- unitid
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{"value"=>"24608", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b12035509", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 24608", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1726-1950", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1726/1950"}
{"value"=>"1750-1900", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1750/1900"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Mercantile collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 boxes, 1 oversize folder", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3.06 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Manuscripts and Archives</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"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."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
{"value"=>"Includes items in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish."}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Two series: I. Personal and corporate names; II. Subjects, titles and formats</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Revised by Susan P. Waide", "date"=>"2018-07-11"}
- date_start
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1726
- keydate
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1726
- date_end
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1950
- date_inclusive_start
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1726
- date_inclusive_end
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1950
- date_bulk_start
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1750
- date_bulk_end
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1900
- extent_statement
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3.06 linear feet (7 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Mercantile collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Mercantile collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/24608#c1517041'>Personal and corporate names</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/24608#c1517088'>Subjects, titles and formats</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}