Receipts (financial records)
Subject
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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Rush papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 426
Overview
Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia physician, in 1745 o.s. in Byberry Township. In 1768, he received his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He helped to establish the Philadelphia Dispensary and was a physician there until his death. Rush was also a member of the Provincial Congress in 1776, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and, in 1777, became Surgeon General of the Continental Army. He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia from 1787 to 1793.The...
Dates:
undated
Bill to Samuel Meredith for Philip Syng Physick’s consultation with Benjamin Rush
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/140
Scope and Contents
Receipted bill to Samuel Meredith for Philip Syng Physick’s consultation with Benjamin Rush, Sept. 1795, and operation and advice, Jan.-Feb. 1796. Bill bears autograph signature of Philip Syng Physick, 2 Jan. 1797.
Dates:
1797-01-02
Collection of Italian medical documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS 406
Content Description
The collection of Italian medical documents includes 5 items, dating from 1618 to 1723, and are identified as two broadsides, one passport for bill of health, and two permits for transfer of goods.
Dates:
1618 - 1723
D. Heber Plank papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/277-01
Scope and Contents
The collection contains ten volumes of financial papers documenting
the Morgantown, Pa., medical practice of D. Heber Plank, 1868-1908;
there are two ledgers and two combined ledger and cash books,
six daybooks, and associated financial papers.The ledgers and cash books, 1868-1908, are organized by account
name and list the service performed, date, and fee charged;
there are occasional notes on cases, patients, and settlement
of accounts. Each volume includes an index to...
Dates:
1868 - 1908
Maud Richards collection on the Ashhurst, Eyre, and Leiper family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/073
Scope and Contents
This small collection of genealogical research, photographs, printed
material, and manuscript material, 1813-1964, assembled by Maud
Richards, documents the history of members of the Ashhurst,
Eyre, and Leiper families of Philadelphia.Series 1 contains a manuscript genealogy, compiled circa 1933,
with information on the Eyre, Connolly, Little, and Ashhurst
families. Many original manuscript items, chiefly receipts,
payment orders, and signature cuttings, have been inserted...
Dates:
1813 - 1964
Receipt of Sharp and William Delany to Samuel Duffield
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/202
Dates:
1785 June 9.
Records of the autopsy of Chang and Eng Bunker
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/007-06
Scope and Contents
Letters, minutes, contracts, and receipts for payment, 1874-1875, associated with autopsy of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker. Autopsy begun on 1 Feb. 1874 at Bunker home in Mt. Airy, N.C., and completed in Mütter Museum of College of Physicians of Philadelphia later in Feb. 1874. Letters and minutes concern transport of bodies and arrangements for College of Physicians to oversee conclusion of autopsy. Contracts and receipts are for photographs, casts, and anatomical drawings, and supplies...
Dates:
1874 - 1875
Records of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3/001
Scope and Contents
The records of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia cover the fourth meeting (1850) and the fifth meeting (1860).The records of the fourth meeting documents the labors and progress of the Committee
of Revision and Publication from 1850 to 1855. Included are
the committee's minute books; records of the distribution of
the Pharmacopoeia; a draft report on the committee's work sent
by George Bacon Wood to Harvey Lindsly, the secretary of the
National Convention,...
Dates:
1850-1855; 1858-1864
Records of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3/003-01
Scope and Contents
Receipted bills, 1857-1867, for purchases and services, including chairs, printing, wages of curator and
attendant, and rent of room at Pennsylvania Hospital. Bills include holograph signatures of officers, including J.
M. Da Costa, Samuel D. Gross, Edward Hartshorne, S. Weir Mitchell, John H. Packard, William Pepper, and
Alfred Stillé.
Dates:
1857 - 1867
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