Top: Newspaper ad with image of a baby. "Loos so much like Virginia Momeyer when this age." To the side: Photograph of a young woman with dark hair pasted over a cloth piece with boughs of holly. "Above is Ellen Welty Long". Bottom: "Catharine, Tillie, Rowena, Mrs. Merkle, Anna & !, taken at their home."
This scrapbook consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and other ephemera glued to pages of a 6.5 x 8.25 inch composition notebook with lined pages. Not all pages are used. Cover is grey and is labeled "Roberts & Meck's Seaboard Composition Book, 36 Leaves Writing Paper, Roberts & Meck, Harrisburg, Pa."
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Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Muskets stocked, in the best and neatest manner, by Edward Pole, in Market street, near the Court-House, Philadelphia; where may be had the best kind of wires and brushes for firelocks, priming flasks and oil bottles to bit in the cartouch boxes; musket and pistol balls; musket and pistol cartridges of all sizes, and cartridge formers. Also cartridges made up, on moderate terms by the hundred or larger quantity.
N.B. A very neat cutteau de chase, and a small sword, to be sold at the above place.
Penna. Evening Post, No. 135 (Phila.) Dec 2, 1775.
Extraordinary wages will be given to two or three Journeymen gunsmiths, who ae well skilled in stocking of muskets and rifles. Likewise good encouragement will be given to a gun lock filer, that can make musket locks. Apply to Thomas Palmer on the north side of Market-street between Fourth and Fifth-streets, Philadlphia.
N.B. Any person that has skill to accomplish either of the aforsaid branches, may, if they choose, work piece work and reveive their cash every Saturday afternoon or a sum of money will be advanced to them by giving security for the delivery of their work.
Penn Gaz Supo. to April 10, 1776, No. 2468 - Hit Soc.
To be sold wholesale and retail by Thomas Palmer, gunsmith, on the noth side of the Market-street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, Philadelphia. Cheap neat and well made Touch-hole Prickers and Pan Brushes, being very necessary and convenient to those who use guns, for keeping the lock in compleat order.
Photograph- Old newspaper ad: John Eberman informs his friends and the public generally that he has just opened a new store in the house lately occupied by Mr. Kirkpartrick, where he offers for sale a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, saddlery, and glass and delphware, upon moderate terms. He flatters himself that from an endeavor to keep a constant supply of the above articles, and attent to business, to merit a share of the public generous patronage.
Refers to John Eberman, son of the clockmaker John Eberman.
Photograph- Old newspaper ad: John Eberman informs his friends and the public generally that he has just opened a new store in the house lately occupied by Mr. Kirkpartrick, where he offers for sale a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, saddlery, and glass and delphware, upon moderate terms. He flatters himself that from an endeavor to keep a constant supply of the above articles, and attent to business, to merit a share of the public generous patronage.
Refers to John Eberman, son of the clockmaker John Eberman.
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Old newspaper ad: John Eberman informs his friends and the public generally that he has just opened a new store in the house lately occupied by Mr. Kirkpartrick, where he offers for sale a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, saddlery, and glass and delphware, upon moderate terms. He flatters himself that from an endeavor to keep a constant supply of the above articles, and attent to business, to merit a share of the public generous patronage.
Refers to John Eberman, son of the clockmaker John Eberman.
