1849 – Shipping document and purchase inquiry from a prominent, but rather infamous Navy Chaplain at Sing Sing, New York, regarding a shipment of books he wished to sell to a Philadelphia bookselling firm which in several years’ time would become a major publishing house
Sing Sing, New Yor: 1849. Envelope or Cover. This one-page folded shipping notice dated July 23/24, 1849, measures 15” x 9.5” unfolded. It documents the transport of books, by the Union Transportation Line, from Edward C Bittinger of Sing Sing, New York to the Philadelphia bookselling firm of Daniels &..... More