(NEW YORK) Loomis George J Shipping receipt book kept for pa

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(NEW YORK.) Loomis, George J. Shipping receipt book kept for patent medicine manufacturer Henry Dalley. 41 leaves interleaved with blotting paper. Oblong 12mo, 4 1/2 x 8 inches, original 1/2 calf, water-damaged but intact and legible. Albany, NY, April 1844 to February 1845

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Henry Dalley (1805-1852) began manufacturing Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor in Manhattan in 1839. By 1844, as this receipt book shows, he was shipping crates of it all over the northeast. George J. Loomis of Albany, a former printer, was apparently Dalley's agent at that important shipping hub, where he arranged transport westward along the Erie Canal or eastward into Massachusetts by train. The receipts are signed by agents of the various shipping companies, and usually list the intended recipient and location, as well as a brief description of the contents such as "one bundle of Pain Extractor." The shipping companies which appear most frequently are canal boat operator E.M. Teall & Co. and Livingston, Wells & Pomeroy (a predecessor of Wells Fargo). Most of the receipts are written directly into the book, though a few are pasted down on blank pages, including one on the illustrated form of the Swiftsure Line of Tow-Boats. Of interest both for canals and patent medicine.