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Mount Vernon Furnace Daybook

ca. 1820-1825

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Mount Vernon Furnace Daybook
  • Title
  • Mount Vernon Furnace Daybook
  • Creator
  • Mount Vernon Furnace (Bullskin, Pa. : Township)
  • Date
  • ca. 1820-1825
  • Identifier
  • 31735070942796
  • Description
  • Volume contains a record of the daily transactions of the Mount Vernon Iron Furnace. Each transaction is recorded with a description including names, items, and value in cash. Most date from 1820 to 1821, but the back of the volume contains some transactions from 1823 and an entry from 1825. Daybooks were used to record transactions chronologically before being entered into a ledger which was organized by individual accounts.
  • Type
  • text
  • Genre
  • manuscripts (documents)
  • Subject
  • Blast furnaces--Accounting
    Iron-works--Accounting
    Iron industry and trade--Accounting
    Mount Vernon Furnace (Bullskin, Pa. : Township)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Bullskin (Pa. : Township)
    Fayette County (Pa.)
    Allegheny County (Pa.)
  • Finding Aid
  • Isaac Meason Ledger and Mount Vernon Furnace Records, 1798-1825
  • Container
  • Box 2, volume 3
  • Language
  • eng
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Isaac Meason Ledger and Mount Vernon Furnace Records
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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