Post Office Book, 1748-1752
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| TITLE INFORMATION | |||
| Title | Post Office Book, 1748-1752 | ||
| IDENTIFIERS | |||
| Legacy Identifier | B F85f6.8 | ||
| ASSOCIATED NAMES | |||
| Creator | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | ||
| CONTENT DESCRIPTION | |||
| Abstract | This volume of 372 pages records receipt and dispatch of all mail in the Philadelphia Post Office between May 25, 1748 and July 23, 1752. Deliveries into the Post Office from out of town were listed, letter by letter, by the names of the addressees, weight and amount due, paid or free. Outgoing mail was simply listed by number of sheets and weight, not by individual letters. | ||
| Language | english (eng) | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Postal service--United States--History. | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Postal service--United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | ||
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |||
| Type | Text | ||
| Format | text | ||
| Format | text | ||
| Digital Origin | reformatted digital | ||
| Reformatting Quality | preservation | ||
| ORIGIN INFORMATION | |||
| Date Issued | 1748-1752 | ||
| Date Modified | 2017 | ||
| PARENT COLLECTION | |||
| Title | Miscellaneous Benjamin Franklin Collections | ||
| Call Number | Mss.B.F85.misc | ||
| URL | http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85.misc-ead.xml | ||
| ACCESS INFORMATION | |||
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