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Warley Bascom Sons business records
Warley Bascom Sons, 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, S.C., began the business ca. 1861; it continued u...
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| Collection: | Warley Bascom Sons Business Records |
| Collection Number: | 2030 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| 520 | |a Warley Bascom Sons, 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, S.C., began the business 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 Serjeant. 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. There are in addition a few miscellaneous family papers, including estate records. | ||
| 541 | 1 | |a Gift of Julia Serjeant Mitchell.; 1974 acquired | |
| 650 | 7 | |a African-American--Businesses |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Business History--19th Century--Philadelphia |2 Local sources | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Warley Bascom Sons Business Records |l 2030 | ||