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The Roland Wells Robbins Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections

Roland Wells Robbins (1908-1987)

Finding Aid to Materials on the Sterling Blast Furnace
Sterling Lake, New York

Documents:

• Sterling Forest Corporation "business 1962"[typed notes, correspondence and "The Heritage of Sterling Forest'

• Sterling Furnaces Artifacts

  • Notecards

  • Typescript, draft

• Sterling Furnaces Field Notes

  • 1959

  • 1961-62

• Sterling Furnaces: Research and Report Material

• Sterling Furnaces Typed Notes, Correspondence, Clippings:

  • 1959-1960

  • 1961

  • 1961 "legal" 

  • 1962 

  • 1963 

• "Two Blast Furnaces at Sterling Lake: Their 18th Century History and Their Archaeological Excavation" 

Photographs:

• Hennessy, W.W. 

  • #1: 4 November 1959 "before excavations" (9 photographs)

  • #2: 9 December 1959 "progress shots" (5 photographs)

  • #3: 21 December 1959 "progress shots" (6 photographs)

  • #4: 13 December 1961 "final excavations" (13 photographs)

  • Overly sketch

  • "Contrasts before and after" 1959 & 1961 (7 photographs)

  • Box of negatives of above prints

•  Hausner, Ed / The New York Times

  • 7 December 1961 (7 photographs)

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