| 1 | Creator: | Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anthony Wayne receipt book, 1785-1792
| | | | Dates: | 1785-1792 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains signed receipts for Wayne's payment, in money or kind, of debts, taxes, land, and commodities. Contains also prescriptions for curing certain diseases, and receipt for six warrants, Sept. 1, 1786, paid by order of B.Franklin. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W36r | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Receipts. | |
| 2 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Coates receipt book, 1804-1829
| | | | Dates: | 1804-1829 | | | | Abstract: | In addition to receipts for money paid to various persons, the book includes engravings of Samuel Coates, John Barry, Tench Coxe, Poulson, Charles Chauncy, and Isaac Hopper. The receipts are signed by a great range of people, from inviduals who signed with their mark, to prominent people, such as Stephen Du Ponceau, Tench Coxe, Zachary Poulson, John Mease, Charles Chauncy, and John Barry. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C632 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Coates, Samuel, 1748-1830 | Trade | |
| 6 | Creator: | Shippen, Joseph,1706-1793. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Shippen waste book, 1749-1750
| | | | Dates: | 1749-1750 | | | | Abstract: | This waste book contains accounts with various persons in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey for dry-goods, notions, rum, cutlery, glassware, and medicines. | | | | Call #: | Mss.657.Sh6 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Shippen, Joseph,1706-1793. | Trade | |
| 8 | Creator: | Winner, James,fl. 1854. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Winner daybook, 1854-1855
| | | | Dates: | 1854-1855 | | | | Abstract: | This volume is the account book of a Philadelphia machine shop ("screws, taps and dies") operated by Winner and N. Barrows, which made such items as bolts, iron rods, pins, and rivets. Also included are charges and time requirements for the work done. | | | | Call #: | Mss.671.3.W72 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barrows, N. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Daybooks. | Machine shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Winner, James,fl. 1854. | |
| 11 | Creator: | Jacobs, Benjamin. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Jacobs receipt book, 1761-1774
| | | | Dates: | 1761-1774 | | | | Abstract: | This book lists receipts for the purchase of land, bar iron, and supplies for the forge, etc. Among the people represented are William Dunlap, James Franklin, Thomas Harrision, Samuel Fisher, and James Morris, Jr. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.J156 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Dunlap, William, d. 1779 | Fisher, Samuel | Forge shops -- Equipment and supplies. | Franklin, James,1732?-1762. | Harrison, Thomas, 1744-1829 | Jacobs, Benjamin. | Morris, James, 1752-1820 | Receipt books. | |
| 13 | Creator: | Shippen, Edward,1729-1806. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edward Shippen receipts, 1754-1789
| | | | Dates: | 1754-1789 | | | | Abstract: | These are receipts from tradesmen, mechanics, and storekeepers for sewing, carriage work, the making and repair of shoes, madeira, fabrics, sugar, hair-dressing, and clothing. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sh621 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Household supplies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Marriage and Family Life | Receipts. | Shippen, Edward,1729-1806. | Social Life and Custom | Trade | |
| 16 | Creator: | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal of the Vine Company of Pennsylvania
| | | | Dates: | 1803-1827 | | | | Abstract: | Initially proposed by Peter Legaux at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in 1793, the Vine Company of Pennsylvania was a stock company that encouraged the domestic production of grapes, wines, and brandy, and dissemination of knowledge about viticulture. After its incorporation in 1802, the Company operated vineyards on Legaux's farm at Spring Mill, 13 miles northwest of Philadelphia, until it failed in 1822. The three volumes of Journals of the Vine Company of Pennsylvania record the daily operations of America's first commercial vineyard bewteeen 1803 and 1814. Kept by the superintendent, Peter Legaux, the journals provide careful records of weather, planting, harvesting and other field work, as well as some of the doings of the officers and shareholders of the Company. The fourth volume is essentially a weather diary kept by Legaux at Spring Mill from 1822 until his death in 1827. The last volume of Vine Company records covering the last eight years of its operation, 1814-1822, has been lost. | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.L52 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Grapes | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | McMahon, Bernard, ca.1760?-1816 | Meteorology--Pennsylvania--Observations | Natural History | Pennsylvania--Climate | Vine Company of Pennsylvania. | Viticulture--Pennsylvania | Weather | Weather diaries | |
| 17 | Creator: | Bohlen, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bohlen Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1889-1912 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Schiffdorf (near Bremerhafen), John Bohlen became one of Philadelphia's most prominent merchants at the turn of the nineteenth century. Running a profitable concern in partnership with his brother Bohl (1754-1836), John Bohlen imported commodities from their native Holland. Thanks to an insatiable American thirst for gin, Bohlen amassed an immense fortune that enabled him to travel in the same social circles as Stephen Girard and others among the mercantile elite and to win a spot in 1816 as one of the Directors of the Bank of the United States. By the time of his death, he was one of only eleven Philadelphians whose personal estates exceeded one million dollars in value.
The Bohlen Collection contains a scant ten letters that appear to have been retained, as much as anything, for their autograph interest. Although they shed relatively little light on the life of John Bohlen, they do offer interesting glimpses into the personalities of Bohlen's famous correspondents, including Stephen Girard, Francis Scott Key, Meriwether Lewis, Virgil Maxcy, Oliver Hazard Perry, and Timothy Pickering. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B63 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bank of the United States | Bohlen, John | Business and Skilled Trades | Dorsey, Elizabeth | General Correspondence | International Trade. | Murray, Daniel | Philadelphia History | Religion | Trade | |
| 18 | Creator: | Fenton, John F. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John F. Fenton Day Books
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1844 | | | | Abstract: | Beginning in about 1830, John F. Fenton began a thriving business as a wheelwright in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ann Ring, also of Newtown, on November 26, 1834, and was elected a County Commissioner in the late 1850s.
These Day Books provide a detailed record of work performed by Fenton between 1830 and 1844, primarily the manufacture or repair of wagons and wheels (double trees, wagon tongues, sideboards, spokes, rims), with very occasional reference to carriages. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F351 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Carriage and wagon making--Pennsylvania--Bucks County | Daybooks. | Fenton, John F. | Wheelwrights--Pennsylvania--Bucks County | |
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