Receipt from Cohen & Fosdick, cotton factors in Savannah, Georgia, dated May 18, 1847. The receipt is for four demijohns. The billhead measures approximately 7 by 5 1/2 inches. Cohen & Fosdick are listed as cotton factors in Harold D. Woodman's *King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925*. A demijohn is an old word for a glass vessel with a large body and small neck, enclosed in wickerwork.
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This receipt book belonged to Elias P. Levy and spans the years 1839-1857. It contains a variety of receipts, primarily from business transactions involving textiles and ground rent payments. Notably, it includes two receipts for a synagogue seat signed by Hyman Gratz and Abraham Israel, and receipts for boarding from Isaac Jacob Levy. The book concludes with entries related to Henry Cohen acting as executor for Elias P. Levy's estate in 1857.
Receipt issued on January 13, 1868, by Lehman, Newgass & Co., cotton merchants in New Orleans, Louisiana, acknowledging receipt of cotton bales shipped via the steamboat *Mary* to Mobile, Alabama. The receipt details the quantity and likely the consignee of the shipment.
This document is a receipt for lumber delivered to Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia in 1785. The order was placed by Mikveh Israel with the Philadelphia lumber firm of Wayne & Maxfield. The receipt details significant quantities of various types of lumber, boards, and shingles—the raw materials for the expansion of the synagogue building on Cherry Alley, originally constructed in 1782. A signed note confirms delivery. Michael Gratz, Parnas of the synagogue, oversaw the transaction; Matthias Sadler served as the contractor or artificer.