Samuel Silver accounts, 1859-1901.
Collection Number: 2269
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Samuel Silver accounts, 1859-1901.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2269
Abstract:
Business and personal papers of Samuel Silver, a glass-blower in Clayton N.J., including
record books in which he listed accounts received for blowing glass. Also, a treasurer's
book, 1890, for the glass bottle workers' union, Local Assembly #406, National Trade
Assembly #143 of the Knights of Labor, and payment authorization vouchers; genealogical
information on the Silver family; photograph of Samuel Silver, Sr.; and photocopied
miscellaneous Silver family letters. Also, "Silver Notes from South Jersey" by Samuel
F. Silver, 1992.
Creator:
Silver, Samuel.
Silver, Samuel F. (Title of work: Silver Notes from South Jersey..)
Quanitities:
13 volumes.
150 items.
Language:
Collection material in English
Business and personal papers of Samuel Silver, a glass-blower in Clayton N.J., including
record books in which he listed accounts received for blowing glass. Also, a treasurer's
book, 1890, for the glass bottle workers' union, Local Assembly #406, National Trade
Assembly #143 of the Knights of Labor, and payment authorization vouchers; genealogical
information on the Silver family; photograph of Samuel Silver, Sr.; and photocopied
miscellaneous Silver family letters. Also, "Silver Notes from South Jersey" by Samuel
F. Silver, 1992.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Samuel Silver accounts, #2269. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Knights of Labor
National Trade Assembly
Places:
Clayton (N.J.) -- Commerce.
Form and Genre Terms:
Account books.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Account books
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Scope and Contents
NOTE: Most of the account books contain two types of entries: expenditures for groceries,
household goods and supplies, clothing, drygoods, etc., in front of books; receipts
mainly for glass blowing in back of books.
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| Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Glass blowing receipts; firm not named. No expenditures for household, etc. Birth
dates of three children noted down; year of daughter's birth not same as on loose
item in folder (1860?, 1861?).
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Aug. 1859-May 1861 |
| Box 1 | Volume 2 |
John M. Moore & Company.
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Oct. 1862-Apr. 1865 |
| Box 1 | Volume 3 |
Moore Brothers. Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Queensware, Boots & Shoes, Provisions,
etc., Fislerville [later Clayton], N.J.
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Apr. 1865-Aug. 1867 |
| Box 1 | Volume 4 |
Moore Brothers.
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Sept. 1867-Mar. 1869 |
| Box 1 | Volume 5 |
Moore Brothers.
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June 1870-Dec. 1872 |
| Box 1 | Volume 6 |
Moore Brothers.
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Apr. 1875-June 1877 |
| Box 1 | Volume 7 |
Moore Brothers.
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July 1877-Oct. 1879 |
| Box 1 | Volume 8 |
Moore Brothers.
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Oct. 1881-Sept. 1883 |
| Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Fisler & Morgan Company, groceries, etc.; Woodbury Glass Works, glass blowing.
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Sept. 1883-Oct. 1886 |
| Box 1 | Volume 10 |
Moore Brothers.
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Nov. 1886-July 1887 |
| Box 1 | Volume 11 |
F.M. Pierce & Company.
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Sept. 1888-Sept. 1891 |
| Box 1 | Volume 12 |
Woodbury Glass Works. Glass blowing receipts only.
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Sept. 1896-Mar. 1901 |
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Other papers
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| Folder 1 |
Bills from tax collectors, doctors, dentists, jewelers, undertakers (n.d. May 3, 1882:
casket, black merino shroud), confectioners, coal dealers, clothing stores, sewing
machine salesman (Singer--$55), papering and painting, lumber, etc. Name DuBois appears
on several bills or receipts--perhaps son-in-law.
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1869-1900 | |
| Folder 1 |
Recipe for ham cure.
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| Folder 1 |
Remedy for rheumatism.
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| Folder 1 |
Note giving birth day of the three Silver Children (1857, 1861 [?], 1863).
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| Box 1 | Volume 13 |
Treasurer's book of Local Assembly No. 406; 4 pp. only filled. (This organization
was the local of the glass bottle workers' union, National Trade Assembly #143 of
the Knights of Labor. Pertinent corres. and Xeroxes from selected pp. of Proceedings on file in this folder.)
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Feb.-Dec. 1890 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Payment vouchers (61 items, Nos. 25-85) authorizing Silver, as treasurer of the organization,
to pay stated sum to a certain person, in most cases, George P. Pierce.
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Feb. 18, 1890-July 7, 1891 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
4 loose sheets of calculations and notes concerning dues and assessments.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Receipt.
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1890 |
| Box 1 |
10 bills.
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1894-1900 | |