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Scott & Hutchinson records

 Collection
Identifier: Col-0052

Dates

  • Creation: 1853-1883

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

Biographical / Historical

Scott & Hutchinson was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, firm specializing in wheelwrighting and blacksmithing in the last half of the 1800s. The firm also built wagons, carts, and wheelbarrows. Their principal place of business was on Gray's Ferry Road, Philadelphia. The partners were John Scott and John Hutchinson until 1872 (when one receipt mentions the "late John Hutchinson"). Then a James Hutchinson appears in the records, as well as the name of Mrs. Mary Hutchinson.

John Scott's residence (where these papers were found between walls) was 2314 South Street, Philadelphia.

Full Extent

1.6 Cubic Feet (4 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.

Arrangement

These papers are arranged chronologically by half year, but not any more finely than that.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of John Randolph.

Summary

Consists primarily of bills and receipts for various aspects of the wheelwright and blacksmith business. There are also a fair number of records documenting building construction and what seems to be a series of real estate investments. The last box contains two hand-drawn maps, some published lithographs (in poor condition), some wallpaper scraps, and a number of student notebooks kept by sons of John Scott: William, David, and Joseph.

The papers include bills, accounts, and receipts having to do with the business of wheelwrighting and blacksmithing, with rent and taxes, and with other business and personal concerns. Among the commodities purchased, one finds lumber, paints, varnishes, coal, bricks, hardware, wagon parts. The last box contains two hand-drawn maps, some wallpaper scraps, a few lithographs (in poor condition) and student notebooks kept by William, David, and Joseph Scott, sons of John Scott.

Processing Note

Action: Accessioned--Time/Date of Action: 10/--/83

Processing Note

Action: Rehoused--Time/Date of Action: 01/--/91--Method of action: Great amounts of surface dirt brushed off every item; documents placed in acid free folders and boxes.--Action agent: KATB

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Winterthur Library Repository

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