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Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston. Provident Institution for Savings records, 1816-1873; bulk:1817-1823.

Title: Provident Institution for Savings records, 1816-1873; bulk:1817-1823.

Bills, receipts, and correspondence related to the founding and operation of the Provident Institution for Savings in Boston, the first incorporated savings bank in the United States. Includes the first bank book in the name of James Savage, 1817; printing bills from John Eliot, 1816-18, and Sewell Phelps, 1818; power of attorney of Bishop Cheverus, 1823; a treasurer's report, 1834; a receipt for a contribution to construct a fence around the Boston Common, 1836; a list of contributions of proprietors of Temple Place, n.d.; and receipts for accounting services, advertising, rent, lawyers' fees, and workmen's services.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38910589 View

Thorndike, Israel, 1755-1832. Business records, 1778-1899 (inclusive).

Title: Business records, 1778-1899 (inclusive).

The material includes letters; accounts of cargoes sold, and invoices of goods purchased at various ports; accounts current, with captains of vessels; insurance papers. In the main the papers constitute the records of a shipping merchant for the years 1778-1818. Closely allied to these papers are two boxes of material running as late as 1899, relating to the French Spoliation Claims. There are also papers relating to the Boston Sugar Refinery and the Provident Institution for Savings, Boston.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. (14 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269589099 View

Dane, Dana & Company records, 1796-1880

Title: Dane, Dana & Company records, 1796-1880

Business records of the Boston, Massachusetts based tea importing merchant firm, Dane, Dana & Co. and the Boston Sugar Refinery.

ArchivalResource: 7.25 linear ft. (15 boxes)

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Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston. Provident Institution for Savings Records, 1816-1966.

Title: Provident Institution for Savings Records, 1816-1966.

Composed of meeting minutes, photographs, publications and related business and financial records.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35863177 View

Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston. Records, 1816-1980.

Title: Records, 1816-1980.

The Provident Institution for Savings opened for business on 19 February 1817. Its purpose, according to its founders, was to promote thrift among men and women of limited means. Many customers were Irish immigrants. The signature books (1817-1882) list customers, residences, occupations, and places of birth. The papers and records of the Provident include: Publications about the bank, administrative records, financial records, customer records, investments, records of the corporation and trustees, records of the Weekly Committee, real estate, bills paid, and miscellaneous personal items, some of which belonged to one of the bank's founders, James Savage. The Shawmut Bank absorbed the Provident in 1992.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39725596 View

[Boston merchants : a collection of advertisements, commemorative pamphlets, and annual reports of Boston businesses, bound together].

Title: [Boston merchants : a collection of advertisements, commemorative pamphlets, and annual reports of Boston businesses, bound together]. 1873-1948.

ArchivalResource: 21 pamphlets bound together : ill. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52143115 View

Lowell, John, 1769-1840. Letters, 1833-1834.

Title: Letters, 1833-1834.

Includes: Letter, 1833 Nov. 4, Roxbury, to H.A.S. Dearborn, sending a pineapple that he had grown (and the first cultivated in New England), "raised on Mr. Knight's plan"; letter, 1834 Dec. 26, Boston, to Samuel Appleton, a circular letter apparently raising support for the Provident Institution for Savings.

ArchivalResource: 2 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/170925148 View