Details
Contributor Whitney, A.G., associated name.
Title Bought of John Hays & Co., miners and dealers in all kinds of hard and soft coal and coke. Office and dock: C. & P. R'y coal pier and 9 Prospect St. Cleveland, Ohio. [graphic]: We handle or screen our coal with forks, as in the above cut. The coal is taken up entirely free from slack, and is not broken, as when thrown against a screen. See that this cut is on the back or face of the card or bill accompanying each load. None genuine without it. J.H. & Co.
Publisher [Cleveland]
Publisher OH. Cleveland. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut and relief; 10 x 15 cm. (4 x 5.75 in.)
Description Receipt containing an image showing a laborer using a pitch fork to load a "John Hays & Co. Ridge White Ash Coal" rail car. A mound of coal on which a pitch fork rests is visible on one end of the car. The head of a horse is partially visible behind the opposite end of the car.
Notes Title from text on verso.
Completed in manuscript to Mr. A. G. Whitney on September 4, 1877 for "2000 pounds Carbon Ridge, Lump."
Contains punched whole in upper right corner.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject John Hays & Co.
Coal trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Railroad cars.
Receipts -- Forms.
Genre Forms (Documents) -- 1860-1870.
Relief prints -- 1860-1870.
Woodcuts -- 1860-1870.
Provenance Whitney, A.G., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.174]
Accession number P.2011.10.174