MSS. Manuscript Collection
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Belcher Hancock Society of the Cincinnati certificate
Society of Cincinnati certificate for Belcher Hancock, signed by George Washington.
Hammersley & Co. porcelain order books
Two Hammersley & Co. porcelain order books, covering the dates of February 1910 through March 1920 and March 1920 through 1925. Each order contains the name of the purchaser, a partial design drawing of the design ordered, some of which are colored, and a breakdown of cost by element. Customers that are listed are primarily British, induding Harrods Department Store, J. Goode & Co., Whyte & Son Ltd. Dublin, J.A. Nisbet of Edinburgh, and Civil Service Supply.
Furniture maker's account book
Furniture maker's account book from Marlborough, Massachusetts, dated 1826- 1840, possibly kept by Mark or George Fay. Entries include charges for a day's work, painting of designs, and various items of furniture, including desks, trunks, painting, bedsteads, bureaus, tables. Also included are other items such as coffins.
William Appleton and Company ledger
Ledger of Boston shipping merchants William Appleton and Company detailing transactions that took place between 1836 and 1842. Accounts include tea speculation, shipments of goods to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Liverpool Packet Co. shipments to Havana, Cuba. Following the ledger entries, the ledger was used for children's drawings of American Civil War battle maps, as well as used as a scrapbook containing various maps of the United States and material related to American territories.
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania merchant ledger
Ledger of an unknown Lebanon County, Pennsylvania merchant, dated 1791-1794. The ledger details the sale of various goods such as silks and other fabrics, ribbons and threads, rum and spirits, tea, buckwheat, and other consumables, pewter plates, and other various dry good. Several customers were listed as having there "boy" with them, which may be in reference to a Black servant or enslaved person.
Throughout the ledger, various accounts are marked by small slips of paper.
Collection of tintype portraits of Black Americans
Fifteen tintype portraits of Black Americans by an unknown photographer.
Nathan and Marcus Stoddard account book
Account book of brothers Nathan and Marcus Stoddard of Templeton, MA, containing records of blacksmithing work performed February 1846 through July 1864. Accounts primarily consist of blacksmithing jobs such as horse shoeing, sharpening chisels, repairing chains, and mending items including forks, buggies, and sleighs.
Cabinet maker's day book
Grace Gardiner Smith scrapbook
Scrapbook created by Grace Gardiner Smith, assembled at around age 10. Contents include various chromolithograph scrap cutouts, trade cards, and greeting cards.
Consolidated Lithographing Corp. scrapbook
Scrapbook containing examples of products printed by the Consolidated Lithographing Corp. between 1943 and 1957. Products represented in this volume include labels, containers, advertising fliers, certificates, greeting cards, clock and watch faces, menus, and playing cards.