Cant open very old york huge safe

[trot]

Hello everyone I come to you in the need of help, I have a very old YORK Safe that came with my house, the house was build in the late 1800's by a wealthy attorney and for a while it was the largest house in town, the house came with many safes all of which have been opened throughout the years apart from this one. The previous owner told me that the safe was opened only once VERY long time ago. He did give me a set of little notes with combinations, but I cannot for the life of me open it up, could someone shed some light onto how to open this safe up, it would be greatly appreciated I could use detailed baby step by step instructions since I am very very bad with all types of locks I am including a picture of the safe and the little notes . I am really excited to see whats inside the safe hopefully lost/stolen national treasures