MSS. Manuscript Collection

Scope and Contents Double-entry accounting ledger for the full year of 1836, with the earliest entries dated January 1 and the latest December 31. Manuscript entries in a neat, even hand, with amounts recorded in two columns labeled "$" and "cts"; amounts in the cents column are sometimes fractional. Creator unknown, but probably an American apprentice or student of bookkeeping: details of the ledger, including the punny names of some debtors (e.g. Abel Ableman, Conrade Compound, and Robert Retail), the...

Scope and Contents Receipt book contains signed receipts for taxes, rents, brick work, plumbing, painting, paper hanging, privy cleaning, gas, and water charges. Also includes records of payments of tuition for his daughter and son, repairs to a sofa, a kitchen range, an annuity to Cath Herman, etc. Many of the tax payments and much of the work was done on buildings being built or repaired for Geyer, not for his business or home, but rather buildings for rent or sale. Geyer paid some of his bills with...

Scope and Contents Contains accounts kept by Jeremiah Fife and William Fife of Pembroke, New Hampshire. Jeremiah's entries fill the first volume and begin the second. They record making coffins, window frames, rakes, chairs, tables, and so on. William's entries complete the second volume. They record his work setting windows, and much unspecified day labor, as well as entries such as “amount paid out for work on Wm. Parker’s house, barn and shed,” “worked 20 days for John Tenant on George Fochs Shop” and...

Scope and Contents Contains 77 negative silhouettes mounted on black backgrounds, all but three of which are identified on a "List of Names" at the beginning of the volume. There are also six leaves of 'Scherenschnitten' pictures; and then eight un-mounted silhouettes (six of which are identified) laid in. These loose silhouettes are now in separate sleeves. Many members of the Coates family are pictured, as are members of the Hornor, Morrison, Evans, Redman, Randolph, Pickering, Hopkins, Snowden, and Yarnall...

Scope and Contents Jonathan Mason's memoirs were “written without any attempt at elegant phraseology or fine writing, but Currente Calamo as his thoughts and remembrances arose to his mind between sundown and dark. For the amusement of his Grandchildren.” Begins with account of his parents' recollections of the Revolution, and his own childhood memories of Boston. Continues with detailed accounts of his friendship with artists and patrons--including Gilbert Stuart, Washington Allston, Horatio Greenough, Thomas...

Scope and Contents Consists of hundreds of handwritten receipts for money received by a wide variety of suppliers in New York in exchange for raw materials and processed goods for the running of Hull & Bowne's business. Typical entries are "Rec'd New York Augt. 6 1806 ... Ninty one 87/100 Dollars for Camphor"; "Rec'd New York 9 month 21-1807 ... Forty three dollars 50/100 in full for instruments for Dr Cogswell"; and "Received New York 23rd Nov. 1810 ... Sixty nine dollars ... in full for freight of goods...

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Twenty-nine signed receipts for a variety of goods, such as "fifteen Dollars in full for a Mattrass," and "Seven hundred twenty four Dollars 50/100 ... for 100 Kegs of Lard." Includes commodities shipped to Havana, Cuba. At the back of the book are some rough sketches of buildings, evidently done at a much later time as one appears to be a skyscraper.

Scope and Contents Brightly colored ink and watercolor designs for Italian Roman Catholic ecclesiastical furnishings. Includes baldachins, monstrances, sanctuary lamps, candelabra, canopies, garlands, vases, finials, trophies, catafalques, censers, processional crosses, altar fittings, reliquaries, chandeliers, holy water containers, aspergilla, processional arches, organ cases, festoons, processional lanterns, crowns, frames for holding text and cards, and tabernacles. Each leaf and each pictured item is...

Scope and Contents Contains accounts of Hazen Richardson, a carpenter and cabinetmaker from Stockbridge, Vermont, with over 65 individuals. Includes such entries as "to trundle Bedstid," "to one Beauro," "to Six Citchin Chairs," "to one Candle Stand." Other than the price, the accounts do not give any information about the furniture, for example the species of wood used. The one exception is a charge for a cherry coffin. Also includes entries for manual labor ("to myself two dys work on the Schoolhouse"), for...

Scope and Contents Includes business letters written from the Pacific; San Francisco, CA; England; Germany; Ireland; Scotland; and Massachusetts. In them, Chase notes cargoes of guano and coal (April 1874-October 1875). Also, letters as General Agent for the Ellis Patent Gas Burner, Regulator, and Shade Combined, NY (May 1876-March 1877). Also, letters under the name of John S. Willard, Agent, Looking Glass Manufacturer, NY (March 1877-July 1878). Includes letters attempting to settle accounts after Chase sold...