The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Hoopes, Edward

Title: Bills and receipts

Dates: 1842-1853;1842-1844 (bulk dates).

Call No.: Col. 464

Acc. No.: 74x307

Quantity: around 130 items

Location: 34 K 3

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

In the early 1840s, Edward Hoopes was working in West Chester, Pennsylvania, probably running a dry goods or general store. In 1846, he along with James W. Linville began the business of E. Hoopes & Co., located at 305 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland. They were importers and dealers in hosiery, gloves, trimmings, silk, and fancy goods. However, the business was short-lived; neither Hoopes nor Linville were listed in the 1849/50 Baltimore directory. Hoopes may have returned to West Chester, although he is not listed in the 1857 directory for that town. Most of the bills date from the years of the West Chester store, and most of the goods were purchased in Philadelphia. Hoopes probably had a son named Alfred.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

A collection of bills and receipts, mostly addressed to Edward Hoopes, who kept a store in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He bought brushes, fabrics, rope, and hardware. Among the kinds of rope purchased were twine, bed lacings, sacking bottoms, sash cord, and clothes lines. He purchased tooth, shoe, scrub, shaving, wall, and sweeping brushes. Among the kinds of textiles purchased were cashmere, silk, wool, satin, rich mourning velvet, black alpaca, striped lawn, furniture print, and others. Also bought were lace, fringe, insertions, shawls, and gloves. Some tool and hardware items were bought, including scythes, hay forks, knives, and trunk locks. Hoopes stocked his store with men’s and children’s hats and overshoes for men and women, and he made occasional buying trips to Philadelphia as evidenced by bills from the Red Lion Hotel on Market Street.

The collection includes a small group of bills from the Baltimore firm of E. Hoopes & Co. The company sold textiles, combs, fringe, whalebone husks, corset laces, gloves, buttons, purse clasps, shawl pins, various kinds of brushes, hair pins, coral beads, combs, and other items. A few miscellaneous bills in the collection seem to be for personal expenses, including a bill for lumber, a tuition bill for Alfred Hoopes, a stove, and carpeting. A few bills, such as those for flower and vegetable seeds and for wallpaper, could have been for personal use or for items to sell in the store. Most of the bills are on printed billheads.

ORGANIZATION

The bills are arranged by category of items purchased. A name index to the bills is appended to this finding aid.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from W. Pennebaker.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Linville, James W.

Topics:

E. Hoopes & Co. (Baltimore, Md.)

Brooms and brushes - Prices.

Rope - Prices.

Textile fabrics - Prices - 19th century.

Dress accessories - Prices - 19th century.

Hats - Prices.

Shoes - Prices.

Education - Finance - 19th century.

Seeds - Prices.

Dry-goods - Pennsylvania.

Dry-goods - Maryland.

Umbrella industry.

Taverns (Inns) - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.

Invoices.

Receipts (Acknowledgments).

Brushmakers.

Ropemakers.

Merchants - Pennsylvania - West Chester.

Merchants - Maryland - Baltimore.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 34 K 3

Folder 1: Rope, bought from George Weaver, 1842-1844 (acc. 74x307.105-.114)

Weaver was a rope maker and ship chandler, located at 13 North Water Street, Philadelphia; Hoopes bought cotton twine, Manila clothes line, bed lacings and cord, sacking bottoms, and other kinds of rope.

Folder 2: Brushes, 1842-1844 (74x307.15-.17, .19-.21, .71, .78-.83)

Hoopes bought brushes from several Philadelphia merchants; he bought tooth, shoe, shaving, dust, sweeping, and wall brushes, hand scrubs, brooms, whisks, and a backgammon board.

Folder 3: Dry-goods, 1842-1844 (74x307.22-.27, .50, .52-.70, .72-.73, .75-.76, .84, .115-.125)

Hoopes bought from several Philadelphia merchants, but particularly from W. & R.P. Remington and Wright & Brothers. In addition to textile fabrics, he purchased trims: edging, insertion, braid, fringe, etc. He also bought gloves, shawls, blankets, cravats, reticules, parasols, and other dress accessories.

Folder 4: Food, 1842-1843, 1850 (74x307.2-.6, .44, .46, -.47, .103-.104)

Hoopes purchased food items from several Philadelphia merchants, but especially Wm. E. & Ann Bladen, from whom he bought crackers. He also bought raisins, sweet potatoes, and pickling vinegar.

Folder 5: Hotel bills, 1843-1844, (74x307.7-.13)

Hoopes stayed at Christian Brower’s Red Lion Hotel on Market St., Philadelphia, probably while on purchasing trips.

Folder 6: Hardware, 1842, 1850, 1851 (74x307.28, .38, .126-.133)

From B. H. Yarnall of Philadelphia, Hoopes bought farm tools, latches, door springs, and other items. In 1850, he bought a pair of truck frames, many pounds of bumper castings, and washers from Thomas Henry of Midway. Although Hoopes & Townsend of Wilmington were hardware dealers, Hoopes actually bought potatoes and barrels from them in 1851.

Folder 7: Hats and shoes, 1842-1845 (74x307.85-.102)

Hoopes bought shoes and hats for men, women, and children from Solomon Townsend of Philadelphia.

Folder 8: miscellaneous items, 1840-1850 (74x307.1, .14, .18, .29, .39-.43, .45, .48, .49, .51, .74, .77)

Bills for shipping, carpeting, a stove, lumber, for making and trimming a banner, tassels, printing cards, fringe, vegetable seeds, wallpaper, buttons, etc. As well, there is one bill for tuition for Alfred Hoopes, plus charges for two books and for washing. The tuition bill is from Joseph C. Strode.

Folder 9: bills to others; accounts (74x307.30-.37)

All these are on billheads for E. Hoopes & Co. of Baltimore. Accessions .30-.31 list names of merchants and customers and amounts owed. These names are not listed in the index appended to this finding aid. The other bills show sales of binding, textiles, pins, combs, flowers, hairpins, carnelian hearts, purse clasps, beads, shaving brushes, buttons, whalebone busks, soap, and other goods.

Index to Col. 464, acc. 74x307.1-.29, .32-.133.

(Acc. 74x307.30-.31 lists names of other merchants dealing with E. Hoopes & Co. – the names on those two items do not appear below.)

Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company .1

Bangs & King .33

Bladen, Wm. E. & Ann .2-6

Brower, Christian .7-13

Brown & Lowerre .15-16

Brown, Jos.(?) .14

Brown, Mary .84

Burnett & Sexton .34

Chester Co[untyl Prison .50

Cooper, Thomas .17

Durand, J. M. .18

Everly, William A. .19-21

Eyre & Landell .22-27

Frazier (of Spelman & Frazier) .35

Freeman, Alex .39

Groves, A. (Jr.) .1

Grundy, Edmund .37

Haines (of Sharp, Lindsey & Haines) .72-73, .75

Hains (of Hallowell & Hains) .74

Hallowell & Hains .74

Henry, Thomas .28

Hershey, Ephraim .29

Hoopes .14, .42, .43, .113

Hoopes & Townsend .38

Hoopes, E., & Co. .1, .30-37, .41, .76

Hoopes, Alfred .77

Hoopes, E. .7-13, .15-16, .17-20, .40, .71, .79-83, .103, .110-111, .114, .115, .117, .119-125

Hoopes, Edwd. .2-6, .21-38, .44-70, .72-75, .78, .85-102, .104-105, .116, .118, .126-133

Horstmann, Wm. H., & Sons .39-40

Hoskins, A. M. .36

Jefferis, J. B. .43

Ketterlinus, E. .41

King (of Bangs & King) .33

Korn, Henry .42

Landell (of Eyre & Landell) .22-27

Landreth, D., & Fulton .48-49

Landreth, D., & D. L. Munns .48-49

Lindsey (of Sharp, Lindsey & Haines) .72-.73, .75

Linville, Jas. W. .30-37

Lippincott, Geo., & Co. .44

Lord, D. .45

Lowerre (of Brown & Lowerre) .15-16

Mathieu, Emil .46-47

Munns, D. L. .48-49

Pugh, Isaac .51

Red Lion Hotel .7-13

Remington, W. & R. P. .52-70

Rowe, Manly .71

Seal, Joseph H. .32

Sexton (of Burnett & Sexton) .34

Sharp, Lindsey & Haines .72-73, .75

Solomon & Brother .76

Spelman & Frazier .35

Strode, Joseph C. .77

Taylor, Benjamin, & Son .78-83

Thomas, E. M. .84

Townsend (of Hoopes & Townsend) .38

Townsend, Solomon .85-102

Tracy, Michael .103-104

Weaver, Geo. J. .105-114

Wilson (of Wood & Wilson) .115-116

Wood & Wilson .115-116

Wright & Brothers .117-125

Yarnall, B. H. .126-133