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Giuseppe Capovilla trade catalog manuscript
Collection — Container: Doc-72
Identifier: Doc-72
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...
Dates:
1848 - 1852
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Hall Slack Papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-14
Abstract
Personal and professional papers of Hall Slack, a wheelwright from Chester County, Pennsylvania and Cecil County, Maryland.
Dates:
1843 - 1893
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Hazen Richardson account book
Collection — Container: Doc-78
Identifier: Doc-78
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...
Dates:
1817 - 1822
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Hull & Bowne receipt book
Collection — Container: Doc-32
Identifier: Doc-32
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...
Dates:
1800-1811
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Jeremiah and William Fife account books
Collection — Container: Doc-80
Identifier: Doc-80
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...
Dates:
1810 - 1870
Found in:
Winterthur Library
John Jutau receipt book
Collection — Container: Doc-172
Identifier: Doc-172
Scope and Contents
Contains signed receipts from people for whom Jutau auctioned merchandise. The receipts are dated 7 June to 21 October 1784. A wide variety of goods were auctioned, ranging from household and personal items, to produce, to the ever popular "sundries." More specifically, auctioned items include beds, shoes, buckles, barrels of nails, gold watches, linens, silk handkerchiefs, watch keys, chaises, "paper hangs," horses, wine, indigo, gin, cotton, gauze, cordage, turpentine, sugar, cider, and...
Dates:
1784 - 1835; Majority of material found within 1784
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Joseph Sansom silhouette albums
Collection — Container: Doc-52
Identifier: Doc-52
Scope and Contents
Consists of ink silhouette portraits bound in two separately titled volumes, dated 1790-1800. Death dates added in vol. 2 as late as 1825 indicate that these volumes had an active life after date of creation. Volume 1 is titled An Occasional Collection of Physiognomical Sketches, chiefly North American, and drawn from the life; designed to preserve the characteristic features of personally, mentally, or officially Remarkable Persons, and the endeared memory of Private Friends or Public...
Dates:
1790 - 1800
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Kate Huxley crochet patterns and samples
Collection
Identifier: Col-133
Scope and Contents
Consists of an album with eleven detailed pen and ink drawings of crochet patterns created by Kate Huxley in 1848 along with approximately 150 crochet and lace samples. The album and three of the samples include descriptive notes about crocheting. A doll's hat, edgings, accessories, and hair pin lace are found among the samples. Printed patterns and instructions for crocheting from the 1930s round out the collection. One was produced by Clark's O.N.T. and others were gathered from French...
Dates:
1848 - c.1940
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Ledger "A" and "B"
Collection
Identifier: Col-1019
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...
Dates:
1836
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Ludwig Denig picture Bible
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Col-1021
Scope and Contents
The Denig picture Bible is separated into six sections: a family register, seventeen emblem pictures with accompanying devotional text, an illustration of the martyrdom of John the Baptist with accompanying text, twenty-eight illustrations of scenes from the Passion of Christ, fourteen illustrations of the Martyrdom of the Apostles, and a series of hymns. Denig's illustrations combine Christian religious imagery with elements from his lived experience during the Revolutionary...
Dates:
1784
Found in:
Winterthur Library