A diploma awarded by the New-York State Agricultural Society to James V. R. Chapman for "Best Specimens of Business Penmanship" at the Rochester meeting, 1864. Printed with handwritten components. Features a pastoral scene surrounded by sheaves of wheat, livestock, and images of farming life. State agricultural societies awarded a multitude of "diplomas" for a variety of categories from awards for livestock care and breeding, to improvements to tools and machinery, to in this case penmanship.