Item 100: Typescript Copies of Property Assessment Records, 1950 November 6-10

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 155

Staff Only

Typescript Copies of Property Assessment Records, 1950 November 6-10

Dates

Created: 1950 November 6-10

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Property Assessment Records

General Condition:

Good. Certain pages have holes from staples, and some stains possibly from rusted staples. They are in good condition otherwise, no creases and minimal yellowing.

Measurements:

8 ½ in. x 11 in

Description:

A series of documents from the Luzerne County Board for the Assessment and Revision of Taxes. These sheets contain assessment records on certain tracts of lands as needed for the means of tax amounts. 8 sheets have the same printed basis header and notes. They are marked with the mark of the Luzerne County Pennsylvania Board for the Assessment and Revision of Taxes, and the staff. They are listed as Guy W. Moore (President), Benjamin H. Rhys, 1889-1970 (Secretary), Siegmund K. Knies, 1894-1960 (Vice President), and Arthur T. Thomas (Chief Clerk). The other two sheets follow the rest of the same patterns barring this header. The body of the papers go over each of the assessment records for numerous properties (Pittston Elmira Coal Co., Samuel Sayler [1799-1859], Theodore Strong [1820-1907]; Northern Coal and Iron Co.) While some of these sheets simply have an individual property, others have lists that mark the acreage, the state of the land (improved, unimproved, houses, outhouses, farm animals, etc.), and the monetary amounts the correlate to each. Each has its own grand total to mark the tax amounts for the owner of the estate.