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Work-Book No. 2 : Commencing Anno 1759

Title
  1. Work-Book No. 2 : Commencing Anno 1759 / Franklin and Hall, 1759-1766, 1782-1789.
Supplementary content
  1. Collection guide
Author
  1. B. Franklin and D. Hall (Firm)

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Additional authors
  1. Hall & Sellers.
Description
  1. .1 linear foot (1 box)
Summary
  1. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was a printer, writer, scientist, and statesman. David Hall (1714-1772) was a Scottish-American printer, bookseller, and stationer. The printing partnership of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania existed from January 1748 through January 1766. Work-Book no. 2 (1 volume) is an account book of the Philadelphia printing firm of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, dated 1759 August 2-1766 January 30. Charges for printing include advertisements in the Pennsylvania Gazette, legal and business forms, political items, and proclamations and other notices for the Pennsylvania government. The volume also contains a list of jobs, 1782-1789, arranged alphabetically by first initial of the account name and chronologically within, presumably created by the successor firm of Hall and Sellers.
Subject
  1. Account books
  2. Publishers and publishing > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  3. Hall, David, 1714-1772
  4. Printers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  5. Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  6. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Genre/Form
  1. Account books.
Call number
  1. MssCol 24158
Access (note)
  1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Indexed in (note)
  1. Miller, C. William. Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia printing, 1728-1766; a descriptive bibliography. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 102. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1974.
Source (note)
  1. Donated by Edward S. Harkness, 1929.
Publications (note)
  1. Eddy, George Simpson. "A Work Book of the Printing House of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, 1759-1766." Bulletin of The New York Public Library 34, no. 8 (August 1930): 575-589.
Author
  1. B. Franklin and D. Hall (Firm)
Title
  1. Work-Book No. 2 : Commencing Anno 1759 / Franklin and Hall, 1759-1766, 1782-1789.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Restricted access
  1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Indexed in:
  1. Miller, C. William. Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia printing, 1728-1766; a descriptive bibliography. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 102. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1974.
Publications
  1. Eddy, George Simpson. "A Work Book of the Printing House of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, 1759-1766." Bulletin of The New York Public Library 34, no. 8 (August 1930): 575-589.
Source
  1. Donated by Edward S. Harkness, 1929.
Connect to:
  1. Collection guide
Added author
  1. Hall & Sellers.
Research call number
  1. MssCol 24158
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