Claude W. Unger collection

A miscellaneous section contains single items and small groups of papers of approximately 700 individuals. There are large groups of papers of Philadelphia merchants including: Richard Ashhurst and Sons, particularly in regard to its business in Tennessee; and Dutilh and Wachsmuth. Additional grou...

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Main Author: Unger, Claude W. 1882-1945 (Creator)
Collection:Claude W. Unger Collection
Collection Number:1860B
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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Physical Description: 10.0 Linear feet 10 linear feet, 24 boxes, 4500 items
Summary: A miscellaneous section contains single items and small groups of papers of approximately 700 individuals. There are large groups of papers of Philadelphia merchants including: Richard Ashhurst and Sons, particularly in regard to its business in Tennessee; and Dutilh and Wachsmuth. Additional groups of papers are: Manuel Eyre, also an early 19th century Philadelphia shipping merchant, correspondence and accounts on property development of Delaware City and other Delaware land interests, farming, and several voyages of the Charleston Packet to France and the West Indies; George Louis de Stockar, merchant of Nantes, France, incoming letters, 1760- 1796; Philadelphia surveyors papers used to make assessments for paving streets and for the Watering Department in the 1830's and 1840's, giving block by block measurements of street frontage in the Northern Liberties; and miscellaneous legal papers including some Berks County court records and John M. Read legal notes. George Louis de Stockar incoming correspondence in French and German.