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Receipt book

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Description: 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
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1858-1860.
Call number: mssHM 63655
Creator: Guadalupe Mine (Santa Clara County, Calif.)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Richard Phillipi, May 1998.

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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Receipt Book

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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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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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Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford, account book

Manuscripts

A manuscript volume containing the current accounts for Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford, covering the years 1850 January 1-1858 December 31, with his bank Child & Co., London, England. The volume is divided into incoming funds on versos and sums paid on rectos and in some cases very large sums of money are recorded (£ 259,431); entries include, for example, income from Covent Garden Market and payments for kitchen gardens. The entries provide insights into the life of one of England's highest ranked peers. The volume is in very good condition, with contemporary vellum covers; the pages are ruled in red with entries mainly in one hand. The covers contain the title: "His Grace / the Duke of Bedford / Current Account / From 1st Jany / To 31st Decr 1858."

mssHM 83789

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Account book of the estate of Peter Jefferson

Manuscripts

An account book marked "Albemarle County" that covers the period from Aug. 26, 1757 to September 1765 kept by an executor of Peter Jefferson's estate, most likely John Harive (1706-1767). The miscellaneous accounts entered on a semi-regular basis reflect settling of Peter Jefferson's estate; entries include payments to the Surveyor's Office and the College of William and Mary.

mssHM 912

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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)

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