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M'Carty & Davis. Papers, 1816-1842.

Title: Papers, 1816-1842.

This collection consists of the business papers of M'Carty & Davis, with most of the items being correspondence to M'Carty & Davis from booksellers, bookbinders, printers, paper manufacturers, engravers, shipping firms, and customers. There are gaps in the chronological coverage. The early materials also include business correspondence to Benjamin Warner and receipts signed by him. Scattered throughout the collection are announcements of publications (usually indexed in the card catalog by publisher and not by author) and petitions by laborers in the book business related to working conditions (many of which are indexed under "labor petitions"). While most of the indexing was by personal name, the following are some of the subject headings that were used: binders' list, compositors, post office, pressmen, printers' prices, proposals, stereotyping, temperance cook book. The items, which cover the period 1816-1825, in boxes one through eleven were previously housed in folio volumes one through nine. The items, which cover the periods 1832, 1836-1837, and 1839-1842, were previously housed in boxes one through six. There are two folio volumes that were not indexed. The first in an Order Book with entries from 1 October 1830-July 1832. The second is Accounts Due, c. 1823-c. 1828, which lists the credit granted by M'Carty & Davis to bookdealers. In most cases there are notations of the dates when the debts were settled. This volume includes sample engravings by Francis Kearny (1785-1837) for an edition of Ivanhoe from drawings by Richard Westall (1765-1836). There is one engraving of a dog by R. Crane and J. Boyd. There is also a sample excerpt from The Port Folio (a monthly magazine for which McCarty & Davis acted as agents, not publishers) and a subscription announcement for the magazine. The folder contains mostly fragments from the various volumes.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes.2 v. ; folio.1 folder.

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United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

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Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825. ALS : Dumfries, Va., to Jacob Johnson, Kimber & Co., 1815 Apr. 13.

Title: ALS : Dumfries, Va., to Jacob Johnson, Kimber & Co., 1815 Apr. 13.

Weems offers to sell the firm's maps on commission.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489377 View