Weaver's Draft Notebook/Account Book, 19th Century.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

Weaver's Draft Notebook/Account Book, Manuscript # MS 89.22, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
Schlosser, Philip, 1760-1829.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Weaver's Draft Notebook/Account Book, Manuscript # MS 89.22, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Weaver's draft notebook of Philip Schlosser (1760-1829), of eastern Pennsylvania, with drafts, names of some patterns, and other details. Notebook also includes scattered accounts (1845-1868) possibly of David Danner or John Danner (1787-1862) for sales of produce, wheat, and beef and listings of time worked and chores of hired hands. Also recipes to fatten hogs, cure croup and consumption, and tan furs or leather.

Biographical / historical:

Philip Schlosser (1760-1829) was a weaver in eastern Pennsylvania.

Acquisition information:
Gift, 1973.
Physical description:
1 vol. (194 pp.)