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Subject: Stock transfer


Stock Transfer Sheet: Northern Liberties Gas Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1852 Stock Transfer Sheet: Northern Liberties Gas Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1852

Stock transfer sheet for the Northern Liberties Gas Works, the first gas works in the United States. The document is signed and dated December 1, 1852. It details the transfer of stock from Phillips D.H. to Julia Moss, wife of Joseph Moss, son of an early Philadelphia Jewish ship owner and merchant. The document is noted as belonging to a prominent Jewish political figure. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.