Evaluation of the Ernest Chambre Collection of Customs Document

FAIN: PM-10350-77

Thomas C. Cochran
Economic History Association (Wilmington, DE 19807-0630)

To evaluate approximately 22,500 American Customs and history documents in the possession of Ernest Chambre, an ailing custom house broker in New York City. The collection is second in size only to that of the National Archives, and may be a rich source of information about the economic and social history of the United States.