The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          Graff, Charles.                         

Title:               Receipt book

Dates:             1799-1806

Call No.:         Doc. 65

Acc. No.:         82x159

Quantity:        1 volume (12 pages, plus blanks)

Location:        31 A

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Charles Graff was a merchant in Philadelphia during the early 1800s.  He was probably the son of Jacob Graff, Jr., and Maria Shinkle (their son Charles was born in 1779), and the brother of Frederick Graff.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Twenty-nine signed receipts for a variety of goods, such as "fifteen Dollars in full for a Mattrass," and "Seven hundred twenty four Dollars 50/100 ... for 100 Kegs of Lard."  Includes commodities shipped to Havana, Cuba.  At the back of the book are some rough sketches of buildings, evidently done at a much later time as one appears to be a skyscraper.

           

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Purchased from Leaves of Grass.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Receipts (Acknowledgments) - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.

            Buildings - Designs and plans.

            Receipts.

            Drawings.

            Merchants.

           

 

NAME INDEX TO THE RECEIPT BOOK

 

Location: 31 A

 

Doc. 65 – Charles Graff receipt book

 

Adgaty, William  6

Asford, Samuel  5

 

Beck & Baxton  10

 

Craig, John  9

 

Delaugue, L.  8

Delavan, Joseph  6

Douglass, William  4

Duling, John  12

Dutilh, E.  3

 

Gilbert, J. & T.  8

Graff, Henry  1

 

Haga, Godfrey  12

 

Imlay, Robert  6

 

Livingston, Daniel R.  3

 

Mithel, Alexandre  4

Murray, William  11

 

Pitman, Daniel  2

 

Rees, William  12

Reynolds, Samuel  10-11

Rimer, Thomas  11-12

Roach, George W.  9

Rogers, Robert  7

 

Silks, Thomas Y.  9

Sterling, Samuel  2

Stewart, Samuel  1

 

Thackera, Jas.  4

 

Wagner  3

Watson, Capt.  5

Watson, Alice  2-3, 5

Watson, Richard  1

Willis & Yardley  9