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Account book

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1914-1915.
Call number: mssHM 63656
Creator: Guadalupe Mine (Santa Clara County, Calif.)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Robert Philippi, May 1998.

Receipt book

Manuscripts

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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Account book of Brig John Freeman

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This account book contains the expenses of building and outfitting the ship, a list of the owners with their shares, recorded receipts and expenditures, and dividends paid to the owners. In the volume is a letter (1865, March 10) regarding payment of dividends to the ship's owners.

mssHM 74898

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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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Account Books/Diaries

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The Diaries/Account Books series consists of holographic account books and diaries kept by Sproston and/or his clients from 1856-1879. The Correspondence series (ca.1875-1883) includes business and personal letters that Sproston received and sent to others. The series also includes correspondence between clients and a small amount of letters that are addressed to Mary E. Sproston. The Legal Documents series is divided into three subseries: Financial Records, Indentures, and Stock Certificates. The Financial Records subseries ranges from 1868 to 1885 and includes receipts, account statements, billheads, checks, and money orders in regards to the estate of F. J. (Frances Joseph) Hammell, a client of Sproston. The subseries also includes receipts regarding the tuition payment of Hannah Sproston's education and room and board, as well as a receipt verifying the payment of Sproston's life insurance policy.

mssSproston papers

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Thomas T. Eckert manuscript account book

Manuscripts

Small pocket diary (Cambridgeport, Mass: Denton & Wood.), with Eckert's daily accounts for the year 1863. Included are: records of Eckert's personal income and expenses, the latter covering lodging at Willard's Hotel, newspapers, cigars, drinks, clothing, presents, etc. Also included are payments for photographs: on January 1, 1863, he "sat for my likeness at Brady's;" on February 14, there is a record of payment to the Brady studio for a photograph of Albert V. Colburn. There are also miscellaneous records of accounts with Jeptha H. Wade, Anson Stager, George B. McClellan, and others.

mssHM 83418

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Account book and time book for the Rockdale Mining Company

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The volume contains an account book and time book for the Rockdale Mining Company in Blackhawk, Colorado. The time book, which covers 1864 and 1865, contains the names of employees, hours worked, days worked, and wages earned for several mines including the Leavenworth Gulch, the Calhoun Lode, and the Harsh Lode. The rest of the volume contains financial account information from 1875 to 1881

mssHM 66488

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