(PENNSYLVANIA) Wetherill George D Co Receipt book kept by a

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(PENNSYLVANIA.) Wetherill, George D. & Co. Receipt book kept by an important Philadelphia pharmacist during and after the Civil War. [508] manuscript pages. Oblong 4to, contemporary calf, needs binding; minor wear to contents. Philadelphia, 30 May 1862 to 11 January 1867

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The Wetherill family's first Philadelphia drug store opened in 1785. George Deacon Wetherill (1794-1875) took over the firm in 1816 and turned it into a local institution; he helped found the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821. This book is a complete record of the company's receipted payments to their suppliers over a four-year period. Some of the receipts indicate what Wetherill & Co. were purchasing. In July 1864, for example, they paid various suppliers for quinine, indigo, and chamomile flowers. On 13 June 1866, they paid Aaron Piatt $37.31 for "elm bark"; Piatt signed with an "x." Most of the receipts were written directly into the volume, but several dozen were written out by the payee on their own stationery and then pasted in. Proudly displayed in the front endpapers are three receipts for substantial Civil War contributions: one for a fund to provide volunteer bounties, one for the Great Central Fair, and one for the Sanitary Commission. From August 1864 onward, most of the receipts are certified with a revenue stamp.