Sebastian Zimmerman receipt book, 1812-1813

Name:

Zimmerman, Sebastian, 19th century

Timespan:

19th century

Date:

1812

Description:

An oblong, leather-bound volume containing receipts of payment to various people and companies in Philadelphia spanning one year from 1812 to 1813. The handwritten receipts are signed by the vendor or person. Recorded in the volume are some payments to Jewish merchants and businesses such as, Isaac Jacob Levy and Jacob Mayer for Montmollin and Moses auctioneers. Other payees include Hallowell & Satterthwaite, Joseph Lippincott, and Passmore & Sperry. Payments were made for barrels of brandy, rum, vinegar, apple whiskey, and rye whiskey; quantities of flour, oil, mackerel, salt, and shad. One receipt is pasted in the volume. The receipts in the volume are written parallel to the spine in the manner of a note pad. leaves have been cut out from the beginning and end of the volume. On front cover: Receipt book.

Identifier:

2006.12.26.01025; UPENNLIB_9977495030403681

Language:

English

Provenance:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.01025).; Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.; Kaplan, Deanne, donor.

Subject:

Jewish merchants -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century; Jewish merchants

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); receipts (financial records); Manuscripts, American; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 volume

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, MS 56, Codex 012.1

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)