BF85f6-8: Post Office Book, 1748-1752 (Outgoing Letters) Dataset

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TITLE INFORMATION
	Title	Franklin Post Office Book, 1748-1752 (Outgoing Letters) Dataset

ASSOCIATED NAMES
		Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
	Creator	Heider, Cynthia
CONTENT DESCRIPTION
	Abstract	These datasets are created from a volume of 372 pages that 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. The data is presented here in two sets, one for incoming and one for outgoing. The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia.
	Language	(eng)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
	Type	StillImage
	Genre	Dataset
	Format	electronic resource
	Extent	120 KB
ORIGIN INFORMATION
	Date Issued	2017
ACCESS INFORMATION
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