Business records, 1881-1970 (inclusive), 1889-1923 (bulk).

ArchivalResource

Business records, 1881-1970 (inclusive), 1889-1923 (bulk).

Included in the records are: order books, 1902-1923; customer list, 1907-1908; list of rental properties, 1898-1901, with lists of accounts receivable, 1897-1904; cashbook, 1944, 1953; payroll book, 1917-1922; bank books, 1889-1906; loose receipts, 1881-1882,

ca. 75 items and.16 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6727274

Related Entities

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Bascom, Josephine Davis, -1925

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Bascom, Edgar, d. 1961.

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Bascom, Warley, Jr.

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Sarjeant, Ethel Bascom, d. 1974.

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Bascom, William, d. 1951.

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Warley Bascom Son.

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This company, specializing in general upholstering, interior decorations, and cabinet work, became one of the oldest and longest lived businesses owned and run by blacks in Philadelphia. Mattress-maker Warley Bascom, a freeman from Charleston, South Carolina, began the busines ca. 1861; it continued under family management until 1974, managed successively by Warley Bascom, Jr., his wife, Josephine Davis Bascom, and their children William, Edgar, and Ethel Bascom Sarjeant. From the de...

Bascom, Warley, Jr.

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