archives), Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library of Denmark), and Raadstuearkivet Copenhagen (Municipal Archives of Copenhagen), and from the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley relating to the Danish West Indies, 1692-1806. Also selections on microfilm of documents in the Rigsarkivet and the Public Record Office, London, relating to northern European international relations in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries,
Neil Jamieson papers, 1757-1789
2,000 items. 8 containers plus 1 oversize. 3.2 linear feet. 8 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Merchant of Norfolk, Va. Chiefly business correspondence relating to Jamieson's role as a resident partner of the firm Glassford, Gordon, Monteath & Company, of Glasgow, Scotland, and to various mercantile enterprises in North America and the West Indies, especially Antigua.