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The Harmonists, a Christian Communal society, founded Old Economy Village in 1824. They were known for their piety, as well as for their economic successes in textile manufacturing, including silk production, and later in the oil and railroad industries. Old Economy Village in Ambridge, PA is the home of a great deal of information about the Harmony Society and life in general in the nineteenth century. Major topics covered by the archives and library include music, architecture, religion, business, photographs, and more.
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McCandles, Jamison & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods , Notions, ...(1885) with memorandum pages at back
McCandles, Jamison & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods , Notions, ...(1885) with memorandum pages at back
Business Accounts
Dry Goods catalog owned by Henrici & Lenz, Trustees. Last pages are a memorandum section with a variety of notes.
Memorandum Book 1815-1819
Memorandum Book 1815-1819
Business Accounts, Hired worker
Pages 1-3 list of payments, mostly to the Land Office in Vincennes and Land Office in Shawneetown; Pg 4-14 alphabetic listing of payments to individuals (hired workers?); Pg 15, 17-24 share cropping agreements (Henry Edman, Hardy Smith, Richard Harris, Thomas Owens, Charles Simons, James Owens, David Levit, Joesph Johnson, Robert Alter); Pg 14 Agreement with Adam Winkler to run a ferry; Pg 25 receipts
Memorandum Book 1816-1822
Memorandum Book 1816-1822
Business Accounts
Accounts of sales in Indiana. Also includes: contract with people willing to clear/grub land; lists of items wanted by the Harmonists (mostly from Philadelphia); lists of people with pork/hogs or cattle for sale; lists of people wanting apple or peach trees. Most pages in this book were originally inverted.
Memorandum Book 1816-1834 Grain
Memorandum Book 1816-1834 Grain
Business Accounts
Number of acres planted and amount of grains harvested (1816-1833) pg 1-6 (also some entries for grapes); Income and outlay (1820-1822) pg 8-17, 22; Cash received (1823-1824) pg 28-47 Outstanding debts (1816-1826) pg 52-66 (inverted starting from back). Handwritten English cursive except last 2 pages in old German cursive (Kurrent)
Memorandum Book 1819-1820
Memorandum Book 1819-1820
Business Accounts
Business appointments with comments as to reason/outcome. Pg 17-18 payment of bills; pg 23-24 payments. Handwritten English cursive
Memorandum Book 1819 New Orleans
Memorandum Book 1819 New Orleans
Business Accounts
List of items to be purchased in New Orleans (pg 2-17 -- includes textile dyes, spices, dry goods, sadlery). Notes on washed wool.
Memorandum Book 1821-1823
Memorandum Book 1821-1823
Business Accounts
Pg 2-11 old German cursive (Kurrent); Pg 12 1- list of monetary assets; Pg 15-37 lists of sales and purchases, note on business appointments; Pg 38-51 inventory (?) lists Mar 29 1825; Pg 52-60 German; Pg 61-81 Travel expenses and purchases.
Memorandum Book 1822-1823
Memorandum Book 1822-1823
Business Accounts
New Orleans pg 4-14 Expenses (purchases). Pg 27-18 Sales (this section was ivverted and written back to front) Handwritten English cursive
Memorandum Book 1822-1823, 1828 New Orleans
Memorandum Book 1822-1823, 1828 New Orleans
Business Accounts
Produce taken to New Orleans: Butter (pg 2-13), Fat (Pg 13-14), Whiskey (Pg 15-16), Flour (pg 17). Miscellaneous lists of items (pg 17-26), List of names (pg 27-35), Current prices at New Orleans - 1823 (pg 41), list of names (pg 44-45), German cursive (pg 46-48), miscellaneous lists including Queensware and dry goods (pg 49-57) handwritten English cursive.
Memorandum Book 1823-1831
Memorandum Book 1823-1831
Business Accounts
Memorandum of Sundry Memiors for the Store in Harmonie (IN) Sept 15, 1823. Notes on customer orders; notes of people who have items for sale and other financial transactions. Of Note: pg 9: sale of fruit trees in 1824. pg 12: sale of textile equipment. Pg 30-31 wool prices in other markets. Road tax: pg 18, 34, 36, 47-48, 56, 63-64, 71-72, 84. Inverted pages start from back: Titled: Memorandum of items wanted in the Store at (New) Harmonie Sept 15th 1823. Pg 185 to 87 Lists of items.
Memorandum Book 1824
Memorandum Book 1824
Business Accounts
Lists for purchases and sales. Notes on same. Handwritten English cursive. Written mostly in pencil. Writing is very faint.
Memorandum Book 1825-1826
Memorandum Book 1825-1826
Business Accounts
Notes on business dealings in Ohio, Kentucky (Louisville) and Indiana including travel expenses and miles traveled. Pg 39 appears to be calculations in their number code. Pg 47-48, 52-53 in German.
Memorandum Book 1826
Memorandum Book 1826
Business Accounts
Notes for possible sales or purchases. Handwritten English cursive.
Memorandum Book 1826-1827
Memorandum Book 1826-1827
Business Accounts
Notes on business dealings in Ohio, Louisville Kentucky and Indiana. Includes travel itinerary and expenses. English cursive.
Memorandum Book 1828
Memorandum Book 1828
Business Accounts
Economy Jan 28 1828. List of items wanted for the store -hardware, cutlery, dry goods. Items for the Hatters. Items for the Painter. Queensware. Groceries (mostly spices). Dyes stuffs. Items for the Tanners. Goods for Vincenees store (pg 24-28). Notes on sales/purchases Pg 30-37. Handwritten English cursive. One paragraph in old German cursive (Kurrent).
Memorandum Book 1829
Memorandum Book 1829
Business Accounts
Contains debit and credit information for Oct 1828 to May 1829. Miscellaneous notes/reminders. Handwritten English cursive
Memorandum Book 1829-1831
Memorandum Book 1829-1831
Business Accounts
Notes on business dealings in Ohio and Indiana. Back part was inverted and started from the back. pg 53-49 are the travel itinerary for the April 1830 trip. English cursive.
Memorandum Book 1830-1847
Memorandum Book 1830-1847
Business Accounts
Sundry statements Economy March 12 1830. (Includes 4 clippings. Obit for Virginia Passavant.) Various inventories -- mostly grains, cloth and whiskey scattered throughout. Costs of manufacturing various cloths. Population statistics for Pennsylvania, Beaver County, etc. Costs for soap making. List of items lost by fire (Nov 15, 1832). Poem (p 32-36) Clipping on tariffs. Officers and boards of various banks. Cattle sale prices (at Chillicothe?) List of Steubenville manufactories. Estimated pricing for a town clock. Estimate of cost of manufacturing silk. List of Pittsburgh customers. Abstract of a religion article (Pg 85-87) Clipping on wool carding prices. Pages 129-138 originally inverted and from the back. Grain amounts. pg 133- flood Feb 10 1832. Pg 138-138 in German cursive (Kurrent) Rest in English cursive.
Memorandum Book 1832 (Notizen)
Memorandum Book 1832 (Notizen)
Business Accounts
Handwritten in old German cursive (Kurrent). Notes
Memorandum Book 1833-1834 (Indiana)
Memorandum Book 1833-1834 (Indiana)
Business Accounts, Memorandum
Business accounts. Travel notes. Business notes. Calculations. English cursive