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Subject: Commerce -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century

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Letter from William Frank to Jacobs & Meyer & Co., Philadelphia, July 19, 1847Letter from William Frank to Jacobs & Meyer & Co., Philadelphia, July 19, 1847

This letter, written in German and English, is from William Frank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Jewish firm of Jacobs & Meyer & Co. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dated July 19, 1847, it concerns a three-hundred-dollar draft. The letter is significant as it's the earliest known correspondence from William Frank, a pioneer of Pittsburgh's Jewish community.