July 1857(three Morris Canal Check Rolls; Jersey City Gas Light Co. gas bill to Morris Canal Co.; invoice for boat agent service; invoice for lime bought from J. and C.H. O’Neill; receipts from Lewis Audenried; F. Hazard; Franklin Ferguson for advertisement in N.J. Dollar newspaper; two applications for Morris Canal drawbacks, iron purchased from T. B. Coddington & Co., J. F. Randolph & Co. for drawback, W. H. Talcott receipt for $500 paid by Morris Canal Co., receipts for advertisements from Joseph Mackey the United States Economist and Wm Rice per Thomas McNamara the The Pennsylvanian; invoice from Hudson River Cement Co. for barrels of cement; receipt from A. Pardee Co.; invoice for bricks from David Weed; receipt from C. E. Detmold Canal Boat 147; four receipts for dunnage; order to Daily Sentinel Office, three receipt for drawback)
Scope and Contents of the Collection
This collection contains 337 paper items including various receipts, bills of lading, tariff and tolls, checks, paycheck ledgers, business correspondence and two maps. The span of time represents approximately 50 years from 1827 to 1893. The years 1854, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1863 and 1864 represent the largest amount of transactions. Some years have no represented paper transactions. The 1827 map (a Photostat copy) is of a map at one time located in the Morris Canal Office at Phillipsburg, N.J. The 1893 map (blue print) has indications that this map is from the Lehigh Valley Railroad office in Jersey City, N.J. The 335 pieces of paper represent the various aspects of Nineteenth Century business and banking practice. The collection was originally filed in a box identified as 627.13 M875 Morris Canal pamphlets.
Dates
- Creation: 1843-1864
Creator
- From the Collection: Morris Canal and Banking Company (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions:
Collection housed remotely. Users need to contact 24 hours in advance.
Extent
From the Collection: 1.0 box, 0.5 linear feet
Repository Details
Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository
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