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Philadelphia Custom House records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0781
Abstract The Philadelphia Custom House records consist of materials generated by and related to the United States Customs Service of the Port of Philadelphia from 1779 to 1932. These records illustrate commercial and shipping interests, as well as foreign trade relations, in the United States from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The materials also highlight the growth of the U.S. Customs Service as it took on new responsibilities and wielded greater authority over the course of...
Dates: 1779-1934; Majority of material found within 1790-1900

Dutilh family business records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0573
Abstract

The late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century business records of Philadelphia merchant Etienne Dutilh and his descendants. The records include ships’ payrolls, bills of lading, bills of exchange, shipping records, and cargo insurance policies.

Dates: 1770-1861; Majority of material found within 1780-1810

Henry Fisher letter to Robert Morris

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0069
Abstract

Autograph letter from Henry Fisher, prominent Delaware figure in the American Revolution, to Robert Morris, a Founding Father often referred to as the financier of the American revolution, requesting payment to William Ware for the transport of naval cannons and other naval goods. Ware's signature acknowledges receipt of payment from Morris.

Dates: 1778 September 29-1778 October 25

David Watts Hulings papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0575
Abstract

The business records of nineteenth-century lawyer, land investor, and businessman David Watts Hulings of Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In addition to legal documents - case judgments and settlements, depositions, power of attorneys, and summonses - the collection also includes deeds, leases, letters, and bank checks.

Dates: 1796-1850

Philadelphia merchants' financial papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0811
Abstract

This collection of promissory notes, receipts, bills of exchange, and insurance documents illustrates the activities of several Philadelphia merchants between 1767 and 1845.

Dates: 1767-1845

World fairs and expositions collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises a variety of types of material documenting world fairs and expositions, spanning the dates between 1851 and 1967, with the bulk of the collection dating from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Material consists of printed matter and ephemera, including newspapers, programs, invitations, maps, brochures, viewbooks, advertisements, stationery, contracts, bonds, trade cards, and a scrapbook; photographs and prints; and realia souvenirs.

Dates: 1851-1967; Majority of material found in 1893

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Drafts (negotiable instruments) 3
Promissory notes 3
Accounts 2
Bills of exchange 2
Bills of lading 2
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Correspondence 2
Invoices 2
Negotiable instruments 2
Philadelphia (Pa.) 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Advertisements 1
Advertising fans 1
Albumen prints 1
Banks and banking--History--19th century 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Checks (bank checks) 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Coastwise shipping 1
Coffee industry--United States--History--19th century 1
Commercial documents 1
Consular documents 1
Contracts 1
Crew lists 1
Cuba--History--19th century 1
Customs administration—Officials and employees 1
Customs records 1
Decisions 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
Depositions 1
Drawbacks 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Indentures 1
Insurance policies 1
Investors 1
Invitations 1
Iron industry and trade--Pennsylvania--History--19th century 1
Judicial records 1
Juniata County (Pa.)--History--19th century 1
Kingston (Jamaica)--History--19th century 1
Lawyers 1
Lawyers--Pennsylvania--History--19th century 1
Letter books 1
Lewes (Del.) 1
London (England)--History--19th century 1
Maps (documents) 1
Marine insurance 1
Merchant mariners 1
Merchant ships 1
Merchants 1
Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia 1
Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
Mifflin County (Pa.)--History--19th century 1
Montréal (Québec)--History--20th century 1
New Orleans (La.)--History--19th century 1
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Pennants 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century 1
Photographs 1
Port-au-Prince (Haiti)--History--19th century 1
Postcards 1
Programs (documents) 1
Punch (London, England) 1
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--20th century 1
San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century 1
Scarves (costume accessories) 1
Scrapbooks 1
Seamen 1
Ship's papers 1
Shipping 1
Shipping records 1
Shipping--Finance 1
Shipping--United States--History 1
Shipping--United States--History--19th century 1
Ships' manifests 1
Souvenirs 1
Stationery 1
Stereographs 1
Stereoscopes 1
Sugar trade--United States--History--19th century 1
Summonses 1
Tariff 1
Trade cards (advertising) 1
Transatlantic voyages 1
Viewbooks 1
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Language
French 3
Dutch; Flemish 1
German 1
Portuguese 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Cramond, William 1
Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 1
Dutilh & Wachsmuth (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Dutilh family 1