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Title

K. Straus and Company Inc. account book

Authors

• K. Straus and Company Inc
• Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Modern American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 036.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977587210803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1122543190

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1893-1894

Summary

A slim, pre-printed volume comprising the daily purchases and sales of tobacco by Philadelphia tobacco merchant K. Straus & Co. spanning a little of over one year from 1893 to February 1894. Accounts were recorded on the pre-printed pages spanning one opening. Leaf tobacco purchased was entered on the rectos and leaf tobacco sold was entered on the versos. A printed heading across top of the two-leaf opening reads: Record of leaf tobacco purchased and sold by followed by blank lines. Written In the blank spaces is K. Straus & Co. at 122 N. 3rd St. Phila. The company purchased tobacco from various merchants from around the Untied States and Havana, Cuba. K. Straus & Co. tobacco sales served chiefly patrons of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey area with occasional sales to customers in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Extent

1 volume

Provenance

• Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (eBay, September 26, 2007)
   
• Sold by eBay, September 26, 2007.
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century
• Jews--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--Sources
• Account books--19th century--Specimens
• Tobacco industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century--Sources

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, American--19th century
• Account books
• Blankbooks

Licenses

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