{"value"=>"<p>Items filed in this series document the business affairs and professional activities of Samuel B. Ruggles. Included are receipts, contracts and other financial records, many of them dealing with sewer and sidewalk work done for the City of New York by Ruggles and his associate George A. Furst. There are also accounts and financial records related to the Atlantic Docks project and the Dauphin & Susquehanna Coal Company. Deeds, maps, receipts and tax records document the landholdings of the Ruggles family in New York City and New York State, including plots in the vicinity of today's Gramercy Park. The series also includes notes, drafts and manuscripts of writings by Samuel B. Ruggles on such topics as international monetary policy, agricultural production, commercial transport, the census of 1860 and German history. Other miscellaneous items include a list of books in Samuel B. Ruggles's home library, his Yale diploma and a lock of his hair</p>"}