Letter from John T. Slater to Marshall D. Brainard, dated November 23, 2009, requesting a donation of photos and documents relating to the Brainard Shipping Company and Brainard Basket Manufacturing Company to The Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt Resource Network
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Letter from John T. Slater to Marshall D. Brainard, dated November 23, 2009, requesting a donation of photos and documents relating to the Brainard Shipping Company and Brainard Basket Manufacturing Company to The Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt Resource Network
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4004.443
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Letter from John T. Slater to Marshall D. Brainard, dated November 23, 2009, requesting a donation of photos and documents relating to the Brainard Shipping Company and Brainard Basket Manufacturing Company to The Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt Resource Network.
One page letter from John T. Slater to Marshall D. Brainard, requesting donation of photos and documents relating to the Brainard Shipping Company and Brainard Basket Manufacturing Company to The Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt Resource Network, dated November 23, 2009
Letter is printed on letterhead for the The Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt Resource Network (including a typographical error in the word "Chautauqua."
MEMO FROM: John Thomas Slater
DATE: November 23, 2009
TO: Marshall D. Brainard
SUBJECT: Brainard History
Dear Mr. Brainard,
Earlier this year, I had an opportunity to review a draft copy of your History of a Brainard Family 1649-2000 and was extremely interested in the information you covered relating to the Brainard Shipping Company and your family’s involvement with the basket making business in Stockton. I recently spoke with Andy Defresne at the Annual Meeting of the Lake Erie Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association and he told me of his recent visit with you in Florida and your donation of family artifacts for the Discovery Center. I mentioned the significance of the Brainard Shipping Company to the history of the Lake Erie Grape Belt and Andy suggested I contact you.
As part of an ongoing research project on the history of the Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt that has been my focus since retiring five years ago, my colleagues and I have been collecting information, data, images and other material for the purpose preserving the history and legacy of the region. Our Resource Network includes local town and village historians, librarians, museum curators, and other individuals interested in the evolution of the grape industry along the South Shore of Lake Erie.
One of our objectives is to provide assistance in the donation of historical and archival material to the various institutions in the Grape Belt. We recently discovered and facilitated the donation of the Red Wing Company Archive to the Barker Museum in Fredonia for long term preservation and have been working closely with the Heritage Association on the Discovery Center and Grape Belt Heritage Area projects. Another objective is the coordination of localized information resources relating to the history of the Grape Belt and the extensive number of companies associated with the shipping and processing of grapes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our third objective is to digitally archive and preserve historical images, documents, and ephemera directly relating to the Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt and the businesses associated with the grape industry between 1855 and 1955.
In your book draft, you utilized several historical letterheads and company-related items as background for your text. You also included copies of some very important historical photos relating to the Brainard family’s business operations. I would like to determine if you have originals of these photos and documents available and would be willing to either donate them to an appropriate museum or provide them to the Resource Network to scan for long-term preservation in our growing Digital Archive. Either way, I hope you will consider offering your assistance with this important preservation project so that the Brainard Shipping Company and the Brainard Basket Manufacturing Company can be properly documented and their legacy preserved for future generations. To that end, I will follow-up with you by phone in the next couple of weeks to determine a course of action that would be acceptable to you and still help the Resource Network to preserve these important historical documents and images.
Cordially,
[John T. Slater's signature]
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Letter from John T. Slater to Marshall D. Brainard, dated November 23, 2009, requesting a donation of photos and documents relating to the Brainard Shipping Company and Brainard Basket Manufacturing Company to The Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt Resource Network
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Date
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2009
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John T. Slater
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Chautauqua & Erie Grape Belt Resource Network
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Brainard Baskets
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PDF
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Creator
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John T. Slater
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Open Access
