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Rahm & Baum ledger
Collection — Container: Fol-21
Identifier: Fol-21
Scope and Contents
Records debits and credits accrued by Rahm & Baum in the operation of their store. The firm offered a wide range of products to its customers, including flax, whiskey, salt, window glass, "sundries," potash, decanters, coffee, nails, sets of teaware, shoes, textiles, etc. Other expenses documented include the cost of a carriage from Philadelphia, work at a store in Middletown, and hauling between Middletown and Hummelstown. Many of the entries contain a dollar amount owed and the phrase...
Dates:
1791 - 1796
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Recollections of a septuaginarian
Collection — Container: Doc-30
Identifier: Doc-30
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...
Dates:
[1866?]-1881
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Ruth Ellen Lord papers
Collection
Identifier: WA-33
Content Description
This collection consists of correspondence, copies of talks that she gave, and a large amount of research for her books. There are also seven volumes of compliments on her book about her father.
Dates:
1924 - 2014
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Shaker Hymnals Collection
Collection
Identifier: ASC-Hymnals
Abstract
116 hymnbooks (or hymnals) compiled by members of American Shaker communities between 1808 and 1935.
Dates:
1808-1935
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Taylor family papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-2
Scope and Contents
The collection contains manuscript and printed material tracing the growth and development of the Taylor family in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The documents include an inventory of Peter Taylor's estate, dated 1720; a copy of an appraisement of the goods and chattels of Nathan Taylor, dated 1800; and account books of Ezra Taylor's butchering business dated 1814-1819. Supporting documents include a scrapbook of bonds, deeds, notes, bills, receipts, and the like that relate to Peter...
Dates:
1720-1950
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Toy catalog
Collection — Container: Doc-171
Identifier: Doc -171
Scope and Contents
Consists of numbered illustrations showing baskets, glassware, a wide variety of toys, and a few other items. This German sample book, or catalog, opens with 11 pages of illustrated baskets, 3 styles of straw hats for men, various kinds of trim, and glassware (jars, beads, bottles, flasks, thermometers and other scientific implements, mirrors, and pipe bowls). Then, in the second part, 25 full and some partial leaves of illustrated dolls, games, play sets, and toys--shown at one sixth full...
Dates:
approximately 1840
Found in:
Winterthur Library
William B. Geyer receipt book
Collection — Container: Doc-82
Identifier: Doc-82
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...
Dates:
1834 - 1855
Found in:
Winterthur Library