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Title

Sebastian Zimmerman receipt book

Authors

• Zimmerman, Sebastian, 19th century

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 012.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977495030403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1189785908
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3513v16q

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1812-1813

Summary

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.

Extent

1 volume

Provenance

• Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.01025).
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish merchants--Pennsylvania--19th century
• Jewish merchants
• Pennsylvania

Genres

• Codices
• Receipts (financial records)
• Manuscripts, American

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Front cover — Receipt book