The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Cushing, John Dean, 1795-1866.

Title: Account book

Dates: 1852-1858

Call No.: Doc. 844

Acc. No.: 79x102

Quantity: 1 volume (293 pages)

Location: 31 G

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

John Dean Cushing (1795-1866) was a printer. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he was the son of Thomas Croade Cushing and Sally Dean Cushing. After printing newspapers in Salem and Lenox, Massachusetts, he founded The Berkshire Courier in October 1834. This weekly newspaper was issued in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and supported the Whig party. Cushing also used his press for other printing business. The offices of the paper were burned in the spring of 1839, but publication resumed a month later. Cushing formed a partnership with Clark W. Bryan in 1846 and the name of the paper was changed to The Berkshire Courier and Great Barrington Gazette. The following year, 1847, Theodore Dewey replaced Bryan as a partner and the name was changed, for a brief time, to The Berkshire Courier and Housatonic Mirror. In 1848, Clark W. Bryan returned to The Great Barrington Courier as business manager but left again in 1852. John Cushing published the paper alone until he sold it to Marcus H. Rogers in 1865.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Records advertisements sold in Cushing's newspaper, along with small printing jobs he performed from 1852 to 1858. Mention is made of meeting announcements, business cards, notices, petitions, handbills, and circulars.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Avis and Rockwell Gardiner.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

Advertising, Newspaper.

Printing industry - Accounting.

Printing - Massachusetts - Great Barrington.

Business records - Massachusetts - Great Barrington.

Massachusetts - Newspapers.

Account books.

Printers.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 31 G

Name Index to Doc. 844

(numbers are page numbers)

Baldwin House 104

Baldwin, J. D. W. 193

Barry, James 234

Berkshire Courier 176

Berkshire House 34

Berkshire Springs Hotel 99

Bosworth, LaRoy 169

Butler, C. E. 31

Connor, James, & Sons [no page number given]

Curtis, H.G. 30

Curtis, W. F. 37

Day, Horace W. 196

Dooley's Merchant Exchange Hotel 185

Durant, B. F. 56

Emerson, C. P. 151

Engram, E. F. & Co. 49

Fargo, Gibbs & Lawrence 24

Gibson, Crosby, Robbins & Co. [no page number given]

Gillette, C. 187

Hammick, J. T. 192

Hampden Fire Insurance Co. 187

Hollister, Taylor & Co. 24

Judd, A. B. 202

Langsdorff, F. 207

Lee Savings Bank 35

Lenox Academy 110

Lloyd, L. G. 146, 260

McLean & Bradley [no page number given]

Merriam, B. R. 218

N. E. & Co. 198

New York Times 27

Oxford Mills 158

Pacific Hotel 160

Palmer, V. B. 255

Pettengill, S. M., & Co. 176

Pouchet, (Prof.) 185

Prindle, J. R. 135

Prindle & Tobey 226, 265

Richardson, B. R. & Co. [no page number given]

Robbins, 236

Russell, E. F. 30

Southworth, C. 92

Southwort'h & Andrews 25

Stockbridge Iron Co. 127

Tobey, M. E. 40, 188

Tobey, Marius E. 140

Van Deusen, Mason 136

Van Housen, J. M. 148

Warren, Wheeler & Co. 160

Westfield Academy [no page number given]

Westminster Mills 151

Williams Academy 135