Drawings

Scope and Contents

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.

Content Description

A collection of 35 design drawings for leather screens, many on George D. Thompson & Co. letterhead. Most have been colored, and feature designs in the renaissance revival, rococo revival, and Chinoiserie styles. Many include dimensions and prices.

Of note is one design that features a Black person as an umbrella bearer within a rococo revival scene.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of drawings, mostly watercolor, for a wide variety of silver work and jewelry, including designs of reproduction English and colonial pieces, as well as original designs showing the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement.  Over half of the drawings show tea and coffee services, including creamers, sugar bowls, and waste bowls.  There are, in addition, depictions of pitchers, candlesticks, plaques, frames, urns, and ceremonial cups.  Some of the leaves are...

Content Description

Cyphering book kept by Job Shrev (also spelled Shreve), and dated 1805. The cyphering book covers mathematical topics such as simple interest, rebate or discount, barter, fellowship, loss and gains, exchange, vulgar fractions, and addition and subtraction of vulgar fractions. There are small drawings throughout, and at the bottom of page 108 is a draft of a short letter to an acquaintance noting a visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a lack of good skating.

Scope and Contents Collection consists of 5 out of at least 9 volumes of clippings, drawings, and excerpts kept by Besson in Philadelphia between 1813 and 1857. Collection includes numbered volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, and 9. The contents range from historical anecdotes; to a list of Philadelphia's mayors between 1701 and 1820; to cures for such things as "the Bite of a mad dog" or "the Polypus in the nose"; to a diagram showing the arrangement of Philadelphia's wards; to census summaries. The volume marked "No. 5" has...

Content Description A cyphering book kept by Nancy Cogswell, which she titled Nancy Cogswell's Book of Canterbury and dated January 8th, 1821. Topics covered include simple and compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, money, weights, and measures. The pages of the cypering book are loose in a paper wrapper, and also include several watercolor drawings, as well as a letter dated May 1st, 1826 written by Amos Cogswell and Laura Adams regarding the death of a man named...

Scope and Contents Contains business records that illustrate Williamson's thriving business as a Philadelphia silversmith. Includes both ledgers (1800-1811 and 1810-1813) and daybook (1803-1810), and--on microfilm--memorandum book/order book, ledger/cashbook, and loose documents. Sample entries include: "To 6 Doz. Table spoons...202.14;" "To 6 Foot of Gold Chain...12.00;" "To Plain Coffee pot...83.57;" "To 1 Mustard Spoon...1.26;" "To 10 boxes of Sugar;"...

Scope and Contents The Ineson papers were generated in the course of building his silver spoon collection. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondence, including orders, inquiries, requests for appraisals, and more general correspondence. The rest of the collection consists of subject files, clippings, lists of silversmiths, rubbings of touchmarks, photographs of silver, and wax impressions of touchmarks from the backs of silver spoons. Stanley Ineson advertised for old silver spoons in a...