Account book of the sloop Victory

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unitid

{"value"=>"MssCol 3537", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"3537", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Account book of the sloop Victory"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1841-1860", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1841/1860"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 v. (53 leaves)"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"16 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1841

date_inclusive_end

1860

origination

{"value"=>"Victory (Sloop)", "type"=>"corpname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>The sloop Victory of Glasco, Ulster County, N.Y. was owned by John V.L. Overbagh and William Thorp in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. In the late 1860s they sold the sloop to Captain Ira Cooper of Athens, N.Y.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The owners' account book, in chronological order by year, lists expenses and income from hauling brick, stone, coal and other commodities on the Hudson River, listing frequent dockage charges for New York. Credit entries record the amount and kind of freight, name of customer and income by trip.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"MSS 38M38"}

{"method"=>"Purchased from", "source"=>"Irving Levy", "date"=>"1938", "value"=>"Purchased from, Irving Levy, 1938"}

altformavail

{"value"=>"<p>Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-360</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>The ownership of the Victory is described in: William E. Verplanck and Moses Collyer, The sloops of the Hudson (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1908): pp. 56-57, 62</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1841

prefercite

{"value"=>"Account book of the sloop Victory, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"The sloop Victory of Glasco, Ulster County, N.Y. was owned by John V.L. Overbagh and William Thorp in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. In the late 1860s they sold the sloop to Captain Ira Cooper of Athens, N.Y. The owners' account book, in chronological order by year, lists expenses and income from hauling brick, stone, coal and other commodities on the Hudson River, listing frequent dockage charges for New York. Credit entries record the amount and kind of freight, name of customer and income by trip.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 v. (53 leaves), 16 cm; 1 v. (53 leaves), 16 cm

date_start

1841

date_end

1860

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