Research Catalog
Mercantile collection.
- Title
- Mercantile collection.
- Publication
- 1726-1950, bulk 1750-1900.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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8 Items
| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 box 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 2 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 box 2 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 3 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 box 3 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 4 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 box 4 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 5 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 box 5 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 6 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 box 6 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | box 7 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 box 7 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | oversize_folder 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 24608 oversize_folder 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 3.06 linear feet (7 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Summary
- The Mercantile Collection, 1726-1950, is a synthetic collection documenting mercantile and other business activities from the early-17th to the mid-20th centuries, especially in the northeastern United States. It consists of papers and records created by persons, firms, and companies engaged chiefly in trade, finance, insurance, mining, railroad management, shipping, and whaling. A few items pertain to manufacturing and real estate. Transatlantic commerce in the colonial and early-national period, and the early railroad industry in America, are strongly represented. Notable material includes the assorted papers of New York City and Philadelphia merchants, among them members of the Pemberton family of Philadelphia; Vice-Admiralty court proceedings; and the incomplete ledger of an 18th-century New York City druggist.
- Subjects
- Business records
- Railroads > Cuba
- Mercantile system
- Mariners
- Technical drawings
- Accounts
- Pharmacy > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century
- United States > History > 1783-1865
- United States > History > 1865-
- Merchants > Great Britain
- Real property > United States
- Prize law > Great Britain
- Banks and banking > United States
- Businessmen
- United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
- Commercial correspondence
- New York (N.Y.) > Commerce
- Railroads > United States
- Shipowners
- Stock certificates
- Menus
- Privateering
- Mining corporations
- Insurance > United States
- Photographs
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > Commerce
- International trade
- Whaling
- Shipping > United States
- United States > Commerce
- Property records
- United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Ship captains
- Merchants > United States
- Account books
- Legal instruments
- Shipping records
- Genre/Form
- Account books.
- Accounts.
- Business records.
- Commercial correspondence.
- Legal instruments.
- Menus.
- Photographs.
- Property records.
- Shipping records.
- Stock certificates.
- Technical drawings.
- Source (note)
- The Mercantile Collection was compiled over time from various purchases and donations made in the late-19th and 20th centuries, including transfers from the Duyckinck Collection, the Emmet Collection, the Ford Collection, the Sabin Collection and the Thomas J. Taylor Collection.
- Language (note)
- Includes items in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
- Processing Action (note)
- The collection received an accession-level description in 1986. In 2017-2018 a number of small collections were removed for separate description and access, and the main finding aid was revised. The collection's original arrangement in two series was retained.
- Call Number
- MssCol 24608
- OCLC
- 122517785
- Title
- Mercantile collection.
- Production
- 1726-1950, bulk 1750-1900.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheetvolume
- Language
- Includes items in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
- Processing Action
- The collection received an accession-level description in 1986. In 2017-2018 a number of small collections were removed for separate description and access, and the main finding aid was revised. The collection's original arrangement in two series was retained.
- Source
- The Mercantile Collection was compiled over time from various purchases and donations made in the late-19th and 20th centuries, including transfers from the Duyckinck Collection, the Emmet Collection, the Ford Collection, the Sabin Collection and the Thomas J. Taylor Collection.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Businessmen.Mariners.Merchants.Ship captains.Shipowners.
- Added Author
- Duyckinck Collection.Emmet Collection.Ford Collection.Sabin Collection.Thomas J. Taylor Collection.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 24608