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Manuscripts
The collection consists of the business records of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The records are made up ships' logs, waybills, manifests, personnel records, financial records, notes of protest, freight claims and other business papers. The collection also contains some records of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company.
mssPacmail
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Miscellaneous papers accumulated by the United States Customhouse in Richmond (Va.). Included are communications received from the Treasury Department and various ships' papers -- invoices and certificates for shipments of goods issued by the U. S. Consulate in England, Ireland, France, Cuba and Nova Scotia, passenger lists, declarations, agreements, contracts, etc.
mssBR Box 187
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Invoices and accounts of Brandt Schyler's business and estate. Schyler's main consigners were Isaac (1721-1784) and Nicolas (1713 - 1786) Gouverneur. The invoices list shipments of flour, nails, bread, gun powder, cocoa, cloth, thread, butter, candles, wax, and other goods to mostly to Curacao and Jamaica but also Philadelphia, and London. A 1744 entry lists "Scipio a Negro man belonging to George Gordon of Philadelphia," including "cash paid the Marshall for committing him to ye work House."
mssHM 637
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This leather-bound receipt book contains records of payments from the Guadalupe Mine to a variety of vendors for commodities and services from January 30, 1858 to September 8, 1860. The entries are signed by the venor who received payment and witnessed by one or two of the company officials. There are also some entries on slips of paper and 21 bill-headed invoices (most of which are from San Francisco companies) tipped in
mssHM 63655
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A receipt book for Southern Pacific Railroad shipping of agricultural products from California throughout the United States; the receipt book was used mainly by agent J. P. Onstott at the Yuba City and Marysville, California, stations. The book is made up of 3-part, tri-color, duplicate shipping receipts; only the first portion is completed with shipments from 1900 September to 1908 October. The volume lists shipments of raisins, grapes, and currants to San Francisco and Sacramento, California; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The receipt book also provides shipping prices during the time when the Southern Pacific Railroad dictated shipping rates because of its monopoly of railroad shipping in California. The volume has a rough weave, stained, cloth binding, with "So. Pacific R. R. Co." stamped in black on the front cover; the name "J. P. Onstott / Yuba City, Ca." is written in pencil. The spine is damaged with loss at the top and bottom, but the pages are still tightly bound; the inside front cover has the name "A. Simi / Roma winery" written in pencil.
mssHM 84118
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This manuscript is a collection of 23 receipts and bills related to the bark S.S. Peytona. The documents are dated between 1853 and 1855, and deal largely with details of shipping to and from San Franciso, California, and Portland, Oregon.
mssHM 26541