Subject: Military pensions

Certificate of final payment issued to Private Leon Berkowitz of Company H, Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, for medical disability discharge. The certificate indicates enrollment in Philadelphia on January 2, 1862, discharge on December 13, 1862, and payment on December 15, 1862.

Congressional Record, 13th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 504, accompanying H.R. Bill 425. This report outlines facts gathered on the claim of the family of Haym Salomon for Revolutionary War-era debts. Published April 26, 1848. The document was listed in Unger's catalog (number 19) at $1250.

Congressional Record document from the 13th Congress, 1st Session, accompanying Bill H.R. 425. The report pertains to the memorial of Haym M. Salomon, legal representative of Haym Salomon, deceased, submitted to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Date of the report is April 26th, 1848.

Check drawn on S. S. Bloom & Co., dated April 1, 1869, in Shelby, Ohio. The check features a graphic design incorporating Bloom's building and advertises their services: "General Agency and Collection Office...Military Claims Collected; and Pensions Procured."