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Account book
Manuscripts
This ledger book, covered with corduroy and red leather, contains debit and payment records for the Guadalupe Mine from January 1914 through December 31, 1915. Entries are organized alphabetically by person or company with which the mine had an account or business dealings. Identified bills are for labor, equipment, and materials (livry, assay equipment, fuel, etc.), but most bills do not typically indicate the product or service.
mssHM 63656
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San Francisco company account book
Manuscripts
A brief account book kept by an unidentified San Francisco company that subcontracted for several mining companies in California in the 1860s. The ledger shows segregated payment entries between laborers of different races, represented here by white, Black, and Chinese workers. It also shows entries for printed works done by the noted printer Edward Bosqui. The volume has one tally sheet tipped in and one promise to pay agreement glued in.
mssHM 84012
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Receipt Book
Manuscripts
An autograph receipt book containing miscellaneous financial transactions from construction work to the education of his or her children in Yonkers, New York. The entries are signed by various individuals. Note, the back cover is detached.
mssHM 80240
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Receipted bills for provisioning
Manuscripts
This is a collection of seven receipts for goods transported by the steamship Polynesia. Some are inventories of cargo, and some are payment lists for various shipments.
mssHM 26542
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Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson) Field receipts to Charles Covilland
Manuscripts
These two manuscripts are receipts written by Stephen J. Field acknowledging payment received from Charles Covilland. The first receipt (HM 43202) is dated 1856, May 23, and is payment for Field's legal expertise related to property owned by Covilland. The second (HM 43203, dated 1857, April 25) is a bill to Covilland for Field's legal services and clerking fees.
mssHM 43202-43203
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Receipt book : culinary, cosmetic, medicinal and household recipes
Manuscripts
These two manuscript volumes of recipes were begun by Mrs. Elizabeth Nicolls in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and completed, amended and altered by a number of successive owners and users over the course of more than half a century. Volume 1 (1776-approx. 1815) and Volume 2 (1781-approx. 1827), are written in several hands, with numerous tipped-in manuscript notes, letters and pasted-in newspaper clippings; original vellum over pasteboards, with some damage to spines and corners. Also included, in a separate envelope, are additional leaves originally laid into the volumes and a small envelope with a lock of "Harry's Hair" (9 pieces).
mssHM 83318 (Vols. 1-2)